Retrieving the Key

Geraldine was for a moment bewildered by this sudden move and even stepped back a little, but quickly regained composure.

"Do you know who I am girlie?" she said in a sweet patronising voice.

"Dunno" answered the teen. She examined the highborn guest from head to toes. "Neither do care. What I'm seeing here is a stuck up miss fancy pants who wants to lay hold on our precious stone... but will never get it"

"Holly, are you insane?" came the very concerned voice of village elderman. "The lady's very important, don't mess with her, you put us all to risk!"

"Coward!" Holly spat at her feet and crossed her arms. "As I said, you won't go inside until the Huntress comes back"

Geraldine was astonished if not shocked, she never expected such a resistance from a single village girl. She needed to restore her authority as soon as possible.

"That's it! Now you're all to see what happens to those who pays no respect to their superiors!" She exclaimed pompously. The stern, cold look on her face turned to a wicked grin when she pulled the wand out of her belt and aimed it at Holly. In a wink of an eye all the peasant girl's clothes were gone!

Holly at first didn't realize what happened, only when she felt the touch of the cool wind on her bare skin, she looked down and understood that she was stark naked.

"Wh-hat the..." she said, still shocked

"A small lesson for a country girl who's in dire need to learn how to behave" murmured Countess, satisfied with her own ingenuity. "Now, take this stupid brat off my eyes" she waved her hand to her guards.

Shocked Holly, now realizing that all the village stares at her naked body, her tits and crotch bush, turned beet red and got away without help from the Countess' soldiers.

"Do they have any decency here?" she asked herself aloud. "She didn't even try to cover her female parts! They take a lot from cows and swines they're herding"

Now, there was nothing that could stand in the way between Lady Blackthorne and the key. Geraldine stepped into the house and quickly spotted the artifact. A black crystal stone, of the size of an orange, lied among the rags on the table.

A smug smile of a satisfied cat appeared on the usually cold, haughty Geraldine's face. That was easy! Putting the stone in the silver velvet covered chest, and on her way to the carriage she got her head in the clouds dreaming about her future rule as a rightful Queen of this land.

She put the box in the carriage. It was now time to move from this godforsaken place to the future glory, wealth and power, thought Geraldine. She knew she would get to the border in a day, and then...

"You arrogant bitch! You'll pay for that" she heard the shout from the village. It was Holly who seemed to come to her senses after humiliating stripping.

Geraldine frowned. She wanted to leave as soon as possible, but this impudence shouldn't go unpunished, she thought. Eventually the Countess decided to ignore the fool but then she heard.

"Are you afraid of me, you old palace slut! Come here and I'll kick your dolled up ass!"

Well, a couple of minutes won't change anything, she thought. This stupid country pig needed a more physical education, and Geraldine was eager to provide it. She never heard such insults of her of such a lowly scum, and she thought that she shouldn't let her authority and status being called into question that way.

"Bring me the whip", she ordere her guards.