“Die, die, die!” the green woman screamed, and her breasts bounced as she batted aside her assailants with her club. I tried to focus on the task at hand, but one of the kobolds latched onto her bikini bottom and tore it off to reveal her perfect naked green ass.
“Shit!” I growled as I redoubled my efforts and tore into the horde again.
My spade sliced necks and severed boney limbs. My knife eviscerated one who got too close, and he stared down curiously at his entrails as they spilled out of his bulbous little belly. Heads rolled, and dozens of mutilated kobold corpses soon littered the floor as I stood back to back with the ferocious woman.
She swung her club wide and batted aside four furious kobolds. One of the beasts leapt over her backswing, but I caught it in midair with the edge of my spade and sliced it in half. I spun away from a spear thrust and buried my spade in the side of my attacker’s head, then slashed the neck of a kobold flying at my face. The beautiful green woman batted away another kobold as it leapt through the air toward me, and I returned the favor by driving her closest attacker into the ground with my spade, and squashing it like a june bug.
Soon, there were only ten kobolds left, and they smartly turned tail and ran for the nearest tunnel. I knew that we had won, but I still chased after them for ten or so yards and growled like a bear until they disappeared into the dark tunnel.
I put my hands on my knees and tried to catch my breath, and that’s when I felt a soft hand on my shoulder. The green woman turned me around and planted a big kiss right on my lips, then she hugged me tight and pressed her pert breasts against my chest. I returned the hug and felt a bit surprised at how soft her skin was. It was at this moment that I noticed her ears were pointed like an elf’s.
“My savior,” she said and smiled up at me.
I could have stared into those sparkling jade eyes of hers forever, and the warmth of her soft skin and her breasts pressed between us made my dick rock hard. I held her at arm’s length, so she wouldn’t feel my little soldier’s salute.
“Are you alright?” I asked. We had both suffered minor injuries. Scratches from the kobolds’ claws mostly, but nothing too serious.
“I’m fine, thanks to you,” she said as she batted her eyes at me. The act would have looked cheesy coming from most women, but when she did it, she did it right.
I pointed at her exposed breast, “Um, your top is ripped, and your, uh…”
“Oh!” she said with a musical laugh as she looked down.
I expected her to try to tie off the ripped portion to the part that hung from the back, and I almost offered to help, but then she surprised me by ripping the whole thing off and tossing it away. Then she grinned at me with her hip cocked to the side.
This chick had more curves than a coastal California highway.
“What’s your name, my hero human?” Her voice was a little husky, but in a Scarlett Johansson kind of way.
“Ken, Ken Jewell,” I said as I tried to keep my eyes fixed on hers. I failed, however, and my gaze gravitated to the smooth folds of her thin jade gate.
“KenJewell,” she said my name as one word and she said it as though she was naming her favorite chocolate. A grin slowly spread across her lovely face. “I love jewels, so I love your name, Ken Jewell! Also, I think I love you.”
A quick laugh escaped me, but when she frowned, I realized that she was actually being serious.
“Uhhh, what’s your name?” I asked.
“Nikagekokarra,” she said, and her smile returned.
“Uh, can I call you Nika?”
She seemed delighted by the name and clasped her hands as she bounced up and down. “I love it, I love it!” she cheered.
I couldn’t help but smile at her. She was cute as hell, and besides, bouncing breasts always had a way of making me grin.
Nika rushed into my arms again and stared up at me with lustful eyes. “Take me, Ken Jewell!” She grabbed my hand and pressed it against her bare breast. “You have saved me from the vicious kobolds. As is goblin custom, we are now married, and we should consummate it immediately.”
“Wait, did you just say goblin custom?”
“Of course, silly. Haven’t you ever seen a goblin before?”
“Well, yeah. I mean, no, I’ve never met one. I’ve only seen pictures of what people think they look like. Aren’t goblins supposed to be ugly?”
She bowed her head, turned from me, and then shamefully crossed her arms over her bare chest. “I am ugly,” she said in a low voice. “That’s why the other goblins hate me. While they have long crooked noses, hunched backs, and fierce faces, my skin is smooth, my nose is tiny, and my back is straight. I ran away because they treat me like I'm some kind of freak.”
“Nika, you’re not ugly, you’re beautiful.”
She sniffled and turned her doe-eyed gaze my way. “You don’t have to lie, Ken Jewell. I know how ugly I am.”
“Nika--”
“Look at me,” she pouted and spread her arms. “I don’t even have warts!”
“Neither do I,” I told her as I showed her my hands. Then I pulled up the cuffs to show her some more of my skin. “My back isn’t hunched and I have smooth skin. Do you think I’m ugly?”
“Oh no, Ken Jewell. I think you are the most beautiful man I have ever seen. You are so big and strong. Not short and fat like the other goblin men.”
“Well thank you. And I meant what I said as well. You are hands down the most beautiful goblin woman I have ever seen. Hell, you’re hotter than any of the human women I know.”
“Do you mean it, Ken Jewell?”
“You can call me Ken.”
“No,” she said matter-of-factly. “I will call you Ken Jewell. The name is almost as beautiful as the man. After we have sex, I will be called Nikagekokarra Jewell. But you can still call me Nika. Okay?”
“Whoa, babe,” I said, and held up my hands. “Slow down. We just met, and you already want to get married?”
“We already are!” She glanced around at the mutilated kobold corpses and her eyes lit up with a devilish glee. One hand moved to her breasts, and the other slid down her toned tummy. “Let us make love in the blood of our enemies, Ken Jewell. Take me here and now. Make me pregnant, and I will provide you with strong sons and daughters.”
I didn’t want to insult her, and I might have taken her up on her offer right then and there, but I preferred a bed to the stinking corpses of kobolds, so I tried to let her down softly. “How about we get the hell out of this place before the kobolds come back? We can find somewhere to tend to our wounds and get you some new clothes. I have food too. Does that sound good?”
“You are a tease, Ken Jewell,” she said with a sly grin. “Fine. We will find a better location to consummate our marriage.”
I laughed again. She was too damned cute, and I was truly thankful to have run into her down here in this dark hellhole.
Nika went about looting the corpses, and I grabbed the net that the kobold had thrown at me. It would come in handy as a booby trap of my own, so I attached it to my belt with my weapon cord and tied it off with a quick-release knot.
“Any chance you know a way out of the underdark?” I asked Nika.
“Of course, Ken Jewell. My tribe uses many routes through the underdark to raid the surface world.”
“Can you show me how to get to the closest one?”
She nodded and pointed in the direction I had come from. “Through the old basilisk den and past the waterfall is the quickest way out. Come on, I’ll show you.”
“Not that way,” I told her. “I came in from there and there are about two dozen humans waiting to chop my head off as soon as I poke it out.”
“Oh no. What did you do? Did you raid their lands and pillage one of their towns? Humans hate it when you do that.”
“It’s a long story. Let’s get the hell out of here first. Those kobolds could come back any minute now.”
She grinned at me and kissed my cheek. “You w
orry too much, Ken Jewell. Come on, follow me.”
Nika led me through the maze of underground passages. We traveled through caverns of pulsing crystals and mushrooms, down old dirty chutes, and up steep ravines. When we came upon an underground lake, Nika bent at the shore and drank handfuls of water, but I eyed the lake warily. As far as I knew, anything could be lurking in those still waters, but Nika seemed not to worry about it, and I figured that she would know about the dangers that it might pose much better than I would.
“Drink with me, Ken Jewell. The water is pure and good,” she said as she turned to offer me a delightful smile.
“I brought some from home,” I told her, and then I drank from my camelback.
After she was done drinking, Nika rose to her feet, wiped her mouth, glanced around the cavern, and then cocked a fine red eyebrow at me. “Is this area suitable for sex?”
I choked on my water and chuckled between coughs. “We’ve only been traveling for fifteen minutes. Damn woman, you really want to get laid don’t you?”
“Oh yes, Ken Jewell. I have been saving myself for someone like you for so long, and I want you to be my first and only lover.”
“You’re a virgin?” I said.
“My father tried to find me a mate for a long time,” she sighed. “But few of the men liked me because I am so ugly, and I didn’t really like any of them because they were so dumb. That is why I left. It is dangerous in the underdark, but I wanted to find a new home where others wouldn’t mock or judge me because of the way I look.”
“I see,” I said, as I tried to imagine how anyone, goblin or not, could think she wasn’t absolutely amazing looking.
“But you came to save me!” she proclaimed as she raised her hands high above her head. “And I see the way you look at me. You think I am pretty. I can tell. I can’t wait to be your lover, Ken Jewell. Would you like to travel farther before bedding me? Or are you teasing?”
“Yeah, let’s go farther. A lot farther. Show me to this exit to the surface world and we’ll, uh, rest for a bit.”
She made a pouty face and walked with me around the lake. Another tunnel led off from the cavern, and it looked to have been dug out with pickaxes and shovels.
“Who dug this tunnel?” I said as I ran my hand across the rough hewn stone walls.
“Dwarves,” she said.
“Of course, dwarves,” I said ironically.
“Yup, most of these tunnels were made by dwarves,” Nika continued oblivious to my sarcasm, “but my clan ran them out of here a long time ago. Now the kobolds are trying to encroach on our territory, but they’re more of a nuisance than a real threat.”
“Tell me more about your people. What is the goblin city like?”
“Awe, that’s boring,” she said. “I’d much rather hear about you.”
“Well,” I laughed, “I’d like to know why you think we are married.”
“Oh, Ken Jewell,” she sighed. “You are from such a strange place. Obviously, when you save a goblin, they are indebted to you for life. What better way for me to prove my gratitude then to be your wife, have wonderful sex with you, and make you a bunch of babies?”
“Uhhh, well, I guess--”
“But I still want to know about you!” she laughed. “Tell me all about my new husband.”
“Alright, what do you want to know?”
We traveled for another hour through the underdark, and Nika asked me about a hundred different questions. She was delighted to hear about Earth, and as I explained my home town to her, I felt a pang of homesickness in my heart, even though I’d never felt much of one when I was deployed. I didn’t know if I would ever see my parents or my siblings again, but at least I wasn’t alone on this strange new world.
“What about you?” I said as we hiked up a steep incline that led to a natural shelf full of mushrooms.
“Well, I’m not from a different world like you are, but I am an adventurer,” she said with a smile. “I kinda hated it in the goblin city. Everyone is so stupid and mean. I couldn’t take it anymore. Then I found you, Ken Jewell. Right when I thought that I was doomed, you came to my rescue. That must be why you were pulled through that portal. We are destined to be together.”
“Maybe,” I said with a grin. “I sure am glad I found you.”
“You are?” she asked with delight showing plain on her beautiful face.
“Of course,” I said, and I was rewarded by a giggling hug and a dozen kisses on my lips. Nika was a comfort in these dark tunnels, and I realized that I genuinely liked her. What I had told her was true. She was one of the most beautiful women I had ever met. And goblin or not, I found myself anticipating our next rest stop.
I had fallen through a portal to a world with two suns and monsters lurking in the underdark. Life had taken a surreal turn. So why not have hot sex with a gorgeous goblin woman?
Things could have been a whole hell of a lot worse.
An hour later we came to a small chamber with a floor of velvety soft moss. Glowing green and white polka-dotted mushrooms grew on the smooth walls, and a single humming crystal protruded from the wall across from a small pool fed by a clear flowing stream of water. The pool was ten feet in diameter and glowed with shimmering light that suggested there was a crystal beneath the surface of the water. Steam rose from the pool, and I realized that it was a natural hot spring.
“Come and bathe with me,” she said, and dipped a toe in the pool. “It’s nice and hot.”
Before I could tell her that I should check it for dangerous creatures, Nika slipped into the water and dunked her head under. When she came up, she seemed to do so in slow motion. She shook out her long red hair as her green breasts danced and bobbed merrily, and I watched slack-jawed as water dripped down her chiseled frame. It flowed between her cleavage, down her washboard abs, and disappeared at the bottom of her V shaped torso as it met the surface.
I’d seen plenty of beautiful women before, but Nika’s exotic features were really doing it for me.
“Don’t be shy, Ken Jewell. Take off those dirty clothes and let me touch your beautiful body.” She bit her lip and touched herself in all the places that I wanted to explore.
It took me about ten seconds to tear my clothes off, and the green-skinned woman giggled when I almost tripped over my pant leg. When I peeled off my underwear and tossed them aside, Nika’s eyes widened with delight and she tantalizingly bit the tip of her finger. “Oh, Ken Jewell. You are so big and strong… and hard.”
I joined her in the pool and took her up in my arms. She laughed musically and kissed me with a burning passion. The warm water around us bubbled, and the steam lent to the dreamy encounter. Nika wrapped her arms and legs around me and slowly lowered herself onto my shaft. We both let out a moan of passion and our tongues danced together as we slowly began to gyrate. Even though Nika said she was a virgin, she seemed to really, really, really know what she was doing, and it was one of the best sessions of sex that I’d ever experienced.
A half hour later, I was laying on the soft moss floor trying to catch my breath. Nika was nestled up under my left arm with one leg draped over mine. We lay there in the afterglow of our lovemaking for an unknown amount of time, but nature’s call finally roused me from her side, so I moved down the side of the tunnel and used the restroom.
If I ever returned to Earth, no one was going to believe what had happened. Hell, I didn’t even know if I believed it, but I didn’t much care at all anymore. Having sex with a beautiful goblin in an underground hot spring sure beat the hell out of clearing ancient Syrian temples any day.
A familiar sound found my ears as I was buckling up my pants. I listened closely and cursed when I heard the telltale sound of grumbling kobolds. Their little footfalls echoed down the tunnel that would lead them to us, but the tunnel was long, and they sounded far enough away for us to get a head start on them, so I hurried back into the chamber and shook Nika awake.
“Come on, we have to go. The kobolds have f
ound us!” I hissed.
Nika came to sleepily. She stretched and yawned. “Those little pests again? Dammit I wanted to make love once more. I didn’t even get a chance to kiss your--”
“I love the enthusiasm, babe, but we’ve got to go. Now!”
I put my clothes back on and tossed Nika the camouflage t-shirt out of my waterproof bag. She was my woman now, and I didn’t like the idea of someone else seeing her naked, especially not those devilish little kobold bastards.
Nika led me back to the tunnel, and we hung a right at the fork. “This leads up to the surface world,” she told me, but then stopped and faced me. “Is it night right now on the surface world? If not, I cannot go that way.”
“I don’t know how the days work here yet, but it doesn’t matter. A witch read my stars and told me that I had the ability to bond with monsters-- er, I mean, you’re not a monster in my eyes, but it’s what they call everyone who comes from the underdark. Anyway, the witch told me that I could bond with monsters and bring them out into the sunlight, but I’m not sure how that works.
“You mean, I could go out into the sun and not get burned?”
“Yeah, but I don’t know how it works,” I said with a shrug. “She said I can ‘bond’ with--”
“It’s the love,” she interrupted me. “I love you. You love me. We are married, and therefore bonded, so I can go into the sun.” Her eyes watered as she spoke, and I realized she was waiting for me to give her the confirmation that it was how the magic worked.
“Uhh, I guess we can try it,” I said.
“Oh, I love you, Ken Jewell!” Nika said as she threw her arms around me. “You are the best thing that has ever happened to me.”
“You’re great too, Nika. Come on, let’s get the hell out of here.”
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