by Logan Jacobs
“We are going to ambush some bandits before they can hurt anyone,” I informed them in my most god-like voice.
Time to flip the tables on those assholes and give them a taste of their own medicine.
Chapter Thirteen
When we got close to the location where the highwaymen had burst out of the bushes, we tied up the horses and mule so we could continue on foot for the rest of the way. I grabbed my shield from the strap on Goliath’s rump and loosened my feather sword in its sheath, and then I led my two women on an asshole hunt.
I snuck through the bushes with Elissa and Mahini right behind me, but we came across some human footprints after only a few paces through the vegetation. The prints looked like they were made by a good-sized pair of heavy boots, if the deep indentations into the dirt were any indication. I made a mental note to learn more tracking skills, and then I followed the trail until I heard the faint sounds of breathing.
A low random cough echoed through the underbrush, so I held my finger against my lips in the universal gesture for silence, and I withdrew my feather sword as silently as I could.
There were eight men huddled together on the side of the road, hidden in the underbrush and camouflaged by their fur armor. They had shaggy beards and dreadlocked hair, and they looked like they didn’t know the meaning of the word clean. Their stench alone should have been enough to find them, but they didn’t seem to care about hiding their tracks anyway.
I made a bow gesture to Mahini, and she nodded her head silently as she unhooked the weapon from her shoulder. Next, I beckoned for Elissa to follow me, and I tiptoed through the underbrush in a squat until I was right behind the bandits.
Then I nodded to my red-haired wife, and the two of us burst out from the undergrowth toward the highwaymen.
“Die, motherfuckers!” Elissa yelled as she swung her mace up over her head and swirled it around in a circle.
Fuck, she was sexy.
I shook my head to dispel my naughty thoughts, and I refocused on the surprised bandits who had turned to face the ambush attack.
Their heads swiveled from me to Elissa and back, and then the eight men charged toward my bride.
Big mistake.
I was by her side in an instant, and I covered her precious body with my shield before a sword swung at her midsection.
Elissa brought her mace down from above her head and straight onto the bandit on the other side of my shield. His head banged against the shield as he crumpled beneath the blow, but then another asshole stepped up into his place.
An arrow zipped through the sky and buried itself into the guy’s eye, though, and he fell before he came within reach of my blade.
“Thanks, my love!” I shot Mahini a grateful smile over my shoulder, and then I spun around to bash my shield into a third bandit.
They were less surprised and more angry at this point, but I was undeterred. I laughed as I blocked a blow with my shield, and I tossed my dagger at a bandit who tried to get behind me before I thrust my feather sword deep into another’s gut. Blood covered my blade as I turned around to check on the dagger dude, but I frowned when I saw he was still standing.
The man struck by my dagger faltered but continued to come at me, but a moment later he was covered in arrows, and his body fell limp at my feet just as I raised my sword up to parry his.
“Got ya!” Elissa squealed with delight as she swung her mace at the man I’d bashed with my shield. Her weapon crashed into his shoulder, and he dropped his sword as he cried out in pain.
“Good job!” I congratulated before I turned and threw another dagger at one of the stragglers left alive.
Elissa managed to kill another bandit all on her own, and I finished off the last one with a swift pull of my blade across his throat.
“Is that the last of them?” Mahini panted as she trotted over to where we stood surveying the damage.
“I think so,” I said, but then I heard a moan, so I frowned and turned to find the source of the sound.
It was dagger dude, except now he resembled more of a pin cushion with how many arrows protruded from his back. He was still alive, though, so I rolled him over to finish him off.
“You… dumb… sack… of shit,” the bandit coughed as blood sputtered from his lips. “The others… are on their… way back.”
“What others?” I asked as I grabbed the front of his armor in my fist and heaved him up.
“The rest of the crew,” the bandit laughed, and blood sprayed over my face.
I dropped him in disgust, and I quickly slid the blade of my dagger across his throat to put him out of his misery.
There were more bandits in the area, and they were headed this way.
“This is going to be awesome.” I grinned as an idea began to form in my head. Ambushing bandits was more fun than I’d expected it to be.
I stripped the fallen highwaymen of their valuables while I waited for the other bandits to join their dead friends, and I bundled up all their weapons to sell or smelt later. All of their swords had been about average quality, but between Jaxtom and me, we could make something awesome with the metal.
Then we hid in the bushes to wait, but it didn’t take very long. A few minutes later, three men stepped into the small gap between the trees. They wore similar armor as their fallen comrades, but one of them had a shield strapped to his back.
“What the hell happened here?” a gruff voice asked from the small clearing where I’d left the dead bandits.
That was our signal to attack, so I nodded to Mahini, and she notched an arrow to her bow. Then I jerked my chin to Elissa, and the two of us crept forward to the edge of the vegetation.
“Hi, honey, we’re home,” I quipped as I dashed forward and plunged my blade into the spine of a bandit who stood with his back to me.
An arrow shot through the brush and struck one of the bandits in the neck in the same instant, and he groaned as he grappled at the protrusion jutting out from his throat.
I thrust my sword into his heart to end his suffering and then turned to the last highwayman.
“Were you expecting company?” Elissa giggled as she leapt forward and swung her mace at the final bandit.
I guess he wasn’t expecting a tiny, red-haired, mace-wielding beauty to appear out of nowhere because the highwayman’s eyes shot open in surprise, and he hurriedly reached for his shield, but it was too late.
Elissa’s mace crashed into his head with a sickening thud, and the bones in his face rearranged as he fell. His half-crumpled head began to bleed out onto the bed of leaves, and my wife wrinkled her nose in disgust.
“They are certainly messy,” she observed, and she flicked her mace to remove some of the highwayman’s hair that remained stuck to the tip.
“Flawless victory!” I laughed, swept her up into my arms, and swung her around. “You were amazing!”
Then Mahini appeared by my side as if by magic, and I opened my arms to include her in the embrace. Both women snuggled up to each other within the safety of the hug, and they each laid their heads onto my chest with contented sighs.
“You’re amazing, Bash,” Elissa murmured in a loving tone. “That was so much fun! I never would have done something like that before I met you.”
“Me, either.” Mahini looked up at me with her piercing blue eyes full of love. “I would have defended myself if they attacked, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to eliminate them. It is a smart move. The land is safer because of you, Great One.”
“Because of us,” I corrected with a grin, and then I released them from my arms. “Let’s gather the rest of the weapons and armor and see what else we can find.”
“Sounds like a plan,” Elissa chirped, and she hopped over to the first body like she was hunting easter eggs.
Mahini shook her head in awe at the redheaded beauty’s childlike energy, but she followed after her with a sway of her hips.
I could let them walk ahead of me all day long, but we had work to do, so
I took another long look at my women’s perfect asses, and then I followed after them to scavenge the bodies.
We found a small sack full of jewelry, coins, and other valuables inside one of the highwaymen’s packs, and I added it to my collection of treasure. They’d likely robbed a nearby village, so if I came across the original owners of the items, I was sure they’d be happy to have their possessions returned.
After we’d strapped all the weapons to Warrior’s back, we decided to get the armor, too, and by the time we had everything we wanted to take packed up, several hours had passed since we’d left Lake Balerno. We were losing precious daylight, but the horses were so burdened that we’d have to walk.
That was okay. Anything for loot.
Star was the only steed without extra weight on her, so the two women took turns riding the pretty mare while I held the reins of Goliath and Warrior.
We reached a small village at dusk, and it didn’t look like there were more than five people living there. The villagers peered out their windows with worried eyes, and I noticed their gazes lingered on the scavenged weapons and armor strapped to the horse and mule.
“I am Sebastian, the God of Time,” I announced in a loud voice. “I have come to return your stolen valuables. The highwaymen have been defeated, and what was once yours has returned.”
As I spoke, I pulled the bag of stolen treasures out of a saddle bag and removed a few pieces to show the watching villagers. Then several doors opened along the small, quaint street, and a moment later, I was flooded with people asking questions.
“You killed them?”
“My grandmother’s necklace, did you find it?”
“Are you the Great One we have heard of?”
“Was it you who saved Lake Balerno?”
“How many were there?”
“There’s only three of you, how did you manage to survive?”
“I’ll answer all of your questions in time,” I said in a loud voice. “We require lodging for the night, and a place to keep our horses.”
“Your horses can pasture with my cow for the night,” a kind voice said from below my eye level.
I glanced down and looked into the pretty hazel eyes of a young girl.
“Are you sure your parents will be okay with that?” I asked with a frown.
“They died fighting the bandits,” the girl whispered as she lowered her head. Her auburn hair swept down to hide her face, so I put my hand beneath her chin and lifted her eyes to meet mine.
“They were very brave,” I informed her in a solemn tone. “May they rest in peace.”
“Thank you, Great One,” the young girl replied. Then she nodded her chin toward our horses. “Here, let me take them to the pasture for you.”
“That’s very kind.” I smiled and handed over the reins.
Elissa slid off Star’s back and copied my motion, but she flashed the young girl a dazzling smile.
“You’re very pretty,” my wife informed the little girl. “What’s your name?”
“Annabelle,” the young girl said, and her cheeks flushed hot pink before she took the reins for all three horses and led them away from the small crowd of people.
“I’m going to help her,” Mahini cleared her throat as she moved to follow along behind Annabelle. “I’ll catch up to you later.”
“Be safe,” I called after her.
The rest of the villagers led us to a small house that belonged to an older woman. She had an extra bed for the three of us to sleep in, which wasn’t much, but it was the best accommodations the small village could muster up, so we were grateful.
The elder woman was so old, she was practically blind and deaf, but she smiled wide when I shook her hand.
“A pleasure to host the Great One,” she said to my left shoulder. “I am Krida.”
“A pleasure to be in the presence of such a pretty lady,” I said in a flirty voice.
Krida giggled like a young girl, and color rose in her pale cheeks.
Mahini joined us a short while later, and the three of us sat around Krida’s hearth and sipped on tea. Then we curled up into the small bed and cuddled up tight. We had a long day of travel ahead of us, but the adventure was coming close to an end.
We’d reach the duke’s castle by the end of the next day.
I woke up to see Krida’s white glazed eyes inches above mine, but she scrambled back as soon as I began to sit up.
“Forgive me, Great One,” the old lady murmured. “I just wanted to gaze upon the face of a god before I die.”
“Erm, that’s okay,” I replied as I ran my hands through my hair.
Mahini yawned and stretched out next to me, and Elissa mumbled something in her sleep.
“Good morning, Great One,” the desert goddess said in a seductive voice, but then she caught sight of Krida crouched near the foot of the bed, and her piercing blue eyes turned to a glare. “Excuse me, Madam Krida, but please keep your distance from the Great One. He is powerful.”
“Yes, yes, of course,” Krida rasped, and she shot me an apologetic but awe filled look before she left us alone again.
Being a god was weird sometimes.
“We should probably get dressed and get on the road quickly,” I suggested with a wry smile. “If we spend too much time here, they’ll have us move in.”
“The people of this land have been craving a caring god,” Mahini explained. “Times have been hard on all of us.”
“Well, I’m here to fix it now,” I declared in a confident tone, and her blue eyes lit up with love.
“Give me a baby, Bash,” Elissa suddenly muttered. “Yesss… pour your seed deep into me. Into… my womb… ohhh… yesss…”
“Uhhh?” I whipped my head down to stare at her, her eyes were still closed.
Mahini and I both laughed, and the red-haired beauty’s shiny green emerald eyes popped open to glare at us.
“Is it morning already?” she moaned as she blinked in the light of the sun.
“I’m afraid so,” I chuckled as I tweaked her nose. “You missed the Krida alarm clock.”
“What does that mean?” Elissa wrinkled her adorable nose with confusion.
“The old lady who owns this house was on the bed when we woke up,” Mahini explained, and her shoulders shook with a silent laugh. “I think I put the fear of Bash into her, though, so it won’t happen again.”
“Soon, we will be sleeping in style at the duke’s castle,” I said with a flourish of my hands. “Befitting such lovely ladies as yourselves.”
Elissa giggled. “I’ve never slept in a castle before.”
“Nor have I,” Mahini added.
“That makes three of us.” I grinned and squeezed them both against me in a tight hug. “Fuck, I love you two. You ready to take on the rest of the world with me?”
“Always,” Elissa breathed with hearts in her emerald eyes.
“Forever.” Mahini’s blue eyes were full of fierce loyalty, and I knew she meant her promise with all of her heart.
We got dressed, said farewell to Krida, and headed back out into the small village. Mahini led us to the pasture where the horses and mule grazed beside a fat, brown cow, and a moment later Annabelle appeared by our sides.
“They hardly made a sound all night.” The young girl had deep bags beneath her eyes that told me she hadn’t slept yet.
“You did a fine job,” I complimented the young lady, and then I handed her three gold coins. “One for each animal.”
“Thank you, Great One,” Annabelle gasped, and her hazel eyes grew as large as the coins themselves. “I’ve never seen so much money before in my whole life!”
“You have earned it.” I said, and then I ruffled her auburn hair. “Keep an eye on old Krida, I think she’s going senile.”
“She lost her son recently,” Annabelle said in a solemn voice that didn’t fit right in the youthful body of the little girl. “I promise to look after her, Great One.”
We waved her off, and I h
elped the two ladies saddle their mounts. Then I decided to leave half the armor for the villagers and put all the weapons onto Warrior’s back. This way, Mahini and I could ride double on Goliath while Elissa rode Star.
My temperature began to rise at the thought of Mahini’s pert ass pressed against my crotch, but it was even better than I’d imagined. Once we were astride the horse’s back, the desert goddess leaned back against me and rested her head on my shoulder.
I wrapped my arms around her waist, and I held the reins in one hand while I explored her body with the other. Her ass was pressed up against my hardening bulge, and each movement of the horse’s legs caused us to rub together.
“This is nice,” Mahini murmured with her eyes half closed after we’d been traveling for a while. “We should ride like this more often.”
“I agree,” I whispered into her ear before I nibbled on her lobe.
Goliath huffed and tossed his head like he disapproved of our shenanigans, and we both laughed.
“Easy there, buddy,” I told the horse, and I scanned the road ahead to see what may have alerted my steed.
The road curled through a stand of evergreen trees at the crest of a hill, but the structures of another village were visible between the foliage. The small town laid at the bottom of a small hill, and it was bordered by a quiet stream. It seemed peaceful enough, and outside the village was probably a good place to stargaze.
The sun was still high in the sky, though, so I didn’t plan on stopping since I knew we could reach the duke’s castle by nightfall if we kept riding.
Then I heard it.
“Great One! Great One!” people chanted as they stood on either side of the street and pumped their fists up into the air.
I rode through the gauntlet of well-wishers like a champion returning home after a victorious battle. My shoulders were back, and my chin was lifted with pride.
Mahini glanced back at me over her shoulder, and her blue eyes were full of awe.
“They knew we were coming?” she asked as she turned to scan the crowd.
“Word travels,” I explained with a shrug, and then I lifted my hand to do a regal wave at the people as we passed by.
