Heroes Fall

"Hmmm..." Ronin nodded in understanding as he got into bed with her. It was a classic military maneuver; shock and awe. Make a brutal example out of one to make the rest fall into line and behave. It looked like it was working in Rina's case. "There are eight of you, from what I understand?" he asked. Rina nodded again amid her sobs. "How are the others taking all this?"

"About the same as me, Master," Rina cried as she rolled over away from him.

Ronin rolled with her to spoon her body. He just held her close. "Hey, we don't need to do anything tonight. How about I just hold you, hm?"

To his surprise, though, she shook her head as she wiped her tears with her hand. "No, Master, I must pleasure you. The king has ordered me to and will demand to know tomorrow if I had lay with you properly. His tone suggested that I would be punished if I did anything otherwise."

"Well then I will give you a moment to collect yourself before you have to do your duty," he said, with no trace of humor and sarcasm. He stroked her hair and held her until she'd shed all of her tears.

Once she was finally done wallowing in her sorrow, she turned in his arms, looked at him, and gave him a brave smile. Then she tilted her head up to give him a quick peck on the lips. "Thank you, master, for your patience and understanding with me tonight."

"Hey," he said softly, giving her a charming smile right back. "It's okay. Believe me; I understand more than you might think." He now returned the quick kiss on her lips while reaching up to stroke her hair and the side of her face gently. "Just relax," he murmured, planting another soft kiss on her. "I don't bite... much... unless you ask me to."

That broke the ice with Rina as she let out a pained laugh despite her mood. She playfully smacked him on the chest. "Gods... that was such a stupid line."

"Yeah, but it got you to laugh, didn't it?" Ronin winked at her. "When's the last time you did that? Hm? Felt good, didn't it?"

"Yeah..." Rina admitted, now smiling at him. "Thank you for that."

Ronin kissed her again, this time deeper and more passionately and Rina melted into his kiss, now moaning with pleasure. She slid her hands up around his neck to hold him as well as she twisted her body to face him. The bumps of her small breasts brushed against him and Ronin pulled her closer so that they were in full body contact with one another. He took his time with her, moving his hands slowly down her back until he was cupping her firm, toned ass. By that time she was now actively making out with him and gyrating her body against his. Taking that as a good sign, he rolled so he was on top of her and she spread her legs for him to mount her.

Since he was already hard, and Rina was tense enough as it was even with her relaxing a little bit to make out with him, Ronin didn't want to keep her waiting. He reached down between them, spread her pussy open, and slowly eased himself into her. Rina drew her legs up around him, gasping and whimpering just a little as he pushed inside her sheath. He then settled down on top of her smaller frame, sliding his arms under her shoulders and resting on his forearms so he didn't crush her too much. "Are you okay?" he asked softly.

"Mmm-hm..." she nodded even though she had her eyes closed and was biting her lower lip. "I'm okay, Master... please... enjoy my body."

Ronin planted his lips onto hers again, this time his tongue probing into her mouth as he began to move his hips against hers. Rina moaned softly into his mouth as he slowly and steadily fucked her. She bore down on him and Ronin felt her pussy contract around his cock. He moaned as well and decided to speed things up for her sake. Rina's moans became whimpers as his cock moved in and out of her faster. She wrapped her legs up around his waist and drove her heels into his back to goad him on. Ronin let out a long, lustful groan as he then spilled inside of her and he felt her body shake and gyrate beneath him as he drove his cock into her and held it there.

Once he was sated and they both relaxed, Ronin kissed her again and rolled off of her. Rina rolled with him to rest her head on his shoulder. "Thank you, master," she said in a breathless whisper, "that was the best orgasm I've ever had."

"Oh you're a terrible liar," Ronin snorted in derision. He looked down at her and caught her wide-eyed look of alarm back up at him. "You faked the whole thing, didn't you." She hesitated and he gave her a pointed look. "Don't lie to me. It's okay; you can tell me the truth."

"Yes... master... I did... I faked it," she admitted with a defeated sigh as she briefly looked away. Then she looked back up at him with a pleading look in her eyes. "Please don't tell the King! I really did enjoy making love with you though! You've been one of the more kinder and gentler lovers that I've had since I've been captured!"

"Relax, I don't report to him and your secret is safe with me," he said, kissing her on the forehead. He then held her close and stroked her hair to comfort her. "Look; I'm not saying that you have to like the guy. Hell, you can fucking hate him for the rest of your life for all I care. But... you did lose the war and there is no going back to the way things used to be for you. It's bitter medicine that you have to swallow. You don't have to like it. But, you still have your life and as far as prisons go, I can certainly think of worse things to do. You live in luxury, you're clean, you're healthy, you're well fed, and have to fuck people that the King wants you to fuck. Yeah, it sucks. But you are at least not rotting away in some hole or some prison, starving, dehydrated, caked with mud and dirt on your body as you slowly go mad. So... make the best of it, be a good little pleasure girl, and maybe one day he might let you go or at least give you to someone who will let you go or marry you. Who knows?"

Rina shifted against him as she tried to get comfortable. "I... I never thought of it that way before, master," she said softly as she rested her head against him again.

By the time the week was out, and Ronin was leaving, Rina's whole attitude had changed to the point that King Sephant had noticed how much happier she was and how much more energetic she was. "What did you do to her?" Sephant asked right before Ronin departed.

"I gave her a new outlook on life," Ronin said. "I don't think that you'll be having any problems with the former Paladines once she talks with them and relays the things that I taught her."

"You have to tell me your secret," Sephant insisted.

"No... I don't," Ronin said. "But for the sake of those girls, I will." He turned to face Sephant, giving the new king a long, hard look. "Look; Kings come and Kings go. Believe me; I've seen more kingdoms rise and fall than you could possibly remember. But one thing always remains the same when the regime changes; and that is the populace. The question that everyone has right now is whether or not you're going to be gracious in victory. Now you can go on and continue to be a dick to everyone who opposed you, or you can show a little bit of mercy to them and show everyone that you're going to be a benevolent ruler. The choice is yours, but I really suggest the latter because sooner or later someone is going to chafe under the iron fisted rule and you'll find yourself just as deposed as the last king was," he explained.

Sephant glowered under the criticism. "I should have you executed for such words," he growled.

"Which just proves that you never read the Tome of Evil Overlords," Ronin shot right back disdainfully. "Rule 24 dictates that thou shalt maintain a realistic assessment of thou's strengths and weaknesses. Rule 32 also states that you shall not fly into a rage and kill the messenger just because you got bad news." He gestured back towards the inside of the castle. "Hell, you've already tossed Rule 26 out the window by sending not one, but eight women of the opposition to your bedchambers as your private fucking harem. You're just lucky you've scared them half to death with what you did to Lady Alexa to even contemplate killing you in your sleep." He mounted his horse and wheeled him around to go. "Think about it." he said as he then bucked his horse into a trot and rode out into the morning light. "Or else your reign might end before it has even begun."

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CHAPTER 5:

"Ungh... ungh... ungh..." Alexa grunted and groaned as her master pumped his cock in and out of her pussy. He had her hands planted on his desk while he stood behind her and rammed her from behind, one hand on her huge, round belly and the other around her neck overtop of her collar. Her large, heavy breasts bounced with every thrust, occasionally letting droplets of her milk fly free to splatter on the various tomes, papers, and parchment that Kirgon had on his desk that he'd been working on before he decided to take a break. She'd come at once at her master's summons, eager to please him with her body. It'd been three months since she'd been given to him and her belly and her breasts looked like she was at nine months and ready to pop. No longer did she need to be chained to her master's side at all times as slowly Kirgon had given her more and more freedoms back as she learned her place here.

"OOoooohhhhhhhh..." Alexa's eyes rolled back into her head as she then climaxed the moment she felt her master spew forth his seed into her body. She clamped down onto his cock as hard as she could even as her pussy fluttered around it. She knew what he liked. Her body jerked and spasmed in his grasp and she happily rode out the orgasm with him. Once he was spent inside of her and had let her go, Alexa turned in place, dropped to her knees, and took him into her mouth, looking up at him submissively as she dutifully cleaned his cock of of his cum and her juices. Even after she'd thoroughly cleaned him, she continued sucking him by taking him easily all the way down her throat and out again.

"Okay, that's enough, you," Kirgon said, pulling out of her mouth and pushing her away. "If you want more, go fuck some of the guards or the servants," he said, waving her off dismissively. "I have to get this done before I leave."

"Yes, master, thank you, master," Alexa said happily as she bounced to her feet, threw her arms around his neck, and kissed him on the cheek. Then she bounded out of the room to the nearest washroom to clean herself off. Once she was sure that Kirgon was not following her for more sex, Alexa roamed the castle as she usually did in her seemingly random pattern, passing servants and guards in the halls with cordial smiles and allowing them to stop her and feel her up, or kiss her, or whatever. Everyone knew of her increased libido late in her pregnancy and as she had shown her submissiveness and her loyalty, Kirgon had given the staff leave to play with her.

Once people more or less lost interest in her for the day, she moved through the castle some more, stopping in the kitchen, the library, the cloakroom, the storerooms, the cartographer's room, the stables, and even in the cellar. It was in the cellar where she carefully knelt in a darkened corner to pull a loose block out of the wall to get the things that she'd been stashing there ever since Kirgon let her off of her leash. She'd been biding her time, gathering supplies, mapping the region out little by little, and befriending one of the steeds so that she could make her escape. Reaching in, she took the bundle of clothes, cloak, blanket, and traveling pack out. Then she replaced the stone, put the last of her provisions in the pack, shouldered it, and then snuck back outside to the stables where she stashed it into a pile of hay. With her heart pounding now that months of preparation were coming to fruition, she put the final part of her plan into action.

It was now getting close to dusk and she knew that Kirgon was going to be gone from the keep tonight, which was why she was dismissed from his presence. While he was fucking her, she saw one missive that told her that he was taking the portals back to King Sephant's castle for a couple of days at the very least. So he wasn't even here. She also knew that there were just two guards, both human, on duty at the front gate which was right next to the stables. She also knew that she hadn't fucked them much and had intentionally been shaking her ass past them but not putting out for them. Alexa had heard the talk that they were anxiously waiting their turn with her but were lamenting that they never got the chance.

Alexa was going to give it to them now.

She got out a couple of wineskins that, using the knowledge she'd gleaned from the library, she'd doctored with a few different herbs and medicines in the right quantities. Smiling, she walked over to the front gate that was next to the stables. The guards noticed her approach and they too smiled when they saw that she was coming to them. "Good evening, masters," she said sweetly as she walked up. "It occurred to me that I have been remiss in my duties to you. It seems that I have serviced everyone in the castle but you two and for that I am sorry. But, I come bearing gifts of mead and my body for you tonight."

"Well then," the taller and more muscular of the two said with a big grin, taking one wineskin from her, popping the cork on it and guzzling a good amount of it down. "Mmmm... This is good!" he said, "Amos, you gotta have some of this!"

Amos, the shorter and more athletic of the two smiled as he took the other wineskin and took a decent swig of it. "Mmm, yes," he agreed. Then he bobbed his head her way. "You wanna take her first, Will, while I stand watch?"

"Don't mind if I do," Will said, taking another drink and emptying the wineskin. He then set his halberd aside, propped against the guard shack at the gates, and undid his trousers enough to get his cock out. He motioned for her to get to her knees and she did so without hesitation. After getting used to her master, she was an expert at giving men blowjobs. Alexa moaned suggestively as she looked up at him, held eye contact with him, and easily took his average length but very thick cock all the way into her mouth with ease. To entice him further, she hefted her full breasts up to under his cock as she bobbed her head back and forth while sucking on him. Will rested his hand on the back of her head and slowly thrust his hips forward to meet her face when she came down onto his cock.

"Ohhh... Daaaammmnnn..." he then suddenly groaned as he doubled over and blew his load down Alexa's throat. Thanks to her training with her master, she drank his seed down easily and was kind of disappointed that there wasn't more. "Fuck... best blowjob ever..." he breathed even as Alexa cleaned him off, swallowed down his last bit, and then opened her mouth to dutifully show him that she'd gotten it all.

"Well get your cock back in your pants and get outta my way, Will," Amos said, now putting his halberd aside and fishing his own cock out. He was longer than Will was, but of average girth. He'd been sipping at his wineskin steadily as he watched and now he was anxious to get his turn. "Get on all fours, wench," he said as he moved behind her.

"Mmmm... yes master," she hummed as she put her hands on the ground and wiggled her ass for him. Amos ground his cock back and forth against her moist slit, then pumped his cock in and out of her pussy a few times before pulling it back out and aiming a little bit further up. Fuck... she inwardly sighed as Amos then pressed into her ass. She hated it when men took her like this. Not even Kirgon took her like that all that often. Sure, he'd done it a few times to her in the early days of her enslavement just to prove that he can, but for the most part he took her in either her mouth or her pussy. It was many of the human staff and guards that liked to fuck her in the ass for whatever reason. Probably because it was a place that they knew their collective master rarely fucked.

To get him off faster, and before he passed out from the spiked wine she'd given them, Alexa clenched her ass around Amos' cock and pushed back against him to meet his thrusts. His bared thighs slapped against her butt cheeks loudly and he moaned as he pounded her. Then she felt that familiar warmth as he came up inside her intimate back passage. "Thank you, Master," she moaned, feigning pleasure, as he then withdrew. She stood up and turned to leave. "Until next time, masters, thank you for your seed."

"Thank you," Will grinned at her from where he was leaning up against the gates. He then stifled a yawn behind a fist. "Don't be a stranger."

"I'll be back real soon," she promised as she disappeared into the shadows and made her way back to the stables. There she got her things out of the haystack, put on clothes for the first time in three months, and then donned the cloak, drawing the hood up over her head to hide her collar. Then she got the black horse that she'd made friends with over the past few months out of his stall. She put her backpack in the saddlebags and then led him out by the reigns. By the time she walked the horse back to the front gates, Amos and Will were both on the ground, sleeping deeply. Alexa scooped up the wineskins so that it would look like that they just fell asleep at their posts. Once she was out the gates into the night, she mounted the horse, snapped the reigns, and dug her heels into the steeds flanks, sending him into a full out run so that she could put as much distance between her and the keep as possible.

*

About three months and a few days after setting out on his contract to find Lady Alexa, Ronin was finally riding up to the distant north castle keep of Lord Kirgon. Where King Sephant had chosen an active volcano to set up residence in, Kirgon had chosen a mountain range by the northern sea in a more temperate zone where they had four seasons a year. Thankfully, summer was in full swing now so the cold winter months were still a long ways away. As he rode up to the front gates, he found a huge red and black demon in an immaculate lord's suit who was shouting at his assembled guards and staff while gesturing wildly at two men who'd been stripped down to their skivvies with their arms bound behind their back. They were kneeling behind the demon that, as Ronin got closer he could see, had an equally huge sword in his hand.

"Oh this ain't gonna be pretty..." Ronin chuckled sardonically.

The prediction turned out to be true as the demon that Ronin perceived to be Lord Kirgon then brought the sword high up over his head and decapitated both men at the same time with one stroke down. Ronin slowed his horse to a trot as he approached the front gates, holding his right hand up in greeting to Kirgon. Kirgon was looking livid as he turned in place, looked at Ronin, and pointed his sword Ronin's way. "YOU! HUMAN! DID YOU TAKE MY SLAVE?" he bellowed out.

"I'm going to assume that your slave is Lady Alexa and that she is no longer in residence by that demand?" Ronin asked as calm as if Kirgon had demanded that they have a wet noodle fight right then and there. "Then I'm going to say that we are in the same predicament then as I, too, am looking for her."

Kirgon cocked his head quizzically as he studied Ronin. "You... are a tracker?" he asked. "Or a bounty hunter?"

"Yes on both counts," Ronin nodded. "The name is Ronin, pleased to meet you, Lord Kirgon,"

"The demon slayer!" Kirgon's eyes widened in recognition. "And you have the nerve to show yourself at MY keep?"

Ronin shrugged it off. "It's nothing personal against your kind or anything," he said. "If it makes you feel any better, I've killed more of y kind than I have of yours."

"Hmph..." Kirgon snorted. He tossed his sword into the air and it disappeared in a puff of red smoke. "Well, if you are as good as everyone claims you are, then you can assist me in finding my slave who has either ran away or was taken from me. Either way," he nodded down to the headless bodies of the two men on the ground, "as you can see I do not tolerate failure or incompetence. Come inside."