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Xera and Her Companions #12: Trial and Error

by Sigma

I

Xera, Minerva, Gurka, and Ava, all lay stretched out on the ground, their tits heaving with labored breath and no one saying a word. Their weapons were caked in blood, their clothing was torn to shreds, and their bodies were covered in fresh bruises and scratches. Finally, Gurka sat up and eyed the corpse of the strange looking creature they had spent four hours fighting. It was a scaly giant of a creature, with four muscular legs and a powerful tail.

“That damn woman didn’t say it was going to be this difficult,” Gurka groaned.

“But we did get it done,” Xera said.

“Let’s just get the thing we’re supposed to get so we can go find some beds,” Ava said. “Minerva, do you have the parchment she gave you?”

Minerva sat up and reached into her robe, taking out a rolled parchment. With a grunt of effort, she stood up and staggered to the creature’s hide. She nudged Gurka with her foot. “Get up. I’m going to need your help.”

Gurka grumbled, groaned, and got to her feet. She followed Minerva and stopped when she did. Minerva unrolled the parchment, knelt down at the base of the creature’s skull, and then showed Gurka a detailed drawing of the creature with a circle drawn around the base of the skull. The circle had a line drawn from that connected it to a drawing of a large, ovular organ.

“Cut here,” Minerva pointed on the creature’s head. “You’re looking for something that looks like this,” she then pointed to the drawn organ.

Gurka sighed, took her dagger from her belt, and began carving away.

II

“Yes! You found it!” The young woman squealed with excitement while looking at the organ that was on her table. She had dark hair cut to jaw length, and a pair of circular glasses on her pale face. Her leather apron had all kinds of long settled stains covering its surface, and she reached down and picked up the organ. “Did the monster give you much trouble?”

Xera shrugged. “It was nothing we couldn’t handle, Marie.”

“That’s good, that’s good,” Marie said, putting the organ in a container and carrying the container to a work bench. “Now I can finally finish my elixir. I’m making something that will give anyone who drinks it nearly endless energy,” she explained. She picked up a bag that was large and heavy enough that she had to carry it with both slim arms. She she put it down, it rattled with coins and the heroines gathered around. “That’s your payment,” Marie said, pushing her glasses up.

Ava and Minerva began sifting through the money with large grins on their faces.

“You know,” Marie said, getting everyone’s attention. “The city’s annual founding festival starts tomorrow. The four of you should stay and enjoy it. There’s food, there’s music, there are games. I’m selling my elixir, thanks to you all,” she grinned.

The four looked at each other, shrugged and nodded.

“Great!” Marie smiled. “Only thing is, people come from surrounding cities, so the inns are packed. But don’t worry! I have a big guest room upstairs!” she motioned. Her workshop/home was a massive converted warehouse with a second floor, with the main area packed with Marie’s various workstations and projects. “Sooo, just help yourselves. There’s a shower too, if you want to clean up.”

They all looked at each other. “A what?” Xera said.

“A shower. It’s like a bath, but you stand up and the water comes out of the ceiling.”

“You have a waterfall….in your house?” Gurka raised an eyebrow.

Marie grinned and nodded. “The water comes from a storage tank on the side of the building that heats it first. I designed it myself. It’s the envy of the city.”

“That’ll never catch on…” Ava muttered to herself.

The heroines were too tired to even thank Marie for her generosity. While she went back to her work, humming a tune along the way, Minerva scooped up the bag with the money and nearly fell over.

“Give me that…” Gurka said, taking the money and putting it over one shoulder while the four of them went upstairs.

***

“That girl’s a bit of a strange one, isn’t she? An indoor waterfall...next she’s going to say she invented a carriage that doesn’t need horses...” Gurka scoffed as the four of them settled into bedrolls on the floor of the spacious guest room. “I popped down to the tavern a few doors from here and she was toiling away at that elixir of hers. She was still at it when I got back after last call.”

“She’s nice,” Minerva said, sitting up with a book. “And she has a library.”

“This is definitely better than sleeping in the woods,” Ava said, rolling over in her bedroll.

Xera stretched her long arms over her head and yawned. “You be gracious to our host, Gurka. She might be a little eccentric, but we can trust her,” she motioned to the money. 

“Fine,” Gurka said. “I just hope she doesn’t blow something up and wake us all in the middle of the night.”

“Only thing that’ll do that is your snoring…” Ava said.

“...I’m too tired to throttle you now, blondie. Remind me to do it in the morning.”

***

Morning light crept in through the windows and Ava sat up, yawning, stretching, and scratching her tits. The other three bedrolls were empty. She got up, smoothing out the nightgown she borrowed from Marie and walked downstairs to the smell of coffee. Marie labored over several empty bottles, filling them with a thin, dark liquid and humming while Minerva sat at a table with a steaming cup. There were crates full of bottles of liquid all over the room.

Minerva looked up and waved at Ava when she took a seat.

“Good morning, Ava,” Marie smiled.

“Hi,” Ava yawned again. She eyed one of the bottles of Marie’s elixir sitting in front of her. “Is this the stuff?”

“Uh huh,” Marie grinned and nodded.

“It’s pretty good,” Minerva said. “I put some in my coffee. Xera liked it, and even Gurka too.”

“I had a bottle last night. It let me keep working through the night,” Marie told her.

“You never went to sleep?” Ava blinked. She then took a hesitant drink. “Oh...it kind of tastes like chocolate…” she licked her lips and drank more. “Where are Xera and Gurka?”

“In the...the thing...the shower!” Minerva said.  “I already used it. It’s so calming...There are towels in the closet across the hall.”

“Not a bad idea, actually,” Ava said, grabbing her bottle and walking away.

With Ava gone, Marie stacked one last crate and sighed. “That’s it,” she proclaimed and wiped her brow. “All ready for the festival.”

Minerva looked at them all. “Do you want any help? I imagine the others are just going to walk around,  eating and drinking all day. I’m happy to help you,” she smiled.

“Oh, sure,” Marie said. “You sure your friends won’t mind me kidnapping you?”

“They’ll be fine,” Minerva said. “If Gurka and Ava get arrested, Xera will get them.”

“Okay!” Marie smiled. “My cart is just outside,” she pointed. “I need the crates loaded and then we can head to my stand.”

“This is going to sound like an odd question, but...your cart has a horse, right?”

Marie looked at her and blinked. “Why wouldn’t it?”

“Gurka seems to think you’d claim to invent a cart that doesn’t need a horse to pull it.”

Marie stared at the ground, deep in thought. “...Huh…”

Minerva drink a bit more coffee and then put her mug down. She looked at the crates, muttered a spell and weaved her hands. Several of the crates then began levitating and she had them follow her out to the cart. “I’ll be back for the rest.”

Marie barely heard what Minerva said when she caught a glimpse of the sorceress’ ass beneath the fabric of her robe. She bit her lip and slipped a hand into her shirt, cupping her tit, pinching her rock hard nipple, and moaning softly. She then quickly caught herself, shaking her head. “Get it together, Marie!” she chastised herself. She started to leave to get ready when she walked past a board that had a complex series of calculations for her elixir’s formula on it. Something caught her eye: an equation that was different from what she remembered. She narrowed her eyes and grabbed her notebook, thumbing through the pages until she found the page with the same formula. She compared the two, noticing a single measurement was different. The board had 8 grams of extract from the monster’s gland and her notebook had 6.

“Huh…” Marie said to herself, looking back and forth between the two. “No...I’m sure it’s fine,” she said before closing her notebook and going to get ready.

***

Ava finished her drink and set her bottle down outside the shower room. She paused and looked up when she heard what sounded like moaning coming from inside. She opened the door and looked inside. In the center of the room, under one of the faucets built into the ceiling, Gurka sat on the floor with Xera’s legs over her shoulders, her face buried deep in the Amazon’s snatch.

Xera’s legs were spread wide, her fingers intertwined with Gurka’s, and her mouth wide open as she moaned while Gurka ate her out. The Amazon’s tits jiggled with Gurka’s head movements, and Xera’s body jerked with ecstasy, crying out as Gurka continued pushing her tongue in and out. Xera then turned and saw Ava. “Hi, Ava,” she breathed heavily.

“Oh!” Ava looked away, face red. “I’m so sorry. I can wait!” she said before ducking out of the room. She couldn’t ignore the fact that her own nipples grew hard when she saw what she saw. She didn’t get far when a big, green hand grabbed her blonde locks and pulled her in.

“Nope. You’re getting in on this, blondie,” Gurka said before pulling Ava in and closing the door. The orc pulled Ava’s nightgown off, exposing her fit body body to the steamy air of the shower. Gurka then pushed Ava onto the floor while Xera sat up. The orc then stepped back, leaning against the wall, and began fingering herself.  “I’m tagging out. The Amazon’s all yours.”

Ava looked at Gurka and blinked, but turned when Xera put her hand to the side of her face. Something came over Ava at that moment, a feeling of sudden desire that she couldn’t explain. She looked Xera in her eyes and the two leaned in, locking lips as Ava crawled over to Xera. Their hands explored each other, their naked, busty bodies, soaked in hot water, blended into one another as they kissed. Ava then backed off only slightly, pushing Xera to the floor. She then turned her body so her face was in front of Xera’s pussy, and Xera’s face was in front of Ava’s pussy.

Gurka grinned as she watched the busty humans begin eating each other out, and the orc shoved two of her own fingers into her dripping pussy, grunting while pleasuring herself and watching her two companions at the same time. The muscles on her sculpted body tensed and Gurka gasped, water dripping from her skin while she got into herself up to her knuckles and bit back the cries that were building up.

In front of her, Ava’s face was buried deep in Xera, and she moaned and gasped as licking Xera’s insides and using her thumb to toy with the Amazon’s clit. Xera wiggled underneath her, giving Ava the same treatment. She gripped the meat of Ava’s ass, squeezing tight and digging her nails in. The two of them seemed to match pace for eating each other out, and when Ava picked up her speed, Xera responded in kind. They both moaned, squealed, let out muffled cries, but neither of them let up with how fast, how hard they were eating the other woman out. Before long, it became clear the two were in competition with each other.

Ava pushed Xera’s muscular legs apart to give herself more room. Water rolled off her skin, and she pushed her hips harder into Xera’s face while pushing her own tongue in deep. Xera bucked and matched her, but Ava was determined to make the Amazon orgasm before she did the same to her.

Gurka watched the two with her nipples standing erect and her legs buckling as she came closer to orgasm. She watched the two humans and licked her lips. She then reached up and began massaging her own right tit, kneading the flesh and grunting at the mounting sensation of pleasure.

In front of her, Ava and Xera continued their competition. As much as she tried, Ava felt her will slipping. She felt herself inching closer with every thrust of Xera’s tongue. The Amazon wrapped her long arms around Ava’s thighs, sensing victory was close, and she made a final, renewed push. Ava was growing desperate. She was lapping up Xera’s taste, toying with the clit to try and defeat the Amazon, but was then caught by surprise when Xera lifted a leg and snaked it around Ava’s head, holding her in place. Ava surrendered herself as Xera squeezed tight and pushed her tongue in. Ava let out a muffled cry and her juices spilled all over Xera’s face.

The Amazon reveled in the taste as Ava’s body quivered with orgasm. After she was finished, she pushed the busty blonde off of her and sat up. Ava rolled over onto her back and her heaving tits were soaked with hot water as she stared at the ceiling.

At the same time, Gurka grunted, smirked and watched the two before stepping away from the wall. She stepped over Ava and grabbed Xera by her hair, forcing the Amazon’s face into her pussy and crying out as Xera began eating her out too.

***

Elsewhere, the festival was in full swing with packed avenues and exhibits all over. One stand in the center of it all had a sizable crowd, with Marie handing out bottles of her elixir while Minerva drew people in with minor magic tricks that involved summoning and exploding small, harmless balls of energy like fireworks. As the day pressed on, the drink supply shrsnk and the chest where Marie kept her profits swelled. The crowd finally died and Marie sat back and took a moment to exhale.

“This is exhausting!” Marie said, wiping her brow. She looked at Minerva, who was drinking from a bottle of her own.

“Worth it, though,” Minerva smiled.

Marie smiled back and her gaze lingered on Minerva, falling to the low cut of her robe and imagining the small, perky tits underneath. She quickly pulled herself out of it and looked Minerva in the eye. “I want to thank you again for your help,” she said.

“It’s nothing,” Minerva said. She then reached up. “Here, you’ve got some hair in your eye…” she moved a stray strand of Marie’s hair back, bringing their faces mere inches from each other. They lingered for a second and then leaned in, their lips coming close together.

“Marie, my dear!”

The two of them quickly jumped to attention at the sound of a woman’s voice and turned to see an attractive older woman with dark skin and graying hair standing at the booth. She was tall and wore fine clothing, carrying an air of importance with her.

“Oh, mayor Janine!” Marie quickly stood up. “Hi, um...this my friend, Minerva.”

“Hello,” Janine said with a pleasant smile while she and Minerva shook hands. “Marie, I keep hearing about this drink you’re selling. I simply have to try it.”

“Oh, here,” Marie said, quickly grabbing one of the few bottles she had left. Janine gave her a few gold coins and then took a drink.

“Oh my,” the mayor gasped before taking out more money. “Let me have another. My husband is going to love this.”

Marie got her a second bottle and Janine was on her way after thanking the girl.

Once she was gone, Marie looked to Minerva. “You know...the parade is starting soon, and most of the city is going to be there.”

“Oh. Does that mean you want to leave and go find good spots?”

Marie giggled. “No, silly…” she said before leaning in the kissing Minerva. Minerva paused, taken aback, but quickly got used to it and began sliding her robe off her narrow shoulders, exposing her tits, which Marie promptly grabbed. Marie then reached up and lowered the shade on her stand before pushing Minerva to the floor as they continued kissing.

***

Later still, Gurka, Ava, and Xera walked through the bustling streets of the city, confounded by what they saw. Citizens ran naked through the streets without a care in the world. Couples engaged in acts of sex out in the open, blowjobs, anal, group sex, spanking, as if they had the privacy of a room, and no one batted an eye with all of it going on. Several of the people drank from Marie’s bottles as they fucked their way through town.

“I guess this is just how people celebrate things here…” Xera said.

“Yeah…” Ava said. She then looked at Gurka, who groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose. “What’s wrong with you?”

“I’ve had this splitting headache ever since we left Marie’s,” Gurka complained.

“Maybe you should try drinking some water instead of alcohol all the time,” Ava said, only to get shoved by Gurka.

Ava stumbled into someone, a naked woman, and paused. “I’m sorry!” she quickly said.

Janine turned around and faced Ava with a smile on her face. Despite her age, she was remarkably fit, with unblemished, brown skin and still-perky tits. A balding man with a mustache stood behind her, stark naked, and put his hands on Janine’s shoulders while kissing her neck.

“My, my…” Janine said, looking at Ava. “My darling, I could just eat you up…” she put her hand on the side of Ava’s face.

Ava looked but didn’t move away, feeling herself grow wet with Janine’s touch. “I uh…”

“We should take her with us, dear,” the man behind Janine said.

“Would you like to come with my husband and I?” Janine asked.

“Uh...okay,” Ava said.

Janine then took her hand and she and her husband led Ava away.

“Unbelievable,” Gurka spat. “I’ve fucked my way all over this world but I’ve never been in bed with an older human woman who looked that good,” she said before turning to Xera. “Why does Ava get to have so much fun?”

Xera was knelt down, holding an empty bottle.

“What the hell are you doing?”

Xera picked up the bottle and looked at the scene all around her. When she stood up, two laughing, naked young women pranced past, one of them running her hands across Xera’s chest before planting a kiss on her cheek before they left. They shared a bottle of Marie’s drink between them.

“You said your headaches started after the shower, right?”

“What of it?” Gurka asked, raiding a nearby stand for some grilled meat on a kabob. The owner was too occupied with the woman on her knees with his cock in her mouth to pay attention to the orc robbing him. Gurka spied a half empty bottle of Marie’s drink and took that too.

She turned around only to have Xera snatch the bottle from her hands.

“Hey!” Gurka growled.

“We need to find Marie,” Xera said.

A young, fit man with a swelled cock between his legs walked past, stopping and looking at Xera. Both she and Gurka found themselves staring at his erect cock while he pointed at the bottle.

“You gonna finish that, love?”

Xera blinked and handed him the bottle, which he gladly took and continued on his way.

Gurka watched the young man walk away and touched her own tit, before walking after him. “I’ll be back.”

“Gurka!” Xera grabbed her arm and pulled. Xera then jerked and fell to her knees when Gurka punched her hard in the stomach and ran after the man.

“Blasted Orc…” Xera groaned, holding her stomach.

***

Minerva breathed heavy as she and Marie were all over each other. Their naked bodies were drenched in sweat, with the enclosed stand bottling in the heat, and Marie removed her fogged over glasses and put them aside.

Marie took one of Minerva’s tits in her mouth and played with the other with her hand. Minerva then gasped when Marie’s other hand snaked down her stomach and slipped into her pussy. Marie’s touch was delicate, and she used her mouth on Minerva’s chest, neck, and shoulders, drawing every ounce of pleasure out of the sorceress that she could.

Minerva felt flush, she felt it hard to think about anything other than what Marie was doing to her. She spread her thin legs out and Marie pushed two fingers in, drawing out a gasp that made Minerva grip the counter tight as she cried out. She looked up, mouth agape, and saw another bottle of the drink. She then grabbed it and poured its contents on her chest, which Marie began to lick up. Minerva drank from the bottle and exhaled as Marie lifted her head. The two of them kissed, locking their full lips together as Marie pulled Minerva in close.

Their petite chests touched and Marie pinned Minerva to the ground, taking complete control while Minerva allowed herself to be completely submissive to Marie. As the dark haired inventor climbed all over her, Minerva smiled and sighed, closing her eyes and allowing Marie to do whatever she wanted. She curled her toes and balled her hands into fists while Marie had her way with her, and she wrapped her legs around Marie’s narrow waist and held her close.

Minerva then sighed and laid back while Marie continued fingering, kissing, and sucking wherever she wanted.

Just then, the shade on the front of the stand lifted and sunlight poured in on the two of them. A head of red hair poked in as Xera leaned over the counter and looked down at the two women.

They both looked up, stark naked, with embarrassed looks on their faces.

“Hi Xera...enjoying the festival…?” Marie asked.

Xera propped her head up with one hand and had a smirk on her face. She waved an empty bottle around and looked at Marie. “Your drink worked a little too well, I think.”

“Oh?” Marie blinked.

Xera nodded her head, indicating something behind her. Marie got up and pulled herself up to the counter. She looked around and saw the people of the city engaged in the orgy. She then looked at what little drink she had left.

“Ahhh…”

Minerva pulled herself up, straightening her disheveled hair. “Huh…”

“Ava is off with some couple she met, and Gurka, I’m pretty sure is overpowering some poor man right now,” Xera reported, leaning against the counter.

“Well...” Marie said. “Nothing I can do except wait for the effects to burn themselves out.” She then turned and noticed Xera staring at her.

“What?” Marie blinked. “It’s not like I poisoned everyone!..That only happened once…”

“Hey!” Gurka called out when she saw the group. The orc walked up to them, carrying her naked partner, the man she went after, over her shoulder. “What’s all this?”

Xera kicked Gurka hard in her shin.

“Ow! You fucking…”

“That was for punching me!” Xera fumed. “And to answer your question, Marie’s drink turned the entire city into a pleasure cult. That’s why this is all happening.”

“Have you got anymore?” the man on Gurka’s shoulder asked.

“What he said,” Gurka pointed. “We’re out.”

Marie found a bottle and gave it to her. Gurka set the man down and popped the top. “Xera, come here.”

Xera blinked and then approached Gurka, who grabbed her by her red locks and forced her to bend at the waist. “Agh! Gurka! What are you doing?! Get off of me!”

Gurka pulled Xera’s head back and forced the Amazon to drink half the bottle before pushing her away. “You need to learn to have some fun. Enjoy the ride.” She then picked the man up, drank from the bottle and gave the rest of him. “We’ll see you assholes later,” the orc said before walking off.

Xera wiped her mouth and stared daggers at the orc while she walked away. She then sighed and turned around to Minerva and Marie, who stared at the whole thing dumbfounded. Something then clicked inside the Amazon, and she reached up and touched the side of Marie’s face, before pulling the girl in and kissing her. Xera climbed the counter into the booth, and closed the shade behind her as Minerva put her arms around Xera from behind and began kissing her.

III

“Why is it so bright out?” Ava whined. “Why is everyone breathing so loud?”

She, Gurka, Xera, Minerva, and Marie all sat around the table in Marie’s workshop, drained of energy and barely able to move the next morning.

Marie sighed and turned a page in her notes. “So...I know where I miscalculated my formula...also, I think I know what I need to adjust so no one has a hangover like we’re having now…” She continued going through her pages. “Oh, also Gurka...I think I know why you got those headaches.”

“Stop yelling at me…” Gurka said, her head down on the table.

“I didn’t think to account for anything besides human physiology,” Marie explained. “We don’t get many non-humans here.”

All five woman snapped to attention when Marie’s door opened.

Janine walked in, her movements a bit slow, but she still greeted them all with a smile. “Good morning, ladies.” She looked at Ava, and the two of them shared a long, knowing smile before Janine turned to Marie.

“Marie, dear, do you have any more of that wonderful drink available? I’m hosting some guests tonight.”

“I’m sorry, mayor. It’s all gone,” she said. “I’m working on a second batch. I think I can have it done by tonight.”

“Hmm...yes, that should do. I’ll send someone by later tonight for an update,” she said. Once that was done, Janine excused herself and left.

“You’re going to make more, knowing what it did?” Xera asked.

“Yes,” Marie said. “I just need to adjust the formula so the hangover isn’t so bad.”

“That’s not what I...never mind…”

Gurka sighed and stood up. “Well, this has all been fun, but we should hit the road while it’s still light out.”

“Agreed,” Ava said as everyone got up.

“Thanks for your hospitality,” Minerva said. At that, she hugged Marie, and the two of them lingered in each other’s embrace. Minerva’s hand slid down and gripped Marie’s ass, and Marie put a hand on Minerva’s thigh. They continued long enough that Xera had to separate them. “Everyone go get your things. I’ll be outside,” Xera said.

Gurka, Ava, and Minerva went upstairs to the guest room and began gathering their stuff. Gurka then peered out the door to make sure they were alone. There was a moment of silence between the three of them as they gave each other knowing looks.

“So...we all did it, right?” Gurka asked.

Minerva pulled a bottle of drink out of her robe and presented it. Ava grabbed one from her bag, stashed away under her other things. Gurka bellowed and pulled two bottles from her pack, showing them. The three of them then erupted in shared laughter while they packed their things to leave.

“Do you think Marie would want to come with us?” Minerva asked.

“Five is too many,” Gurka said while slinging her back over her shoulder. “It’ll mess up the dynamic. Besides, we already have one annoying little bookworm,” she laughed and ruffled Minerva’s hair before leaving.

“Want someone to cuddle you by the fire every night?” Ava teased before following Gurka.

“…That’s exactly what I want…” Minerva said before trailing behind them.

The End