Run away from the crazy woman

With pants, shoes and sword in hand you dart out of the tent. Behind you there is the distinct sounds of a "Get'im." Followed by two pairs of feet thumping on the packed dirt. Darting through rows of tents you carefully avoid any populated area, easily seen by the flicking light from fires and torches. You do pass the odd tent with a some people sleeping in it but you run past before whoever is inside gets a chance to see you.

Restoring to a hop you pull your pants on. Getting dressed while on the move is not a skill you'd ever thought you'd need but as fall face first into the dirt and hear your pursers closing on you, it's a skill you resent TV having taught you was easy to master. All those scenes of people pulling clothes on as they run through a house to answer a door lied to you.

Picking yourself up and using the chance to pull your pants up you resume running. There is a strange looseness in your pants and you feel down, you put your pants on backwards.

"Boo!" Green shouted from your left, a pair of arm try to wrap around your waist in a tackle. You jump and she sail right by underneath you.

"Told you." Mary said from in the air behind you. The two had worked together.

"Nope." You fired a blast of magic down, launching yourself just high enough to avoid Mary but not high enough to avoid her getting a hand on you.

"I wi - shit!" Mary began only slam into Green who she forgot was still below the two of you.

A blast of back magic behind you get you clear of the two women as they scrambled to disentangle and resume their pursuit. If not for them being kinda strung on horny you don't think you'd be getting away from them this easily. Pulling on one shoe at a time you divert to more populated areas. You know it's not going to stop Mary or Green but hopefully more people will make it harder for them to catch you.

When you break through the tent rows and reach the open area filled with the smell of cooking food your mouth starts watering. Trying to ignore that you run through the tables. Distracted soldiers from their dinner with the sight of a man with post-sex messy hair and clothes, half of which are on backwards followed close behind by the Princess and her bodyguard.

The collective response is what you were expecting. As you run between some tables lined with soldiers all turning to look at the commotion Mary makes a declaration, "Whoever catches him gets a night at a brothel for their squad."

Around you the confusion is instantly replaced with excitement. You wouldn't have expected that to have been quite that effective of an incentive but the narrow gap between the tables becomes significantly more narrow as women either stand or turn around to try and grab you around the waist.

Another bust of magic gets you above them and on top of one of the tables. It takes one side of the table a second to figure out where you'd gone but the other side now had a much easier time of trying to grab you. Running down the length of the table you have to admit, this would make an excellent exercise, avoiding both groping hands and plates of food.

You hear more feet on tables and a glance behind reveals more than a few women have decided to try chasing you from atop a table. Fortunately for you you running alone while everyone else is competing. The sound of surprise and shock echoes around you as people fall off tables, onto table and onto each other.

Your sword is kept away from everyone, not held in the air but not held anywhere someone might try to snatch. It's not imbued but it's still an incredibly sharp sword that could really hurt someone. You've already mass healed a bunch of soldiers, you don't want to have to do so again.

The end of the table nears and a few women have gathered there waiting for you to jump into their arms. You decide to disappoint them by jumping over their heads. The feet of a hand on your foot threatens to knock you off your trajectory but thankfully the hand is grabbed by other women to try and get them closer to you and thus pulled free.

Landing on the other side of the women you resume your run. Now heading for the road outside the muster grounds you hope the carriage waiting for you to arrive, if not you'll be making your wings and flying away. Only reason haven't thus far is because, well this is kinda a game flying away now would be cheating, but the road is your win point.

You are not the only one to have thought of it like this as Green appears in front of you. Grabbing your neck on hand and your left hand in the other she tries to pivot your momentum. She doesn't use any magic to do this, either to not hurt you or becasue of the game. Sadly she forgot to account for something. You have a lot more bulk than the people she is probably used to doing this with. It does pivot you, but where she had been aiming for the side of a tent you just ended up turning a corner and pulling her into the tent instead.

"GAH!" Green lets out as the tent falls down on top of her. You laugh and make the next turn back to the road. If you'd been running slower you would have thrown a taunt back at her, or if you couldn't still hear the sound of several dozen women charging through the tent rows to catch you.

Nearing the road you see a line of women waiting for you. You honestly don't know how, no one's over taken you and you haven't heard any shouting of instructions. Guess this is kinda the whole point of an army, ability to give remote orders does win a lot of battles.

The women ready for your arrival. crouching down to stop you from running through them and to give them a chance at catching you if you try jumping over. You take a second to think of what to do but the sound of charging from behind you spurs into a snap decision. Running at the line you prepare to jump however, the moment your feet leave the ground and your obstacles do the same, you fire a burst up forcing you back into the ground and low enough to skid underneath sliding out of the muster grounds and onto the road.

You stand up, feeling very proud of yourself for winning that. Your pride is then slammed into by about a hundred, or at least what feels like a hundred, woman.

The pile up is horrendous and you aren't the only one who thinks so. There are a lot of 'Get off's as the pile up is slowly pulled away. You do feel several hands grab you then get pulled away and replaced with new hands. The soldiers trying to claim their prize even as they try to sort out the pile up. Thankfully no one seems to have been injured by your sword, something you put down to them being soldiers and thus aware of the potential weapon and the damage it could do.

When there is enough space for you to stand up you try jumping, not to get away from pursers just to avoid someone crash tackling you back into the pile. You do not get far as arms snap on you and the only pair of hands that had been holding you end up dragging the woman out of the pile with you.

Crashing to the ground outside the pile up you look down a dazed but familiar face. One of Mary's Captains you'd helped 'initiate' after the parade. She recovers and stand up making sure to keep a hand on you. "I got to the road." You complained as you stood up and saw Mary and Green approaching.

"I caught him." The Captain said proudly trying to push you towards Mary, it didn't work and she looked at you, apparently surprised you weren't complying.

Mary looked at the slowly unpiling pile up then at the Captain, then at you. You raised an eyebrow, there certainly hadn't been any rules to this impromptu game but you felt like it was pretty clear that the road was your victory condition.

"He reached the road." Mary said with a shrug. "But since you all made it this far." You could see her contemplating how likely you would be to agree to a gangbang, you think your some what panicked expression as you thought of it broke through her horny hazy. "Extra wine ration and no ship drills on Friday."

There was a cheer from everyone and the Captain let you go to help sort out the pile up. Mary and Green approached. "Forgot how big you are." Green said. "Won't make that mistake next time." She winked then walked back into the grounds, heading a group that had just arrived back inside as she went.

"Next time?" You asked Mary. She strode over and grabbed your chin pushing her lips into yours and moaning as your tongues met.

Mary broke the kiss and whispered, "With how wet this made us, yeah," she pecked your nose gently, "next time." She winked and got to business sorting out the rest of the pile up and moving everyone back into the muster grounds.

You found and boarded the carriage that might have been waiting for you since it had brought you here this afternoon. The driver didn't make a comment and after all that you were happy for some quiet as it took you back to the academy where you ran from it straight into the bath. Your intention was to avoid any and all possible interruptions between the two points and you succeed.

As you swam a few laps you figured something out. Sephanie was, by your agreement bathing with everyone after class, and you were being take away from the academy until after said bath had finished. Had she and Mary set this up? It would certainly fit with her even-though-magi-is-a-thing-you-are-going-with-supernatural ability to prevent you from seeing her naked with in the baths. Well, after this week you do still have one week to try and see her naked before your fight, in which you probably can't imbue your sword cause you don't know how it might affect her. Ok you might have a problem with your perfect for other champions terrible for actual people imbument.

Getting out of the water, checking on your shirt to confirm clean cabinet repaired the little damage it had suffered, and getting dinner did not bring a revelation as to how you could overcome that issue. Dinner was nice however, Vatarie spent it taking about how Stephanie had been working with her on her gauntlets. Apparently she'd added claws, at least according to Asune who was giving Vataire claw me eyes the entire dinner. After dinner you all went outside to sit with the other students for a bit of socializing. Then Asune departed and Vatarie carried you up to her room, a new thing for you but not for anyone around you as most of the people you past completely ignored the act.

She took you to your room rather than hers where Delilah was napping.