“Do you know how to use it?” Billy asked.
“No, but I can learn fast,” she said. “I know a bit about magic.”
They scanned the room one more time, confident now that they'd gotten everything from it that they reasonably could. There was no time to waste on continuing to search. For all they knew, the enemy was preparing for them as they dawdled.
Billy took the lead as they climbed the stairs like eager little lambs, fully aware they may be walking into some deadly trap. Each step they took echoed in the corridor, and whoever was up in the next level could surely hear them approach. As they reached the top of the stairs, Billy reached out to open the door and almost laughed to find it locked. “How anticlimactic,” he said. “I was expecting this thing to fly open and for there to be some kind of dragon waiting for us on the other side.”
“I guess this is where I come in,” Kaya muttered as she squeezed past the brawny barbarian. She pulled out a series of tiny instruments and began fiddling with the lock, listening to the door like a doctor to the heart of her patient. With a satisfying click, the lock came loose, and she turned the lever and pushed the door open.
This room was apparently the dining hall of the tower. There was a variety of lavish food displayed on a dozen long tables, and countless dishes were set out as though a great banquet was only moments from starting, but by all appearances, the room seemed vacant of people—save for them.
“What manner of trickery is this?” Audelia growled. The scent of the fresh food rose up from the tables as they walked through the door. It was so heavenly, so inviting.
“I am starving,” Kaya said. “I've only eaten that stale bread you gave me.” Her stomach gurgled audibly.
“This is too good to be true,” Billy said. “Don't give in. Just keep going.”
“Keep going where?” Audelia asked, and almost as if to punctuate her point, the door closed and clicked itself shut behind them, as if by magic. Kaya tried the door immediately.
“Locked again,” she groaned, and she immediately started fiddling with it, but the keyhole had vanished. “And something tells me this time it won't come unlocked so easily.”
“There is no staircase here,” Audelia pointed out. “No windows, either. We're locked in a room with nothing but food, and none of us have had a good meal in days.”
“This is definitely a trap,” Billy said.
“But the food smells real enough,” Kaya pointed out, and it was true. The aroma given off by the assortment of fine meats, cheeses, fruits, and loaves of bread—all improbably fresh and at the perfect serving temperature—seemed very real. But everything else about the situation screamed of danger to the barbarian.
“We need a plan,” Billy said, and then, seeing Kaya surreptitiously sneak over to a table full of luxurious assortments of sausages and cuts of ham, he added, “Kaya! Stay focused.”
Kaya seemed as though she'd just snapped out of a powerful spell. “Oh, right,” she said. “Sorry. Yes. A plan.”
Audelia kicked a cask in the corner in frustration. “I've got nothing,” she growled. “Bash down the door we came through and head out that window. Let’s try to scale the side of the tower.”
Billy nodded, but he doubted it'd be that easy. Worth a try, though, so he walked to the door and kicked it as hard as he could. It was as though he kicked a wall made of solid stone. There was no give to it. It was a impenetrable as could be. He attempted to bury his ax in it but to no avail.
“There you have it,” he said. “We're trapped.”
“Not yet,” Audelia said. “As long as we don't eat the food, there's still hope.”
“How do you figure that?” Kaya said, still side-eyeing a plate of sausages.”
“This room is set up to give us no choice but to eat, right?” she said. “Which means that the wizard who created this trap doesn't get what he wants from us until we do so.”
“Exactly,” Billy agreed. “I think we can manage, but we need to think fast. I’m digging the smell of that meat more and more every second.”
Kaya shrugged. “Then my guess is we just need to run the proverbial hourglass out.”
Billy perked up at that. “What do you mean?”
“If this is some kind of spell imprisoning us here in a room of conjured or magical food, it has a time limit on it. Eventually, it'll fade. Magic doesn't last forever without the spellcaster or some sacrifice to maintain it. No wizard here, and I don’t see signs of a sacrifice.”
Audelia stood straighter and eyed the girl curiously. “How do you know this?”
“I picked up a little magic on the streets back in Gortik,” she shrugged. “I can’t do much with it, but I understand the basic precepts.”
“Looks like we've picked up a little spellthief, outlander,” Audelia smirked with satisfaction. “Very well, we wait out the so-called hourglass.”
“Easier said than done,” Billy pointed out. “The draw of the food is getting stronger all the time, at least on me.”
“Me too,” Kaya agreed. “Eventually, we'll fall into the trap if we can't find a way to keep ourselves busy.”
“We need to distract ourselves, to come up with an activity that will pass the time and dominate our focus enough for us to resist the effects of the spell,” Audelia thought aloud, stroking her chin thoughtfully.
Billy snorted. “I mean, I can think of one thing,” he offered. “But it's a bit awkward to suggest.”
Audelia shot him a seductively knowing look. “I like where your head is at, barbarian.”
“Where is his head at?” Kaya asked innocently. “What is going on?”
The busty warrior walked with resolve toward one of the tables full of food and pushed its contents onto the ground. Plates and cutlery clattered against the floor, and she hoisted herself up onto the table and spread her legs.
“Holy Amar’nak, you—”
But Kaya's words stopped abruptly as the voluptuous woman unhooked her chainmail loincloth and delicately removed the black thong that covered her womanhood. Once again, her legs opened, and this time her alluring sex was fully exposed and facing Billy. Her black mound was still surprisingly well-groomed—or she perhaps just didn't grow much down there. Her soft pink pussy lips brought back happy memories in the barbarian's mind, but Kaya was more than bewildered.
“You two are seriously going to have sex?” she said unbelievingly, “Right here, right now? In front of me?” Her unusually high and shaky tone hinted at conflicting emotions.
“Help yourself to the food, little thief,” Audelia said with a sultry wink. Her eyes flew back to the barbarian, inviting him forward as she unclasped her top, tossing it aside with the rattle of chainmail echoing as it hit the floor.
Billy took a few steps forward. He was still pretty new at this, but he seemed to be competent enough with it. This was his idea, too, but now that he was staring at the buxom body of the erotically posed woman in front of him, he was having doubts—no, not doubts. There was a better term—stage fright.
But Kaya was proving to be a captive audience. Her hands both rested over her lips at first, eyes gaping wide, and she leaned back against a table opposite them, where she could watch it all unfold. She observed as the towering man, a perfect specimen of masculinity, dropped his loincloth to the ground, and she couldn't help herself but to gasp at the sight of his shaft as it hardened and grew to a massive size before her eyes. The barbarian pulled Audelia closer to him, gripping her by her thin waist, pulling her hips closer. Her entrance moistened immediately as his tip hungrily sought her familiar wetness.
Billy looked down at Audelia and smirked as he watched her biting her lip in anticipation as she ogled his manhood. She was bracing for the initial shock she would feel as the hugeness was thrusted into her. Kaya, meanwhile, had started absentmindedly stroking her neck and stomach as she watched, growing increasingly more aroused with each passing second as the lewd scene before her played out. Her hands slowly began to drift to other
parts of her body, as well.
Suddenly, the barbarian took his cue from the nodding head of Audelia, and he drove himself into her already damp slit, which received him eagerly. From his perspective, the entrance couldn't have gone smoother and more pleasurably, so he was caught off guard to hear a little pained yelp from the powerful woman in front of him as his cock penetrated her and got to pumping, perhaps a bit too fast. She threw her arms around his shoulder and hoisted herself into his arms, and soon she was lifted off the table completely, now suspended in Billy's embrace. He held her there effortlessly as he delved into her again and again, her wet pussy providing heavenly friction for his rapidly thrusting cock. The sensation of every thick inch of his manhood against her insides stirred them both into a frenzy of carnality as their voices surrendered to immodest moans of wanton pleasure.
Meanwhile, Kaya slid her top down, revealing her perky breasts and rosy nipples that already stood erect. They were smaller than Audelia's, but she was proud of them all the same, as they suited her lithe physique. In the fits of her arousal, she had decided to pay some attention to her hardened nipples as her body hungered for stimulation upon seeing the amatory display that Billy and Audelia so expertly were exhibiting for her. Kaya rubbed her nipples and pinched them as she watched, biting her lip enough to draw just a hint of blood, which only served to further fuel her rising need.
Soon she lost control of herself and pulled her leather top off completely, allowing it to drop to the floor. She peeled off her leather pants and plopped her naked rump back onto the table. The surface of the wood was cool and smooth against her uncovered skin. She toyed with herself in a fit of desire as she watched her new companions go at it. The two of them had moved over to a wall, where Billy was roughly fucking Audelia, each thrust of his hips creating a vivid sound that Kaya would linger in Kaya’s thoughts for many nights to come.
“Ohhh fuck,” Kaya moaned as her fingers ran over her own slit and two fingers slid inside. The sudden utterance called attention to herself. Audelia looked at the spellthief over Billy's shoulder and watched with interest as the pretty little thing voraciously fingerfucked herself. The two women made eye contact as they both climaxed from the sight each other’s pleasure, Audelia spilling her erotic juices all over the barbarian's cock as he continued to pump her throbbing pussy, and Kaya squirting all over her hands and her table, screaming loud enough now for Billy to take notice.
“Oh damn,” he huffed, still thrusting. “That's hot.”
“Put me down,” Audelia pleaded suddenly, trembling from rhapsodic ecstasy. “I beg you, I'm going to faint if you won’t relent.”
The barbarian pouted. “But I didn't finish yet. I never get to finish.”
Audelia didn’t initially plan to share her barbarian lover, but it had become clear in that moment that one woman alone wouldn’t be enough to satisfy him. She set aside any thoughts of jealousy as she pointed at the thief who'd been getting off on the spectacle of their sex. “I grant you permission to satisfy yourself in her,” she groaned. “Just put me down, please.”
Billy gently placed her on the table, but he didn't know how to begin to ask Kaya if she'd be willing to go from onlooker to player in their erotic game. Fortunately for him, she broached the topic on her own, her ravenous eyes never leaving the sight of his dripping cock. Her back arched and her hands were already going wild as she came down from her climax. They traced every point of interest across her svelte, lissome body, and Billy could see her need for him was just as desperate as his for her, as she bit her lip and a wisp of flaming red hair hung alluringly in front of her face.
“Fuck me, you big dumb barbarian,” she squealed, bending over the table so that her ass was facing the outlander, her pussy lips spread open for him with two dexterous fingers. It was a heavenly sight. Her pert ass was smooth and round, without a single blemish. Her cunt looked invitingly wet and willing, smooth and immaculately pink. Her sopping slit already glistened with juices, and he could smell her lust-inducing aroma from several paces away.
He stepped toward her, and upon arriving just behind her, he lifted her by the waist so that his cock could slide in at just the right angle without him having to bend at the knees too much to compensate for her height. He found the two women so light that it was more convenient to just pick them up and move them around to his liking than it was to worry much about his own positioning.
Kaya clearly enjoyed the treatment, moaning as he hoisted her and practically howling like a unhinged beast as his dick slid into her slick womanhood. He started thrusting again, this time going hard from the onset, hoping to push himself to the edge sooner rather than later. His repeated thrusts found a comfortable cadence, and both Billy and Kaya groaned in ecstasy as their bodies repeatedly collided, making a delightfully carnal sound.
Audelia joined them, sitting in all her naked glory, to provide comfort and soothing words for Kaya—she knew what a first time with the barbarian was like. Billy stole glances at her amazing breasts between thrusts, powering his lust even further. Audelia cooed softly and stroked the little thief’s fiery red hair as she continued to lose herself in fitful cries, screaming against the table from the intense pounding pleasure that the barbarian's cock brought to her with each renewed movement inside her. The battle maiden tutted and shushed Kaya as she continued to wipe her sweat and offer other reassuring words and gestures.
“I know, I know” she whispered over the sound of flesh crashing into flesh. “It's truly wild, is it not?” Audelia whispered as Kaya clenched and shook and she began climaxing once again, her tongue hanging out as she desperately struggled to breathe, her body failing her as it reeled from the agonizing pleasure. “Just hang in there. He really deserves to cum,” she said.
“Oh, I'm gonna,” Billy groaned. The combination of Kaya’s tightness and her libidinous shrieks was doing the trick. His cock was already throbbing. He had seconds until blastoff—if that.
“Pull out!” Kaya managed to grunt, barely comprehensibly. “Quick!”
Billy did as she said, and with a satisfied groan, he used his hand to pump himself to completion as he sprayed both of the women with his semen. He didn't intend for Audelia to get caught in the blast radius, but she inserted herself into the equation, trying to catch some of it in her mouth. Kaya just lay there like a dying cat as she twitched from the aftershock of her orgasms and tried to catch only her breath.
“The sheer volume of it,” Audelia said rapturously with a glob in her mouth, and she even scooped an extra helping of his fluid off of Kaya’s ass. “It's truly impressive, barbarian.”
“Ohhhh shit, I feel much better now,” Billy said. “Oh fuck! Oh shit. Nice. Fucking nice.” He stretched and suddenly dropped to the floor, doing a dozen one-armed pushups in a matter of seconds.
“Now that you mention it, I feel at the top of my game as well,” Audelia said, flexing a bicep. The muscle definition on her arm was truly an impressive display.
Kaya just rolled over. “By the fucking gods,” she rasped, panting like a dog in the sun. “Let's all be best friends.”
The three of them laughed, grabbed whatever tablecloths and things they could find to clean themselves off, and got dressed. The spell was wearing off, and soon they felt no longer drawn to the food. Furthermore, the stairway, which was apparently hidden by the same spell, had revealed itself as the enchantment expired at last. The way forward was clear.
“Everyone ready?” Billy said.
“I could take an army now,” Audelia replied confidently.
“Ready as I'll ever be,” Kaya agreed, now fully recovered—and then some.
The three of them headed for the stairs to the next chamber, blissfully ignorant of the horrors and tragedy they would cause and bear witness to.
Chapter 7
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The trio of heroes headed up the stairs, reinvigorated by the afterglow of their steamy encounter. Though they were still hungry, they had been satiated in other ways,
and an undeniable radiance of energy seemed to emanate from each of them.
Audelia noted that she had felt the same sensation after her previous sexual encounter with Billy. She was exhausted, sure, but there was a power and confidence that wasn't there before—or, perhaps, it was there, but Billy's passionate embrace had coaxed it out of her—and now it was even stronger.
Kaya was bewildered by the boost in energy she felt. She'd never been so spry, so light on her feet. It was as though her every strength had been made stronger; her greatest attributes were now of a higher tier than they were just this morning. There was something supernatural about it, something she couldn't place, but she knew that the barbarian was to thank for it.
Billy crushed through the door to the next room as they reached the staircase's pinnacle. His strength now was ungodly. His muscles swelled with preternatural power. He, too, felt the effects of the afterglow of his embrace with his two companions.
The door shattered into splinters, but there was something waiting on the other side. At the center of the room, six armed men with the lower bodies of snakes and the upper bodies of scaly humans encircled a crimson crystal that rested upon a raised altar carved out of black and white marble, the same material that pervaded the walls and floors of the entire room. They bore spears, pikes, and other polearms, holding them steady as they glowered upon the intruders.
But this room wasn't so much a shrine as it was a laboratory. Tables littered with charts and diagrams were everywhere. Vials, cauldrons, mortars and pestles, and amphorae brimming with strange powders were everywhere to be seen. From the quills and ink stains on the wooden chairs, all the equipment shelves and desks, there was plenty of evidence that someone worked here regularly—and recently.
The six serpentmen hissed with malice as they eyed the intruders, but to the surprise of Billy and his companions, they did not move from their place around the crystal.
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