"I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!"
Kaelen yelled as I held Kaelens arms, and Jax held me. Kaelens feet to the knees were sunk into the body of the brown colored slime. The situation was already bad enough. While I didn't want to admit it, even being near this slime was causing a warm fuzziness to run trough me akin to being drunk. Jax and Kaelen seemed to be joining me, and in a weird way it was fun to see the kinds of drunk everyone was.
Jax was like a hippie kind of drunk, using the word like a lot. What a funny word, like. Kaelen was a sad drunk, he just kept crying saying he was gonna be eaten, but he should stop screaming already. It was a tight enough space already and my ears were starting to hurt.
A pulse of pain shot through my head as Will yelled.
"Quit spacing out, it's getting annoying snapping you back from your weird tangents, Kaelen's being eaten, remember."
"Oh yea, right. We were supposed to not let that happen, right?"
I said trying to snap myself back to focus, but there was just so much to think about, so many funny little things to go on and on and o-
Will slapped me again.
As Jax and I yanked, Kaelens feet finally emerging from the slime. Above us the hatch stood open, Liora and Thalia could be heard talking outside, but Selene stood by the hatch looking down with a worried look.
"A-are you sure they don't need help; Kaelen is getting eaten."
Selene called to the other two girls.
"If those perverts want to suggest a quest where clothes get eaten, then they can handle it themselves, because they seem to be having a fun time."
Liora called over sounding annoyed. I wonder why she is annoyed, is it because we chose this quest, then why are Kaelen and I getting punished, Jax picked the quest, and wh-
Will slapped me again.
As if falling back from the force of the mental slap, Jax and I finally pulled Kaelen from the fermented depths of the slime. Kaelen flopped to the ground on top of me, still sobbing as snot ran down his face.
"Sniff I thought I was a goner, thank you for saving me. Sniff"
"If you get snot on me I'm throwing you back!"
I yelled trying to push the suddenly clingy Kaelen away as Jax walked up beside me. Kaelen and I were wearing nothing but underwear due to the slimes fabric corroding nature, however Jax who didn't need cloths was buck naked, and despite the fact that he wasn't wearing pants before, his lack of jacket and wrappings made his nudity just stand out.
"Like don't like worry guys, I like totally got this. Im gonna like punch it to death."
Jax said rushing forward.
Party leader Jax has struck Feral Ale Slime(E)
Feral Ale Slimes ability Gelatinous Form(E) has activated
Feral Ale Slime is immune to bludgeoning damage
Jax stood as we all stared at Jax. The Slime didn't seem to react, instead it opened up, and ate Jax up to the Waist as Kaelen and I scrambled to grab Jax.
"Sniff Spit him out, we need him sniff"
Kaelen said trough snot and tears as we pulled at Jax's feet. Jax remained stuck for a moment as I grabbed my spear and thrust it at the slime, trying to get it to let go of Jax.
You have used item Basic Spear(E)
Feral Ale Slimes ability Gelatinous Form(E) has activated
Feral Ale Slime is immune to piercing damage
Item Basic Spear has been destroyed by the acidity
"Gods fu-"
I started to yell as Kaelen freed Jax slamming into me as we toppled into a pile again. So we can't use Kaelens fire because the entire room was flammable, Jax couldn't hurt it with his punches, and my spear couldn't do anything and just broke. I wonder how people normally hunt slimes then, Gelatinous form seems like a skill that would generally be poss-
Will slapped me again.
With focus resharpened I turned to look around the room when I felt something grab my leg. I looked downward as I saw a beer colored tendril of the slime as I slowly turned to Jax and Kaelen. They meet my eyes as they both gave me a solemn look as they saluted me. I flipped them off in return as the tendril went taught and I got launched into the core body of the slime.
Jax, Kaelen and I practically kicked the door to our room at the Wanderers light inn. Our heads throbbed from the hangover we had all suddenly rapidly developed after Kaelen and jax had defeated the slime while I was inside of it.
Jax wore only his Jacket, and Kaelen and I were in a cheap set of pants that got thrown down to us, our clothes melted away in the fight leaving us in our birthday suits by the time it was over. We were all bone tired and hung over, but the lingering feeling of betrayal sat in my chest. I had at least helped them out of the slime, why did they leave me in the damn thing.
This anger is definitely not me venting about the fact that Jax was fine with the nudity due to his fur keeping him decent, and Kaelen, while worried about it, was fine, and even just walking the short way to the inn had every girl and even some guys on the street stopping to stare at him, one girl even started drooling. It's definitely not me being angry at that.
"Its kind of pathetic to lie to yourself when your thoughts can argue back dude."
Will said in my head.
"Yea well…. Shut up!"
I said, my hung-over state making that feel like an adequate and well put together retort. I walked to the bathroom where I let the faucet drain my mana to wash my face as I took a look in the mirror. The drive over hadn't been hard.
We had woken up, and driven here. Liora and Thalia had threatened Jax by being strung up by his family jewels as a form of sterilization if he tried to argue that any of the girls were doing this quest. Us guys, fearing the consequences, agreed and strip down to our briefs and challenged the dungeon.
It only took 10 minutes; Selene tossed down two sets of pants and Jax's jacket and we had returned back to the inn. The girls were grabbing food to bring back and doing the paperwork portion. Looking over my system screen, we had only gotten 1,250 XP from the Feral Ale slime, and while I was happy to not be getting melted or slammed around against walls in a fight against a slime, the humiliation of what we had to go through was almost just as bad.
I stepped out of the bathroom to see that Kaelen was laying down on the bed, despite our situation and what we had gone through, he seemed pristine, like he had just taken a shower and had sprawled on a bed as if waiting for some author to come by and wrote a whole series of smut novels based on him being shirtless for some random girl that could make Mary Sue look like a side character could horn dog over. I would like to say that at least Jax looked like crap, but he was basically always hung over, so he looked normal-ish. If not for the smell of alcohol that was probably going to be forever etched into the fabrics of the room, I would assume it had been a regular, traumatizing but not in the today way of traumatizing kind of day.
I walked over to the window and opened it so the smell could start to dissipate as there was a knock at the door. Walking over and opening the door Selene stood there, looking me up and down for a moment as she stood there silently. I looked her over as well, something seemed to be strange.
"What happened to her arm?"
Will asked, directing my attention to her left arm. It looked normal, the normal purple with muscles and vents looked human enough, almost delicate. Selene seemed to notice my staring as she said.
"I-its one of my skills, H-Hidden Monstrosity, it lets me hide any active mutations while im not using them, but because of my condition It only lasts for a limited amount of time because it drains my mutation. S-Since you all did all the fighting today, I have enough to hold it for a few hours."
"Thats awesome, does it feel different or?"
Selene shook her head as she said.
"N-No, but thats not why I stopped by. I-I noticed your spear was destroyed in the fight, and since you seemed to like spears as a weapon. I-I figured we could go shopping."
Selene started to speak louder and louder as she continued, her eyes seeming to be on the floor as she seemed to flush with embarrassment. I was a bit surprised by her thoughtfulness as I smiled and said.
"That would actually be awesome, thank you."
Selene nodded before starting at me and asking.
"D-Do you need a minute to get dressed or?"
What does she mean get d-. I started to think, but as I looked down, I saw that I was still wearing nothing but the cheap pants they had tossed down. I turned beat red as I said in as stable a voice as I could manage.
"Just give me like 5 minutes."
Selene nodded and I slowly shut the door, turning around to see Kaelen and Jax were both giving me shit eating grins as they both in unison said.
"Pervert."
Ok, so Im killing the both of them, the question is where do I hide the bo-
Will slapped me again