Nekojin don't take losing well

Daro woke up to find himself out the arena with Jarra and Cora. Jarra clawed Cora's face. Cora cried in pain.

"We're sorry" she sobbed.

"You two idiots cost us the match!" screamed Jarra, "both of you take off your clothes"

Daro and Cora both slowly stripped naked. Their bodies were slender and they both had noticeable whip marks on their marks.

"You are two going to be whipped for failing me"

Jarra then turned to her guards.

"Give them extra whiplashes if they try to use their cat forms for warmth"

The Nekojin guards dragged Daro and Cora away.

"Dammit, Jarra Catdra, you have failed me" said Lionri, "take off your own clothes"

"WHAT?!" said Jarra.

"Don't make me tell you again"

With tears in her eyes, Jarra stripped naked in front of everyone. Fred could see she wasn't lying about the scars covering her body. He did notice her boobs were small.

"You have disgraced the Nekojin Empire" said Lionri.

Lionri turned to one of his concubines.

"You're her mother so this is partly your fault too, remove your own clothes"

Jarra's mother stripped naked.

"You are hereby demoted to 12th rank concubine" Lionri told her.

"What do you want me to do with Jarra?"

"I don't care, just get both her and yourself out of my sign"

--

Fred, Alice, Daenerys, Tarena, Marcus and Taria returned to the inn. They had a white mage that worked in the inn heal Taria as best as she could.

"I'm sorry" she said, "that is the best I can do. Taria took a real beating out there and I'm not powerful enough to restore an eye. It will take months for her to be able to fight again"

"So we're down to just four fighters?" said Fred.

After the white mage left, Taria cried.

"I'm sorry, I let you down"

"You did good out there" said Marcus, hugging Taria gently, trying not to hurt her.

"I should have been stronger" Taria said.

"There is only so much punishment your body can take" Marcus told her.

"Marcus is right" said Fred, "you were beaten with a marble fist. I'm surprised you're even alive. Being stronger wouldn't have helped. You just need to rest and recover"

--

Everyone went to sleep. However Tarena was awoken by an awful sound.

CRACK!

She covering her ears not wanting to hear this sound.

CRACK!

It reminded her of how she was tortured many times during her own enslavement.

CRACK!

Tarena herself was starting to cry.

CRACK!

She couldn't take it anymore.

CRACK!

She got dressed and left the room with her bow and arrow. She got outside the inn in the pouring rain to find Daro and Cora both naked and tried to a whipping post. The whipping post was designed for public use to punish slaves.

Two Nekojin guards were both whipping Daro and Cora.

CRACK!

The two young cats were sobbing.

CRACK!

Tarena aimed her bow at the Nekojin guards.

CRACK!

"Leave them both alone!" she screamed.

The guard looked at Tarena.

"This is none of your business"

"I won't ask again" said Tarena.

Suddenly Tarena's fingers slipped, causing her to accidentally fire her bow which barely missed one of the guards. Apparently, keeping your bow drawn takes a lot of effort. Tarena began to aim her second arrow but the Nekojin were running at her.

She shot one of them dead but the other grabbed her by the neck and held her against the wall. Suddenly his arm was sliced off by Marcus. Marcus then stabbed the Nekojin in the throat. Tarena saw that Alice had also followed them.

She approached the shivering Daro and Cora and began to gently pet them. Suddenly their tails began to raise up.

"You are very kind" said Cora, "but Jarra says no one but her is allowed to pet us"

"Its alright" said Alice, "I'll take good care of you both now"

Marcus cut the chains on the whipping post and Daro and Cora were taken into the inn.