Into The Greentusk's Cave

Great Eastern Forest, 1438 ATC

Both of them dove to the sides and the edge of the trap caught Megumi's left paw, causing her to yelp as they quickly got back up.

''Are you hurt badly?''

Venser took her soft, pink paw in his, and it was noticeably bigger than his own hand and used all the strength he could to pull Megumi to her feet, balling his hand into a fist and tracing his knuckles along the spot where he had bandaged it, making sure it was secude and feeling her stomach just below her large breasts.

''... Question. Two before we move on. One, can you walk?'' He moved behind her, stepping on a small chicken bone and crushing it. Intending to catch her if she fell again.

"Aw ya' wo'ry too much. I'll be fine mistah!" Leading the way with a bright smile however she gives him a gently lick of the face before thanking him for the recovery in exchange for saving him from impalement. The greentusks were going to get punished hard but she liked the way Venser handeled them. Her ways while effective could get gruesome and rather un-ethical creating dissonance with her bubbly persona and soft pink radience. It was hard to believe that such a soft creature had a pain filled moveset.

"Two er... Never mind."

He held her front behind for a few seconds before she looked to him and licked his face with a happy smile. Venser smiled back as they kept walking, only to be met by a fork, several, a trident in the tunnels. Two of which led down to very dark caves, the third had a faint light and the furr... Ahem. Megumi could smell the faint scent of cooking meat roasting over a fire. Goat.

"It all comes back t'de goat duzn't it? Could be some demon preyin' on mah' impulses, eyeballin' mah' mind and desires so's t'lure us bod into some trap." Having a very bizarre bout of genius but throwing it all out by following the roasted goat smell anyway. Animal needs overpowering her more human rationing on the matter.

'It only takes just two to grab you and rip you apart, and if we split up I won't be able to save you if that happens.''

He waved his left hand and his mark flashed again. For Venser, every living thing nearby was highlighted in a yellow aura, allowing him to see through whiles. While everything else was surrounded in a blue aura. ''Eh?'' Almost everything was hard to make out, everything pulsed and barely audible whispers filled his ears.

''Oh void I forgot how weird this is...'' He shook his head and held it as he gazed around. As far as he could see down two halls, they just kept going down further into a giant chamber, presumably where all the chanting came from. At the end of the third, lit hall two greentusks chattered away while they sorted through a junk pile. Old clothes, empty scabbards, one of them was waving a corset about while the other growled at him and pointed at his chest. A third waved them off and tore the leg off the roasting goat on the spit, chomping into the meat.

"Are ya' o' ah' goin' t'get dese ones?"

''Why not both of us?'' The crackling of his unstable lightning blade was more audible as he waved his sword around a bit.

At the end of the cave one of the kobolds was going through the gigantic pile, and then uncovering a pickaxe that shined the brightest silver and was lighter than steel. Mithral.

''Ah! Ah! Shiny!'' It held it up and began to call out, seeing the pickaxe the other two wanted it, and began to fight each other over it.

''Follow behind me.'' Venser said running towards the end of the cave.

"Dese guys are nodin' but some bunch uh stupid brutes. Let's get em. Right On!" Megumi would comment seeing the fight following Venser rolling in the around as a basketball sized pink ball at the speed of a dashing mouse which was considerable for her size and weight. She was like a guardian sphere mostly playing support for his raiding of the cave.

The handsome bearded man spun away in a whirl of crimson, turquoise, and crackling green whipped back around and attacked anew, his lightning embewed sword slashing at it's intended target, facing alight with a killing frenzy that said no mercy.

No mercy!

The one with the mithral pickaxe somehow was able to block Venser's repeated strikes.

''Aighhhhhh…!''

One greentusk kept jumping back, long, knuckle dragging arms stretched out attempting to grab Megumi at every opportunity, the other fished through the junk pile and began throwing things to knock her off balance, first, a large, mahogany wood dildo was thrown at her.

The greentusk got more than it paid for when Megumi exploded in a rising uppercut with a monstrously large paw ended with hard claws acting as a very hard blunt striking surface with a force that almost instantly forced it back into one of the cave walls. The big pink anthro dog landed on her feet and instantly lunged her massive fist forward in a brutal strike whos force was enough to disrupt a beating heart. Venser could feel the hits as they cause the ground to shake a little. With that lumbering monster gone her attention turned to the one with the pickaxe attacking the handsome bearded man. Her enlarged paws are propelled by stretchy arms in an effort to grasp its torso between both clawed paws.

''Here it comes!''

BAP!

The green monster's neck snapped back and he flew up into the air and flat on his back, dead. The second one rolled through the dirt and into a wall. Meanwhile Venser spun his lightning sword around and disarmed the greentusk wielding the mithral pickaxe.

Literally.

It's arm falling with a thud and the wound cauterized from the shocking heat. And then it was grabbed by Megumi. The bearded man slashed at it's kneecaps, bringing it down before he stabbed it directly in the center of the chest, killing the greentusk.

Megumi did a victory dance, sliding to the left, and then to the right, jumping up and down and letting her bountiful breasts jiggle, before giving a fast kicking step, kicking her legs, both forward and backward and later done with a tap.

"Awooooo! Smashin' success! Right on!"

A massive, grimy hand grabbed her leg hard, and a bruised, red eyed, badly beaten greentusk growled at Megumi, and raised it's other hand to hit her with the giant wooden dildo.

Megumi stood on one leg as the one it grabbed wraps around its arm like a rope before lifting it up off of the ground. A flurry of rapid punches rock its pudgy face as it dangled in front of megumi until it dropped the dildo.

"Bambambambambambambam!"

Her strong leg let the dead monster drop to the ground once she was done beating it.

"Oooooooh!" Her tail wagged seeing the wooden dildo.

Venser held his lightning blade with both hands in front of him and watched in silence as Megumi beat the greentusk senseless with the mohagny wooden dildo.

''Uh, well. You got to it before I did.''

"It must get bo'in' in dese caves if dey need dat thing. No wonda' dese guys roam de fo'est tearin' everydin' apart."

''Er, yeah.'' He reached out and took the wooden pleasure device from her, tossing it in the pile. ''We'll come back for it later.'' Venser's emerald, slitted eyes glanced over the pile, reaching down to pick up a random piece of paper. a deed, of some sort. Where once valuable it was worthless now, torn to shreds.

This must have been some poor merchant's haul. He let out a sigh as the goat roasting on the spit was pretty much burnt to an inedible crisp now.

"ORC ORC ORC ORC ORC!"

''That chanting, all of them must be below our very feet. Strange... I've never heard of these morons being religious. Or organized beyond their horribly inbred families.''

''Alright mista so's whut now?" The pink anthro dog stood perky and attentive.

Venser was sure to come back for all this when they were done. Stash it, sell it off. Or leave most of it to the villagers that needed it. Either way, he'd take his share. And so would Megumi. Well, he'd do it for her. Where would she put a single coin? For some, dumb reason. The man was trying to figure it out himself.

How did she even pick things up? She had the anatomy to walk around on two legs but not to actually grasp anything.

''Uh....'' He held up a silver coin to her, placing it on her arm, then on one of her heart shaped nipples covering it. He gave up tossing the coin away. ''Sorry about the goat.''

The burnt goat was just smoking now.

''The center tunnel. The center always leads to the center.''

"Are ya' suuuuuuuuure dough...?" Megumi asked, the coin falling to the dirt floor.

''Yes. Because in...'' He shrugged. ''The most important person always stands in the center of a group of people, the highest buildings are in the center.'' Venser was making more hand gestures, absent mindedly gesturing to her large chest. ''We're taking the center tunnel in that fork out there.''

"Cant we take a break mistah?" Megumi whined.

''A break?'' Venser blinked his emerald eyes a few times. ''Once we take a break we can..'' He coughed a few times.

''Need to sit down and rest for a bit? I mean... You have been turning yourself into a weird rolling furball and that must look tiring.''

The handsome bearded slid down against the wall, lightning disappointing and resting his sword on his lap and pushing a corpse away with his bright red boot, then reached onto his belt for his canteen.

The big pink anthro dog had left her drink outside by the bonfire which kind of sucked for her as it was a perfect time to get fun.

He drank a good amount of water before offering Megumi the last of it. ''If I wanted too I could just simply wave my hand and be done like that.'' With a snap of his fingers.

Megumi drank down the last of the water as she was okay with whatever the handsome bearded man had in mind. She had the energy and stamina to help him clear the rest of the cave after her brief rest to catch her breathing and a drink of water he had offered. Her tail slowed as she looked at him returning the canteen to Venser and sniffing the air a little picking out scents of note beyond the overcooked goat.

After a few minutes...

''... So, have you ever faced creatures like these before?'' Venser randomly asked, attempting to make conversation as he stood up again, relighting his torch and holding it up.

''Do you quest... Often?''

"I do but ah' quest fo' food mostly. Slap mah fro. Right On! ah' duzn't no'mally fight greentusks but I've done bandits, robbers, fallen knights lots uh monsters. De panther people. Dey all smell funny. Slap mah fro. Feel kinda bad lookin' back. Probably shouldn't've been so's mean. 'S coo', mistah."

''Food is always good. I can cook some pretty good stuff myself. Oh! I must make you my blackened alligator. He cleared his throat. ''Just don't let them overpower you, watch out for traps...'' He gestured to the ropes on the floor they were stepping over. ''There should be at least fifty swarming us but... I guess this wasn't the way to go to find them.'' At the end of the long, empty tunnel was an unusual glowing blue wall, almost like a screen.

''Heh... Strange...'' He extended his right hand out to it, stopping for a moment hearing loud, guttural chanting.

"ORC ORC ORC ORC!"

The big pink anthro dog was mezmarized by the light as she listened carefully to the chanting.

''Must be a portal or something.'' He said reaching out to touch the strange light again, his hand passing right through it. ''Knew it.'' Venser sucked in his breath and then looked back to the large furry dog creature as she stood there, mesmerized. He waved his hand in front of her face, and then pushed on her breasts a bit. ''Ready for whatevers in there?"

He blinked a few times and poked her nipple.

''Megumi?''

She perked up feeling his finger on her hard nipple. Megumi was worried in part about being stuck on the other side and derailing from the quest. She was ready for whatever was on the other side though as she had many ace techniques up her metaphorical sleeves. Her tail waggled good and fast when she nods.

"Lets fuck em waaay up mistah!"

''Let's go get them.'' When they both walked through it they appeared in yet another small tunnel, a few pickaxes stuck in the walls, the chanting grew even louder. Beyond what was left of it was a massive, expansive cavern.

He then realized this was a former copper mine.

Piles of copper coins and raw ore other random trinkets looted from around the local area were piled around the edges of the center. A greentusk dressed in a tattered, cream white robe and wearing a tall doofy hat with a glowing white gem in it stood on a raised dais surrounded by about thirty deformed greentusks, giving a sermon that amounted to nothing but gibberish. They looked down on the scene from a piece of scaffold.

''Orc! Orc! Orc!'' They all chanted when the one with the small hat was done talking.

Megumi looked around seeing the large sanctum full of the brutish green knuckledraggers. An effigy of greed the gathered around everything, taken from their victoms. She turned to Venser to whisper quietly, "Want me t'obliterate dem fo' ya? "

She'd offer though her ears lower nervously and her tail wagged a bit slower. The strange pink anthro dog had the ability to clear the cave but it was something she could manifest only once a week.

''Some magical ability that'll make us have to do less work? ''All this, combined with the reward! Think about it!''

A few of the greentusks watching the ceremony looked up, the fat Greentusk Overlord with the hat still went on with the ceremony, before glancing up himself.

''KILL THEM! EAT DER ARMS WHEN THEY ARE DEAD!''

Megumi nodded seeing that she might be given the greenlight. ''Dey see us mistah! Right On! Time fo' acshun!

The handsome bearded man didn't even notice her nod. A rock came flying past them, barely brushing against Venser's side, right under his arm. He quickly spun around, embewing his sword with green lightning again they all yelled gibberish at the two, pointing at them as several more greentusks climbed up the ladder to join them. He jumped to the left on the scaffolding, the entire thing moving under their combined weight. He quickly jumped to his feet and twirled his unstable lightning blade around, yelling at the top of his lungs as he fell. The enemies stood up and rapidly began to run at them, all before the fat Greentusk Overlord on the dair merely looked at Venser, and he stopped in midair, all before being thrown off into the copper coin pile.

''AHAHA!'' The man was then thrown up into the air and hit the ceiling, before falling several feet down below.

After bouncing, she was now looking over the area straight down to those climbing the ladder, her fist shot down breaking each step until she touches the ground beneath the ladder causing them all to fall. When her paw touched ground, a pink overlay of what appeared to be a dye job recolored the ground pink. For many of the greentusks on the ladder, they were contaminated and that too have pink splotches of skin and now becoming gravely ill. Very slowly, hard crystal sugars grew from beneath their skin, freezing them as amaranth crystal statues. This sugar substance is too hard to be broken without immense force and had a surface texture and feel similar to quartz.

A few stones struck her body and the exchange looked very painful but when she spheres, they are squeezed from her apparently gummy mass.

When she landed on the floor below, a chemical chain reaction erects long hard and sharp spires of crystals forming caltrops at first but soon sharp rods that impaled a great many of their enemies. The hardened crystal mass grew to caress the treasure pile. It costs her a lot of energy but she used her big paws to catch Venser and spare him the sharp impact. When she used this ability, her paws pads bled with the hot pink ink that like mercury was fluid enough to spread through blood and pored on skin contact.

Once her companion was secured, Megumi rolled off to lick her wounds leaving him to deal with a few remaining brutes approached.