Chapter 6
Lux:
I slip out of the somewhat crowded bed, sis, Sinrae and Vela, Vela used her shape changing to be a male for me while Sinrae was one for sis, making me feel less jealous of sis.
"Where are you going sis?" my sister asks and Vela looks at me too as I slipped off her cock to get out of bed.
"I have some important work to do down in the laboratory, you three just enjoy yourselves alright?" I say and smile.
Sis smiles "alright sis, we will enjoy ourselves, I want to sleep a while longer anyway."
I see Vela and Sinrae slide up closer to her from both sides and hug her and I feel some envy, but I have work to do.
I head down to the dungeon and step up to Goz I caress his chest with my razor nails and gaze into his eyes and then I feel, a weird feeling that what I am about to do is wrong somehow, his scared face does not make me happy today, I feel really angry, but I can't make myself just hurt him today I look into his eyes "Goz, I need to extract several hearts from you today, to help the other prisoners heal, would you prefer if I did that to you while you are unconscious so you don't feel what I am doing?" this feels so strange, to want to not have him feel pain.
Goz also looks surprised "you want be nice to Goz?" his eyes are cute for troll eyes, with genuine joy due to the surprise in them.
"Yes, but I still need your hearts and other things from you, but I can make you not feel pain if you want" I say and look into his eyes.
Goz nods "I want to not feel pain, but I want to be awake when you milk me, even if that will be painful too."
I grab onto his shoulder and slide myself up so my face is right in front of his and as I do my body presses up against his and I feel his cock go hard and poke up against me it rests between my butt cheeks and presses me up against him. "Would you like to fuck my pussy?" I very rarely do that, only when I am very desperate, or feel like degrading myself, but right now I want to be filled again.
Goz looks extremely excited and even more scared, I sometimes ask him questions like that and punish him for wanting to do things to me that I do not want to do. "Yes mistress Lux!" he says after a very short deliberation.
I gaze into his eyes for a long moment and I see him starting to sweat and his cock jumps against me slamming me against his body, I grab both his shoulders, digging my razor sharp nails into him as I do and pull myself up a bit till he slides between my pussy lips and I feel how wet he is with precum and anticipation, and I am wet too and I keep my eyes fixed on him as I push myself down on his cock, he fills me completely and I end up about a head below him, but he seems to understand I want him to keep his gaze fixed on me I moan and stay put fully impaled on him "Goz, if I were to remove the restraints from you, would you let me harvest you and also do everything I ask of you?" I start using my pussy muscles around his cock as I ask this to help motivate him.
Goz moans as well as he struggles to think then he nods "I would do anything for you mistress, if you make love to me once each moon." he looks terrified after saying the last bit.
I giggle and shift my nails to regular nails I stretch up and kiss him on the lips and as I do I cast a spell I know of but rarely use as it requires the recipient to accept it willingly, if he accepts it he will be unable to resist any desire I have, and would be safer than a kitten or puppy, and completely obedient, to the best of his ability. To my surprise it takes only a moment for him to accept. I briefly consider removing his shackles and telling him to take me like he was going to that day when I caught him, but then I think better of it, I don't know if I can handle such a rough fucking right now, and I only have a few of my private stash of my strongest healing potions left. Instead I start riding his cock my finding good support for my feet on the wall he is attached to, we both start moaning as I ride him hard, I can feel his cock jumping as each time it slams me against him, despite trying to stay put with all my might, I can sense and see in his eyes his concentration, he does not want to cum before I tell him he can, or maybe just wants me to cum before he does. Soon both of us are dripping with sweat, most of his from concentration although he is trying to thrust despite his restraints, and I from doing all the work, and finally I cry out loudly as I get a really intense orgasm, and then I hear him roar a moment later as my pussy milks him and he explodes deep into me, I fix my eyes on him as he does this and he flinches as if I had slapped him, I cast a little spell on myself to absorb the cum and its life force.
Eiria'Tiareen:
I dodge the people around me, as I walk among them invisible, due to the unholy curse by the evil eldritch abomination Vela I am unable to wear clothing, I am very ashamed of that, I do not want any infidels to see my body, it is reserved for the priests and priestesses of the Tiareen, the binders of magic, we guarded the great chain the gods and goddesses forged to control magic, and have worked tirelessly to rid the world of all horrors of magic that can threaten it, only for the chain to shatter due to some powerful ritual far away, not only that but our patron gods and goddesses are not responding to us. Ever since Vela's curse we have all lost the ability to wear clothes as we do not follow her rules, we capture and kill magical beings that are a threat to the natural order, and now she is highest on the list of those, followed by the priestess of the cult of raw magic, a cult long believed dead, but we sensed them being active shortly before the chain broke, I was sent to hunt her down and if possible capture her so she can be killed in the inner sanctum of anti magic, we prefer to kill magical beings of great power there as their magic is destroyed rather than released if we do it there. Luckily one of the priests figured out how to create a device that makes the wearer invisible, so we have been able to follow the tenets of our religion, to now show our bodies to infidels. I also carry with me my own anti magic arsenal. The imprisoned wizard of scrying showed me what the priestess looks like, she apparently runs a magical potion shop, preventing the natural flow of reality. I am heading there now, I can see horrible abominations flitting about the street, fairies and other fey, I almost want to attack them here and now, but the priestess of raw magic will be much more important to capture than any of them. So we can snuff her cult out again.
I reach the store and walking around to the back I see the balcony with its small garden in the back, and the door to the balcony is open, I climb the thorny climbing rose bush that grows on the wall, it cuts my hands and several other places on my body, but cuts are nothing new to me, my entire body is covered with scars made during the rituals that stripped all potential for magic from me, I was born as one of the magic people, an elf, I still hate that part of me, magic has been cleansed from me, and no magic can hurt me or corrupt me anymore. I suppress a whimper as one of the thorns cuts my breast as I pull myself over the railing of the balcony. I step through the open balcony door, my blue blood dripping from me onto the floor, I underwent the ritual to turn my blood into paralysing poison to magical beings, not only that it suppresses their magic until their body manages to fight it off, and also injures them badly. I see three people in the bed, in the morning sun, one of them looks like the priestess, she dares call herself Lux, light, I see in the lenses that turn magical energy into light that all three of them are magical beings, Lux and the... wait that looks like Vela, they are both very powerful beings, the male is a dark elf with some limited magical power. I slip my dart pipe from a skin fold I cut into the outside of my thigh and pull some darts from a few smaller folds dipping the dart tips in my fresh blood from my cut breast and I load the first dart up and blow it into the neck of Vela and rapidly I reload shooting Lux and the dark elf male.
Vela screams out in intense pain and her body starts boiling and melting soaking into the bed. She truly is a horror, maybe she is so powerful in magic that my poison is fatal to her, the thought brings a smile to my lips and I see Lux body start to convulse as the poison takes hold and she makes beautiful painful whimpering music for me and stares in terror, the dark elf whimpers and goes completely limp quickly, he is not even worth my time, he does not have enough magic to hunt down, once we destroy the powerful magical beings magic will die and leave the world, elves are not powerful magical beings, except a few rare ones, and once magic has been cleansed from the world they will all become natural free of magic.
as I step into the room I spot myself in the mirror, fresh cuts crisscrossing my old scars, my eyes shimmer with blue light as my anti magic becomes active around magical beings, I grab Lux's foot and pull her away from the bed and she slams into the floor, I grab her by her hair and pulls her limp body up and gaze into her eyes "I will end your magical corruption Lux." I look at Vela who has melted into the bed and then the bed and her have turned into dry flakes and I see the magic dying in them, weak embers are left, nothing more.
The dark elf speaks up "she is not Lux" he moans in pain. The poison does not always completely paralyse the body, many can still talk.
"Oh where is Lux?" I ask him.
"If you promise to not hurt Sylaera I will tell you" he says in a very strained voice.
"No" Sylaera says with great effort and pain "don't tell her..."
"If you don't tell me" I say and pull a blade from its skin sheet and coat the blade in my fresh blood and pull it up to her throat "I will cut her throat and let you watch her bleed out." I have no intention of letting such a powerful magical being as this woman live, she must be Lux's twin sister.
"Lux... is downstairs, in her laboratory, behind the secret door."
Sylaera whimpers "nooo" and starts crying.
I pull pull her limp body by her hair and with some effort get her down the stairs and looking around a while I spot the secret door, and the mechanism is fairly simple, just to be safe I use the sister's hand to manipulate it and the door opens, I walk down into a garden under ground, if I felt like I had time I would burn this unnatural place, but I do not. I hear moans coming from down the steps and drag the sister down there and there I spot Lux fucking a troll who is attached to the wall.
Lux spots me because my invisibility does not work when I am two people, she gazes at me and her eyes flash bright as the sun and a bolt of raw energy flies and hits me in the face, I feel it dissipate as the magic that makes it work dies as it touches my skin. "Surrender to me or your sister dies." I say, holding the knife back up against her sister's throat.
"Please don't hurt my sister" Lux says "I... if you promise to leave her here and not hurt her I will surrender..." she looks a bit surprised for saying that and also terrified, angry and sad all at the same time.
"Get off that troll and kneel before me, with your hands behind your back, and I promise that I will leave your sister here and not hurt her" I say.
Lux slowly pulls herself off the troll's cock and as she does there is a wet pop and lots of filthy troll cum ooze down from her pussy as she slowly moves over to kneel before me and tears roll down her cheeks as she does so and she puts trembling hands behind her back interlacing her fingers and her elbows touch each other behind her back.
I slip the handle of my knife into my mouth briefly and then grab a collar from a hook on my skin and toss it in front of her as I grab the knife again and put it to her sister's throat "put it on."
Lux moves her hands from behind her back and grabs the collar and closing her eyes she puts it on and as it clicks in place I see her magic completely get suppressed by the anti magic in the collar. I smile "oh and I lied" I say and cut the whimpering throat of Sylaera deep and hard and she sprays her blood on her sister who screams "no you bitch I will kill you!" and then as she jumps up to attack me I stab the knife into her breast and she falls over convulsing as the big dose of poison takes effect on her and I see the glow of her sister fade as she sprays the last of her blood all over her convulsing sister and I shove her body under the troll, in the filthy pool of cum under him. He roars in rage and strains against the restraints, the metal of the restraints complain and he cuts himself against it, but it will not let him free. I grab Lux by her collar and start dragging her on the floor and she is crying, I grab the rod of recall from another of my folds, a gift from the gods and goddesses that lets us return to the temple with those we capture, it hurts a lot for those like me that are strongly anti magical to use, but pain is something I am used to and cherish, as it means I am alive. I knee Lux in the face and activate the rod and I feel my entire body and her body implode into the rod.
Then I feel myself soar through needless, but instead of arriving in the temple me and Lux arrive in a completely dark room, it felt like the flight was cut short and redirected, I try to use the rod again and Lux whimpers and I scream in pain as we are tossed against one of the walls of the cell.
Lux passes out and I nearly do too.
I try to find any way out of this room, but despite the light of my eyes I can not find even a single seam anywhere in the room. Lux is crying in her passed out state, her tears are not plain tears but also stained with blood, and her nose is bleeding and she coughs up some blood too, she seems to be having a very adverse reaction to my blood's poison. I do not care if she dies to it though, it would be better to kill her in the temple, but killing her is better than letting her live.
Nûl:
I heard the orgasmic cries of mistress Lux come to an end, a lot of crying and whimpering and threats and then I felt the crystals redirect a teleport to the containment room Lux set up. I can sense I still have my own psionics working, so I unlock the door, gently this time as I know exactly how the locks work now, and I step out of the door and down towards where I heard the commotion from.
I see mistress with her throat cut and I run up to her, she barely has a trace of life left at all, I focus on mending her body, but this is a serious injury for an elf, her blood is sprayed all around the room, then I look up at the troll above me "I need your blood" I say and he nods "save her give blood!"
I see the pipe Lux uses to tap blood from him with and I grab it and stab into his leg artery and then stab the other end with more effort into her arm and using my own psionic powers of mending and moving the blood I manage to get the troll blood to flow around her blood system and I pull the pipe away from both of them and my own mending combined with the troll blood soon makes her body stop slipping away and the wounds even heal, though it takes a lot longer than it usually does when one uses troll blood, I don't know why, but something even resisted my magic inside her. I think it got overwhelmed though. She will be fine but not as quickly as I would like, who would dare attack the mistress in her own home!
Sylaera:
I felt myself falling into darkness, sister caught by some horrible evil bitch, and she killed me, or at least I am dying from getting my throat cut, I feel like an absolute failure, I failed to protect her and myself, my protection spell on myself and Sinrae I felt it try to stop the darts, but it failed, simple stupid darts, my magic is weak and useless and now I am dying for it.
I feel dark tendrils start fighting the biting horrible burning cold blue death inside me, and I feel my arm being stabbed and then intense heat being forced into my arm and around my body, I am caught by its heat and the dark tendrils, and the tendrils keep fighting the blue foggy death, the tendrils get thicker tentacles holding me up, pulling me back, forcefully but still with gentleness, they want me to live, they love me. My heart starts beating faster and I can breathe again, my throat still hurts as I gasp for air, but the pain fades away for each gasp of breath and I flick my eyes open and stare up into a terrifying face with tentacles and I scream and try to pull myself free, but his strong arms hold me close "mistress Lux, it is me Nûl, you are safe now." Nûl I guess it is called says.
I stop struggling "I am Sylaera, the evil bitch kidnapped Lux. Last thing I saw they vanished." I then spot the huge troll above us his flaccid cock is huge and his balls, some cum drips down from him onto my lips and I taste it and feel traces of my sister's taste mingled with his taste.
Nûl looks concerned "mistress Lux would not want you to be here in the dungeon..." he looks worried "um... but I need your help to save her, she and bitch got caught teleporting out, they are in special room..."
I look around "what is this place?" I ask.
"This is mistress Lux's dungeon, where she keeps people who attacked her, she uses them for ingredients to potions, troll here is source of most healing potions, main ingredient, and also makes the others recover from extracting things from them. Ingenious really." Nûl says.
I feel woozy still as whatever that bitch used on me is lingering, and the loss of blood and all, so I am not sure I heard Nûl right "sis has a dungeon? prisoners? she uses them for potions? I don't believe you."
The troll speaks up "lovely terrifying mistress Lux extracts me almost every day, I like that mostly..." he says.
"You said sis and the bitch is in special room? and you need my help to save her?" I ask Nûl leaving the other stuff for later, I must save sis if I can.
Nûl caresses my face with one of his icky tentacles "yes, your sister makes most of her magic include you, know of you and to treat you almost like herself, the special room is where hostile teleporting people end up, it has no doors, but the wall can change shape, if she commands it to, if we are lucky she made it possible for you to command it too."
I struggle to pull free and get up "let me go I need to get up and get to her!" Nûl releases me after a short delay and I fall over a couple of times and then with great struggle I get to my feet, my legs and the rest of me tingles as my body is really exhausted and I remember sis giving me some potions to use if I got hurt and I pull one of them out of my storage and pull the stopper and drink it, I feel its amazing warmth flood my body and the weakness goes away. It feels almost like my sister is there hugging me, and my eyes flash brightly as my magic fully restores. I sense the power from the crystals in this place connect to my mind and my magic hungrily drinks the energy from them.
Nûl gets up "you are just as beautiful and terrifying as your sister mistress Sylaera" he then heads down the hallway "the room this way mistress." he says and guides me.
I walk after him and then I spot all the drooling prisoners "wait Nûl who are these and why are they staring vacantly at me?"
"Your sister's prisoners, they attacked her, and when they staged an escape attempt I got free too and I have consumed their minds, so they will not trouble her. She said she is planning on healing their minds later when she can extract some hearts from the troll, they are the ones used in the strongest regeneration potions and will regrow the brain too, quite handy that." Nûl says looking at me, waiting for me to join him.
"Why would you do such a thing?" I ask as I walk up to him and he leads me further down the hall.
"My kind need to eat brains to survive, and if we want to be healthy we need to eat smart minds, not idiots like the troll, or orcs, preferably magical brains, your sister has not been feeding me nearly as much as I would like, after she captured and tortured me, I understand that culturally you have mmm issues with that. I would starve to death if she did not feed me though, so she has fed me and restored their brains afterwards using regeneration potions." Nûl says and I shiver as this is revolting to me.
Then we come upon a gilded cage with two angels a male and female and a dark elf female "you fucking bitch I will kill you!" the dark elf screams to me and she throws a bowl of hot stew at me, without really thinking I stop the bowl mid air and fly it back to her "don't waste your food, I am not my sister and I will talk with her about your living conditions, but you attacked her, and nobody attacks my sister, if you ever hurt her I will hurt you back."
Nûl guides me past a few more cells, most of them are empty though, and then down a very long spiralling staircase, going deep into the ground, past several more doors, finally at the bottom he opens the door and guides me down a small hallway to a wall "here this is the room where hostile teleports go."
I walk up to the wall and touch it and I sense the magic of the room connect with me and after a short while it explains to me what it can do like all good magical items do, apparently accepting me as a valid user. I look into the room and I see my sister writing in pain on the floor, crying and the mutilated evil elf bitch is cutting into her skin with her dagger. I feel such intense rage at that my nails turn into long razor sharp claws, then I remember the dart and its poison knocking me out and my desire to protect myself makes my skin change I grow metallic scales that cover all of my skin and the wall opens up, I leap at the bitch, I slash and scream as I shove her up against a wall and I keep slashing and screaming until I am slashing at the wall itself, and I collapse onto the floor covered with blue blood and chunks of bone and flesh. I start shaking violently and crying.
Nûl:
I see Sylaera rip apart the bitch that hurt her and Lux, and as I see the head fly and slam into a wall I step into the room and up to Lux, she is really badly hurt, I touch my hand to her bloody exposed ribs and start to focus all my attention toward mending her wounds. This poison that is in the blood of this bitch is really hindering my efforts, but slowly I make progress, very slowly, at least I will be able to prevent her death, but I think I am going to need Sylaera's help, but right now the fight with the poison is taking all my effort. I just barely perceive that Sylaera is crying, she is so different from her sister it is sickening, but without her I could not have gotten in here in time to save mistress Lux, and I know Lux loves her sister, so I will do what I can to protect her, I am just getting so very exhausted right now, expending all my energy to stabilize Lux and get the poison out of her.
Sylaera turns to face us and her body reverts to her natural form and she pukes on the meat and bones of the bitch, and then crawls over to me and Lux. She brings out a vial and opens it and pours it down Lux's throat and I sense the potent regeneration and healing magic surge through her body and together with my own effort we push away the poison and slowly start to restore Lux's body.
Sylaera touches the collar and rotates it looking for a way to open it. I am too focused inside Lux to be able to tell what the collar is like, but Sylaera manipulates its mechanism and after some work it clicks open and she pulls it away and tosses it onto the corpse fragments.
Sinrae:
I watch helplessly as they leave and slowly the bed smoulders crumbling into flakes and smoke, whatever happened with Vela it is really bad and it slowly is creeping towards me, I am really scared of what might happen when it reaches me and I can't even move slightly. The smoke smells truly horrific and burns my lungs and even my skin as it touches me, I cry out in pain, then I feel an intense biting sensation as the edge of destruction reaches me, but instead of starting to flake away like the bed I feel slime ooze around me, it burns briefly and then I do not feel anything but I can see my flesh melting into the slime, my heart races and I speak while I still can "Vela, if you are still in there, please don't eat me, Lux and Sylaera needs our help, or your help, I can't move."
The slime touches my heart and then I feel it flow through my body, in my blood, the bed collapses under me and I fall onto the flakes on the floor each chunk of bed produces a tiny droplet of slime that oozes slowly up to me and into me and then I feel my muscles start to respond and my flesh starts to regrow as the slime oozes out of me and it finally is all out of me and starts flowing slowly towards the door, tendrils form and reach out trying to grab on and pull the slime forward. The slime seems to still be smoking and parts flake off from it. "I will be back for you later I need to try to help Sylaera and Lux!" I say and get up and although my body protests I run towards the door and down the open secret passage, to Lux's laboratory and I call out and I see nobody there, I briefly consider and then decide to run down to the place Lux said was dangerous, having a feeling that she might be that way.
I stop as I see a troll and a lot of blood around it "where is Lux?!" I ask him.
"Goz not sure, Nûl and Lux sister went that way" he looks at the hallway and I run down it and see several zombie like living beings in cells, and I hurry on and then I see a dark elf bitch with two winged elves in a gilded cage.
"Let me out of here please" the dark elf says to me and does her best flirtatious pose and movement and I laugh "maybe later, where did Sylaera and Nûl go?"
"You will let me out right now!" she says commandingly to me, usually that is what they do first, but she tried to be nice first and then tried to command me, not that either works on me, I do not like dark elves especially the bitches.
"No" I say "tell me where they went, then maybe later."
The winged elf female moves up to the bars "they went down the hall in that direction, I really hope you will help us get out of here later."
I smile "I will talk with Lux about you, but I can't force her to do anything." I say and head down the hall, I find some stars and follow them down, trying each door on the way down but they are all locked till I reach the bottom and its door is open and I hurry down it and then reach a room with a mindflayer touching Lux's really broken body, fragments of an elf corpse ripped to pieces strewn around the room and Sylaera looking worriedly at her sister as the mindflayer is healing her? I run up to them and hold Sylaera close and she hugs me with bloody hands and cries into my chest.
Lux gasps and her body convulses a vial of regeneration potion appears in her hand and she drops it and whimpers in pain and I hurry to catch it and remove the stopper and pour it down her throat and she swallows and the healing process goes faster.
I watch the mindflayer closely, it must be the one called Nûl, I vaguely consider the meaning of the name, I think it might mean nothing, zero, failure, why would a mindflayer call themselves that? Also why the hell is this one helping Lux, and why is it even in her shop, they are really horrible creatures and my family only traded with them rarely, usually we traded them slaves we wanted to suffer as much as possible in exchange for powerful magical knowledge or items, or completely loyal but rather mindless slaves, often that was the faith of our most hated enemies and we bought them back to have them mindlessly do what we say, watching your former worst enemy clean your latrines and do other menial tasks without complaint was a satisfactory thing, though not quite as satisfactory as if they did that and showed they hated it, though that would have been too risky. Lux finally seems to become whole and Nûl removes his hands from her and collapses onto his back on the ground next to her, he looks at me briefly and then just closes his eyes. He looks like he got completely exhausted.
Lux looks up at me "take my sister out of here, to the bathtub, I will join you soon." she says with a coldly calm voice, but her eyes looking at her sister tells me she is happily surprised, but not able to handle this situation right now. I pick Sylaera up and carries her away, she does not resist me, just weakly hugs me and cries. I take her to the bathtub adjacent to her own room, using the nice shower to wash us clean of all the blue blood and other gore.
Lux:
I see sis be carried off, I am really glad she is alright, but in my mind I still lost her and the conflicting emotions is really making me feel really horrible and I curl up in a ball and cry, I can still feel that bitch carving my flesh with her poisoned knife, and her poison killing me, at least it felt like I was going to die, also sis having killed that bitch, I tried to protect her from bad things, not only did she nearly get killed, but she killed someone today. I want to bring this bitch back to life and kill her over and over again for what she did, but I noticed how hard the potion had to work to heal me, I do not think even submerging her in a tub full of this potion would bring her back, not with her magic hostile blood. I continue crying for quite some time and then I feel Nûl's tentacles gently caress my shoulder and neck, I think maybe he is trying to soothe me, at least it is not some sort of attack, it is very creepy and icky though, but I have seen his mind, and he just spent a lot of effort to keep me alive and bring me back from the brink.
I force myself to stop crying and turn my head to look to Nûl "Nûl... thank you for saving me and you must have saved my sister too, I... I will try to see to helping you with getting children, I... I do not think you should try to eat the brain of this foul corrupted elf, but I would much want to know what she knows if that was possible."
Nûl looks into my eyes for several long moments and then nods "I will need you to heal two of the dark elf mages, preferably the females as they are more powerful, and I will need to consume their brains and be given three vial of regenerative healing potion if I am to attempt to learn anything from her brain, it will hurt me a lot to do that, but her head is intact and fresh so I should be able to get something out of it, but you will have to save me after if you want to learn what I learn, mistress." he says, he does not seem to want to do it at all "unless you want me to just do it and die, I would rather not you ask that of me though, also this needs to be done shortly, if she starts to rot her brain will not hold any knowledge of value."
I consider briefly and then I nod handing him three potent vials of my personal reserve "when do you need the two dark elves?"
Nûl takes the vials and says "I do not really need them, but I would desire them to get the bad taste out of my mouth after consuming this horror and help restore my mind after."
I smile "alright, I will give them to you, you can even help me pick, and if you learn something useful about where this bitch came from I would be very happy and might heal all of the others for you to consume as a reward."
Nûl nods "will you stay with me as I consume the brain and give me the vials, I will take the first one before I start, but if I fall to the ground please give me another one and then save the third one for if my heart stops, if it does not I am fine."
I frown at the mess around the room "can you take her head to your cell, I will join you there after I clean this mess up."
Nûl looks around "you might want to check the mess for items, I sense some magic and also some other complex devices in this mess, he then walks over and picks the head up and walks away.
I crawl over to the mess and look through the chunks for anything of interest, and separate out the items from the rest of the corpse and carry them out of the room and I bring out several bottles of lamp oil and toss them into the room splashing them all over, then I close the wall and tell the room to incinerate the content, the magical fire as expected can't burn the flesh directly, but the lamp oil ignites and burns the flesh quite well, it burns with a blueish black fire and gives off almost black blue smoke. I have a slight curiosity about this anti magical blood, but I would not use such a thing myself and do not want people to have it, so I am not going to experiment with it, besides I have samples on the blades if I really want to and I am sure I can get something from the empty skull if I want. Finally I tell the room to send the smoke to the negative energy plane, where it will be destroyed, and maybe harm some undead creatures before then.
As the crack in reality closes back up again the room is empty and clean, ready to receive the next fool who teleports into or in my shop, I never thought I would end up inside this room myself, I must remember to add some sort of feature to shunt me or friends away from this room to a safe room if we ever end up in a similar situation in the future.
I put the items in a box and carry it up to Nûl's cell and sit down in front of him "I hope this will not harm you too much Nûl, thank you for trying to figure out what she knows for me."
Nûl looks at the severed head with disgust, I have never seen him look disgusted at the thought of eating any brain, not even Goz's, but he does not like feeble minds as much as genius ones. He takes one of the vials and removes the stopper and drinks it, then he grabs the head with trembling hands and sinks his tentacles into it and I see intense pain in his eyes, I hear the bone crunch and then the slurping of the brain and he drops the head and it makes a hollow thump as it hits the ground and his body convulses where he sits and he grabs onto his knees and makes a loud keening sound, that sounds truly horrifying in more ways than one, his eyes start to cry black ichor and several spots on his body starts to bleed and I grab a vial and he shakes a finger at me 'no'. He closes his eyes and makes loud coughing sounds and the keening stops. His tentacles drool slime all over him, my life sense tells me that his own magic and the potion together is just barely keeping the huge dose of poison he just got in check, I see his body pushing the poison up and then he takes the empty vial and vomits intensely slightly glowing blue goop into it and he stoppers it and then spits the rest of the blue goop into the mouth of the head. He seems to start to recover from the worst of the ordeal after that.
"I..." Nûl starts "I know her entire life story, all her memories, will need time to sort out, know location of enemy temple now, should tell other powerful magical beings, destroy it, they want to destroy magic itself or at least contain it. They have murdered countless of us magical beings, they must be stopped. More important than me having children, my children can not survive in the world they want to make." he says and grabs another vial and drinks it "now please get me those two" he points at once of the cells "I need healthier thoughts to remove bad taste." I head over to the cell and lead the two of them to him and hand him six more vials.
I pick up the poison vial and head and put them in the box and head up to my laboratory and put the box in a stasis cabinet and then head up the stairs to my sister's bathroom and slide into the shower with her and Sinrae, letting her stay closest to Sinrae and me being on her other side. "I was so worried, I thought she killed you, and I was so helpless..." I say and she shuts me up with a kiss and hug and I hug her back and I feel Sinrae start to use the shower oil on both of us while we hug, I understand he is trying to comfort us, but right now I feel very vulnerable and his touch disgusts and hurts me, but I let him do it, as I know sis likes him and I sort of do too, but this situation opened up old wounds, but I do not want to show them how bad I feel, especially not my sister. She breaks down crying and we both slide down into sitting position in the tub and once Sinrae has cleaned us from the filthy blue blood he makes the tub fill with water and gently caresses us both to try to comfort us. Despite trying hard to not give in to my emotions tears come to my eyes and my lips quiver and I break down crying.
Vela:
Burning, freezing, corrupting, pain, so much pain, slowly I ooze out of the room, it feels like even slight movements are taking longer time than it does for a snail, I try so hard to change shape, but it hurts too much, my outer membrane keeps bursting and burning and flaking off and I almost feel myself loose cohesion, by the time I am out of Lux's room I hear water from Sylaera's room and slowly start sliding over there, water might help me, so much pain, I would rather be burned to ash than suffer this, it almost hurts as much as the quantum cascade, or when the sun was burning me, only it is worse, it nearly severed my connection to the other parts of myself, out in the galaxy, and the butterfly I sent away to the other Vela, whatever this poison is I need to figure out how to resist it, it is very bad, attacking the very parts of me that make me function, including my magic. I feel so weak, so much pain. I also took the poison from Sinrae's blood, to let him help them, he must have done so, I taste all three of them on the floor as I slide along it, slowly I ooze into the room, and I see them all soaking in the tub together, I need that water so badly, I try to flow over the edge of the tub, but I can't form the needed grip, I flail my pained tentacles and tendrils about trying to get a grip, but each time I try I feel a sharp pain burn through me. I manage to form a mouth briefly and say in a horrifying voice "waahtraarr gluhblfff" pain... so much pain.
Sinrae looks over the edge of the tub at me "Vela needs water I think, she got really hurt by this poison. Yet she removed it from me." he splashes some water at me and I soak it up, nothing has ever felt so good. I need a lot more than that though, I also need to somehow make up for destroying Lux's bed, I hope she will forgive me, lost control of myself.
Lux looks over the edge of the tub and sniffs, a drop of her tears drip onto me and it tastes amazing salty water. "Vela, join us."
I stretch a tentacle up pathetically, she sees I can't get into the tub and brings out a vial and opens it and pours it on me and I soak it up and it is like sunlight and warm mineral rich muddy water, I feel it fights the poison inside me and soon enough the poison is sufficiently neutralized to let me slide a tentacle into the tub and I slowly flow through it into the tub. I feel Lux shudder as I touch her skin, but Sylaera seems to accept me and Sinrae does too, I try to not ooze all over them but I start drinking water in.
Slowly I suck up all the bath water and I feel the poison finally fade away and as it does I dilute most of myself into a very water like slime, cleaning their skins and producing nourishment for them, and I take my normal form behind Lux "I am sorry Lux for destroying your bed when I got hit by the poison... I will do my best to pay you back for that."
Lux who is still tear filled and hugging herself close to her sister giggles at that and her sister giggles too, apparently for some reason something I said must be funny, I don't get it, but I am happy with them giggling rather than crying, so I do not mind. Lux then pulls her sister back with her as she leans against me and looks up into my eyes "it was not your fault, but if you can help me work on an antidote to this poison and then we will try to find friends of great magical power to attack their temple with, if you help with that it would be very much appreciated."
I consider the curse that now affects me too "attacking a temple? is that allowed?"
"As far as I understand they hunt magical beings, and are all probably affected by the curse already, all we would do is stop that from continuing." Lux says.
"I am almost all the way down to Vela of the city in the centre of the world, I will ask her, it is her curse. But I do not need clothing anyway, I can become a legion and attack them, if needed and sacrifice myself so you do not need to come to harm." I say, I think I could circumvent that part of the curse for them as well by being their clothes, as that would count as me cuddling with them while they wear me I think. So I smile "and I can become living clothes for you to wear and I don't think that counts as real clothes, if I cuddle with you all day."
Sylaera giggles "living clothes, that sounds funny, I will want to try that sometime later." then she looks sad again a moment later, I look into her eyes and stretch a hand out to caress her cheek "I will let you try that, it will be enjoyable for me at least, and maybe you too." I say.
Lux looks into her sister's eyes "what is on your mind sis, why are you so sad, we are all safe now, thanks to you."
Sylaera's eyes are filled with tears and her lips quiver a bit "I... I killed her, I was so angry because she hurt you, and me too... but... mom said not to hurt people, I feel bad about killing her, I was so angry and lost control."
Lux caresses her cheeks and gazes into her eyes "you did not do anything wrong, you hear me? She tried to and believed she killed you, she was slowly killing me, she had planned to take me to their temple and destroy my magic there, and perhaps my soul too I don't know how that works, they want to destroy all magic, I am going to end them, before they threaten or hurt more people, I hope you will help me with that. Please don't feel bad about hurting any of them, they would hurt you, me, Sinrae and Vela more they want to kill us because we have magic."
I speak up "yeah they nearly killed this body of mine, very nearly, two thirds of my mass has been burnt away by that poison."
Sylaera gazes into our eyes and Sinrae cups her breasts and kiss her neck "you really should not feel bad about defending your family and friends, sometimes that means one has to kill people who want to harm towards those you care for and yourself, it is they who choose to start a fight, and when that happens the right thing to do is to end the fight by winning by any means possible, or at least to survive."
Sylaera leans back against Sinrae and nods "alright I still do not like killing, I don't want to do that again, do we really have to find and fight them? Can't we just tell them to leave us alone?"
"You know those fairies that came to visit us?" Lux says.
"Yeah, they are cute, I want to meet them again." Sylaera says and smiles.
"Well these people will if the can kill all the fairies, all the fey, all mages and sorceresses and everyone else with any magic, we have to stop them before they do that, also they will keep coming after me and you, because we are the priestesses of the raw magic religion, even though I have no particular interest in worshipping that as such, we both still count as that, even if we do no more rituals there. They may even think that our ritual was what broke that chain and set magic free, while it was Iris who did that." Lux says.
"No! I really don't want them to hurt the fairies, you, me or any of our friends!" Sylaera says "I want to stop that, but I don't want to kill if I can help it." she then seems to think about something else and looks at Lux for several moments and bites her lip a bit nervously "sis... why... why do you have prisoners in cells and a troll and scary tentacle faced monster and angels in a gilded cage?"
Sinrae says "they are not angels, they are winged elves" he then kisses her neck and makes her giggle and moan softly.
Lux considers a bit, looking into her sister's eyes and then she says "you know those healing potions I make, all of them use the troll's blood, hearts and such to provide strong healing and restoration of life, if it was not for me having him I would make much weaker potions and other healing supplies and more people would be dead than now. The tentacle faced monster as you call him Nûl I defeated as he tried to attack me and he has helped me with magic research and I have used some extracts from his body to enhance several potions, all the people down there have attacked me, tried to rape or kill me, I could have killed them, but I chose to spare their lives, and I use them to enhance my potions of various kinds, and keep them alive and healthy, thanks to the troll, who is called Goz by the way. The winged elves are the newest of my prisoners, they both tried to kill me and I caught them and now I am going to keep them safe, and alive."
Sylaera has a conflicted expression on her face "if we let them go they will try to hurt you again, so we can't, but I do not like them being kept like that in such bad cells, I want them to have better living conditions, also I do not like the way some of them looked like they barely understood how to eat or drink, even bumbling into things, you have to help them get better in the head."
Lux sighs a bit and then nods "I was going to help them get better in the head when we got attacked by that bitch, and now that we can create a pocket dimension, I think we can make a better place for them to live in, or several better places, but I will need some time to do that. Will you help me convince them it is a good idea to be our friends and live there? Rather than keep fighting us and trying to escape?"
Sylaera smiles "I will make them love us!"
I wonder a bit about Sylaera, she seems smart in some things, emotionally competent, but then she has moments like this that makes me think she lacks in certain ways, at least she does not seem to have been harmed too much from the events today and that makes me happy. Lux scares me though, using extracts from people, what does that mean? Also taking hearts and blood form the troll that must hurt the troll, I am not sure he deserves that. "Lux, if... if you can tell me what the extracts are that you use from the various creatures you have I might be able to produce them for you, if you feed me what I need to make them from, so you won't need to extract it from them anymore, I might even be able to produce more potent versions for you."
Lux looks over her shoulder at me and nods "I will take you up on that offer, it would be easier for me to just get the completed extracts from you, rather than having to go through the complex process that is needed right now. Still my first task after restoring their brains, will be to figure out some sort of potion that can protect or at least lessen the poison's effect on us, or cure it, prevention would be best though. Preferably immunity to that."
"I could feel how it affected me, it attached to the parts of me that generates magic, and turned that into harming effects inside me, my own magic burning me inside, and also produced many toxic by products including more of the poison. I suspect it does very little damage to creatures with no magic production, like completely ungifted humans or dwarves." I say then I consider a bit more "I was able to suck it out of Sinrae's body into my own, but it hurt a lot, if you do not find it creepy you could have a small amount of me in your blood that would absorb the poison and then excrete itself out of you, but that would only protect you while you had unaffected parts of me still inside, and there is not a lot of room in your bodies for such things without messing up your functioning."
Lux looks curious at that and as if an idea is forming "could there be a way to make a protective membrane around those magic generating things that does not let the poison reach it? I am not sure how those look or what type of access they need to the rest of the body, but you seem to know of them, do you think that could be possible?"
I tilt my head and consider "the membrane has to be strong, as the poison sort of behaved like a living thing, seeking out the magic it sensed, if the membrane is very strong or can kill those poison things it might work, but we need to figure out a membrane that will let nutrients flow to those organelles and also for the magic to still be accessible to the will of the body. I could try out a few things in split off pieces of myself if we had any more poison or the body parts of that um bitch."
Lux smiles "I saved some of that poison since I want to figure out a cure for it, I also would love to create some sort of poison that reacts with this poison and burns it out of a body containing it, as a way to neutralize any like this bitch, make them harmless, you know?"
I giggle at that "anti anti magic, I like it, yes I will try to help you device that. But first cure or preferably protection, then we can play with what is left."
Lux giggles "so you destroyed my bed you said, if you can create extracts, do you think you can create a bed if I feed you what is needed and silks and such?"
I nod "I can create any material of organic origin easily if I have eaten the thing that can produce it, or sometimes just the material itself, I do not even need to eat the whole creature that produces it, a drop of blood or some skin scrapings is enough in most cases for me to figure out what they can do and reproduce it. Silk of various kinds and wood I know of already, and I can make those easily, in just about any form you might desire. I do need food though, minerals, water and light at a minimum, I can from those create everything else, but the higher order things I can eat the easier it is to get to the final products, if the amino acids and such are already there that saves me a lot of work. I can also eat waste products and extract nourishment from that, just so you know, nothing your bodies produce disgusts me, some of it even appeals to me almost as much as regular food, and sometimes more. I am not at all the same type of life as you are, if it was not for me caring about the life on this world I could eat it all and become the world, and then the sun would be the only food I could get, I produce no waste products myself."
Sylaera giggles at that "well maybe when we redesign the house you could get access to the sewer then, if you are sneaky you might even take over the entire sewer network and keep it clean, I am sure if you explained that people might even consider making it better for you and easier, since who wants a stinky sewer anyway?"
Lux giggles "the undead or rats or undead rats, do, but we don't really want those anyway."
"Yeah some bigger cities have a huge problem with undead escaping from the sewers and attacking people, I have not heard of that here, but then I know the sewers here have locks on the hatches, that only are accessible from the top, you can't even lock pick them from underneath, there is even a low level ward built into them to prevent lower powered knock spells from working, some undead can cast those you know." Sinrae says "and I hear there are really intricate valves in the sewer pipes leading from homes into the sewers, to prevent anything from getting up."
Lux nods "yeah, there is warding on those valves that prevent undead from entering them, and spikes that are really sharp and even bladed so that any rat that tries to swim up gets cut into pieces and fall into the sewer. This was all implemented a few hundred years ago when there was a big rat plague that came out of the sewers along with undead rats, that nearly wiped the city out."
I consider a bit "well if it is desired for me I can consume the entire sewer network and replace the pipes with a growth of myself, the undead would be no problem then, nor would rats, as I would eat all of them. At least unless they have some poison like this anti magic poison that I am not immune to yet."
"I will have to talk with the sewer authority and various land owners later, and see if we can arrange that, it would be desirable and you could likely get paid well for such a service, as long as you can convince people you are not going to suddenly decide they would be tasty snacks and kill and eat them all." Lux says and giggles.
"Well although you are tasty, I am not about to eat any of you, unless you attack me, then I might defend myself, and these hunters of magical beings are not acceptable to me either, I will try to at the very least contain them if I can't wipe them out, so I am with you on that one." I say and smile.
Sylaera considers a bit "do you like dust and such too? If you do feel free to clean our floors."
"I will do that yes" I say and shake my head a bit and giggle.
Lux looks me in the eyes "could we sell tiny blobs of you in the store that clean dishes and clothes and the floors? 'tamed ooze' we could call you, give people a wand that they hold and tell you what to do and you do only that and play dumb?"
"I could do so mistress, but I would find that existence a bit demeaning and boring. I would rather they know they can talk with me openly and that I will do those things for them willingly, and maybe be treated better than a mindless thing. If you think I should be punished though you can ask me to be a commodity you sell." I say and I still feel like I deserve to be punished for eating the galaxy, and this certainly would be punishment, to be made into some sort of household appliance, I would rather be sold as some sort of pleasure slave that also do all menial tasks in the home, at least then I will be treated as an intelligent being.
Sylaera speaks up "no I don't want Vela punished, we can figure out some way for her to help people without feeling bad about it. I am sorry if what I suggested was bad, I just do not like cleaning things myself, and you said you liked to eat things even stones and such, I don't know what the dust in the house is, some of it feels like sand, other parts look like hair and skin, I find it revolting myself, but you said nothing we make is disgusting to you, so maybe you don't feel bad about it."
I caress Sylaera's hair "I will clean the house for you and everything in it, it will be my pleasure, but you know I am intelligent and will speak with me, so it is not as bad as being some mindless ooze that is directed by a magic wand, or people think I am that, that is horrifying to me, I may look like an ooze, but I am not unintelligent, I can get bored, and I hate being bored, but I did mean that I will do that if you require that from me, I just want you to know how much I would dislike that."
Lux turns around to kiss me and then breaks the kiss "I will not require that of you, we can discuss later what would be acceptable for you, I want things that you would either find not bad or preferably good, and if you help me with extracts that is enough to pay for your own food and housing here, any extra is just nice to have but not required. Now will the three of you come with me down to the laboratory and help me start making extracts so we can then start brewing potions, and also research this poison with me and see what we can do about it?"
Sylaera nods "yeah, I also want you to help the prisoners get well so I can talk with them, I want them to have good lives, while still not being a threat to us."
Sinrae smiles "just know Sylaera that the dark elves at least, will want to enslave, torture and break you, and the orcs will want to rape you, so you must promise to be careful around them. Also that mindflayer... I would not trust him if I were any of you, his race eats brains, and enslaves all other races, if they can, they are truly monsters."
I nod "I will help" and laugh when Sinrae call mindflayers monsters "I know of them, mindflayers that is, they are not nearly as scary a monster as I could be, though they chose to destroy the body of me they found, when they could not dominate my mind through the container, feeling I was a threat to them."
With that we get out of the tub together and I pull myself into my single body and follow them to the laboratory where I get to sample each plant and also organs and bodily fluids from the various slaves that Lux uses for her potions, and she describes how she extracts and refines the things and for what purpose, teaching Sylaera, Sinrae and me about potion making. I create a few extracts for her and quickly refine them to be exactly what she has always dreamed of, though each takes lots of time to refine to the exact form she wants. I also separate my body into several pieces and we start experimenting with the poison, we figure out a cure potion that will cleanse it from a body fairly quickly, but it takes a whole lot of suffering for me and nearly all the rest of the poison to device a protection potion, several protections dampen the magical ability of those who use it, until I figure out a good combination of things, a potion that implants an organ inside the body that produces the cure in a low dose at all times, and if the poison is detected it produces a bigger dose of it, it works better than the membrane idea, except it does cost food energy to maintain and use that organ, but at least it does not get in the way of magic, I also explain how it can be removed. We then start brewing up the now even better regeneration potion, and we include the poison cure into that, as it too has mildly healing properties, removing toxins and diseases of various kinds in addition to what the potion already did.
To Be Continued ?
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