Cerf Grand-Veneur V

Lily clutched the wall next to her as she moved down the path. She was hoping this would circle round to where Caleb and the two Mira’s had gone down, but after being left in a puddle of her own fluids and being covered in her own pollen, she had no interest in stalking behind them. Hopefully, if she caught up with him, he would be distracted by the two elder contestants, and it would allow her to make her move.

Not that moving was an easy feat right now. She was doused in two sprays of pollen, and as a result, was finding it hard to ignore the aching, empty feeling radiating from her abdomen. She held to the wall for support and a tactile sense of grounding, something to remind her of the bigger picture and the situation she was in, so she wouldn’t just stop and shove her hand down her leafen underwear.

She didn’t have a good sense of how long they had been running around the labyrinth, but it appeared as if over half the sand had fallen in the golden hourglass above.

She took a step forward, only to find her path at an end, and let out a low growl of frustration. But as she was about to turn to retrace her steps, there was a harsh whirring sound, and the wall slid aside.

“So that confirms that the walls really are moving. Or Lucian was helping me out? Yeah, no, the first option is much more likely.”

Moving forward, the plant woman stumbled into a small enclosure. It was another one of these areas that seemed designed for encounters, and in the corner, floating on a pedestal, was a silver card.

Lily clicked her tongue, a sabotage. In this game, she couldn’t just ignore it either. It wasn’t like the shop, where leaving it there was not a guarantee that someone else would grab it. If she found it here, someone else could easily use it against her. She let out a heavy sigh and approached the pedestal. She could at least verify what it did. With tentative hands, she reached out and grabbed the spinning card and read:

Sabotage! Honey Trap: Creates a hidden pool of sticky honey that traps whoever steps in it, making it difficult to move, and makes their body extra sensitive after they leave.

Well, that wasn’t…so bad. It wasn’t targeted, at least, no one would be able to pin it on her, and it wouldn’t be like she was specifically trying to make things worse for a specific contestant. She just had to pick a spot and avoid it. Or hold onto it, she could always- suddenly, the sound of footsteps indicating others approaching cut off that line of thinking. If she was gonna use it, it would have to be now.

She focused and thought of the one place in the labyrinth that seemed likely for Caleb, and thus another contestant to run through. With a shimmer in her hands, the card proceeded to glow and vanish as its effect took hold, right as two contestants rounded the corner.

In the front, a bare naked cocksure grin plastered across her face, and a fine sheen of sweat over her body was Stella. Behind her, breathing heavily was the pink underwear-clad form of Maddy, whose face was flushed red with effort as she worked hard to keep up with the imp. On spotting Lily and the vanishing sabotage, Stella raised her gun.

“Eh, what’s this then? Who’d you go and screw over?” She looked over her own body, “Not me, I take it?”

With her stopping in place, Maddy raised her gun at the imp, “Stella! Tell me where Caleb is right now!”

Lily blinked, wondering what had happened to bring out this side of Maddy, or maybe she just wasn’t giving the chef enough credit. Stella just rolled her eyes, though,

“Mads, if I knew, I would’a told ya, he got away from me ages ago. Were you following me, thinking I knew where he was?” The imp cocked her hip but kept her gun trained on Lily.

The chef’s cheeks flushed pink. “After how you shot Noemi and taunted her, it crossed my mind.”

Lily let out a low whistle. The Chilean was bound to be pissed after that, ignoring it for the moment, though she spoke up, “Even if she did know before Maddy, it wouldn’t do you much good, the walls here change periodically, it seems. I just saw it happen.”

Stella snapped her fingers, “Ah, so that was the case, that’s annoying, ah, well, doesn’t change the direction of north, so I’m set. Anyway…that sabotage?”

Maddy’s ears perked up, “Sabotage…Lily?”

Lily sighed. She only had the one bullet; if both girls turned on her here, she wasn’t in a great position to defend herself. The only defense she had was the truth: “It’s a trap, I didn’t target anyone specific, it will only activate in a certain place.”

Gesturing with her gun, Stella frowned, “Mind telling me where that place is?”

Lily shook her head and gave a wry grin, “I mean, I’m still trying to win this, so probably not.”

The imp shrugged before lowering her gun, “Fair,”

“Dropping it just like that?” Lily cocked an eyebrow and tried to hide a wince from a particularly potent throbbing from below.

Maddy kept her gun on Stella, “You shot Noemi without even letting her explain anything!”

Stella blew a raspberry, “What explanation do I need? Let's get all the good girls together to stop the bad ones, so I can have Caleb knock us all up? She’s a simple creature. And” She grinned. “It was funny.”

Staying stalwart, Maddy stepped forward, “Regardless, I can’t just let you go.”

Stella shrugged, “Fine, Mads, we’ll play it your way. Hey Lil, you seem to have an idea about where this will all play out, right?”

Lily shifted her weight uncomfortably, “Just a guess, nothing grounded in facts.”

“That’s fine, it would be boring otherwise. Listen, I know how to navigate this place, even with its shifting walls. You all haven’t seemed to figure it out, so…even if I don’t know where Caleb is, I could lead you to this place Lily has picked out. Deal?”

Lily frowned. Stella played it like she would be doing them a favour, but it required ignoring how she benefited from knowing the location. Still, the only other option was blowing her last ammunition here and being left at Maddy’s mercy, “Fine, Maddy, keep your gun on her in case she tries anything.”

“R-right!” Maddy lifted her other hand to her gun and had it aimed squarely at the naked imp’s back.

“Jeez, so serious guys! C’mon, let’s find the schmuck then.”

Eliza was fuming after taking the time to use the mask to take the guise of Mira, she had been hoping to sow some discord and get the group to target the original more. In conjunction with the Sabotage she had used at the start of the game, she had been quite confident in the fact that she could get the group harassing the agent.

Sabotage! The Stigma: For the next 8 hours, the target of this sabotage will become everyone’s object of humiliation. Others will be drawn to humiliate the target and gain increased pleasure from doing so.

Now though? Not only was she stuck with the vile woman right behind her, giggling incessantly, but she was also **** by that wretched Sabotage to act as her human shield. So every time that Caleb peeked over his shoulder and drew to stop the blonde Mira’s attacks (that was another thing, since their pursuit had started, Mira had fired three times somehow!), he would have to recoil back as Eliza, compelled by her own body, stepped in the way to the tittering thank you from behind her.

To be **** to work with this brainless bimbo…it was beyond the pale. Still, it wasn’t like she hadn’t learned anything from this humiliating experience. Caleb had to drop his shield to fire on them. He would close his umbrella every time he went to suggest a counteract before inflating it again and taking off. Meaning, if she could outlast this Sabotage…she had an opening the moment he went to target Mira, drawn by her attacking and her Sabotage.

That being said, that required…staying in pace with Caleb, and while being returned to her youth gave her resources she would not have had access to in her fifties, she was by no means an athlete and was dripping sweat to keep up with the master as she moved through the narrow halls of the labyrinth.

She wondered briefly if he knew which one of them was actually her in disguise. The master knew she possessed the mask to take on Mira’s guise from the other night, but could he see through it with the real mirror behind her, acting like a blustering bimbo? Despite everything, he would know it was her trying to ensure that everyone in the harem was protected?

Despite the occasional glance back, he made no move, no gesture that suggested recognition. But Caleb was always one to focus on the task at hand. If you put a forest in front of him, he would see all the details of a particular tree but none of those next to it. Talented, smart, myopic.

She just needed an opening, a point in time where the room opened up, maybe, a…she paused behind her, the tittering had stopped, and she saw to her simultaneous relief and disgust that Mira had returned to her true form. Her eyes focused with purpose, face flushed with embarrassment.

The agent’s mouth opened, “Eliza…at the next opening in the path…that’s when we will fire on him, you round his side while I **** his attention upfront.”

Eliza would have preferred the brainless tittering, “I don’t take orders from you.”

“You know it's the best option we have. I’m not asking you to listen to me, just to take the opportunity.” Mira kept her voice even

Eliza let the guise fall and rounded on Mira, “Well, I don’t need you to tell me that. I was already planning on doing that.”

“Then we are in agreement,” Mira said plainly.

“Oh shut your-” The philosophy professor was cut off

“Eliza! Don’t let your hatred of me get in the way of your goals!” the Bengali woman said harshly, and the two came to a stop. “Do you want to win and protect people or do you want to drag me down?! You don’t get both.”

“You- I-” Eliza bit her lip, so irritated by the sincerity of the other woman’s words, and so focused that neither noticed as Caleb turned on his feet and jumped up and kicked the wall to ricochet and dive over them, and at the height of his dive, turned his umbrella on both of them and fired

Mira was sent to the ground, drooling and bucking her hips as another quaking **** orgasm ran through her body. For Eliza, it was the percussive **** of the shot that sent her to the ground, humiliated as she desperately tried to cover herself and shield her ego from the humiliation at being caught so unawares.

As he landed, Caleb immediately set off running again, mouthing a quick “Sorry” to both of them before darting out of sight.

Eliza grit her teeth and reached over and grabbed the shuddering Mira’s arm, “Pull yourself together! We need to go after him…it’s still the best plan.”

Mira bit her lip and gave a quivering nod as she shakily rose to her feet. Eliza let out a low, deep breath. This was humiliating, but Mira was right…and she could hate her for that later, after the challenge was done.

Noemi had been wandering after taking the hit from Stella. She was very irritated. That Stella was an enemy of romance, love, and destiny. She always was ruining everything! How could she not recognize the purity of Noemi and Caleb’s love?! The obstacles they had overcome! Sure there date had been a bit on the rough side, but they had come out on the other side stronger for it! So why couldn’t her sisters see that she had their best interests in mind?

Stella in particular! With her sass! Her tomfoolery! Her refusal to take anything seriously! She needed to grow up and understand that she would be happier as one of Caleb’s wives and eventual mother of his children! That’s just factual!

But she didn’t compare to Mira, Mira, who would hurt her own harem mates. She needed discipline before she was ready to be Caleb’s wife. Sometimes, tough love was the only solution to making someone understand their place. Maybe no one else wanted to be the person to dole it out, but Noemi would bear that cross.

She also knew she was just because destiny itself was looking out for her. Honestly, if fate didn’t want her to win this? Would it have bestowed this extra bullet she had just found while walking in search of Caleb? Of course not. Fate had chosen her for Caleb and was creating the road to her success. She just needed to find Caleb at this point.

She was walking when she heard it, a voice calling out to her for help. Noemi frowned, it was a woman’s voice, so going towards it would not lead her to Caleb. But…at the end of the day, she couldn’t leave one of her sisters in the lurch! She hurried along to the source of the sound and came to a hallway that seemed to have a growth as the stone protruded outward.

“Help!” The cry came from inside the growth, and Noemi looked to see a small opening where a face was poking out.

Recognizing the pink skin and horns, Noemi called out, “Amy?! What are you doing in there?”

“Oh, Noemi, thank goodness someone heard.” Relief washed over the oni’s face, “Maya trapped me in here earlier, and I…I have been unable to get out.”

“Tsk, that Maya, she’s always causing issues like this.” Noemi frowned. Maya was another Harem member who needed a firm hand. “What do you need me to do?”

Amy frowned and looked uncomfortable for a moment, “It will only vanish if…well, if I orgasm. I shot myself to remove my clothes and was planning on shooting myself to orgasm, but…that’d leave me with no bullets.”

“Oh…” Noemi touched her chin thoughtfully, “Couldn’t you just…um” Her face flushed with embarrassment as she tried to mime touching herself.

Amy shook her head, “The space is cramped, and honestly? Kinda hard to get in the mood like this. If I tried that way, the challenge would probably be over, and I’d still be stuck in here.”

Noemi clutched the extra bullet in her hand and thought, “destiny.” She began to load the bullet, “Ok, yeah, I can help you out, you just need one shot, right?”

The oni nodded and turned round to press the back of her neck up to the hole, “Yeah, thanks…I really appreciate it.”

Noemi pushed the muzzle of the gun to Amy’s neck, “What are sisters for?” She pulled the trigger and watched as Amy’s body buckled. The stone around her melted and left Amy’s form exposed, her eyes glazed, looking up to the heavens as drool leaked from her mouth as she arched her back and fell quivering to her knees, shaking.

Noemi just stood watching curiously before reaching a hand down to proffer help to the prone woman, “Any idea where either Maya or Caleb are now?”

Swallowing her own spittle, Amy shook her head, “No, the walls have changed since I was trapped here. I was worried no one was going to be able to find me.”

Noemi gave that some thought before opening her mouth again, “If the paths keep changing, there's really no merit to us splitting up, is there?”

“No, not in the sense of sharing information or having a higher likelihood of success at finding Caleb. Also, Caleb is no slouch…teaming up may be the only way to get the drop on him.” Amy reached down to gather her dropped firearm.

“So, a truce for now? Best woman wins when we find Caleb?” Noemi offered her hand.

Amy bit her lip and took the hand, “Best woman wins.”

With little more to do, the two set off down the path.