Neve´s ending

Neve stared at the projection of Kim and Harako shinning from inside the gem. She was lying down on her stomach on the floor of her still empty apartment. She had already paid her rent in advance and pawned off the other jewels to refurbish the place… it was just a matter of time for her delivery to arrive. She didn’t like the idea of greeting a bunch of delivery men in the nude, but her shipment of clothes got delayed, so she had little choice in the matter. Oh well, at least it wasn’t as bad as what Kim and Harako were going through.

The only trinket that Neve decided to spare was the crown jewel of her diadem. Her old heirloom, the Gate of Bhulaiya. To think her sister was going to give it away to a random human? Bah! She could be such a case sometimes.

The Gate was special. It wasn’t an ordinary gem but a gateway to Neve’s private dimension. A pocket where she had built the "Suck It Suzy Labyrinth". She couldn’t do anything to change her status as a lowly human, but the Labyrinth was still directly under her control.

“What’s this?” Kim asked, noting that the hallway changed. Instead of dull, smooth stone, this section of the floor was composed of multicolored tiles. “Be careful, it might be a trap, I bet it will trigger if we step on the wrong one. Maybe there is a riddle or…?”

“…We don’t have time to choose. Get a move on.”

“Harako no!” An annoyed Harako pushed forward. She stepped on a blue tile… and nothing happened. Then another and another. Kim breathed a sigh of relief and followed her friend across all the blue tiles. Before reaching the end, the ghost hopped her foot over the last blue square and accidentally stepped on a green stone.

The walls began to rumble. “Why did you do that?”

“…There was a pebble on the floor. …I didn’t want to step on it.”

“Hurry, let’s go before… ack!” The ground began to collapse. The duo tried to run to the end of the hallway while they still had floor under their feet. Too late, the stone collapsed, Kim and Harako jumped for it… and yes! Just before the floor disappeared, Kim managed to grab onto the ledge. Harako missed, but she at least reached Kim’s ankles, which she held for dear life.

Kim tried to pull herself up, but physical strength wasn’t her forte. Even back in school, she never managed to do one pullup. How was she going to pull one now that she had another woman hanging to her legs? Gosh, she hoped Harako wasn’t looking up…

So, Kim looked down. Below the girls was a giant green slime. It was angry and roaring powerfully at its prey. A myriad of slimy tentacles rose upward to try and grab them, each sporting feathers, paddles, and similar instruments.

Instead of a shot of adrenaline, the sight struck fear in Kim’s heart. Her hands began to drip with cold sweat. She was losing her grip… “This is going to suck…” Kim sighed as her fingers slipped and she plunged headfirst into the monster. “Aaaaaah!Ow... Ewww… H-hi there buddy, you wouldn’t happen to be frien-Eeep!”

How many times had Neve stuck her sister in there? It was probably her favorite prank. Based on her recent experience, Neve made some adjustments, small modifications that Kim and Harako were now testing out. They were all custom-made for her sister. Oh, how Neve was eager to give her a taste of the “human experience.”

All the doors in her Labyrinth now lead to quite the unpleasant places, some with very annoying creatures, where a humiliating fate was sure to befall those who crossed them. Same deal with her modified traps.

In a way, her maze was less physically painful than before, but Neve had a hunch that her sister would prefer the old version better. Especially the way she had tinkered with the time loop…

Kim placed a slime-covered hand on the edge of the hole and painfully climbed up, almost slipping three times in the process. Once at the top, she crouched down and pulled an equally slimy Harako back to her feet.

“Hurry, we have to find the exit. The loop is going to start at any-Ah!”A light flashed across the whole hallway. The stone was gone, Kim felt the tickle of grass under her feet. She fearfully opened her eyes and regretted it immediately. She was smack in the middle of a small stadium, interrupting a baseball game.

“Look, two streakers!”

“Look at that kiss mark on the girl’s butt. They are definitely lovers.”

“Really? I Can’t quite make that out. They are too far.”

“I can see them in the jumbotron just fine.”

“Eeeeeck!” The naked duo cried out in unison, half the crowd booing, the other cheering. They took to running in circles, searching for the door to the rest of the (more secluded) part of the maze.

The two naked girls accidentally ran all the bases while searching for a way out. After what felt like an eternity, they spotted a camouflaged trapdoor on the ground, which they opened to reach the start of the same featureless stone corridor they had just left…

“Here we go again…” Kim lamented as she started another loop in the labyrinth.

Well, it wasn’t really a time loop, as nothing actually “looped”. It was more like a reset. The maze’s explorers only had a fixed amount of time to find the right door and get out. If they failed to meet the deadline, they would be yanked back to a random place that would serve as the new start of the maze.

Normally, the point of origin would have been an unpleasant location like the Realm of Perpetual Pinching, but Neve changed it. Now, every reset, her new human friends would find themselves in an increasingly more exposed and embarrassing place.

The two girls had started their naked adventure in a library. After so many loops, they had escalated to being transported into the middle of a stadium. Ha! Neve wondered how much more the maze will escalate until they got out. Maybe they would appear at the finale of an international tournament? A live newscast? She was giddy to find out.

Neve didn’t feel too bad. Kim (and her accomplice) deserved it for what she made Neve go through. And besides, they were bound to find the exit… eventually.