My arm is starting to hurt a bit every time I swing it so it might be best we camp out for a bit and let it rest for a while. We return back south of where we were where it is likely safer and make camp.
I cut up some lugs and sticks while Arla and Lara look for some food to eat. We could eat some of the rats and wolves we have killed.
I pick up some of the dead wolves and bring them back. I bring back two of the dead wolves over my back and drop them on the ground exhausted. They aren't that heavy but heaving them up a hill while my arm hurts isn't easy for me. Not yet it is.
As I walk over to them they seem to be chatting about something while I wasn't around, wonder what it is about.
"So you have not have sex yet Arla?"
"Mmm. Not yet. I hope to one day with someone close to my heart..." she says looking in my direction.
I get a bit flushed but try not to show it by yawning and walking over to them and sitting down. I sit down in a cross position and check out my arm which seemed to be bleeding through the bandages. Maybe Arla can help with this since she can heal me.
*Hours later*
It gets dark and we start to get a bit sleepy. I choose first to be the one to keep looking out first while the girls sleep first. Then Arla can take watch. I am sure she won't mind it. Hopefully. Kuudere's being and is so adorable now that I think about it.
*Hours later*
I yan for a bit and start getting drowsy. I think it is time for me to switch places with someone. As I return to the camp I notice Arla is asleep on against a tree while Lara is on the grass sleeping face up in the sky. I don't want to disturb Lara so Arla it is.
I go up to Arla and shake her shoulder a bit and then proceed to wake her up. She rubs her eyes a bit yawns adorably and gets the message without words being traded. She walks off and takes her saber with her.
I move over towards LAra who seems to be sleeping soundly facing up to the sky with her hands on top of her. I move next to her and lay down looking at the start night. I move a bit closer and our arms touch. I never made a move on Lara because she is my closest friend and I worry about ruining our relationship. Maybe I should...
I sit up and look at her lips for a bit but decide not to try to kiss her. It wouldn't be right. Why would I kiss her on the lips while she sleeps that's...I don't know what I was thinking about.
*Hours later*
I wake up in the middle of the night and stretch a bit. Only to realize Lara has moved her body onto mine and her legs are wrapped around me and her arms wrapped around mine as well. I try to move but she seems to have a tight grasp on me. I don't actually want to move now this feels nice.
I lay there awake can't help myself and smile the feeling of Lara pressing her breasts against me sort of makes me blush. I feel ashamed but I can't help it. I start getting this itch and aI look down and realize I am horning a bit from this. I am just going to ignore it. Gotta wait another few days my friend.
*Next day*
I slowly open my eyes to the brightness of the sun on my face and felt like rolling in my bed and saying five more minutes. I roll over in the grass and touch something soft in my right hand and squeeze a bit. Hmm, this feels nice what is it?
I squeeze a bit more and widen my eyes just a bit to see what I was grasping. W-what?! Oh my god! I notice to that I am squeezing and it Lara's breast. But not only that she is looking dead at me with an angry face! Please don't whoop my ass I already got an injured arm!
"Why you! YOU!"
I close my eyes and wince waiting for her to bob me upside the head with her sword or worse! But as I wince silence came over and nothing. I open my right eyes to see her having a flushed face and blushing and looking like she is about to whimper something out.
"P-please let my boob go...It's embarrassing..." she whsiper towards me almost looking like she is going to cry.
"S-sorry I didn't mean to!" I let go and sit up straight turning around humiliated but not compared to her...I stand up and start running in the opposite direction into the woods to give her space.
"W-wait!" she calls out but I ignore her just needing to get away from this awkward death parade.
"I didn't get to say it..." she whispers to herself "idiot..."
As I run a good few meters away I am in the forests and now alone breathing heavily me bending forward a bit.
As I breathe in and out for a while I notice my tail is stiff as aboard. Typically that signals I am excited or hyped up...Not a good time for that.
I take a few moments to get my bearing and return to the open field where we made camp. As I return Arla is sitting at a tree doodling with the tip of her saber, while Lara is standing in the open field looking into the woods.
I think ti is best I don't disturb Lara for a while. Maybe I can go solo for a bit. Allow them to rest a bit.
*few minutes later*
*slash*
I cut a few small wolves up north of camp on my own to relieve my stress of embarrassment after that whole situation. I pick up the dead wolves up and pile them around a spot for me to skins them. Their fur might be helpful. OR I can sell it.
I start cutting up the fur I have gathered up from the wolves and start heading back south for Lara and Arla to check out what I have been doing.
*a few minutes later*
As I am moving with my furs I start hearing some chattering. I start turning around and looking in different directions but don't see anyone around. Am I going crazy? Did I lose a lot of blood yesterday?
I start moving towards the sound and crouch behind some bushes. I crouch in and look through the bushes and see two men standing over some skinned wolves I had done a while ago here. Why are they here? Hunters as well?
"Damn...who keeps hunting our wolves? We send them out to wreck havoc and for us to deal with them like we trained them, and they get killed by something that skins them."
"Or someone...Someone could be killing out wolves and rats and skinning them for money likely"
"But who?! I thought we were the only one who was hired in the contract like we planned?"
"Apparently the guy asked someone else to as well." the bigger man says holding his club.
"Well, it ain't working out for us. The plan was to use these trained animals like we have been to harras the nearby by town, and then come in and be the only adventurers doing the contract...Now someone else is not only doing our job but killing off our money makers!"
So these guys are responsible for the attacks in Burmington? Why would they monologue like this anyways? Seems so...cartoonish for them to-
*Wack* *thud*
I drop my pelts and fall to the ground unconscious instantly from something...
"Hey guys! I found someone snooping around us!"
"What?! Who?" said the skinnier man in leather armor.
The man picks up Coda and throws him over the bush with a loud thud.
*thud*
"This lizard boy was snooping around with what looks to be the pelts of our wolves...Think he is responsible for it." he says while grabbing the hands of Coda and dragging him through the grass.
The skinnier man puts his heel on the head of the unconscious caiman and pushed down on it. He expressed a grin and his partners look over to him for guidance.
"Well well well. So we found out the culprit. He caused us a lot fo trouble guys...So what should we do with him? He know about our plans."
"Because you monologued like a dumbass"
"Hey!" he says drawing his knife out of his sheath.
"I didn't know we were being watched in the first place! Not my fault!"
While those two are arguing the hooded man unbuckled the straps of Coda's armor and removes the top part and examines it. He throws it away in the process.
"Well we can only hope he gets amnesia from me wacking him," said the man in the hood.
"Nah, he won't lose memory from that pitiful wack, we..."
As they argue, Coda starts to move a bit under the heel of the leathered man's boot and opens his eyes a bit.
"W-what? What happens? I open my eyes to feel a dull pain in my head and weight on me. I look around and I am on the ground with a bit of blood running down the side of my face. Did I fall down or-
"Shut up! I said shut up! We will ake him with us and hold him there and ensure he doesn't get in the way. Then we will kill him. Or we will kill him now but that will raise questions and then an investigation into it...We can't have that. All we can do is kill him now, take the pelts, and claim credit for dealing with the wolves." the skinnier man says.
He presses down on his foot on Coda's head a bit causing him to groan in pain.
"Ugh..."
"W-what? He is up already!? Shit...