Henry’s unplanned journey into Gintessa had led him to no shortage of peculiar
situations. However, this had to be one of the strangest, standing side by side
with a giant and facing off against three mages.
Stina stepped aside, eyes on Henry. He knew he was weaker than their
counterpart, he just had to buy time. Ada’s idea was that she would deal with
the other two then come to him.
Ada didn’t hesitate. She dropped her backpack and charged in, jumping
with both her feet aimed at the two men. Both dashed aside with their base
magics. Raymond, the taller blond, raised his arms up high. Sharp yellow light
coruscated around him and converged around his hands. He shot a bolt of
lightning right at Ada’s calf, and she exclaimed with a step back. From the
other end, Marvin pulled out his lute and played a tune. Along the sound a blue
light emanated, blue notes materializing. The notes flied straight at Ada’s
behind as her attention was on Raymond, blasting in a puff of blue on her ass.
Her back arched from the impact. Ada ground her teeth and went after Raymond.
Raymond’s robe became a mantle of flowing lightning, darting off around the
bushes and trees. Two massive feet were stamping after him, crushing the earth,
flattening bushes, her soles mowing the underbrush. Occasional trees presented
another issue. Raymond shot back another zap of lightning, snapping any branch
they crossed and fizzling on her knee. Ada cried out again, the magic unlike
anything she’d faced.
Raymond shot a pillar of scintillating yellow lights up, above the
treetops. A smaller dark cloud formed, just below the height of the hilltops.
The cloud sparked and shot projectiles of its own, which together with
Raymond’s own arsenal became a tempestuous flurry Ada had to flee. Henry had
never seen her in that state, the genuine discomfort on her face, Ada on the
backfoot. She had to do something, an emergency jump after him. Raymond dodged
the pair of feet. Right after landing, Ada was after him, furiously chasing so
he had no opening to return fire. But Marvin had charged up and played an
especial tune. A cone of blue notes shot out like a spiderweb, forcing Ada to
hold her ears when it hit her. Marvin shot his arm forward, a follow-up blue
blast knocking Ada down to her bottom. The crackles of lightning grew as
Raymond charged an attack, too ambitious in how close he was. Ada had the
alertness to swipe after him despite her fall, slapping him where he stood and
throwing him straight into a tree. Still sitting but without a moment to spare,
Ada raised her butt and threw her foot out. Her toes landed on his lower body,
clenching and finding a leg through the robe. Raymond roasted her grabby toes
and Marvin unleashed one great explosive note striking her chest.
Ada was in pain. From the glimpses Henry could earn of her fight, it
wasn’t looking good, especially as he spent most of his fight against Stina
fleeing in circles. He just ducked a globe of energy and hopped out of the way
as Stina’s leg slammed the heel down towards him, shattering the earth.
“How did you introduce yourself in the letter to Sho’s academy?” Stina
grunted. “Expert flee artist? Prime coward? They have no place for castoff,
giant-slaves whose greatest accomplishment is touching the mere surface of the
arts.”
“It’s almost like I’m only sixteen years old,” Henry spat out. “With
better control of my emotions than you. Have you tried meditating?” Henry
ducked, an enraged fist passing overhead and smashing into the tree. A good
opening, Henry thrust his palm right into her abdomen, a blast of energy
sending her flying. He felt quite proud at that moment. “Your trainers must be
honored to watch you, watching some self-taught bumpkin treat you like this.”
She didn’t look happy upon getting up.
The tremors closed in. Ada ran towards him, a strange sight, and right
next to him she bent down and swept down with her hand, grabbing him. Ada
pressed through the trees, holding Henry up to her shoulder.
“Don’t let them get away!” The three mages chased.
“Henry, I need your help,” Ada said, panting, and her distress wasn’t
just from being tired.
“What? I can barely handle my opposition. I thought you had this.”
“Yeah, but, AH—” A jolt of lightning grazed her heel. Ada scaled up a
naked hill and down the other side, splashed through a river, larger mountains
looming ahead. “You don’t have to beat her. Just grab her, try and hold her,
and I’ll get her. Once I get her, we can go two on two against the two
remaining ones. Ok?”
“I told you we shouldn’t have—”
“Henry, try and slow her down. Your only job. Ok?”
“Let’s go.”
“Let me just… find…” Ada breathed faster, seeing a clearing amid the
trees. She went there and dropped Henry, who landed gracefully on grass. The
three mages arrived behind them. This time, Ada stayed closer to Henry. Raymond
and Marvin were getting ready to batter Ada with their magic again, and Henry
rushed in.
Stina backed away from his lunge and kneed his stomach, throwing him
away. “New strategy? Running worked better for you.” Stina rushed in after him
this time, feigning a couple hits. Henry didn’t try to dodge, but absorb,
catch, receive. A high kick came with a force unexpected, throwing Henry away
as he was unable to grab it. Hands ready to move underneath, Henry lay down,
pretending her kick did more than what had showed. Stina was coming upon him.
Henry turned and flung his arms around her waist. He had her.
“Ada!” he shouted, clasping his hands together to lock himself around
her like a belt. Stina punched and elbowed his back, tried to pry him off her.
Henry thought his back might break, crying out and holding on. He had to buy
time.
The savior came, her shadow growing upon them. Ada’s sole flattened them
both, Stina and Henry pancaked together. The pressure relented somewhat as Ada
eased her weight, fingers digging in and getting them both out. Henry lay in an
open palm while Stina was constricted by five fingers. From his vantage point,
Henry saw the yellow flashes of light forming above them. Raymond was charging.
“Ada, above! Run!”
Ada trusted him enough to not even look, hopping and ducking to get
under the trees immediately. A massive bolt of lightning struck the earth she’d
stood on, a chaos of glitter and strewn soil and grass and twigs scattered from
the blast. Three parades of blue notes stormed through the woods as Marvin
played a rapid tune. Ada didn’t panic, retaining her steel grip on Stina while
releasing Henry. He too retreated with her, branches scattered, trees snapped
in half, hurricanes of leaf fragments thrown about. As annoying as the woods
were for Ada to navigate through when trying to catch them, they provided ample
cover from the magical bombardment.
The frenzy subsided.
“We’re over here!” Stina shouted from Ada’s hand, offering her partners
guidance.
“Yes you are,” Ada said, getting her hair out of her face. “You’re right
here.” She raised her dress and pinned the hemline in place with her chin, then
lowered her panties with her free hand. Stina was aimed head first.
“What in all that is holy are you—” Her head entered. Ada swirled her
for a couple of seconds to open herself up, then pushed her right in. Marvin
and Raymond arrived just in time to see Stina’s feet enter, the two hungry pink
lips closing after. The skin around Ada’s pussy moved from Stina’s struggles.
The panties snapped back; the dress fell over like curtains.
“Y— You disgusting whore!” Raymond shouted. Their reaction made Henry
realize how far from normal he’d fallen, to not harbor any reaction. That was
normal for him.
“Oh, it’ll get better,” Ada said, a hungry smirk. “I don’t think you’re
ready for when I get my hands on you. You look handsome especially, lightning
guy.”
Marvin’s eyes went to Henry. “Have you no shame?”
“The people who attacked a little girl are dishing out lectures?” Ada
said, and Henry appreciated her defense, for he had no good words himself.
“Let’s get them, Henry.”
Marvin didn’t hesitate, heading straight for Henry. With a dash forward
and a set of fingers snapping across the strings, a line of notes flied right
towards him. Henry jumped to the side. The notes followed. Henry caught himself
in the jump and threw himself in another direction. The notes exploded on earth
and tree, splinters of soil and bark cast about. Wherever Henry landed didn’t
matter, for Raymond had a shot of lightning right at him. The bolt struck his
chest and burst, a hot jab knocking the breath out of him and tossing him into
a tree. He tried to get up, he had to, before they could follow up.
He was slow, it hurt, he needed time, but it didn’t matter. The tremors
came first, then he raised his head and saw them scatter to Ada’s advance. Only
now, unlike before, she had caught them off guard, dodging barely and out of
pace. Raymond narrowly escaped Ada’s right foot, and the closeness with which
he’d gotten away, the jolt of adrenaline from almost being caught, had him
overdo the distance he made afterwards. Ada pivoted her focus instantly to
Marvin. She speared her left foot right after Marvin, who jumped out of the way
with a bloom of music. Ada was right after him.
Marvin landed and enjoyed ground no more than a second before Ada’s right
foot kicked him, launching him into a whipping flurry through the branches. The
lute dissipated into a blue mist. Magical, of course.
Marvin got stuck in the branches and blasted his way free, falling, but
during that time Ada charged through the trees and got there. Right upon his
fall, her foot stomped right into him. Her toes curled, the foot twisting,
grinding him.
In the meantime, Henry had challenged Raymond, but his energy was
trounced by Raymond’s lightning. In their clashes, Henry had been thrown back, but
Raymond saw Ada pick up Marvin from under her sole, encased in her fist, her
attention now coming to him.
“Fuck.” The lightning enveloped his body and Raymond sped away.
“Chase him!” Ada shouted. Henry did, his art of the fighter able to keep
up. As Henry ran, he did so in explosive bursts, kicking the earth, flashing
energy, all to leave markers behind for Ada to pursue. Raymond tried to throw
bolts of lightning back, Henry dodging, gaining on him.
Raymond was returning to their camp, to the clearing. Henry didn’t know
what he was planning. Perhaps there were essentials he had to grab before
fleeing. Perhaps they had something with them to turn the tides. Henry didn’t
want to find out. He threw his golden energy forward, forcing Raymond to dodge.
Henry caught his leg with a blast, knocking Raymond off balance. He fell and
tumbled, finding balance with empowered arms. But Henry gripped his robe at his
back and threw him down, planting his knee on Raymond’s back.
“Listen, just give up,” Henry whispered with a panting voice. “It’s
over, okay? Just—”
“Worthless, shameless, depraved giant-slave…” Raymond’s head, body, it
all shone, and he cast his arms up. An explosion of lightning shook the
clearing, Henry zapped off the premises and sent into a succession of rolls
across the grass. What he saw through his painful flight, however, was Ada
entering the scene. She stomped Raymond before he got up.
“And there we go.” Ada caught her breath, staring at Marvin in her hand.
Her thumb came up to stroke his cheek. Marvin flinched away uselessly. “I want
you to guess what I’m going to do to you.”
“Fuck you.”
“Don’t be like that now. You know, it wasn’t smart to run out to the
woods with no eyes around. You’ll wish other giants were around, because now
I’m alone with you. And that means I can go all out.”
“Eat shit, blind degenerate giant.”
Ada raised an eyebrow. “One would almost think I’m the bad guy here,
that I’m the one who stole food and attacked a child. You’re just making me
feel even more honorable.” Ada hunched down, raised her empty foot, and placed
Marvin under it. The moment her fingers released and hand snapped back, her
sole fell over him. She stood to her height, her toes wiggling happily over the
new captives. Ada breathed deeply. “Oh, it’s time.” She slipped the neckline of
her dress over the shoulder, slipping the arm out, then followed with the
other. Arms free and out, she pulled the dress down, first over her voluminous
bosom which jiggled firmly, then dragged it down her waist. It fell around her
ankles. The panties soon joined, Ada standing in her naked glory.
Henry knew what was
coming.