Chereads / Centaurus / Chapter 261 - 33.3 p͏a͏t͏r͏e͏o͏n͏.c͏o͏m͏/S͏t͏r͏a͏t͏o͏t͏h͏r͏a͏x͏A͏f͏t͏e͏r͏D͏a͏r͏k͏

Chapter 261 - 33.3 p͏a͏t͏r͏e͏o͏n͏.c͏o͏m͏/S͏t͏r͏a͏t͏o͏t͏h͏r͏a͏x͏A͏f͏t͏e͏r͏D͏a͏r͏k͏

She opened her mouth in horror but it was all gone, she had swallowed it all.

"Oh- Oh gods, I think I reeeeally shouldn't have eaten that…" she noticed she still had a blob of cum on her paw and flicked it off.

"Eaten what?" came a second voice as a second person hauled aside the cloth revealing that the caravan was filled with tumblers equipment, hoops and acrobatic stands, aerial silks and juggling pins.

The second girl was human like, only the fluffy white tipped ears poking from atop her bouncy white hair and her very large yellow eyes suggesting she was something else, that and the simply enormous ringed lemur tail that circled around the squirrel girl and caringly rubbed at her cheek.

The lemurkin wore a lacey white leotard that matched her hair and completed her acrobats aesthetic, the bottom of it a tall narrow V exposing her hips. She wore nothing else, not even shoes, and her arms and legs were exposed to the air.

"I didn't eat anything, n-nothing at all!" said the squirrel girl, giving her best poker face.

The lemurkin lifted an eyebrow at that, then flicked a dribble of white from the squirrel girl's lip with the tip of her tail. "Some kind of cream or pastry? You could have saved some for me- for m- m-?"

The lemurkin's voice petered out as she noticed that the white stuff was on their caravan too, and as she turned her head she saw everything else that was coated in the stuff. She blinked as she abruptly realised what it was she was smelling. Then she swallowed, a thought occurring to her.

"Hey, uh, was there, uhm, w-was there a centaur seen around, somewhere m-maybe?"

"Yeah, I guess you mean that one over there?"

The lemurkin snapped around, eyes locking onto Fey like a laser.

"They weren't pulling my leg, I don't bloody believe it!… but then!"

The lemurkin began frantically sorting through the piled up stuff in the caravan until she found a cloak patched in a rainbow of colours. She quickly threw it around her shoulders and drew up the hood, then slipped down the side of the caravan, bare feet landing in a thick puddle of cum with a wet splat. The cum immediately started to ooze and roll up her bare legs, seeking. The lemurkin blinked down at the goop.

"Sheesh, they didn't mention anything like this."

She stepped free of the puddle and swiftly flicked the centaur cum free from her bare skin.

"What are you doing?!" hissed the squirrel girl.

"Shush, look just grab your hooded cloak, quickly now, she's getting away."

The squirrel crossed her arms and stubbornly remained where she was.

"Explain or I'm not moving an inch."

"I can't just- it's too much to believe in one go, listen, this is about saving our business."

"How Zoey? How is chasing after a random centaur and leaving our stuff behind on the road saving our business?"

"I know a way to let us do S tier acrobatic tricks, the kind the nobility pay out the nose to see!" said Zoey spreading her arms.

"What?"

"I know a way that we can become so flexible that we can do stuff only zero point one percent of acrobats can do, I'm sure of it, those minotaurs should not have had bodies as flexible and pliable as they did, minotaurs aren't flexible or pliable! Minotaurs are about as flexible and pliable as brick shithouses!"

"...What???"

"They're getting away! I- I can't explain it fast enough!"

Panicking now Zoey's long lemur tail whipped into the caravan, grabbed a second patchwork cloak, slapped it down on the squirrel, wrapped around her waist, and then lifted her bodily into the air. She then dashed between the caravans, stealthily shadowing after the band, struggling squirrel girl still held up in the air with her tail.

--

The band's entrance into Bine was mostly fine. In fact the sleepy looking guard who had checked them hadn't been able to take his eyes off Ellaria and hadn't even noticed anything out of place with Fey, or certain girls chest sizes, or the absurdly pregnant Vivi. They had almost gotten in without a single problem at all, but then as they passed through the large gate a cry broke the air and the band turned back to find… nothing. There appeared to be nothing wrong with anything, that is until a message runner came hurtling down the road toward the city entrance and tried to pass through. He crashed against something soft and invisible so hard he nearly snapped his neck and was sent rolling head over heels backwards as he bounced off.

"Help me!" wailed Kayla.

"K-Kayla? Are you… are you stuck?"

A meek sad voice replied. "Yes, I can't fit… I'm t-too pregnant now…"

"My gods! How much larger did she get overnight!?"

"Well she was just behind Flo in level of pregerness, course she would have a surge of growth too."

"And we didn't see it because she's invisible… But then, how big is she?"

The band eyed the wide city gate, a huge thing built to take the massive intercity caravans like those of Rina's company two abreast. If she'd gotten stuck… Well then she was at least as large as Flora had been and probably significantly larger.

A guard on the other side placed his hand on the invisible wall, clearly very confused. He was just getting ready to draw his sword and start prodding when Flora who had been trying to tug the otterkin out finally succeeded and with a scuffed popping sound the gate was unblocked, Kayla set free… to go rolling into the nearest row of market stalls.

With a crunch the market was flattened and the stall owners either squashed against the ground or bounced into the air. Only for a moment did the soft invisible mass rest however as Flora jerked her up making her float.

The band crept away as the air was filled with angry shouts. The dazed merchants who had been squished by Kayla's softness picked themselves up and soon joined the cries of anger.

--

"Well, what are we doing first? What's the priority?" said Vivi as she hefted her weapon egg under one arm. The band had found a deserted alley not far from the entrance

"Kayla needs a Class, we should have helped her get one ages ago, after the dungeon and everything I feel so guilty!" said Fey, her hands fretting.

"Uhm, that is if it's not too much trouble," came Kayla's quiet voice.

"See! It's the right thing to do!"

"That's a point," said Flora. "But allow me to make a counterpoint. Give me my fucking cut and let me gambley gamble that shit, gods knows I haven't let loose in a while."

"Well now you have said that absolutely not," said Ellaria.

"Oh fu-

"Would."

"N-no I d-didn't mean-!"

"You."

"Please no! Please captain!"

"Kindly."

"I promise to behave captain ma'am!" said Flora, attempting her best impression of a straight-backed military salute, eyes wide and fearful.

"Hmm. Better." said Ellaria, easing off. Flora shuddered and sighed in relief.

The elf turned to Vivi. "The absolute priority is quite obvious. You are holding it. We need to understand these eggs as soon as possible. We do not know when they hatch or if they will hatch, they could hatch in ten minutes or a month or never, and also importantly, we do not know what they contain."

"Who would be able to tell us about that?"

"Well, I did consider a healer and I have already asked Fey if she can tell us something about them."

"I, uhm, can't. I can't extend my healing senses inside, the shell is really really really really dense."

"Which means we need someone higher level than Fey."

"M-much higher level, I can usually tell how much higher level I would need to be to push my healing sense through a surface or armour or fabric on a patient, but I uhm, can't with this."

"Right, and the only place you might find a healer of that calibre is at one of the city's hospitals. So, we shall proceed there and-"

"I think that's a bad idea. What if they are weapons?" interrupted Vivi, holding her egg closer, a little defensively.

Ellaria raised an eyebrow at the fox girl.

"They aren't w-weapons they're my eggs Vivi, stop acting like you're going to bash things over the head with them!"

Vivi waved her paw dismissively. "I don't mean in that way, I mean like, what if they aren't eggs, what if they are all really really powerful magical bombs?"

The band stared at her.

"Oh come on don't look at me like that, this all originated from a secret dungeon made by gods knows who, and a giant mechanical sphere thing clearly insanely magical, remember?"

"I really have no idea what you are suggesting," said Ellaria.

"The giant sphere is a weapon that made Fey into a weapon who then makes girls into weapons that go boom! All those eggs in Kayla explode at once and the city would be flattened."

"I'm not cumming bombs!"

"I'm not pregnant with bombs!"

"How do you know? You don't, do you?"

"We do not. That is why we're going to see a high level healer Vivi."

"A high level healer, likely one of the hospital heads, extremely powerful and has lots of strong people with them."

"...yes?"

"How do you think they will react when a band wanders in with enough bombs to kill everyone in Bine? I don't think we'd ever see the outside of a prison again if that happened. Just sayin'."

"I don't believe this, what utter-"

"Do you remember the giant sphere in the dungeon El? We thought it was the boss of the dungeon for a reason… it looked like a machine meant for war, tell me it didn't."

Fey, Ellaria, and Flora paused, the uncomfortably terrifying memory being recalled by each of them, that vast incomprehensible space, magical technology, all far far beyond anything they had ever heard of.

"So what do we do instead? We need information, do you have something in mind?"

"Dunno, but like, we just need to see through the material right? Any artificer could do that."

"...That's... actually a pretty good point, about the artificers, not the bombs. And likely to be far cheaper. Huh."

"Are we sure she's a warrior Class? She's way too sharp for my liking sometimes."

Vivi looked incredibly smug hearing that, and somehow so did Wummy, a smug fox girl surrounded by smug tentacles.

"Fine. We shall go find one of these Artificers. If they disappoint we shall 'risk' the hospital."

Fey turned and followed after the already striding elf. A flash of patchy colour from the other end of the alley caused her to pause however and she turned to see who it was.

Nobody was there.

Deciding it must have been her imagination she hurried to catch up to the others.