Forest Invasion Part 1: Return Quest

Written in collaboration with Cross C

“I know it really wasn’t, but it feels like a lifetime ago since we went adventuring.”

My lungs smelt the fresh air that you can only get from being in such a richly dense forest. I love that smell, nature can show you such wonders when you let it. Plus there’s a rumour that some vines will come alive and **** you, so always a reason to go exploring your nearby forest.

But we weren’t here on a casual walk, we were here to quest! I took my sword and slashed at the bush in our way!

..missing completely…

After patting my head reassuringly, Kazuma stepped past me and finished the job with Chunchunmaru. The unremarkable blade managed to make its mark much better than I ever could on the dense foliage. Though, not compared to…

SLASH!

“The woods isn’t really my area so you guys will have to take point once we near the target.” Cloud advised, taking down another tree that was in our way with a slice from his Buster Sword. The weapon that Cloud wields that’s nearly the same size as himself. Though not a perfect blade as he slaps another mosquito from his neck.

“Yeah yeah, Mr. Definitely Compensating With That Sword Size.” Kazuma grumped. I couldn’t help but giggle at his eternal childishness sometimes, even with all the world’s women praising him. “Tell us all about how many Princesses you save with your mighty blade!”

Though Cloud was confused, I knew who Kazuma was really annoyed at. Trust me, when we see Mitsurugi again I’ll have some words with that weirdo.

“More just missions from Barrett.” said the spiky haired boy as he continued through the underbrush. “Just the usual stuff of blowing up… uh, things.”

A lighter side to Kazuma bubbled up, “You’ve got one of those too, huh? Our resident exploder’s currently on a mission from her home village.”

“It’s a little sad not to be going out with Megumin.” Aqua said nonchalantly, “She always makes adventures so quick. Big boom on the bad guy and we’re done! As long as the big boom doesn’t attract a bunch of frogs or goblins or demons…”

I gulped a little again at the mention of Megumin. Part of me hates myself for that. That my precious friend has such negative connotations in my mind, that the idea of her stealing Kazuma from me is so fearful… but it isn’t her fault. She just likes him, as do so many women now. She’s just the one that… he loves back. And I have to be ready for when he tells me that at our date tomorrow.

Anyway, sorry, the mind tends to wonder as one wanders through the same forest grounds.

It didn’t last long as soon we came to a little grove marked as a small campsite. The tree canopy was rather low in this forest, not giving us much insight to how far we’d come or gone. And with trees this dense it was a little hard to see if we were about to be attacked, but it was the best place to stake ourselves out for the moment.

“Here we are,” I said as we emerged, “This is where the villagers told us the biggest number of attacks were.”

We’d met with the nearby town of Dewater before we entered the forest. They were nice, but it was as the quest had warned, everyone’s husbands were… different.

The wives were telling us about it. It always happened when they entered the woods to hunt or lumberjack or something similar, but returned much later than they should have. No husband was changed exactly like the others. There were some who were simply content now, smiling up to the sky as if everything was perfect. Some had been changed like Stane and Ludmilla, grumbling about bigger butts or strange new features to their body. One particularly unpleasant man brought his trousers down to show his now smooth crotch with no genitals to speak of, something Aqua laughed and laughed at. The only similarity between all the cases was that they didn’t remember what caused this. A gap in all their memories from before their return to the village. Whatever this was needed to be stopped.

“Phew!” Aqua sighed, sitting down on a nearby log. “All this walking is tiring! I’ve definitely earned a rest and a drink!” She beamed at Kazuma. The lad just rolled his eyes as he walked over.

“Yeah sure, we’ve been cutting down trees but you deserve the rest.” He grumbled mildly but his heart wasn’t in it. “You good with Create Water?”

She shook her head violently, “Not that kind of drink!” She egged on, looking down at his crotch while making grabs at it. “I’ve earned a treat, ri~ight?”

“You want cum? Fine. Oh Clou~oud-!” Kazuma said with a grin.

“NO!” Aqua yelped out at his teasing, grabbing his belt before he could walk away. “Kazuma~! It has to be your cum, you know that.” She pleaded, looking up at him from her log with such longing eyes. “Please? For your Goddess?”

Kazuma let out a long sigh. Then he looked around the space we were in, searching for something amongst the trees.

“Nothing on the enemy detection radar.” He mumbled before looking over to me, “Yo Darkness. How long did the villagers say we needed to wait?”

I smiled at his big heart, “They didn’t really say. Could be up to an hour before we even see anything.”

He was already undoing his belt while Aqua drooled all over herself, “One! Count em, one! We only have time for a single quick blowjob, okay?”

Emphatic nodding was all he got in return. Aqua getting herself comfortable by spreading herself a little on the log, showing off her lack of underwear by flashing her pretty pink pussy. Either intentionally to get him hard, or unintentionally getting him hard.

And as the iconic Kazuma pants bulge rose up through his trousers into the fresh air… well some things happened.

It didn’t happen straight away, there was about enough time for Aqua to get about three licks into her favorite meat, moaning about how big and lovely he was, before Cloud made a motion.

A single snapping twig from about half a mile away set off his attack stance, pointing his massive sword towards the potential threat… and missing the one that was much closer.

“WHAT TH-MMMPH!”

I snapped my head back around to see Kazuma ensnared… by a massive snake. And no, this time I don’t mean his own penis, I mean actually a huge snake tail had come down from the tall trees and was now wrapped around his body. Aqua somehow missing all of this and continuing to kiss his cock happily.

“Kazuma?!” I blurted out. Watching as his fearful eyes looked over to me… before disappearing from my vision completely.

“MMMMMMNNNRRNNnrrrmmm-!” Was the sound Kazuma made as he was very quickly dragged upwards into the thick trees. His voice sounded as if he was disappearing into the distance with how quickly the rustling trees moved.

“Hey! Come back and let me suck your dick Kazuma!” Aqua stomped her foot.

I ignored her to snap myself back round to, “Cloud!”

“On it.” He nodded, running quickly towards the tree that had claimed Kazuma and running up it with significant poise.

Only to be ruined by another snake tail wrapping around his ankle.

“Hey! Stop it!” He yelled, swinging just above mine and Aqua’s head, unable to get an angle to swing his sword. Every second losing more of his body to the slithering beast. “Let me g-MPH!”

The blonde adventurer’s body was squeezed tight inside the jungle beast’s tendril. He gave quite a fight but eventually dropped the Buster Sword into a small patch of flowers.

And then he was dragged away too.

Leaving just me and Aqua.

Her hand landed in her palm, “I bet that was the monster!”

Leaves cascaded and branches broke around my feet as I barreled through the trees as fast as I could. “KAZUMAAA!!!” I called, hoping to Eris I was going in the right direction. “KAAAAZUUMAAAAAAA!!!!!”

“Do you think those snakes thought his penis was one of them?!” Aqua called out from just behind me, struggling to keep up with my frantic pace.

“I don’t know Aqua. KAAAZUUMMAAAA!!!!”

The snakes were far quicker than us, and these trees go on for miles. I had no idea how we were going to find them. If only Kazuma were here, he’s got so many more good ideas then I do.

Aqua sighed, after having to quickly dodge a tree branch I had let go. “If only we had some skill that could help…”

Oh, right.

“It’s normal for us to know the direction Kazuma usually is, right?”

Both our heads snapped to the same direction (thankfully not back the way we came) and with new found purpose we hurried off through the woods. It was an odd feeling skill I’d given myself, the feeling that I could sense which direction he was in just in my heart. It felt… almost reassuring? Though fear of his safety was still most prevalent right now.

“Wait Aqua.” I suddenly said, stopping by grabbing her dress, she tried to keep running but stayed in place.

“Why Darkness?! He’s over there, I can sense it!”

With a quick pull I easily overpowered her and brought the Goddess into my arms. “I know, I sense him too and he’s close now, but if we run in too quickly then we might get ambushed as well. And as much as I’d love to get overtaken by snake creatures and dragged to their nest… I’d rather you, Kazuma and Cloud were safe first.”

Aqua huffed in my arms a little but nodded in understanding. “I dunno about all that… ‘overtaken by snakes’ stuff… but if you think it’s safer for Kazuma then I’ll follow your lead Darkness.”

My hold on Aqua shifted briefly from restriction to hug before letting her go. “Thanks. It’s not a big change, let’s just tread carefully until we get there.”

The two of us began shifting much slower and lower to the ground than before. Hopefully Chris has been rubbing off on me over the years and I picked up more thief maneuvers than I thought. Of course, these days Chris rubbing off would look like-Darkness, focus… I could already hear movement just up ahead of us. The trees are beginning to open up, and the canopy is a little higher than it was before. Much more light is coming through, which’ll make it harder to hide but easier to see our enemy.

We managed to find a good hiding tree just on the edge of the open space. Well, I was behind a tree, Aqua had shoved her face into a bush that for once wasn’t mine.

“Ouch! Leaves in my eyes!” She whispered in a panic, “What do you see, Darkness?!”

“...good question.”

And it really was, because what I saw was… a village.

It looked like a plain enough village at first glance, a part of me momentarily wondered if we’d somehow looped back to the place we got the quest from, but on closer inspection it was a little more run down. There were about four or five simple houses made of the trees around us, and then a series of tents. It seemed like it had the most basic of societal structures, a tiny plot of land used for farming, a stream running around the edge for water, I could even see a tent designated ‘doctor’ with one of the buildings labeled ‘chief’. Clearly this was a proper village.

Just one with some very strange occupants.

This village was filled with sexy monster girls.

It was like ‘The Pervert's Guide to Monster Types’ had come to life. So many of the monsters that were thought extinct or rare creatures were all here together, chatting away and living a fruitful life in this tiny village. There was a clear blue slime girl drinking from the stream, a happy zombie laughing it up with a very large but timid looking minotaur girl, in the trees a faun and a harpy played together, a dryad, an ogre, a few beast-kin including a frog looking girl, you name it, they had it. It was a plethora of various shaped and sized women that was making my imagination explode in possibilities.

The only non-women creatures were some Kobolds and Orcs, most seeming rather restless and bored in their tents. If I had to guess, the total residents were around 30 for this little hoven.

“It’s beautiful…” I mumbled. Wondering in my head if the dryad could wrap me in vines or if the minotaur could eat my ass with the ferocity of a bull or if-

“Woah!” Aqua poked her head out of the leaves to distract my growing fantasy list. “This place is crazy! Any of these creatures could be the one we need to defeat for the quest!” She said while cracking her knuckles.

In a hushed whisper I reached out to stop her movement, “Wait Aqua! We should… observe them for a while first. Just to see which ones are the culprits without having the whole village after just the two of us.”

She nodded, “Alright, but what about Kazuma?”

Right as she said that a door near to us burst open, revealing a pair of Lamias… and their packages.

“All declothed and ready to meet the chief!” The first, a red headed and red scaled woman, chirped. Swinging her captured target around by her tail and placing it in front of the chief’s house.

The second one was a lot more suave, instead sporting purple hair with dark blue scales. “You two have a chance to save all of us. You certainly want to take that shot, don’t you?”

She placed the man in her tail down next to the first. Cloud and Kazuma, both completely naked, were now kneeling on the grass in front of the chief’s door. Squirming in the constraints with tied hands behind their backs.

“I’d be MORE willing to help if you didn’t fucking tie us up first!” Kazuma hissed at the snake ladies. “And why the FUCK are we naked?!”

“Knowing this team, this situation will probably be resolved with your dick.” mumbled a very resigned Cloud.

The Lamias just ignored both of them, the red one slithering up to the biggest door in the village and rapping her knuckles on the door before shouting out:

“CHI~EF! THEY’RE RE~ADY!”

A small shuffle was heard inside before large footsteps began walking towards the door.

As scared as I was for Kazuma and Cloud, the idea of a huge amazonian woman who was leading all these monster girls was getting me excited. Though it may have been presumptuous of me… the ideas of seducing a big muscled and terrifying ogre, or a huge breasted Lamia, or even a strangely powerful slime, all ideas were getting me rather interested at what was going to open that door.

The wood flew open, and out from the shadows came-!

Oh no.

“Oh shit!” Kazuma yelped.

“YOU!?” Roared Sylvia.