Seeds of Heroism - Chapter 47
Chapter 47 – content: >!'needles', castration threat, mentions death, public masturbation, chastity!<
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She hadn’t even waited for an answer, just grabbed the spike Jim’s ball was staked on and started to pull. But Despina did not intend on yielding her prize that easily, digging her fingers into the testicle to hold it firm.
“Who the twelve hells are you?” Despina asked.
[“I’m Jimmie’s lover and I was wondering what you were doing handling my darling’s love orb,”](https://imgur.com/a/yiYWrju) Chloe replied.
“Aaargh!” Jim added.
The two women fixed each other with looks that could kill. Neither was willing to let go of the ball between them. Under the sun’s glare, pearls of sweat rolled down their temples and necks. In Despina’s case, one drop hung from the tip of her exposed breast like frivolous jewellery.
“Darling? Don’t flatter yourself, weirdo. You should be thanking me, I was teaching the little pervert’s balls a lesson in humility.”
“Don’t call my darling a pervert. And my name is Chloe, so you shouldn’t call me weirdo, either. For your information, we are destined to be together, and that means his love belongs to me, so you really should let go. If anyone makes my darling’s love go *crackle pop*, it should be his lover, don’t you agree?”
Jim tried to sit up and said, “Despina, she-” but that’s when Chloe pulled the spike in his nut further towards herself and instead, he started to cough and dry-heave.
“Quiet, Jim, girls are talking.”
“Just sit tight, darling, I’ll just deal with this rude lady and then I’ll castrate you right away, alright?”
“See, that’s where we’re going to have a problem. I’ve had to explain to a lot of people recently that I’ve laid claim to this juicy pair for some time now, and I’m starting to run out of patience. So *back off*, girl.”
To their surprise, Chloe chuckled, a concerning sound that made it seem like she was choking on a cactus. “Yeah, I’ve seen that stupid elf whore go with the demons. That was funny! See, darling, I told you she wasn’t your friend any more. Do you remember? I told you, didn’t I? Stupid girl got what she deserved, now she won’t ever get between us again.”
“You… know about… Liriel?” Jim asked, panting.
“Of course, I watched you all after I told that knight man where you were, and I even got to hold one of your love orbs, darling! That went so well!” Chloe said happily.
“YOU LED THEM TO US!” Jim screamed and threw himself at Chloe like a wild animal. Limbs tangled, they rolled down a sand dune, flailing. They hit a rock and Jim found himself on his back, lying in the sand. Hot tears streamed from his face. “It’s all your fault!” He picked himself off the ground and staggered over to the splotch of colour lying in front of him.
“D-darling?” Chloe asked timidly. A thin trickle of blood ran from her mouth.
He sat on her arms and looked down at her with pure loathing written on his face. His hand grabbed the pommel of his sword. The broken weapon still had about an inch of blade on it. It would be enough.
“Jim, don’t!” Ina’s weak voice called out to him. Her footsteps were heavy and unsure, but eventually, she reached him, hugging him from behind. “Don’t do it, please. What good would killing her do?”
“It would avenge Zenobia,” he said dryly.
“That won’t bring her back! And it won’t make Liri come back either. Or Aramis. Didn’t you always say you wanted to be a hero?”
He didn’t answer, just staring at Chloe’s pink hair, pressing the shattered blade against her neck.
“Is this what a hero would do?”
“…” The tears made his vision blurry.
“We’re going to save Liriel and Aramis, right? Do you want more secrets to stand between you and her the next time you meet?”
“No…”
“Then you know what you should do with that sword, yes?”
Slowly, he retracted the blade and shoved it back in its holster. He took his hand off the hilt and breathed in.
“I-it seems my darling is still under a spell of sorts, I should-”
“Chloe,” Jim said, shutting her up. “I have never loved you, and I will never love you. I am not under any spell. I don’t know what’s gone wrong in your life that you think I would have any feelings other than disgust and anger towards you. Get this in your head and stay away from me, because the day I know that I will never have to see you ever again would be the happiest day of my life.”
He calmly stood and walked over to Despina. She had carefully wound what was left of her shirt around her chest like a makeshift tube top while leaving her midriff bare. The redhead nodded to him, produced his skewered nut and quickly yanked the spike out of it.
The action made him yelp weakly, but considering everything else that had happened, it was almost gentle. “Thanks, Despina.”
“You’re welcome,” she said. “I’ll still be keeping your testicles, though.”
He smiled ruefully. “Of course.”
Behind them, a confused Chloe slowly rose from the ground and dusted herself off. “What’s going on with my darling? I’ve never seen him like that.”
“Forget Jim for a moment, you two-bit dye works. I may have asked him to let you live, but that doesn’t mean I don’t hate you. Liri was- …is my oldest friend. Aramis and Zenobia, my newest. They’re gone because of you, so I suggest you think about what you say and do from now on very closely. If I so much as *think* you’re going to do something like that again, I will disassemble you like a children’s toy and scatter you over all of Bythos, understand?”
Chloe gaped at her with her mouth hanging open, then nodded when Ina raised an eyebrow.
“Good,” Ina said and turned to the others. “We should probably move away. Maybe this strange metal beast had a pack, or a mate, and I don’t want to find out.”
Despina snorted. “If it had a mate, she’s going to be sorely disappointed with the useless shrimp I left for her.”
Jim headed up to the crest of a small dune and looked around, a hand over his eyes. “You say we should move, but where? All I can see is sand, sky and these spiky towers or whatever they are. *Where* on Bythos are we?” he said.
“Chrchr, if you can see nothing but sand, that must mean-”
“I think I teleported us to the Silver Desert,” Ina said.
“I was just about to say that,” Chloe said but none of the others paid her any attention.
“I didn’t know you could do that!” Jim exclaimed. “I thought you were limited to… err…”
“Men’s most fragile body parts?” Her self-satisfied smile lasted for only a second. “I mostly use my magic to move things to me, that’s true, but I’m not limited to that. I can put things I touch somewhere else as well. Sometimes, I move myself, like when I need to pee at night and don’t want to walk all the way- wait, you don’t need to know that. I never tried moving myself so far, though, or along with so many people.”
“Speaking of which, are you OK? You look really pale, and you’re still wounded,” Jim asked.
The auf shook her head, pale and sweating even more than the others. “No, but I will be. Just. Please don’t make me use any more right now. Especially not in life-or-death battles against strange beasts.”
“Haa, so that’s how I got here, because I held my darling’s orb so tight…” Again, the others ignored Chloe, prompting her to speak up. “Hello? Can you guys not hear me?”
“Anyway, we have a decision to make,” Despina said, squinting against the sun. “We know where south is, so the question is, do we go north or west?”
“Why are those our only options?” Jim said as he took off the vest he had picked out in Ina’s inn. It had been a good idea in the chilly environs of Cillia, but in this desert, it made him sweat buckets.
“You really don’t know anything, do you?” Despina sighed. “If this is truly the Silver Desert, we need to head for civilization as quickly as possible. No one lives here. It’s… cursed, or something like that.” The flat look he gave her made her blush. “What? It’s a barren waste not fit for people, it’s not exactly the focus of a princess’s education!”
“If I remember correctly, nothing can grow here. I think the rain was bad? I sometimes heard stories in the inn, especially when people were drinking a lot.” Ina shrugged. “Anyway, I think Despina suggested north or west because she wants to either reach the southern parts of Cillia or the coast to hopefully get picked up by a ship. There is nothing but massive mountain ranges and uncharted land to the south or east.”
“We should head west!” Chloe said.
“The problem with going north, besides just being back in Cillia, is that we have to cross the Bulwark Mountains. And like their name implies, there are no easy passes over them.”
“That still seems like a much better idea than hoping for a ship,” Jim replied.
“I agree. North it is!” And with that, Despina marched onwards, keeping the sun in her back.
“Hey, don’t ignore me!” Chloe yelled, but that’s exactly what Jim, Despina and Ina did.
Six hours later, Jim felt ready to just lie down and let the sun roast what was left of him. Anything was better than forcing his legs to climb another dune, hoping against hope that beyond it, he would see snow-topped mountains announce an end to their journey. Only to be disappointed by more sand stretching up to the horizon, with nothing to break up their monotony but hostile spires of sharp metal.
But now that the sun was setting, even that small mercy wouldn’t be granted to him. The only thing he could look forward to was a night with his testicles safely stored in their natural home. Inacea’s spell had run out an hour ago, prompting sighs from both Jim and Despina. Compared to his relief, she sounded much more disappointed, almost like a dog whimpering when it has its favourite toy taken away. Jim found himself not sympathizing, after all the redhead had continuously worked off her stress by squeezing, pinching and scratching his nuts in her pockets. It was bad enough to have to feel the coarse fabric on his bare balls, he didn’t need Despina to make it even worse, even if she did it to ‘refuel her mana pool’ as she claimed.
“Can we try to find a spot to rest?” Ina’s question was music to his ears. “I don’t think I can go on much longer.”
He sat up. “Yeah, we need to think about how we’re going to spend the night. We need to find a way to keep warm.”
“Hah?” Chloe inquired. “It’s a desert.”
“Hmph, you really don’t know anything, do you?” Despina said.
“Oh yeah? Then why don’t you tell me, princess?” She stretched Despina’s title in mockery.
“That’s far below my station. Go on, tell her, Jim.”
He sighed but did as she asked – it could only go badly for him if he put the princess on the spot. “Without clouds or humidity or soil to retain heat, it gets cold much faster in the desert. Add to that having no trees that can break the wind and it gets freezing cold at night.”
“See? So easy, even a peasant like him knows. Now make yourself useful and find us somewhere to rest. You’ve been trotting after us a like a lost puppy all day, time to earn your keep.”
For a moment, Chloe stood there, mouth agape, the sunset making her sharp teeth glint. “Chra, fine. I say we make camp next to one of those spires, then.”
“But what if that’s where those strange metallic wolf… creatures make their home? We would be walking right towards them,” Ina replied.
“Tough luck. You asked me to find you a spot to camp and I did. That one’s closest,” she said and pointed towards the nearest spire, “let’s just go there.”
When Ina was about to argue against it once more, the princess put a hand on her shoulder. “Let’s just go. I think we’re all too tired to argue and if I’m being honest, I don’t really want to sleep out in the open as well. Just keep your eyes peeled for anything unusual.”
With a very worried looking Inacea in tow, they headed towards the metal spire.
They were strange things. The metal twisted and wound around itself like a tree root, but formed spiked and sharp blade-like edges as well. It was silvery-grey in its entirety, so was it made of stainless steel? Jim felt like iron would rust even in a desert where it never rained. But that meant they had to have been made – there was no way this massive tower of an alloy like that formed naturally, right?
As they got closer, it only grew in size. Before, Jim had estimated one of these things to be as tall as a tree, but standing in front of it, it loomed over him like a high-rise. Bits of sharp metal poked out from the sands, parts that had broken off, probably protruding too audaciously from the giant winding spear until they collapsed under their own weight.
“See? No metal wolfies around,” Chloe said and walked up to the spire. She rounded the structure until she came to one of the smooth, strangely organic holes in it. “Instead, we get a nice roof over our heads. We can just,” she began and bent forward, pushing her head and chest down the hole, “scoot inside like this and… and… hrm.”
Her feet dug into the sand, struggling, then she stood still. The other three walked up to her.
“What’s wrong?” Ina asked.
“… I think I’m stuck.”
“Pfffhahaha!” Despina snorted and held her stomach. “Good job, weirdo. Serves you right.” She wiped a tear away and lifted Chloe’s rainbow coat to reveal a shapely ass squished into tight spats – normal ones made from cotton, not out of some poor sod’s nutsack. Despina lifted a hand and smacked Chloe’s ass loudly, sending a ripple through the left cheek.
“Ow, hey!” Chloe kicked her left leg out, trying to catch the princess. Instead, her heel collided with Jim’s balls, whose eyes bugged out. Laughing even harder, Despina smacked her butt again and again, each time causing Chloe to smash her foot into the only pair of testicles that were around for miles.
“You need to hit… more to the right,” Jim pressed out and sank to the floor, clutching his nuts.
“I think I see a larger hollow up there,” Ina said, pointing out the mouth of a cave above them.
Despina and Ina clambered up to the hollow, while a hurting Jim had to endure Chloe’s kicking and screaming. When he had recovered enough to be able to stand again, he took pity on the crazed adventuress. Grabbing her by the hips, the painful thumping in his caged dick told him exactly how aware he was of the girl’s position. Her ass thrust in the air, legs spread, her loins a mere hand’s breadth away from his… He had to admit that now, after a day’s marching separated them from the events in Hôdoburg’s catacombs and the fight against the iron wolf, his pent-up urges were back in full force. It was Chloe, for Goddess’s sake! And she had even kicked him in the nuts just a minute earlier!
With a frustrated huff, he firmly grabbed Chloe and pulled. She popped out of the hole, her hips smacking against his.
They fell to the ground, Chloe falling on his lap. He bent over with a slight “Oof,” while the pink-haired adventuress shook her head.
“Whew, thank you, darling. That was a bit tighter than I expected. Darling? What’s the matter?”
“You’re sitting on his babymakers, girl,” Despina called sardonically from above.
“Oh, I see,” she said and started fixing her tousled hair.
“Get… off!” Jim yelled and shoved Chloe from her seat upon his testicles and onto the sand. Yes, it had hurt, but even more embarrassing to him was that her falling on his lap had… kind of felt good. He could feel the impact through the cage.
He grunted. “Let’s just get up there and prepare for the night.”
The cave Ina had spotted was large enough for all of them and they soon sat around the cavity in a circle, with only Despina turning her back towards the group, letting her legs dangle over the edge of the cave.
“I’m so thirsty…” Ina whined and Jim had to agree.
“If we don’t find water tomorrow…” He left the consequences unspoken.
Beside them, Chloe’s sharp teeth glinted in the dusk. She pulled out a waterskin from beneath her coat and, under the disbelieving eyes of Jim and Ina, drank from it. She appreciatively smacked her lips. “Ah, did you guys not bring any water? That’s very careless of you, chrchr.”
“We left our equipment at the inn…” Ina sadly said.
“We will share your water among us,” Despina suddenly said. “That should be obvious.”
“Huh, why would I? There’s nothing in it for me! You guys don’t even like me.”
“Of course we don’t! You…” Jim stopped himself, taking a deep breath. “Will you please share your water with us? We have a better chance of making it back to civilization if we help each other out.”
“Hmmm… no.” She took another swig, then closed the container back up.
“If you do, I’ll let you sleep on top of Jim tonight,” Despina offered.
“WHAT?”
“Ooh, deal!” Chloe said and smiled at the horrified man.
The princess huffed smugly. “Don’t worry, Jim, I will tuck your nutsack safely between my legs.”
“That… doesn’t really make me feel any better.”
“Hey, no fair! Why do you get to play with darling’s love orbs?”
“Because I say so. You should have clarified what happens with his balls beforehand.”
Chloe grumbled but accepted Despina’s claim as, somehow, this seemed to make sense to her. Jim didn’t agree. Weren’t they his balls?
As night fell, Jim’s prediction proved true. Soon enough, temperatures approached freezing and out of other options, the four reluctant companions huddled together in an effort to stay warm in their little hole.
What he hadn’t predicted was the pale, eerie glow the metal all around them would give off. It was a harsh, cold light, but subtle enough that it wouldn’t make sleeping impossible. Still, it was strange enough and slightly concerning to Jim. He put it out of his mind, as he knew worrying about it would just make him lose sleep. Through the mouth of the spire’s alcove, the first stars blinked into existence and he could even see one of the broken moons hang in the sky above. Ennoa’s words echoed in his mind. *You can see his crunched nuts in the night sky.* Surely, she didn’t mean…
He shuddered. Maybe it was better to lie down for the night.
[Jim ended up in the middle, flanked on either side by Ina and Despina.](https://imgur.com/a/K9v5ulk) Chloe lulled and stretched on top of him. She had spread her coat over them all like a blanket, nuzzling her cheek against Jim’s chest. The only thing, well, two things she was missing were his nuts in her hand.
Unfortunately for Chloe, Despina had done exactly what she said she would, grabbing his defenceless organs with both hands and stuffing them between her legs. Jim would’ve been amazed that she managed to do so if her stretching the thin tendons that attached his balls to the rest of him wasn’t so distracting. As such, the realization that their fall from the sky, and Despina stopping him with his balls, had stretched his sack far enough for his testicles to be pulled over by the girl on his right did not occur to him.
But he couldn’t even try and tune out Despina clamping his nuts between her legs, both limbs crossed to trap them against her kitty. Not that the surprisingly cute and frilly underwear she had stripped down to, her legs rhythmically squeezing his balls, the wet warmth radiating against them, or her short, little gasps were easy to ignore. No, even when he tried to ignore the redhead pleasuring herself right next to him by trying to crush his manhood like walnuts between her thighs, Chloe made it even worse by doing her best to be very distracting.
At least she wasn’t currently masturbating, at least as far as Jim could tell. Instead, she rubbed her body against his, giving little purrs and mews like a cat in heat. He *really* hoped she wasn’t getting herself off. Although with her screwed up ideas of love, maybe she was.
Thankfully, at least Inacea seemed to try and settle down for the night. After about a minute of Despina not-at-all-subtly working over her box, the auf spoke up. “Do you have to do that now?”
“Yes… Yes!” she moaned in response. “Just because *his* beast is caged – like it should be, I might add – doesn’t mean *I* can’t have any fun, does it?”
“No, b-but…”
“Chrr, I like it, her flower is giving off a lot of warmth, it’s cosy,” Chloe said.
Despina pressed two fingers against the top of his right nut, the gonad peeking out from between her legs. Entirely too hard, she rubbed her fingers in circles over the nut, enjoying the gentle pressure on her clit after most of the force was spent on compressing the orb. “How long has it been since the last time you made it spurt, anyway?”
“U-uh, I’m, uhm…”
“I’ve seen how you strained against those bars. All that purple, dripping, pent-up flesh, trying to get out, trying to get hard in that little cage…” She placed her fingertips on his ball and pushed down hard, making it disappear entirely between her legs. But she wasn’t done, switching her hold on the nut and pressing it against her entrance.
“Urgh… Des- P-pin-” he groaned as the ball deformed.
“Hah… aah…” she moaned in return until with a wet pop, the pressure suddenly disappeared, and the testicle she had just been mashing was suddenly enveloped in warm wetness. “Mhh, there were go…” She flexed her core, her toes stretching, and an entirely different force bore down on Jim’s ball, this one less directed on a single spot on his ball but all-encompassing.
Despina stifled a cry of pleasure. “Aah, just imagine if I was strong enough to break it apart inside of me…”
“Despina,” he squeaked.
“Not just finally popping your stupid balls, but rupturing them with my little pussy… Your manhood breaking inside my womanly flower, Goddess, that would be so hot…” She kept periodically tensing, her walls pressing down on his nut each time. “Maybe I should train until I can? Work hard so that one day, I can stuff your stupid balls in my little kitty and squish and crush them until they are just mush?”
Her loins squelched loudly. Even if he couldn’t see, he knew she must be incredibly wet.
Suddenly, Chloe said something, and Jim, at first didn’t even realize what she had just said. Slowly, his brain caught up to her words and he understood. “Hey, about this chastity thing. If Irina can just magic his love orbs away, couldn’t Jimmy slip off the cage then? Just pull your empty lovesack through it and take it off.”
Time seemed to slow to a crawl. For a moment, his brain ceased all activity. He didn’t even notice Despina nearing her orgasm.
Then- “INAPLEASEUSEYOURMAGICTOTAKEMYBALLSAWAYPLEASE!”
“Huh? What were you saying?” Ina looked up, her face suddenly flush. When had she grabbed onto his arm? When she noticed his surprised face, her blush deepened and she looked away. “I was cold…” she muttered.
“Right… No, that’s not important right now! Please, use your magic so I can get out of this chastity cage!”
She shifted around uncomfortably, but defiantly held onto his arm. “I don’t know…”
“What is there to know? Just do that thing with your hand so I can finally get rid of this thing! I could have got out so long ago, please!”
Between throes of ecstasy, Despina gasped, “I can take away your nuts for you, I don’t even need magic- AH!”
“I think I’d better not, Jim…” Ina said quietly, barely audible over the masturbating princess next to them. “If you take it off right now, who can say if you would be able to hold yourself back with three girls sleeping next to you?”
“WHAT?! Ina, please, I swear I won’t do anything. You would literally have me by the balls!”
“Let’s just wait until the morning, alright? I feel much safer with you being restrained like that.”
“AAAAAH!” Despina groaned loudly and her body went stiff, her wet pussy squeezing down hard on his nut as she came. It shut Jim’s protestations up, and the three girls around and on top of him took this to mean the discussion was over, each enjoying herself in a slightly different way in the little alcove of the metal spire.
Above them, the stars twinkled brightly.
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She hadn’t even waited for an answer, just grabbed the spike Jim’s ball was staked on and started to pull. But Despina did not intend on yielding her prize that easily, digging her fingers into the testicle to hold it firm.
“Who the twelve hells are you?” Despina asked.
[“I’m Jimmie’s lover and I was wondering what you were doing handling my darling’s love orb,”](https://imgur.com/a/yiYWrju) Chloe replied.
“Aaargh!” Jim added.
The two women fixed each other with looks that could kill. Neither was willing to let go of the ball between them. Under the sun’s glare, pearls of sweat rolled down their temples and necks. In Despina’s case, one drop hung from the tip of her exposed breast like frivolous jewellery.
“Darling? Don’t flatter yourself, weirdo. You should be thanking me, I was teaching the little pervert’s balls a lesson in humility.”
“Don’t call my darling a pervert. And my name is Chloe, so you shouldn’t call me weirdo, either. For your information, we are destined to be together, and that means his love belongs to me, so you really should let go. If anyone makes my darling’s love go *crackle pop*, it should be his lover, don’t you agree?”
Jim tried to sit up and said, “Despina, she-” but that’s when Chloe pulled the spike in his nut further towards herself and instead, he started to cough and dry-heave.
“Quiet, Jim, girls are talking.”
“Just sit tight, darling, I’ll just deal with this rude lady and then I’ll castrate you right away, alright?”
“See, that’s where we’re going to have a problem. I’ve had to explain to a lot of people recently that I’ve laid claim to this juicy pair for some time now, and I’m starting to run out of patience. So *back off*, girl.”
To their surprise, Chloe chuckled, a concerning sound that made it seem like she was choking on a cactus. “Yeah, I’ve seen that stupid elf whore go with the demons. That was funny! See, darling, I told you she wasn’t your friend any more. Do you remember? I told you, didn’t I? Stupid girl got what she deserved, now she won’t ever get between us again.”
“You… know about… Liriel?” Jim asked, panting.
“Of course, I watched you all after I told that knight man where you were, and I even got to hold one of your love orbs, darling! That went so well!” Chloe said happily.
“YOU LED THEM TO US!” Jim screamed and threw himself at Chloe like a wild animal. Limbs tangled, they rolled down a sand dune, flailing. They hit a rock and Jim found himself on his back, lying in the sand. Hot tears streamed from his face. “It’s all your fault!” He picked himself off the ground and staggered over to the splotch of colour lying in front of him.
“D-darling?” Chloe asked timidly. A thin trickle of blood ran from her mouth.
He sat on her arms and looked down at her with pure loathing written on his face. His hand grabbed the pommel of his sword. The broken weapon still had about an inch of blade on it. It would be enough.
“Jim, don’t!” Ina’s weak voice called out to him. Her footsteps were heavy and unsure, but eventually, she reached him, hugging him from behind. “Don’t do it, please. What good would killing her do?”
“It would avenge Zenobia,” he said dryly.
“That won’t bring her back! And it won’t make Liri come back either. Or Aramis. Didn’t you always say you wanted to be a hero?”
He didn’t answer, just staring at Chloe’s pink hair, pressing the shattered blade against her neck.
“Is this what a hero would do?”
“…” The tears made his vision blurry.
“We’re going to save Liriel and Aramis, right? Do you want more secrets to stand between you and her the next time you meet?”
“No…”
“Then you know what you should do with that sword, yes?”
Slowly, he retracted the blade and shoved it back in its holster. He took his hand off the hilt and breathed in.
“I-it seems my darling is still under a spell of sorts, I should-”
“Chloe,” Jim said, shutting her up. “I have never loved you, and I will never love you. I am not under any spell. I don’t know what’s gone wrong in your life that you think I would have any feelings other than disgust and anger towards you. Get this in your head and stay away from me, because the day I know that I will never have to see you ever again would be the happiest day of my life.”
He calmly stood and walked over to Despina. She had carefully wound what was left of her shirt around her chest like a makeshift tube top while leaving her midriff bare. The redhead nodded to him, produced his skewered nut and quickly yanked the spike out of it.
The action made him yelp weakly, but considering everything else that had happened, it was almost gentle. “Thanks, Despina.”
“You’re welcome,” she said. “I’ll still be keeping your testicles, though.”
He smiled ruefully. “Of course.”
Behind them, a confused Chloe slowly rose from the ground and dusted herself off. “What’s going on with my darling? I’ve never seen him like that.”
“Forget Jim for a moment, you two-bit dye works. I may have asked him to let you live, but that doesn’t mean I don’t hate you. Liri was- …is my oldest friend. Aramis and Zenobia, my newest. They’re gone because of you, so I suggest you think about what you say and do from now on very closely. If I so much as *think* you’re going to do something like that again, I will disassemble you like a children’s toy and scatter you over all of Bythos, understand?”
Chloe gaped at her with her mouth hanging open, then nodded when Ina raised an eyebrow.
“Good,” Ina said and turned to the others. “We should probably move away. Maybe this strange metal beast had a pack, or a mate, and I don’t want to find out.”
Despina snorted. “If it had a mate, she’s going to be sorely disappointed with the useless shrimp I left for her.”
Jim headed up to the crest of a small dune and looked around, a hand over his eyes. “You say we should move, but where? All I can see is sand, sky and these spiky towers or whatever they are. *Where* on Bythos are we?” he said.
“Chrchr, if you can see nothing but sand, that must mean-”
“I think I teleported us to the Silver Desert,” Ina said.
“I was just about to say that,” Chloe said but none of the others paid her any attention.
“I didn’t know you could do that!” Jim exclaimed. “I thought you were limited to… err…”
“Men’s most fragile body parts?” Her self-satisfied smile lasted for only a second. “I mostly use my magic to move things to me, that’s true, but I’m not limited to that. I can put things I touch somewhere else as well. Sometimes, I move myself, like when I need to pee at night and don’t want to walk all the way- wait, you don’t need to know that. I never tried moving myself so far, though, or along with so many people.”
“Speaking of which, are you OK? You look really pale, and you’re still wounded,” Jim asked.
The auf shook her head, pale and sweating even more than the others. “No, but I will be. Just. Please don’t make me use any more right now. Especially not in life-or-death battles against strange beasts.”
“Haa, so that’s how I got here, because I held my darling’s orb so tight…” Again, the others ignored Chloe, prompting her to speak up. “Hello? Can you guys not hear me?”
“Anyway, we have a decision to make,” Despina said, squinting against the sun. “We know where south is, so the question is, do we go north or west?”
“Why are those our only options?” Jim said as he took off the vest he had picked out in Ina’s inn. It had been a good idea in the chilly environs of Cillia, but in this desert, it made him sweat buckets.
“You really don’t know anything, do you?” Despina sighed. “If this is truly the Silver Desert, we need to head for civilization as quickly as possible. No one lives here. It’s… cursed, or something like that.” The flat look he gave her made her blush. “What? It’s a barren waste not fit for people, it’s not exactly the focus of a princess’s education!”
“If I remember correctly, nothing can grow here. I think the rain was bad? I sometimes heard stories in the inn, especially when people were drinking a lot.” Ina shrugged. “Anyway, I think Despina suggested north or west because she wants to either reach the southern parts of Cillia or the coast to hopefully get picked up by a ship. There is nothing but massive mountain ranges and uncharted land to the south or east.”
“We should head west!” Chloe said.
“The problem with going north, besides just being back in Cillia, is that we have to cross the Bulwark Mountains. And like their name implies, there are no easy passes over them.”
“That still seems like a much better idea than hoping for a ship,” Jim replied.
“I agree. North it is!” And with that, Despina marched onwards, keeping the sun in her back.
“Hey, don’t ignore me!” Chloe yelled, but that’s exactly what Jim, Despina and Ina did.
Six hours later, Jim felt ready to just lie down and let the sun roast what was left of him. Anything was better than forcing his legs to climb another dune, hoping against hope that beyond it, he would see snow-topped mountains announce an end to their journey. Only to be disappointed by more sand stretching up to the horizon, with nothing to break up their monotony but hostile spires of sharp metal.
But now that the sun was setting, even that small mercy wouldn’t be granted to him. The only thing he could look forward to was a night with his testicles safely stored in their natural home. Inacea’s spell had run out an hour ago, prompting sighs from both Jim and Despina. Compared to his relief, she sounded much more disappointed, almost like a dog whimpering when it has its favourite toy taken away. Jim found himself not sympathizing, after all the redhead had continuously worked off her stress by squeezing, pinching and scratching his nuts in her pockets. It was bad enough to have to feel the coarse fabric on his bare balls, he didn’t need Despina to make it even worse, even if she did it to ‘refuel her mana pool’ as she claimed.
“Can we try to find a spot to rest?” Ina’s question was music to his ears. “I don’t think I can go on much longer.”
He sat up. “Yeah, we need to think about how we’re going to spend the night. We need to find a way to keep warm.”
“Hah?” Chloe inquired. “It’s a desert.”
“Hmph, you really don’t know anything, do you?” Despina said.
“Oh yeah? Then why don’t you tell me, princess?” She stretched Despina’s title in mockery.
“That’s far below my station. Go on, tell her, Jim.”
He sighed but did as she asked – it could only go badly for him if he put the princess on the spot. “Without clouds or humidity or soil to retain heat, it gets cold much faster in the desert. Add to that having no trees that can break the wind and it gets freezing cold at night.”
“See? So easy, even a peasant like him knows. Now make yourself useful and find us somewhere to rest. You’ve been trotting after us a like a lost puppy all day, time to earn your keep.”
For a moment, Chloe stood there, mouth agape, the sunset making her sharp teeth glint. “Chra, fine. I say we make camp next to one of those spires, then.”
“But what if that’s where those strange metallic wolf… creatures make their home? We would be walking right towards them,” Ina replied.
“Tough luck. You asked me to find you a spot to camp and I did. That one’s closest,” she said and pointed towards the nearest spire, “let’s just go there.”
When Ina was about to argue against it once more, the princess put a hand on her shoulder. “Let’s just go. I think we’re all too tired to argue and if I’m being honest, I don’t really want to sleep out in the open as well. Just keep your eyes peeled for anything unusual.”
With a very worried looking Inacea in tow, they headed towards the metal spire.
They were strange things. The metal twisted and wound around itself like a tree root, but formed spiked and sharp blade-like edges as well. It was silvery-grey in its entirety, so was it made of stainless steel? Jim felt like iron would rust even in a desert where it never rained. But that meant they had to have been made – there was no way this massive tower of an alloy like that formed naturally, right?
As they got closer, it only grew in size. Before, Jim had estimated one of these things to be as tall as a tree, but standing in front of it, it loomed over him like a high-rise. Bits of sharp metal poked out from the sands, parts that had broken off, probably protruding too audaciously from the giant winding spear until they collapsed under their own weight.
“See? No metal wolfies around,” Chloe said and walked up to the spire. She rounded the structure until she came to one of the smooth, strangely organic holes in it. “Instead, we get a nice roof over our heads. We can just,” she began and bent forward, pushing her head and chest down the hole, “scoot inside like this and… and… hrm.”
Her feet dug into the sand, struggling, then she stood still. The other three walked up to her.
“What’s wrong?” Ina asked.
“… I think I’m stuck.”
“Pfffhahaha!” Despina snorted and held her stomach. “Good job, weirdo. Serves you right.” She wiped a tear away and lifted Chloe’s rainbow coat to reveal a shapely ass squished into tight spats – normal ones made from cotton, not out of some poor sod’s nutsack. Despina lifted a hand and smacked Chloe’s ass loudly, sending a ripple through the left cheek.
“Ow, hey!” Chloe kicked her left leg out, trying to catch the princess. Instead, her heel collided with Jim’s balls, whose eyes bugged out. Laughing even harder, Despina smacked her butt again and again, each time causing Chloe to smash her foot into the only pair of testicles that were around for miles.
“You need to hit… more to the right,” Jim pressed out and sank to the floor, clutching his nuts.
“I think I see a larger hollow up there,” Ina said, pointing out the mouth of a cave above them.
Despina and Ina clambered up to the hollow, while a hurting Jim had to endure Chloe’s kicking and screaming. When he had recovered enough to be able to stand again, he took pity on the crazed adventuress. Grabbing her by the hips, the painful thumping in his caged dick told him exactly how aware he was of the girl’s position. Her ass thrust in the air, legs spread, her loins a mere hand’s breadth away from his… He had to admit that now, after a day’s marching separated them from the events in Hôdoburg’s catacombs and the fight against the iron wolf, his pent-up urges were back in full force. It was Chloe, for Goddess’s sake! And she had even kicked him in the nuts just a minute earlier!
With a frustrated huff, he firmly grabbed Chloe and pulled. She popped out of the hole, her hips smacking against his.
They fell to the ground, Chloe falling on his lap. He bent over with a slight “Oof,” while the pink-haired adventuress shook her head.
“Whew, thank you, darling. That was a bit tighter than I expected. Darling? What’s the matter?”
“You’re sitting on his babymakers, girl,” Despina called sardonically from above.
“Oh, I see,” she said and started fixing her tousled hair.
“Get… off!” Jim yelled and shoved Chloe from her seat upon his testicles and onto the sand. Yes, it had hurt, but even more embarrassing to him was that her falling on his lap had… kind of felt good. He could feel the impact through the cage.
He grunted. “Let’s just get up there and prepare for the night.”
The cave Ina had spotted was large enough for all of them and they soon sat around the cavity in a circle, with only Despina turning her back towards the group, letting her legs dangle over the edge of the cave.
“I’m so thirsty…” Ina whined and Jim had to agree.
“If we don’t find water tomorrow…” He left the consequences unspoken.
Beside them, Chloe’s sharp teeth glinted in the dusk. She pulled out a waterskin from beneath her coat and, under the disbelieving eyes of Jim and Ina, drank from it. She appreciatively smacked her lips. “Ah, did you guys not bring any water? That’s very careless of you, chrchr.”
“We left our equipment at the inn…” Ina sadly said.
“We will share your water among us,” Despina suddenly said. “That should be obvious.”
“Huh, why would I? There’s nothing in it for me! You guys don’t even like me.”
“Of course we don’t! You…” Jim stopped himself, taking a deep breath. “Will you please share your water with us? We have a better chance of making it back to civilization if we help each other out.”
“Hmmm… no.” She took another swig, then closed the container back up.
“If you do, I’ll let you sleep on top of Jim tonight,” Despina offered.
“WHAT?”
“Ooh, deal!” Chloe said and smiled at the horrified man.
The princess huffed smugly. “Don’t worry, Jim, I will tuck your nutsack safely between my legs.”
“That… doesn’t really make me feel any better.”
“Hey, no fair! Why do you get to play with darling’s love orbs?”
“Because I say so. You should have clarified what happens with his balls beforehand.”
Chloe grumbled but accepted Despina’s claim as, somehow, this seemed to make sense to her. Jim didn’t agree. Weren’t they his balls?
As night fell, Jim’s prediction proved true. Soon enough, temperatures approached freezing and out of other options, the four reluctant companions huddled together in an effort to stay warm in their little hole.
What he hadn’t predicted was the pale, eerie glow the metal all around them would give off. It was a harsh, cold light, but subtle enough that it wouldn’t make sleeping impossible. Still, it was strange enough and slightly concerning to Jim. He put it out of his mind, as he knew worrying about it would just make him lose sleep. Through the mouth of the spire’s alcove, the first stars blinked into existence and he could even see one of the broken moons hang in the sky above. Ennoa’s words echoed in his mind. *You can see his crunched nuts in the night sky.* Surely, she didn’t mean…
He shuddered. Maybe it was better to lie down for the night.
[Jim ended up in the middle, flanked on either side by Ina and Despina.](https://imgur.com/a/K9v5ulk) Chloe lulled and stretched on top of him. She had spread her coat over them all like a blanket, nuzzling her cheek against Jim’s chest. The only thing, well, two things she was missing were his nuts in her hand.
Unfortunately for Chloe, Despina had done exactly what she said she would, grabbing his defenceless organs with both hands and stuffing them between her legs. Jim would’ve been amazed that she managed to do so if her stretching the thin tendons that attached his balls to the rest of him wasn’t so distracting. As such, the realization that their fall from the sky, and Despina stopping him with his balls, had stretched his sack far enough for his testicles to be pulled over by the girl on his right did not occur to him.
But he couldn’t even try and tune out Despina clamping his nuts between her legs, both limbs crossed to trap them against her kitty. Not that the surprisingly cute and frilly underwear she had stripped down to, her legs rhythmically squeezing his balls, the wet warmth radiating against them, or her short, little gasps were easy to ignore. No, even when he tried to ignore the redhead pleasuring herself right next to him by trying to crush his manhood like walnuts between her thighs, Chloe made it even worse by doing her best to be very distracting.
At least she wasn’t currently masturbating, at least as far as Jim could tell. Instead, she rubbed her body against his, giving little purrs and mews like a cat in heat. He *really* hoped she wasn’t getting herself off. Although with her screwed up ideas of love, maybe she was.
Thankfully, at least Inacea seemed to try and settle down for the night. After about a minute of Despina not-at-all-subtly working over her box, the auf spoke up. “Do you have to do that now?”
“Yes… Yes!” she moaned in response. “Just because *his* beast is caged – like it should be, I might add – doesn’t mean *I* can’t have any fun, does it?”
“No, b-but…”
“Chrr, I like it, her flower is giving off a lot of warmth, it’s cosy,” Chloe said.
Despina pressed two fingers against the top of his right nut, the gonad peeking out from between her legs. Entirely too hard, she rubbed her fingers in circles over the nut, enjoying the gentle pressure on her clit after most of the force was spent on compressing the orb. “How long has it been since the last time you made it spurt, anyway?”
“U-uh, I’m, uhm…”
“I’ve seen how you strained against those bars. All that purple, dripping, pent-up flesh, trying to get out, trying to get hard in that little cage…” She placed her fingertips on his ball and pushed down hard, making it disappear entirely between her legs. But she wasn’t done, switching her hold on the nut and pressing it against her entrance.
“Urgh… Des- P-pin-” he groaned as the ball deformed.
“Hah… aah…” she moaned in return until with a wet pop, the pressure suddenly disappeared, and the testicle she had just been mashing was suddenly enveloped in warm wetness. “Mhh, there were go…” She flexed her core, her toes stretching, and an entirely different force bore down on Jim’s ball, this one less directed on a single spot on his ball but all-encompassing.
Despina stifled a cry of pleasure. “Aah, just imagine if I was strong enough to break it apart inside of me…”
“Despina,” he squeaked.
“Not just finally popping your stupid balls, but rupturing them with my little pussy… Your manhood breaking inside my womanly flower, Goddess, that would be so hot…” She kept periodically tensing, her walls pressing down on his nut each time. “Maybe I should train until I can? Work hard so that one day, I can stuff your stupid balls in my little kitty and squish and crush them until they are just mush?”
Her loins squelched loudly. Even if he couldn’t see, he knew she must be incredibly wet.
Suddenly, Chloe said something, and Jim, at first didn’t even realize what she had just said. Slowly, his brain caught up to her words and he understood. “Hey, about this chastity thing. If Irina can just magic his love orbs away, couldn’t Jimmy slip off the cage then? Just pull your empty lovesack through it and take it off.”
Time seemed to slow to a crawl. For a moment, his brain ceased all activity. He didn’t even notice Despina nearing her orgasm.
Then- “INAPLEASEUSEYOURMAGICTOTAKEMYBALLSAWAYPLEASE!”
“Huh? What were you saying?” Ina looked up, her face suddenly flush. When had she grabbed onto his arm? When she noticed his surprised face, her blush deepened and she looked away. “I was cold…” she muttered.
“Right… No, that’s not important right now! Please, use your magic so I can get out of this chastity cage!”
She shifted around uncomfortably, but defiantly held onto his arm. “I don’t know…”
“What is there to know? Just do that thing with your hand so I can finally get rid of this thing! I could have got out so long ago, please!”
Between throes of ecstasy, Despina gasped, “I can take away your nuts for you, I don’t even need magic- AH!”
“I think I’d better not, Jim…” Ina said quietly, barely audible over the masturbating princess next to them. “If you take it off right now, who can say if you would be able to hold yourself back with three girls sleeping next to you?”
“WHAT?! Ina, please, I swear I won’t do anything. You would literally have me by the balls!”
“Let’s just wait until the morning, alright? I feel much safer with you being restrained like that.”
“AAAAAH!” Despina groaned loudly and her body went stiff, her wet pussy squeezing down hard on his nut as she came. It shut Jim’s protestations up, and the three girls around and on top of him took this to mean the discussion was over, each enjoying herself in a slightly different way in the little alcove of the metal spire.
Above them, the stars twinkled brightly.
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*OK that was the last bit of drama left from the last chapters. No more of that for the next few chapters, I swear!*
*Writing a girl getting stuck in a wall and not have her mercilessly get taken advantage of by a guy feels wrong, like an insult to the gods of anime. Time to buy figmas and burn them in effigy to calm their anger.*
