"Boomerang boomerang la la la~"
Roman and his pocket Lime sang without a care under the sun onwards to plansect, followed by a silent Erubetie and an anxious Hime.
"Are we close to it yet? Hime?" The small slime girl asked her big arachnid friend, who looked at her diminutive captain and nodded "Yes, but my senses are warning that something bad happened in Plansect" As she said it, a bunch of agitated plant girls and insect girls came running and passed by them.
"Hey hey hey what happened?" The man caught a visibly agitated moth girl.
"Plansect is gone! after the hero put a stop to our long-lasting war, a horrible monster came right after and attacked us, the monster lord fought her but torched half of the forest in doing it, some of us got to escape in time but when we came back, a band of pirates appeared to ransack whatever remained of our home! uwaaa!" the Moth saddened sobs pulled on their heartstrings.
"Puru, don't cry" Lime spoke from inside Roman's pocket earning a confused look from the moth girl.
"Wait, pirates? did they say who they were?" Roman and Lime wouldn't believe the group they sent to plansect would act like barbarians.
"They called themselves the Jiggly pirates, at first they wanted to trade with us" The group nodded, that was what they were expecting plansect wood is necessary to fix their ship "So we asked them to offer their males in exchange so we could milk them dry and slurp them up, to get enough energy to unseal our friends" the group knew the reason now "they got furious after hearing our conditions, then said they would befriend us and refusing wasn't an option, then, then... uwaaa!" the Moth girl cried more.
Roman cringed at that, well the people of plansect deserved it, asking to eat their crew in exchange for trade is just bad manners.
"Leave it to us, Puru! Lime will make sure to punish these evil pirates!" Roman looked confused at his mini jiggly wife before deciding to be silent and leave it, no need to stress this moth girl even more.
"If that's what Lime wishes then it shall be done, I'll make sure to melt and eat these pirate scum" Erubetie too serious for her own sake only fueled the fire.
"Hmmm, but aren't we..." Hime was almost blowing up their cover, before silencing herself and changing her focus "Tell me, does the Queen Bee still lives?"
"Ahhh, the queen... She was sealed by the hero and retreated to the hive before the plants retaliated, it was in the part of the forest that was torched by the monster lord when battling the strange monster, we don't know if she still lives... sob sob"
"Hm, leave now Moth, this princess promises she will make sure of the queen's safety" Hime spoke with a grave tone, but when the Moth girl noticed her features and who she was, she began backing away "A-aren't you the banished evil sp-"
"Leave now" Hime's eyes shined dangerously and with a eek the Moth girl flew away.
"Well then, that's a bummer, the hopefully the voting slip didn't burn away" Roman patted his arachnid friend to calm her down "Let's go, Hime, with our good deeds trying to save the queen, we may score points to get her vote" An the man walked away into the direction of the forest being followed by Erubetie.
"Be safe Miria, you can't die until I get back from you my divine right as the princess of our species" Hime spoke in a low voice before following the group.
"Damn it looks worse than expected, Alice's omega blaze is something else..." as the group entered Plansect they were in awe of the damage done, embers still burned even after the fire died out.
"Human, why do you know the name of the monster lord's attack?" Erubetie didn't like that a random human had this knowledge when Alice has never gone out to make a show of her powers to the world.
"Oh, that, ah... Well you see, hmm" It was easy for Roman to talk about these things with Lime and Hime, considering they weren't big names in the game who could change the plot so much with their knowledge, but to a heavenly knight?
(How do I even explain it to her?)
"Puru, Roman can see the future!" Lime came with the save, her cuteness hitting Erubetie's in full even if the reason was bullshit, but as the woman began looking at him with a scary expression thinking he goaded the innocent girl with his garbage, Lime came for the rescue again "The Jiggly pirates was his idea of helping everyone become friends while also fulfilling my dreams of adventure~"
"Fufu, it's as my cute captain says, I still remember when they collapsed my lair above our heads to befriend me" Hime added, if Erubetie was surprised by this lunacy she didn't show, "When he used his dirty tricks to convince me to be his concubine, while captain destroyed the ceiling to bury us all together, then slashed my legs off, the way he did was so sadistic~ and our peacemaking threesome mating after it ahn~" forgive me I got a little wet remembering it.
"..." The slime queen's ice-cold gaze made Roman flinch under it.
"Bad Erubetie! don't scare my Roman!" Lime's words made the queen think twice about doing something bad to the human after what happened yesterday "I'll accept this explanation, but I'll demand the truth later"
"Yeah, yeah... When we go back to our ship you'll get the explanation in full" Roman looked around trying to find an excuse to end this talk and noticed something amiss "The moth girl said Plansect was attacked by pirates didn't she?" His group nodded "Then where is our crew?" Roman spoke with alarm.
"Someone, anyone Help!" a scream alerted them of their crewmate's location.
"Go!"
The group ran off following the noise only to find the nightmarish scene of their friend almost desiccated, with the corpses of other crewmembers and plansect monsters surrounding him, the last surviving sailor was being milked dry by a horrible plant chimera, her many stems rooted in his body, pulsating as they absorbed his life force, the dead woman attached to the creature with many types of plants rooted in her body like parasites stared at them with an empty gaze, before a fleshy rose came down enveloping their friend's head, only their mouth remaining as if the creature wanted them to listen to their crewmate's last words like a sadist.
"That's disgusting!" Roman held back the need to vomit, the chimera dryad that Delphinus drew was vanilla compared to the sin against life being shown to him right now "No wonder the monsters were afraid and ran off Plansect..." Roman commented before his anger surged "How dare you, you vile creature, how dare you commit this crime against the Jiggly pirates, death is too little for the likes of you!"
"C-captain! I don't want to die!" The tired crewmate fought weakly against the monster who drained almost his entire life, he only kept his sanity because of his experiences with the monsters back at the ship, but... "Ahn this pleasure is too much! d-don't stop!"
splurt splurt splurt, with a last twitch of pleasure from his body, all the remaining fight their friend has put up ended, he was dead, his body dry like old bark, and the horrible roots that drained him from the insides came out with a plop, leaving his corpse filled with holes oozing with pink goo from all the aphrodisiacs the monster pumped inside him, his last droplets of life being sucked by the monster's draining flower before it also came out with a plop and they saw the horror that was the long tentacle root, sounding his urethra possibly reaching the very depths of his testicles.
"Peter! No! No! No!" Lime was inconsolable seeing one of the many friends she made being killed in front of her, sadly she couldn't do anything at the moment to avenge him and the others surrounding them, as she was still sealed.
"We won't let their death be in vain..." Roman took Lime out of his pocket and gave her to Erubetie "Protect her with your life!"
"Will do it" The woman nodded.
"This monster is a chimera dryad, the flowers are its main body, and the human woman is just a corpse," Roman said out loud to his team.
"Our traditional means aren't needed, fight to kill! chop that creature into the tiniest pieces possible, then burn it with fire! and feed the ashes to Erubetie" Before the slime queen complained that she isn't a garbage bin to throw the trash into, Roman added, "Lime doesn't need or deserve being stained by touching any of it." Erubetie closed her mouth and nodded.
Not just waiting around while they planned their course of action, the chimera dryad cemented her death sentence, as her fleshy predation flower still holding Peter by his head began pulsing and swallowing him up with audible gulping and sloshing noises, the woman's corpse kept staring emptily at them as if challenging the man and the spider to save their friend's remains before not even his corpse was left to bury.
"That's it you're going down"
With a flash step, Hime cut off the base of the predation flower's stem, freeing Peter's corpse from it as the vile organ flopped around in the ground, Erubetie sent a tentacle and began eating the thing, caring to not eat Lime's crewmate together with it.
The dryad regenerated the flower as if nothing happened, taunting the spider before sending it towards her, a giant maw of rose petals trying to swallow her whole, followed by sharp vine whips dripping with poison
"No, you won't"
4 consecutive slashes were done with the sword crafted by Micaela as Roman blindsided the chimera, setting her on fire, then freezing her and exploding the pieces with an electric discharge, now half of her body was gone but the thing didn't look phased by it, her body still bubbling before reforming the lost parts, showing incredible regenerative abilities.
"C'mon, this is bullshit!"
The fight kept going on, the monster fought dirty and many times during an opening by Hime or Roman, she tried to eat up the sprawled corpses of their friends to taunt the couple into making mistakes, showing strange intelligence for something Prommestein just released as a failed experiment from what he could remember, Erubetie noticing this wouldn't go anywhere with these obstacles impeding them, cleaned the battlefield pulling all corpses towards her.
"Now go, and avenge your captain" Erubetie did more than what she said she would, her mission was defending Lime, if the two lost to the monstrosity she would simply envelop her and melt everything away but the woman couldn't stand to see this fiasco anymore.
"Thanks, Erubetie" Lime standing on her shoulder patted the queen's head with gratefulness and the slime queen smiled at her petite idol.
"I don't know if you're still alive there, but your crimes are unforgivable, so I'll offer you mercy and release you from your suffering" Roman spoke gravely to the monster, the parasitic plants twitched, maybe with fear or anticipation, he would never know.
"This boomerang is the symbol that united the jiggly pirates, and it will be your end!" Roman pulled Lime's boomerang as it shined with the colors of the rainbow, the power of all elements infused into it roaring demanding compensation for the lives taken today.
"This blade is the sword that cuts the mast, and brings despair to one man, but now this is the blade of revenge that will cut your karma!" Hime took a stance using Roman's sword preparing her final move.
"Combo attack! Just die already!"
Roman threw the magical boomerang which separated itself into many afterimages corresponding to each element infused in it, except for the holy element which was still sealed, it made a trail of destruction as the afterimages converged towards their enemy. Hime flash stepped toward the monster crossing her over as 8 slashes appeared on the chimera's body and the ground surrounding her, her pieces falling like chopped vegetables to the ground before the spider disengaged with a high jump back to Roman, as the boomerangs afterimages became one again hitting the chimera dryad with an explosion.
"Is it done?" Erubetie asked, satisfied with the show of the two's abilities, "I hope so" the tired pirates answered waiting for the cloud of dust to disperse, and got annoyed with the result, Hime tch'd with how resilient this creature was.
With most of its body gone by now, the chimera dryad once empty gaze now held a glint of something in them, the bubbling kept going, slowly regenerating the monster as it opened its mouth to finally speak its first words ever since her creation.
"T-thank... kill..."
The monster wouldn't speak any words ever again as Erubetie wouldn't let this go for longer than it's been already, Lime didn't deserve to keep watching such gruesome imagery.
sizzle fshhhhhhhhhh
Erubetie turned up her slime acidity to the max, since this monster didn't feel anything she didn't need to give it pleasure, and after making Lime sad, the slime queen would never think about giving it pleasure in the first place.
"It Tastes horrible" was her only comment as she turned away with Lime before Roman caught up with her and got his wife back in his pocket, with some resistance from the slime queen who didn't want to be separated from the tiny captain.
"This was the entire group that came to plansect... I knew this place was dangerous, but they were more than ready to defend themselves against the common monster, not that abomination..." Roman and Hime grouped up the corpses of their friends and began the burial rites as Lime sobbed sadly, remembering the fun times she had with her family.
"Can't we bring them back to the ship Roman... they deserve a sea burial..."
"There are too many here Lime, we don't have the manpower to carry them back and still do our business, with plansect deserted like this we couldn't even ask the help of the monsters..." Roman said as he picked up their weapons and other synthesized equipment, to avoid certain angel scientists from coming here and nabbing it for their research.
"Puru..."
"Death comes to us all, it's only a matter of when, enjoy life to the fullest in the meanwhile" Roman spoke somberly "The one good thing we could say is that their passing was painless, if any of them dreamed of becoming prey after so long living with our spider friends, at least they got their wishes fulfilled".
"I won't forgive those who did this, they took away our friends! our mates, our prey! if they ever had to die they should've done so by becoming our nourishment, as our final parting gift once they reached the end of their lives, the spider species won't ever forget this insult!" Hime seethed.
"Well, I know the responsible for it" Roman spoke in a low voice, before being grabbed by Hime demanding their target.
"But at our current level considering how annoying it was to defeat just one of these creatures, we need to regroup, and train our crew better while also recruiting new, more powerful monsters to our cause, we'll run them over with an army so they never cross the path of the Jiggly pirates again" the man calmed Hime down.
Erubetie silently stared at the man who kept so many secrets, pondering his threat level, at least he gave his word that such mockeries wouldn't be left alone once the pirates were ready.
"Puru, evildoers need to be punished, for our lost friends!"
"Well said Lime"
With the burial rites finished and one final goodbye to the lives lost today the group parted towards the Bee's hive.
(even though they are hornets)
It was a sad visage, if they squinted hard enough they could imagine how grand it once was, the structure was a magnificent hive, now charred black with pieces falling from the destructive power of Alice's fire magic, but not all was lost as the buzz of the hornet girls became louder and louder meaning the Queen still lived.
"HALT HUMAN, SLIME, SPIDER, THIS IS QUEEN'S NEST NO VISITOR IS WELCOME"
The robotic way the hornet spoke and the fact that she screamed all her words irritated the group to no end.
(She's so hot cupping her boobs like that with all that honey, but her voice kills it)
"I'm the spider princess and I came to take back my throne as the insect queen"
"SPIDER PRINCESS, DANGER, ALL ABLE HORNET GIRLS DEFEND THE QUEEN"
The buzzing intensified and about a dozen of hornet girls descended upon the group
Not having any of that after the stressful day they had, they quickly dispatched the group of hornet girls, beaten up, they retreated inside the hive warning that the evil spider princess was here to kill their queen, as the pirate group following them inside the hive, the scene they saw surprised them.
"Please don't kill us, we just survived so many catastrophes... please make the pain stop" a wounded beetle girl claimed mercy "Don't kill our queen" followed by a bee girl "Where are my friends, I can't find big sister moth and mosquito" a small caterpillar girl sobbed left behind, her friends possibly dead or run off without her knowing.
(What's with the tonal shift from these last days, from happy fun adventures in the seas, we became a war drama ever since we decided to adventure on land)
Roman complained in his mind as he silently followed Hime towards the inner hive while calming down his pocket wife as they passed by many wounded monsters, some burnt, others crippled, either from the plant girls genocide campaign before Luka snapped and sealed everyone he could find, or by being caught by the chimera dryad and having to cut the pieces off to survive.
"If only I could help them... I need to get unsealed Roman..." Lime spoke with sadness, with how she was currently, using her healing slime was impossible.
The man nodded as he remembered Erubetie saying that the fastest way to unseal a monster was either by feeding lots of semen something Roman knew already, or getting the help of a strong monster like Erubetie, but the slime queen shamefully told that her reserves were low after Lime dealt that critical blow to her and she needed time to recover, or the third option being eating people, something both the man and the little slime denied.
"We are here" Hime announced as she reached the throne and gazed upon a small, cute bee surrounded by the hornets she had beaten up at the entrance.
"It's good to see you again Miria" The spider princess bowed to the queen before it buzzed at her "No I'm not here to kill you, I had a change of heart after meeting my dearest and traveling with him".
The queen buzzed more at that "Yes, is it so hard to imagine that I found love? He's still alive, isn't that proof enough?" Hime pouted indignant with the accusation.
(This is surreal)
"Since you can't rule our species in your condition give me your vote slip, I'll be on my way to meet Ant next after this" Hime demanded and the Queen buzzed harder "Proof? what more proof do you want? we just defeated that abomination that put everyone in danger while on our way here!" Miria was surprised and buzzed for confirmation with Roman.
"Yes, we killed her to avenge our friends she killed, Erubetie here was the one who ended her when we found out how annoying her regeneration was" Miria finally noticed the heavenly knight in the room and the slime woman just nodded.
The sealed queen buzzed again and soon a hornet girl came from a hidden room behind the throne with the vote slip of the queen insect.
"I find it funny that the insect race chooses their representative collecting voting slips" Roman quipped before the queen and his concubine rebutted him with indignation, "Sorry, makeup sex later for my mistake?"
"This princess wouldn't have it any other way my dearest, fufu" Hime's smile and predatory gaze promised pain, after this stressful day she was pent up.
"Puru, don't forget about me Roman, I need to grow back fast to protect you!" Lime's tiny body tingled against Roman's skin coating a small patch of him with a nice dose of aphrodisiac slime.
"Make sure to place Lime's needs before the Spider Princess" Erubetie spoke in her cold tone.
(I promise the jiggly pirates will purge the emo out of you Erubetie)
Miria released an annoyed buzz telling them to go find a room already, followed by a buzz of gratefulness for having saved whatever remained of plansect, now the only thing both races could do was rebuild, hopefully with all the losses they suffered these last days the species would finally forgo their feuds and unite in peace.
Queen voting slip get! collect 1 more to become the insect queen!
"So where do we go next?" leaving behind Plansect forest with a last thank you to their fallen comrades, Roman asked his group, with Lime's mission complete even if the cost was steep and the voting slip being nabbed by Hime, they were free to go back to the ship or adventure on land.
"I want to go to Grand Noah and meet the Queen," Erubetie said, finally deciding to take the first step towards fixing her problem, after seeing the results of a conflict between different species and how a mysterious third party almost wiped both out, she didn't want the same to possibly happen in the future with her slimes.
"I'm proud of you for taking this first step, as the first mate of the jiggly pirates" Roman spoke
"And their captain" Lime followed
"And future queen Insect" Hime finished
"We promise to help our new friend to achieve Romance!"
*The sun blesses this group one last time as the ghosts of their fallen friends gaze upon them from the skies*
Erubetie's lip corners rose just a bit with the silliness.
