Remnant II

by Randi Darren

  Settling himself down atop her, Steve let go of her throat.

  “You’re alright?” he asked, wanting to make sure she was fine.

  Gasping deeply as soon as he let go, Nancy took several wheezing breaths.

  “Oh gods, yes,” she croaked. “Taste so good. Take it all from me, Steve.”

  “That’s the plan,” Steve said. He’d realized he could probably choke her without actually causing her harm, but it’d still give her what she wanted. Then he closed his hand around her throat again and squeezed. “Pat me like last time when you need air.”

  Nancy’s eyes partially started to roll up into her head, but she did nod in response.

  Sliding his left arm across her shoulders, he made sure he could hold her down. Steve shifted around, found her entry with his tip, and thrust into her roughly.

  Nancy grunted and let her legs fall to the sides, going completely spread eagle for him.

  Holding onto the Wight, Steve tried to gauge how hard to choke her as he started to roll himself back and forth. Gliding through her extremely wet insides.

  Steve let go after several pumps and gave Nancy a chance to breathe.

  Coughing softly, Nancy lay there as Steve rode her into the ground. Holding her down as he did so.

  “Okay,” she said, looking back at him. “Ready.”

  Grinning, Steve closed his hand around Nancy’s throat again, slowly increasing the pressure as he mounted her.

  Nancy was moaning, grunting, and shivering beneath him. All the while pushing at him ineffectually.

  He wasn’t sure where her mind was at, but guessing from what she’d said earlier, she was roleplaying this a bit.

  Reaching his peak sooner than he expected, Steve contemplated Nancy, then he realized how he should finish.

  He slowed himself down and let go of her neck again.

  Nancy groaned when he did so.

  “I love this,” she said, taking in deep breaths. “Oh, I love this. It’s so amazing. Every night like this from now on.”

  Smirking, Steve kept working at her, pushing himself deep into her.

  “Okay,” Nancy said, her fingers flexing against his arm. “Do it again.”

  Steve nodded his head, then started to get off her.

  “Steve…? What are you—”

  Nancy was cut off as he knelt down on her shoulders and grabbed her hair with one hand, his other balancing himself against the ground, then thrust himself into her mouth.

  Grunting, Nancy didn’t fight him, though her hands opened and closed several times.

  Then she moaned hard, her body quivering under him.

  Leaning forward, Steve began to thrust wildly and hard against Nancy’s face. He pushed down as deeply as he could each time, pausing there to make sure Nancy got what she wanted out of this.

  Then he was ready again to finish.

  “Ready for it?” he asked, looking down at Nancy’s face.

  Spit and what was probably precum were trailing down the sides of her mouth, and her face was covered in sweat.

  She grunted and nodded her head minutely, looking far too excited.

  Letting out a breath, Steve thrust down into Nancy’s throat and came.

  “Swallow it down then,” he said as his member flexed.

  Pushing down with his hips, he tried his damnedest to be as deep as he could.

  There was a groan from Nancy, which was followed by a rough and hard gulping sound. He could feel it pulling at him when she swallowed.

  It only made him push harder, spasming again.

  Nancy groaned again, then swallowed once more.

  Thrusting against her face as he continued to climax, Steve held on to Nancy’s head, keeping her pinned down to the ground.

  Moaning, Steve thrust down into her mouth one more time as the last spurt of seed left him.

  Another hard gulp from Nancy told him everything was done.

  “Phew,” Steve said, then rolled off Nancy and back onto his bedroll.

  Gasping for breath, Nancy lay there sputtering.

  “So good,” she said in a gasp. “So good.”

  Snorting at that, Steve closed his eyes.

  “Glad I could please you,” he said. He hadn’t liked the idea of hurting her, but he’d do what he could to help her with her own needs.

  After all, she was his henchwoman. She looked after him, so why couldn’t he look after her?

  Thirty-One

  “This isn’t the direction the Creep was coming from,” Beati said.

  “No. No, it isn’t,” Hiren agreed, nodding her head. “I don’t feel it in the earth either.”

  “Nope,” Kimor said with a grunt. Then she stamped a booted foot. “Not a thing.”

  “Yes, yes, it’s more like the farmland,” Jaina said, prowling along on all fours.

  “Well, that’s where the break is,” Lucia said. She lifted a hand and pointed at the large broken chunk of wall that wasn’t far off. “That’s where I earned my scars to save my beloved consort.”

  Never going to let that one die, are you?

  “Lots of zombies,” Siena said as she pulled her helmet off. She began to run a leather-gloved hand through her hair. “We’ll have to fight our way to that point if we really want to see it.”

  “Can’t get up the wall?” Kimor asked.

  “Can you fly or something we don’t know about?” Beati snapped. “Because I can’t. Stupid oaf.”

  Kimor made a gesture with her hand at Beati but didn’t verbally respond.

  “We had a rope we left up there, didn’t we?” Steve asked.

  “Can’t remember,” Lucia said. “Honestly, it’s all… a bit jumbled in my memory. I think we did.”

  “Where?” Felisa asked. “Is it further in or—”

  Jaina pointed.

  “There. It’s still up on the wall,” confirmed the Kobold. “We left it there. No reason to pull it down. Because it was made out of Ogre and Troll hair that was braided. Heavy, heavy.”

  “Okay!” Kimor enthused. “We kill our way there, climb the rope, kill things up there, then go more, Steve skull-fucks Linne.”

  Kimor started marching forward as soon as she finished talking, pulling out a rather large one-handed double-bladed axe.

  “Does your whole world revolve around killing?” Beati asked.

  “Of course. That’s my job. My duty,” Kimor admitted. “Killing and servicing Steve.”

  “So your whole outlook is a dick and your axe?” Beati asked, clearly intent on badgering Kimor right now.

  “Isn’t yours? You’re just angry because he holds on to my antlers and compliments me on them,” Kimor accused. “You just have those little cat ears. You’re practically a Human.”

  “You’re such an idiot,” Beati growled, pulling her longsword free from her side.

  “You’re both idiots,” Felisa said, drawing two longswords from the sheaths on either side of her. “Arguing in front of our lord and looking like fools.”

  “Steve doesn’t care. He likes me the way I am,” Kimor said. “Told me to be myself.”

  “Shut your traps,” Hiren said.

  The five knights and Jaina were moving faster than Steve, Nancy, and Lucia. They continued to bicker and quibble as they went.

  “They fight quite a bit,” Lucia said.

  “Yeah,” Steve said. “Whatever. As long as they don’t actually betray me, I couldn’t care less if they like each other.”

  “I do suppose that’s the right answer, isn’t it?” Lucia said.

  “I’m going to join them,” Nancy said. “I want to keep powering myself up. I’m only just a little behind Ina.”

  “Ah! That’s a very good point,” Lucia said, pulling an arrow from the quiver on her hip.

  Nancy was off at a jog, chasing after the others.

  “Steve,” Lucia said as soon as Nancy was out of earshot. Up ahead, Kimor had just closed in on a Creep. A purple flame leapt out from her axe and burnt the corpse to a cris
p.

  “Yup?” Steve answered, not really sure what she wanted.

  “Are you going to take Linne back to Nikki like you promised?” Lucia asked.

  “No,” Steve replied honestly. “I’m going to skull-fuck her to death. Just like Kimor said.”

  “Oh, hmm. Alright,” Lucia said.

  “That a problem?” Steve asked with a catch in his voice.

  “I don’t think so,” Lucia admitted. “But I do think it’s not very fair of you to promise something like that and then go back on it.

  “You can’t really expect anyone to take you at your word if it doesn’t mean anything.”

  Grimacing at that, Steve didn’t respond. He didn’t like it.

  “Now, keep in mind, my beloved consort, I’m not telling you what to do,” Lucia amended. “I’m just telling you I think it’s a bit of a slippery slope. You know I think we should just kill Linne and be done with it. I’ll go along with whatever you decide. But that’s not what you said you’d do.”

  The knights were tearing into the zombies now. With weapons glowing purple from enchantments and spells alike, there wasn’t much the enemy could do to them.

  They were simply too empowered now. Too powerful.

  Witch-knights are the answer to the Creep.

  I could actually… solve… the Creep. Couldn’t I?

  I could end it.

  Though… maybe that’s not the answer, either.

  “Would you… lose respect for me if I didn’t do as I said?” Steve asked as his mind started to wander.

  “Honestly? I would some, yes,” Lucia admitted. “You’ve never been a liar up to this point. It’d be disappointing to watch you become one. But as I said, my beloved consort, I’ll support you in whatever your endeavor is. I love you. I’m here for you. Liar, murderer, rapist, or traitor. You’re my sweet, beloved, darling consort.

  “Consider yourself honored to hold the unwavering affection of a lady such as myself.”

  “Yeah… I do, actually. I do consider myself lucky,” Steve said. “Okay… I’ll bring… Linne back. I just don’t want to.”

  “A fair admission,” Lucia said.

  Then she lifted her bow, fit the arrow into it, and let it fly.

  A zombie not far away from them went down in a heap as the arrow smashed into the front part of its skull.

  Not the right time for talking.

  Focusing in on the situation at hand, Steve and his team made it without injury to the rope, which really was still there. It was considerably easier than last time, given how many of them had powers that fed off the Creep itself.

  When your fuel source was the enemy you were fighting, the battle became an exponential increase in power.

  “I’ll go first,” Steve said, grabbing the rope. “Because honestly, you ladies are in some heavy armor I don’t think you’ll be able to pull yourself up in.”

  As if realizing the situation, all five knights looked at themselves.

  “Jaina will go last; she can hold out the best,” Steve said, grabbing the rope and starting to haul himself up. “Just tie the rope around you and I’ll pull you all up.”

  Pulling himself up hand over hand, Steve made it to the top quickly and then looked down. Hiren was staring back up at him, the end of the rope looped around her midsection several times.

  Steve grabbed the rope and began to pull her up as fast as he could.

  “Aaaaah!” yelped Hiren as she started to soar upward toward him.

  Grabbing her by the breastplate when she was close enough, Steve simply pulled her over the top and then flicked the rope back down the wall.

  “Steve,” Hiren said a little breathlessly. “You are far too strong. Occasionally, I forget what you did to the champions with only your hands. It’s just so hard to remember what you’re capable of at times.”

  Shrugging his shoulders, Steve watched Felisa start winding the rope around herself.

  “And you didn’t even have to fight me,” Steve said. He waited until Felisa held a hand up toward him. “You guys give Kimor a lot of shit, but she actually tried to fight me.”

  “Oh, dear heavens,” Felisa whimpered as Steve physically yanked her onto the wall by her breastplate.

  Beati, Siena, Kimor, Nancy, and Lucia came next.

  “Woooooah!” Jaina cried out as Steve started pulling her up. Considering how light she was in comparison to everyone else, it felt like he could probably fling her around like a yo-yo.

  Yanking at the rope when she got to the top, Jaina practically came up over the wall all on that alone.

  Steve grabbed Jaina around the waist and pulled her into his side, then looked at everyone else. They were all watching him.

  “All done,” Steve said, pulling the rope away from Jaina but not putting her down. “Shall we get going?”

  Jaina for her part struggled only for a second before she just cuddled into him and laid her head down on his shoulder.

  “You’re not tired…?” Siena asked.

  “No. Would you like me to carry you, too?” Steve asked, grinning at the bigger woman.

  Walking over to the big bronze-clad woman, Steve slipped his arm under her rear end, stood up, and then started walking towards the ruined citadel city.

  Jaina on his right hip, Siena on his left.

  “I… could… you…” Siena fell silent, her gloved hands resting on Steve’s shoulder. “Put me down, my lord?

  “Fine,” Steve said, and he let the Ogre down even as he kept walking.

  Jaina took the opportunity and slid herself more towards Steve’s middle, getting her legs around his waist. Then she laid her mouth on his neck and bit him gently.

  Repeatedly.

  Each one followed by several gentle licks.

  “Still want pups?” Steve asked.

  “Yes,” Jaina said, nipping at him over and over. “But not as badly anymore. I like our sex life. Pups will ruin it.”

  Reaching the side entrance of the city, Steve walked straight in. From his memory, they could move through here into the courtyard and be able to see into the rubble pile he’d made.

  After taking a few steps beyond the doors, he came to a stop. He set Jaina down to one side, not sure what he was looking at.

  There in front of him was the breach he’d created. It was firm, stable, and looked far sturdier than he thought it’d be.

  In fact, there was an ocean of zombies on the other side of it. All milling around, looking for a way through. Even some of the larger and more frightening monsters they’d seen last time.

  “Hnng,” Kimor grunted. “No breach, no break, no gap.”

  “No,” Beati murmured. “And we didn’t feel any Creep the entire way in, either. Are we in the wrong spot?”

  “No,” Lucia said and pointed off to the side. Down toward the actual ground beyond the wall.

  There was a mound of rubble over there, along with a number of long-decomposing bodies.

  “That’s where Steve and I fell,” she said. “This is where we made this mess, and where they should be getting through. Though I—what… what’s that?”

  Everyone was watching the same thing, though, and no one had an answer.

  Previously Steve had wondered what would happen to their neighbors. The way the wall had fallen had almost made it into an odd curve that would lead Creep into their lands.

  Rather than Lamals.

  There was a garrison there with soldiers, right where the crumbled remains of the citadel wall would end. They were all in uniforms and gear that Steve couldn’t recognize. They seemed to be quite bored, all lazing around.

  Looking back at the heap of stones blocking the Creep completely, Steve could see that it wasn’t the same.

  “They filled the hole up,” Steve mused. “There was enough for a Creep to get through, right? They came, filled it up, and left it alone after that.

  “They could have done that the entire time. Couldn’t they?”

  “I would say so, yes,”
Lucia murmured with a sniff. “It was exactly what we thought. They were using it as leverage to bring Lamals to its knees. When it benefited them to fix the problem, they fixed it. Until then, they left it alone.”

  “I’d do the same,” Nancy said, turning to look at Steve.

  “You’re not wrong,” he said, then quickly shook his head. “I mean, really. Wouldn’t we do the same? After what’s happened to us, all of us, I’d say we’ve all become much more ruthless. We’d do the same to them.

  “So… why don’t we? Killing Linne is just the first step, I’m coming to realize.”

  “It is?” Nancy asked, looking rather curious.

  “It is,” Steve said, nodding his head. He was starting to figure out what he wanted to do now. How he wanted to conquer everyone.

  Everything.

  To bring his brand of justice to every doorstep.

  “It’ll take some planning, some work, but I’m… I’m done,” Steve professed. “I’m… so very done. So done. And I know exactly how to make this issue a moot point.”

  Leaving the ruins of the city, Steve walked back out to the wall and stared off into the distance. Into the Creep lands.

  Far in the horizon, Steve swore he could see what looked like towers.

  “Tell me, what’s out there?” he inquired.

  “Out there?” Hiren asked.

  “The Creep lands?” Felisa added.

  “Nothing. Creeps, poisoned everything, dirt. Not even animals,” Kimor grumbled, throwing a hand out in that direction.

  “What kingdom was out there, and why were they so blessed that they had someone absolutely destroy them like this?” Steve asked. “Why would they get hit by something so bad that it would literally curse the earth?”

  “We did it,” Lucia confessed with a sigh. “The Fae, that is. We made the Creep. As for who they were, I’m afraid even I don’t know. I just know the Creep is the great shame of the Fae. There’s a reason why the alliance keeps an eye on us as a nation.”

  “See, but that just makes it even more obvious to me,” Steve said, gazing out into the Creep lands.

  “What?” Kimor asked.

  “That I need to take the Creep land back and make it Steve land,” Steve said. “That the Creep will be mine. All of it. It’ll be the easiest thing in the world to do. At least… for me.