Old Flame

"Come on, Lim. Let us pass!"

Wearing a blue uniform dress, albeit her skirt was a bit shorter than the standard, the teenage Antani hounded the newly installed guard. 

"It's still class hours, you both know I can't do that." The guard stood firm, he may be friendly with the both of them but he's not willing to jeopardize his job just so they could cut classes. 

The other teen next to Antani, a fair skinned blonde with blue eyes, spoke, "It's our arcane class, Lim. We're both bad at it, besides, we fight with swords. That class is as useful to us as learning how to dig a trench with a stick." 

"Listen to Michaela, Lim!" Antani chimed in. 

"No! For the last time I will not aid you both in cutting classes!" 

All hope seemed lost, until Antani had come up with a brilliant plan. 

"Lim, you mentioned before that like professor Rayla, don't you?" A smug grin crept up onto Antani's lips. 

"Yeah, what does that have to do with anything?"

"If you let us pass, we'll put in some good word for you. We're both her favorite students, you know. Who knows, maybe you'll score a drink with her?"

It was no secret that the sword vixen was what you would label a 'campus crush'. For a teacher, Rayla looked absolutely stunning and with a toned body to boot. Plus, being an ex-mercenary added a dangerous flair to her appeal. It was no secret indeed that both men and women fawned over her.

"Really!? Wait a minute…" Lim's expression soared only to plummet when he realized something. "... isn't professor Rayla a lesbian?" 

"She swings both ways. Trust us, we asked her personally. What's it going to be, Lim?" 

Lim cupped his chin. Let two troublemakers pass for the chance of scoring a date with the hottest professor in Aeselis, or remain steadfast in his duty? 

"Alright, you two have a deal. I'll hold you to it." 

"Yes!" / "Alright!"

Antani and Michaela both beamed with joy as Lim stood aside, opening the huge gate to let them pass. The teen couple immediately held hands as they scampered towards the town's edge. 

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Deep inside Vanluc's forest is where Antani and Michaela decided to hold their tryst. 

A lover's chase, the two teenagers were giggling about as Antani pursued the running Michaela.

Until Antani finally cornered the blonde. 

The forest's serenity was occasionally broken by Michaela's heady whimpers as she laid back on some ravine while receiving love nibbles on her neck from Antani. 

With her heart hammering from excitement, Antani halted her kisses to check in on Michaela. 

"Let's go all the way." Antani bit her lip as she suggested. 

Meanwhile, although she greatly enjoyed the caress of Antani's lips, it was a line that Michaela still wasn't ready to cross. 

"I'm sorry, Antani, but I don't think I'm ready." 

"No one ever is. I just…I just want my first time to be you." 

Antani's pleading expression hit Michaela hard, they've been together for a year now and they managed to last simply by kisses. It was only natural that their bodies would yearn for more despite being only 17. And oh how Antani yearned for Michaela. 

But as an aspiring paladin, Michaela's purity must be well guarded, shielded by celebate virtue. 

Sensing that Michaela was unable to answer, Antani's mood plummeted faster than a crash landing meteor. 

"You know what, Michaela, never mind." The disappointment was clear in Antani's tone. Making it seem like she was guilt tripping Michaela, when it was just Antani's frustration speaking. 

Antani turned around, until she felt Michaela clasp her wrist. 

It wasn't just Antani that yearned to cross the threshold. Michaela's religious dogma battled her desire to commune bodies with Antani. 

Maybe she can find a loophole? If Mithra forbids premarital sex, then what if she just let Antani touch? Michaela might not be willing to give Antani everything, but she wanted for Antani to have something of her. 

Michaela lifted her skirt, she clasped Antani's hand as she pressed it on her bare thigh. Antani gulped both in nervousness and anticipation. 

Slowly, Michaela guided Antani's hand all the way up and into her undergarment, which she slid down for Antani.

Michaela flinched with delight as she felt Antani's hand on her sex. 

Antani's lust reached its peak, her lips dove in for a tender kiss while her finger down below started to enter Michaela. 

Although the tip of their tongue would occasionally touch, Michaela wasn't too keen on a downright torrid kiss. 

As Antani explored Michaela's warm insides, Michaela's right hand went above her head, as she tried to grasp something so she could contain the pleasure swirling inside of her. 

Just as Michaela was about to reach her climax, her hand had pressed down on an odd rock. 

The combined efforts of Antani's finger alongside her kiss brought Michaela to a climax so strong that the very ground started to shake. 

Wait, what? Both looked at each other in confusion. 

The answer revealed itself to be a secret revolving door, that which Michaela laid upon. And with Antani close to her, she too was brought along as the stone door flipped, bringing the two into what appeared to be a staircase that led to an underground dungeon. 

 Both of them stood up as they could see the outline of the stunning dungeon below. 

"Huh, imagine that, I fingered you so hard it opened up a dungeon…ow!" 

For Antani's crass remark, she received a playful elbow to the side. 

"Very funny, Antani. Now come on, let's head back." 

"Wait, aren't you curious what's down below?" 

"I am not. What if we find a beholder in there?" Michaela argued. Although they both came prepared for their forest romp with swords in their waists, dungeons range from something a silver can tackle, to one where it can give a diamond rank a run for their gold. 

"But what if we find gold? Or better yet, a legendary artifact!" Antani held her lover by the hand and gestured with her head. "Come on, Michaela, please! We should check it out!" 

Antani smiled from ear to ear with unbridled enthusiasm and curiosity for the dungeon ahead. Honestly, how could Michaela say no to that? 

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After treading the stairs below, it led them to a massive underground corridor. The blue ley lines on its stone architecture were as blue as the clear ocean, drawing from the natural mana produced by nature above. What's more, they weren't just for design, they all flowed into the automatons wearing a Knight's armor embedded in the regal stone wall. 

With sword and shield in hand, all 30 of them were lined up and posed like royal guards, guarding whatever it was inside the room on the far end. 

Michaela, an aspiring paladin had a keen eye for armor quality, and the armor that the golem knights wore were top-notch that she couldn't help but touch them. As Michaela's hand brushed its chest, she heard swords clashing from behind her. 

It was Antani, guarding her from a strike that should have decimated her head. 

Suddenly, the armor in front of Michaela started to move, no - to attack! 

The first action it took upon springing into life was bashing Michaela with its shield. 

"Antani, jump high!" Michaela commanded, prompting the Amazon to leap up into the air. 

As Michaela strafed to the side, the other golem's sword held at bay by Antani crashed into the golem who was open after its shield swipe. 

Using her downward momentum empowered by gravity, Antani's sword came crashing down on the golem's neck like a guillotine, ending its artificial life with one swift strike. 

"For guards seem to be guiding something important, they're not that tough." Antani commented. 

As if to respond to her comment, both armors and the mana from the ley lines on the wall began to glow blue. The armor pieced itself back together. 

What the armored golems lacked in combat prowess, they made up for in durability. 

As the other automatons started to move, Michaela and Antani huddled their backs against each other. 

At the promise of a challenge and a legendary loot, Antani couldn't help but grin as she gripped her sword tightly, "If they went so far as to make these guards indestructible, it's making me wonder what they have in that room." 

"Well why don't we find out." 

The two lovers engaged in a corridor fight against the golems that barred their path. Charging at them endlessly as they inched closer and closer to the gate with each golem that they put down. 

The sound of steel clashing against steel reverberated in the entire corridor. 

Brought about by her paladin training, Michaela's regal swordplay, juxtaposed Antani's more ferocious swings as they both tore through the golems while advancing. 

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Closing the gate behind them, both Michaela and Antani gasped for breath as they physically pushed each other to the limit. 

Once again, the lovers are in awe at the place. The ley lines from the walls all merged into the center of the room into a pedestal was a pristine synthetic eyeball. 

Different from the golems outside, the two guards on each side of the room stood around 20 feet tall. Whatever that eyeball was, the giant golems would ensure that it wasn't going to be taken from this room.  

Antani witnessed the ley lines from the pedestal also connected on the floor, going all the up to the two gargantuan guardians. And frankly, even if they weren't exhausted from their fight, she's not fairly confident in going up against two behemoths that can flatten them with one strike. 

Thus, the two left the legendary artifact on its pedestal. The hidden dungeon was kept as a secret by them both. An intimate knowledge that both held even as the two of them fell out of love for each other.