Ep4: Headen Dar Cora

Headen recalls back when she wasn't a Queen, but an elf that just happened to bear the Dar Cora name. Headen Dar Cora did what all dark elves did, dominate, belittle, and yet somehow stay with one partner their entire life. She just happened to do it better and at the right time. The strings of time and fate collided and created gave her power, allowing her to go off and found her own group of Dark Elves. First 20, then 50, then 100 strong, the Dar Cora clan raided the neighboring one they succeeded from, usurping the ruling family and taking over. History dictated that these sort of events produced rulers that ruled in a way to protect their crown and keep enemies at arm's length. But the experience taught her to give people what they want. The Dar Coras ruled like oligarchy that listened and allowed outsiders to better their reign, be it negative or positive example.

Of course, taking over an established kingdom doesn't come with its fair share of consequences. It took a generation of mingling and marriage to created a rift between the Dar Coras - the Betires and the Asseto. The Dar Cora Betire are described as ones with pure Dar Cora blood rushing through their veins or descendants of the invaders in the coup. The Dar Cora Asseto consists of mixed blood, between everyone else and the Dar Coras. Headen had seen her fair share of stupidity when capturing Orderites and didn't want any of it. The Knights allow their differences in rank, age, and experience to distract them from the objective, and ultimately cause a rift that leaves them susceptible to a takeover. The first time she caught wind of the two subclans forming she found Betires the hold positions high up in her kingdom and put out an announcement heard very clearly by all who inhabit her territory - Hostility towards pure and mixed blood is grounds for immediate banishment.

She has a certain Dark Mage to thank for letting her know about that weakness. The day she realized it was when she encountered that Mage. Once again, the strings of fate had brought her a gift, and her hindsight makes her glad about it. After she and the mage successfully brought the orderite territory down from the inside, their group did what all "spectators" did - sit on a hillside while watching the fruits of their labor, seeing a demon realm growing as mamono flocked like a positive reaction growing out of control. She gave her word, that far off time. Her word to repay the favorite to the Mage, no matter how big, nor how small.

If only Isuka would have spent that favor on something bigger, something that would at least keep her out of the boring routine of kingdom management for up to a month...oh well, don't start looking gift horses in the mouth now.

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If her memory served her right, Isuka lived in a library. She never did get that. According to the Mage herself, she already did know practically everything needed. So why learn more?

Oh yeah, also the robot situation. Headen shouldn't forget about that before she mucks it up for the both of them. She resolved herself and pattered her side. Her waist dawned a belt that held a few potions at her side. Some were drinkable, and some were made for her to through and to have an effect on shattering. She also had a very special summoning spell that she could use to upset the odds even more...

She snuck around the perimeter, grumbling about how she feels too old to be sneaking around like a teenager trying to get into her bedroom without her parents finding out. She peered into the windows, seeing where the target was before trying to make a move. After several windows, she reached one that peered into a private room. She saw two people working inside. One was Virto, who she was warned not to engage. The other was her target, an armored automaton with jet black hair. Her left arm was open, as one of her glowing power rods was being siphoned into Virto's watch for power. She noted where she was and started sneaking around to the entrance doors. She unclasped one of her potions from her side and held it, kicking the door down and immediately scanning the place. Holi wasn't near the entrance, but Isuka wasn't in plain sight as well.

"I didn't expect someone to actually come," said a voice from the roof. Headen looked up, seeing Holi hovering in the air from rocket boosters on her soles. "I assume you saw my double in the backrooms?"

"Isuka never told me you made a double."

"It's amazing what you can do in eight hours. Virto is working with a mere robot that I had in case I needed something to fill in for my presence." Holi held up her pistol, pointing it at Headen's head. "I hadn't had a free kill in years…"

Holi then saw a purple lazer pointed at her shoulder, moved up to her head. She looked at where it came from, seeing Isuka materializing a gun-like shape in her hand with mana. "I believe Virto calls it being tricked, backstabbed, and quite possibly bamboozled."

Isuka then noticed a red dot, being aimed at her knee. Like Holi she followed the Lazer, seeing another Holi sitting at the table aiming her rifle at Isuka. "You made a third one?" She asked the one floating, Holi shaking her head. "That one is the one Virto had been working with. Look a bit closer." Isuka complied, seeing a scientist aiming at the clone Holi's head. "Then why are you so smug?" She then asked, Holi motioning to a second-story handrail. Isuka turned, seeing a 3rd Holi aiming her rifle at Virto. "That, pathetic mage, would be the 3rd clone. Now either surrender or say your last words."

"I would like to say the last word, followed by 5 more seconds of nothing," Heathen said, raising her free hand and waving. "So you have chosen death. Very well, what is your last w-ISH!" The real, floating Holi was suddenly landed on by a shadow, moving too quick to for anyone in the library to see clearly. Holi went down like a burning aircraft, crashing into a corner of the library.

The moment her exterior touched the ground, all hell broke loose. Virto set his in-progress watch to self destruct, then clasped it on the clone Holi's wrist. He dove for color as the clone blew up in a small explosion, sending debris and objects bouncing away. Meanwhile, the 3rd Holi was busy keeping Isuka and Heathen at bay, using her vantage point to force both of them behind objects. Headen held up a vase to see the person aiming at her, only for the vase to be shot into pieces in her very hands. "Once I deal with you, I'm gonna get that shadow that told down the real Hoooo…."

"Or, you can power my watch a bit more," Virto said, quickly rerouting her power to his watch to slow her down. Now unable to react faster than a toddler, Virto was easily able to tackle her to the ground, yeeting Holi's rifle away from her down into the first floor of the library.

With the clones in check, Headen and Isuka moved over to the original. "So who did you call that broke through the roof?" Isuka asked. She got her answer in just a few more steps as they got to see who was. She saw a large, lion-sized dragon, his maw being held at bay Holi's hands. His scales were a dark shade of gray. Small but sharp ridges ran down his hide, counting and ending on the very end of his tail. His claws seemed retracted to a degree, but his for feet had Holi pinned under his weight. "You called a dragon!?"

"You seem surprised," Heathen said as she scratched under the dragon's chin. "After we went our separate ways, we did our own things right? You took a boy under your wing, and I have a mutual deal with a dragon."

"He's actually 19...but you made a deal with a dragon?"

"He doesn't turn into his human form mostly." She nuzzled the side of the dragon, coaxing him off Holi as Isuka bound her with some rope. She struggled, but with her body under the paw of a dragon, she didn't have wiggle room to get out. "You fools, it took a human, two mamono, and a dragon to subdue me. You can't win against Di."

"And yet we will still try. Now shut up." Heathen delivered a hard kick to Holi's stomach, causing her to grimace. "So, now we need to go get Kiris right Isuka?"

"Not just that. I want to take the fight to her." She poofed up a roll of tape, placing some over Holi's mouth. Holi's eyes widened in confusion and surprise as listening to Isuka. "You wouldn't understand, but she snuck into my own home without me realizing before it was too late. That smug grin she had before she left unharmed…"

"You can't win against her on her own, you know that…" Heathen tried putting her hand on Isuka's shoulder, but Isuka shrugged it off. "That's why Natsumi must succeed. The rest of his travels are key getting what I need to defeat her…"

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Kiris sat in her room, at the ceiling doing nothing. Her bed still smelled like sex with that neko from before. After that she left Kiris rest and exited out of the room, locking the door back once it clicked shut. Kiris had spent the last hour or two exploring her room. The closet was fully prepared for her, with dresses that looked exactly like her clothing before she was monsterized. It felt eerie to her, that her master would go through so much trouble for a "plaything". After changing and freshening herself up, she tried checking the windows to see if they were unlockable. As she expected they weren't, but there were a few panels that were unstained and perfectly clear to look through.

She looked and down through them, expected to be trapped high up on a mountain, like a dragon hoarding her princess along with her mountain of gold. However, she saw no surroundings. No empty hills, no moat of lava, not even mist that conceals her location. All she saw were stars, tiny orbs of light that went as far as the eye could see. Stars surrounded her everything, with even a ground that the structure sat on. Kiris could not believe her eyes, blinking and rubbing them incase some mystical object was clouding her vision. Once she blinked she saw herself in a room several stories high, with rolling hills as if the structure was built onto of nothing. She questioned her vision, wondering which version she saw was real…

Do not think about it. It will hurt your head.

"Di! I mean Master!" Kiris yelled out, sitting back on her bed and looking around. "You left me with a cat girl!"

Catgirl? Oh, you must have met my lovely dear Yuki. Did she welcome you well?~

"Her name is Yuki?" Kiris felt her hand drift down to her nethers, remember Yuki's touch as the girl rolled her clit between her two gloved fingers. She jumped out of her recollection, lifting her hand away from between her legs. Two of her fingers were already moist with her arousal.

It seems she did. You loved it didn't you?~

"N-no I didn't…" Kiris responded, her purple cheeks turning lighter with faster-flowing blood. You are no longer an orderite, you don't have to deny it. But mere words won't prove that to you, will it? Kiris's hand started moving back between her legs, but she herself couldn't stop it's progress. She whimpered as it grazed her opening, rubbing her folds through her panties. "I-I just took a shower…"

I think the second thing I'll change about you is your mind. It is a shame really, I was excited to play with your shy personality, but it appears to carry more hindrance than positives…simply put, you must accept your new form, or be stuck in endless bliss~

"I...I can't….mmmph~" Kiris covered her mouth with a hand she was able to control, rolling and squirming around on her mattress while her hand continued its assault. For a villager, your kind knows how to create soft clothing. I'm glad I rooted your mind for the instructions. The hand pulled at the panties, tearing the dainty article easily. As soon as enough of her cunt was exposed the hand dove in, wiggling two fingers inside before pushing them further into her depths. She moaned as they moved in opposite directions, pushing against her insides and stopping, only to crash into her walls once more. The rest of her fingers rubbed themselves along the outside, the thumb playing around with her clit.

"D-don't touch my nub...ah~" Kiris's thighs squeezed around her hand, the thumb pressing itself hard into the clit. Moan shamelessly, as loudly as you wish. Moan for the whole world to here. For your family, your friends, your coworkers, your superiors. Even for the children you love to take care of, show them how lewd you can be. Because in the end, the only one that would you would care for, is me.

"Ahhhhhhh!~"

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Natsumi sat in his lean-to, drawing out a path from the image in his head. He had bought a map in Headen's kingdom to aid, using the roads and walkways to guide his way to each destination. After sketching out with his quill, he put it away and rolled up the map, tucking it into his bag of items before curling up under the lean-to. He was used to sleeping on the ground with nothing over him, so a roof felt like a luxury to get him through the night. His eyes closed and his body slowed down its processes, but his mind still ran aloof with thoughts. He was preparing himself for another long walk. Time was of the essence, and he knew the longer he took, the worse things that can happen.