Drake, Yumi, and Aria had traveled as far as possible in the RV, then they traveled the rest of the distance on foot. When they arrived near the tribe, they noticed some disturbance in the tribe, so Drake secretly signaled Yumi to hide nearby in case of emergencies.
When they finally reached there, they noticed Maria was lying on the floor covered in injuries. She looked in so much pain that she couldn't even get up.
"Mother!", exclaimed Aria, as she dropped the huge bag she was carrying and ran inside the tribe when she saw her mother lying on the ground.
"Mother, are you ok?" asked Aria with a worried face as she came near her.
"I'm ok, dear", said Maria with difficulty and a gentle smile.
Aria then noticed the guests in the village. She then remembered that that day was the day when the representatives from the bull tribe came every month to collect the monthly tribute.
Every time, they came they would fck the fox-women to their hearts' content. That's why, the representatives were changed every month, so that all the bull-men could get the chance to enjoy the fox-women.
Of course, that wouldn't stop them if they wanted to come at other times to do the same. The fox women were so low in status that they were not even allowed to go near the bull tribe. Hence none of the bull-men took them back to their tribes, and would only enjoy them in the fox tribe.
Aria recognized Torix and his group. They had come many times before and she had served them many times. In the past, she would have just considered that as a chore and moved on the next day, but after meeting Drake she was repulsed and disgusted by her actions even if she had no say in those actions.
"Hello Aria, remember me?" asked Torix as grinned lewdly at her while still fcking Willow.
"Did you hurt my mother?", asked Aria in anger and fear.
"Why ask something you already know, dear Aria?", asked Torix playfully as he stripped her naked with his eyes.
"Why?" asked Aria as she was already on the verge of crying. She felt too powerless in front of Torix. Deep in her mind, she knew that she was strong enough to crush Torix, but the primal fear inside her stopped her from taking that step.
But she didn't notice one small change. Previously she wouldn't even dare to raise her voice in front of the bull-men, but angrily demanded answers from the bull-man named Torix. Something no one but two people noticed.
"Why? Isn't it because of you", said Torix playfully. He felt his ego satisfied seeing Aria being completely helpless in front of him. He felt ecstatic thinking that whatever he would to anyone in the tribe, no one would dare to say anything to him.
"Me! What do you mean?" asked Aria confused.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, Aria, Aria, Aria. Don't be so naive. You got so much money and you dared to hide it from your masters. That's not the quality of a good pet", said Torix.
Aria's face became pale when she heard that. Then she noticed the bag nearby with its contents spilling out. That was the bag she brought back with her to the tribe. Then she noticed Willow's scheming smile as she looked at her.
She understood the problem. She knew that Willow was competitive and dissatisfied with her and her mother, but she never thought that she would betray them like that.
"Please, I apologize. Please, you can take all the money and everything. But please, let my mother go", begged Aria.
Torix and the bull-men laughed uproariously hearing her begging like that.
"What do you mean, take the money? You are our pet, so by default your belongings are the tribe's property", said another bull-man as all of them laughed even more.
"Of course, you b*tch, the contents of that bag are all mine. But I don't want just that bag. Tell me how you got all that money. There are even many monster parts in it. You are just a weak fox woman who can barely hunt small animals for food. I don't believe you went outside the territory to hunt them as none of these monsters whom the parts belong to are found in the territory. So, surely you must have stolen those from somewhere", demanded Torix as he demeaned Aria.
"They are not stolen!" exclaimed Aria.
"Oh. Then do you mind telling me how you got those? Or do you want to get the same treatment your worthless mother got?" threatened Torix.
Aria stayed silent and didn't say anything.
Seeing that Aria was not speaking anything, Torix became angry and came out of Willow and moved towards Aria. He punched her hard in her gut, and when she keeled down due to pain, he kicked her to the ground.
"Aria!" exclaimed Maria when she saw her daughter being beaten by Torix.
"Tell me my dear pet, where did you get this money?" asked Torix once more, but anyone could see that his patience was coming to an end. He continued. "Or is it that you are missing my twenty-inch-long greatness inside you? Want me to pound you real hard, to make you talk", threatened Torix once again. He became even bigger inside Willow when thought about pounding Aria's tight p*ssy.
She still said nothing. She didn't want them to find out about Drake as she didn't want to cause him any trouble.
'Wait a minute! Drake!'
Aria suddenly remembered that Drake followed her to the tribe and then quickly turned her head and found Drake leisurely against a tree at the tribe entrance and watching everything.
When Aria saw her mother's state, she ran inside still carrying the bag that she had thrown aside near the entrance. Drake followed behind her walking leisurely. When he reached the entrance, he just leaned against a tree nearby to watch her.
'No, no. no. This can't be happening. No, please don't look at me. I don't want you to see me like this.'
'He must have heard everything. Previously he only said that I was not worthy to follow him, but he remained my friend and we went on adventures together.'
'But now, he will leave me forever. I can not lose him. I can not lose him.'
Aria was having a mental breakdown when thought of the consequences of Drake watching her in that situation.
Everyone was startled when Aria suddenly turned around and then behaved strangely. They followed her gaze and found Drake leisurely watching them. Only then did everyone notice him as previously everyone's attention was on Aria.
One of the bull-man took out his d*ck from the fox woman he was fcking and walked towards Drake and asked playfully, "Hey pet, who is this human? Did you find yourself a sugar daddy? Is he the one who gave you all the money?"
Aria suddenly came out of her trance when she heard those words. She begged desperately, "No, please don't do anything to him. He has nothing to do with all this. Please, let him go."
"Hehe, it looks like I was right. He is your sugar daddy. Do you want to run betray your masters to serve your human sugar daddy?" taunted the bull-man. Then he said to Drake, "Hey, you puny human, this b*tch is our property. How dare you lay your hand on our property?"
Drake had previously told Yumi that whatever happened in the tribe, she would not interfere unless he signaled her or his life was in danger. That was why the bull-man was still alive after his disrespectful words to Drake.
Drake turned his head towards him and said boredly, "Buddy, at least wear your pants before you talk to me. Even if you don't, I mind that a man is talking to me with his d*ck dangling in front of me."
"You puny human, how dare you? I will-" stopped the bull-man in between his sentences. He suddenly noticed the bag dropped on the ground nearby. He had seen Aria bringing the bag that she dropped near the entrance. He ignored it previously but suddenly became curious about what could be inside the bag.
He reached for the bag and sliced it with his sword. As he did that, he saw the fog coins start flowing out of the bag.
There was pin-drop silence. Suddenly, the bull-man exclaimed, "Boss! That's thousands or even tens of thousands of fog coins!"
The bull-men who were still fcking, all stopped. All the bull-men, Willow, and Brooke were watching the fog coins piled up with undisguised greed.
"Hey you, tell me where did you get so much money from?" demanded the bull-man. He asked because Drake was too thin, so he assumed that he must be very weak and could earn that much money by hunting monsters. His attire was too simple which showed he was not a spawn of a rich family.
"First, go put on some pants, then maybe I will tell you", said Drake as he boredly dismissed him, while still leaning against the tree.
"You insolent human, do you think I don't dare hurt you?" said the bull-man as he moved towards Drake with his sword.
"No, please don't hurt him. I beg you. Lord Torix, please tell him to stop. Please, you can do anything to me, just please let him go", begged Aria.
"You traitorous b*tch. Do you think you can stop me?" said the bull-man in anger.
"Please"
"Shut up-"
"Enough! Get back!" commanded Torix as he interrupted the bull-man.
"But boss-"
"I said get back!" yelled Torix. The bull-man grumbled and backed off but not before glaring at Drake who dismissed him yet again.
Torix walked towards Drake menacingly. He was already angry with the mother-daughter pair, then he found out that Aria, his favorite pet, dared to hook up with a human outside. And she even dared to beg him to spare some worthless human. He thought that the pets were getting out of line. So, he decided to leave a message using the human.
Torix came near Drake and stopped.
Drake sighed and asked him, "Do you guys have a fetish for dangling your dongs in front of other men?", then said, "Because trust me, I have no interest in seeing it. I don't know about you guys, but I don't swing that way."
Drake received a punch in the face as a reply. He had to send a message to stop Yumi quickly as she was about to go berserk. (A/N: The message can be typed in head.)
"NO!" screamed Aria in despair.
"Damn, that hurts. Dude, at least wear some pants before hitting me", said Drake after receiving the punch. His lips were busted with blood flowing out of the corner of his lips.
Torix replied with yet another punch, that time in the guts. He didn't stop but kept on beating Drake.
"Stop. stop, please stop"
Aria begged but no one listened to her request. She wanted to help Drake but her legs were rooted, she wanted to help him, but the fear ingrained inside her stopped her from moving.
For the next fifteen minutes, Drake was beaten by Torix. Torix didn't kill Drake immediately. He wanted his to feel as much pain as possible before he would die.
Aria's voice was already hoarse from begging continuously.
'He will kill Drake. I will no longer be able to go on adventures with Drake. He will die because of me. Because I am too weak.'
'Drake will die.'
'Drake will die.'
'Drake will die.'
'He will die because of me.'
'He will die because of me.'
'He will die because of me.'
While having such thoughts and begging hoarsely she looked up and saw Drake, who was injured all over his body. He was bleeding everywhere.
'No, please stop, he will die.'
'Please stop, he will die.'
'Please stop, he will die.'
'You are responsible for separating me from Drake. It's all because of you. If not for you Drake would accepted me as her follower. I can only be Drake's pet.'
'But you and your whole tribe destroyed me and my chances to be with Drake.'
'You are responsible.'
'You are responsible.'
'You are responsible.'
'YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE!.'
'Stop, you can't hurt him.'
'Stop it.'
'Stop it.'
"STOP IT!", yelled Aria.
Torix stopped and looked back in astonishment and even more anger that Aria dared to shout at him for some worthless human.
"You b*tch dared to shout at your masters", said another bull-man as he walked towards intending to punish her for her insolence.
But just as he came near her, she attacked him with her sword and in a single swipe separated his head from his body.
THUD
Suddenly, the tribe was once again blanketed in silence.
Neither the fox women nor the bull men could believe their eyes & ears. Shouting was one thing, but they never thought that Aria dared to kill a bull tribe member.
"You dare to rebel against us", said the bull-man who insulted Drake as he moved towards her with his sword, intending to kill her. He thought that she killed the previous bull-man only because he was not alert and she took advantage of that and sneak attacked him.
Aria didn't say anything and just watched them come near her.
She easily dodged the slash and with a slash cut his body in two horizontally from the middle. His body fell in two parts. But he didn't die immediately, rather he was alive and would slowly die in despair and pain.
"Boss, save me. I don't want to die", he shouted desperately. But Torix didn't say anything as he was already beyond saving. Rather he was stunned by Aria's strength. The first time could be a fluke, but the second time clearly showed her skill. He became a little afraid of her.
The last bull-man who followed the bull-man shouting on the ground stopped dead in his tracks. He was already pale in fear. His soul nearly left his body when Aria walked towards him.
"No, stay away from me."
"Stay away from me."
"I beg please don't kill me."
"Please I apologize for everything I have done, please don't kill me."
"Please don't-"
He stopped midway as Aria bisected his body by cutting it vertically.
Torix started shaking in fear.
"You ungrateful wretch! You dared to rebel against the great bull tribe! If you value your life, go to the bull tribe and beg for the death sentence. Then maybe you will be given a less painful death", yelled Torix as he ran away in fear, still nude.
Aria didn't care about his warnings. She saw Drake covered in varying injuries and wanted to go near him, but stopped midway.
She knelt and started sobbing.
'Drake was beaten so badly because of me.'
'I can't even show my face to him.'
'I am sure he must hate me now.'
'But him hating me is better than him dying.'
'I am sorry.'
'I am sorry.'
'I am sorry.'
Aria just kept on apologizing to Drake in her mind. She didn't have the guts to look him in the eyes.
Drake got up with difficulty.
"That guy sure packed a punch," said Drake to himself.
He then looked towards Aria, who was sobbing while kneeling on the ground with her head turned down.
Then he looked around at the state of the bull-men. He was impressed by the way they died. Previously, because Torix was blocking his field of vision, so was not able to see anything and only knew what happened based on voices and noises.
He looked back to Aria and smiled. Then moved towards her slowly.
Aria, who heard him moving towards her, looked up. When he arrived near her, she said while crying, "Drake, I am sorry. You were hurt so badly because of me. I understand if you want to hate me. I will no longer bother you. Even if you want to kill me for it, I will not mind and happily accept my death."
Drake maintained his smile and asked, "Now, why would I hate you or want to kill you?"
He didn't give her any chance to respond and said, "But I do have one thing I want to say to you."
Aria looked at him curiously while still lightly sobbing.
"You are finally worthy!"
Aria's eyes widened when she heard that.
"Do you mean..."
Drake only nodded while smiling at her question.
Seeing that Aria jumped up, hugged him tightly, and started crying.
Drake hugged her back and gently patted her back.
Name: Aria Wildfang
Loyalty +30, 100 (Zealot)
While he was hugging her, his gaze turned towards Maria, who had sat up on the ground with difficulty.
They exchanged glances before smiling evilly at each other. Their busted lips and blood dripping from the corners of their lips made their smiles terrifying to behold.