TRC – Oni and the Farmer Ch. 12 (Male x Monster Girl)

Rain pelted Kal and Ikuno as they made their way carefully along the thin mountain trail. They left Ikuno’s home earlier that morning to return to Aradelle’s forest and crossed over the first mountain without incident. However, as they descended into the valley on the other side, dark clouds rolled in and a smattering of rain dogged them during their ascent of the second peak. As they approached the apex of the trail the weather turned even fouler, devolving into a full-blown downpour with screaming winds and lightning illuminating the sky every few seconds.

Ikuno!” Kal yelled above the howling wind, “Do you know of any caves nearby that we can wait this out!”

“If there are, they aren’t on this trail!” she called back from just ahead of him.

“What about if you made us one the way you made your pool!” he yelled.

“I can’t!” she answered partly turning to look at him, “Using magic during a… Kal!” she shouted as she saw him slip on a particularly smooth rock slickened further by the rain. falling too quickly to catch himself she watched as his head bounced off the stone below. Groaning as he tried to get his eyes to work again Kal rolled over onto his back and instinctively pushed magic into the healing rune. The oni had only taken a step back down the path to check on him when she saw the rune light up.

“Kal! No!” she screamed.

Lightning arced down from the sky striking a short way up the rocky slope above them. Like a shining serpent the column of electricity slithered back and forth as it made its way downward, drawn towards the magical energy from Kal’s healing rune. A boulder only a couple of paces up the mountainside from Kal caught the bolt and held it, the slightly higher elevation overcoming its attraction to the magic. Raw electricity poured through the large rock, instantaneously heating up the gasses and moisture trapped within.

The stone detonated.

The concussion picked Ikuno up and threw her to the ground further up the trail. She could only watch as Kal’s body was thrown from the path, bouncing limply down the rocky slope before sliding over a ledge and out of sight. She screamed his name again in panic but couldn’t hear her own voice, only a high-pitched ringing.

Ignoring the intense pain all over her body the oni picked herself up and quickly made her way back to where Kal had been lying after the explosion. Stepping off the trail, she began sliding down the slope toward the ledge Kal had fallen over, her claws leaving deep gouges in the rock as she used them to slow her descent. Holding her breath, she peered into the blackness below.

A flash of lightning illuminated Kal’s body lying on a rain-soaked shelf a little more than ten paces down. Breathing a sigh of relief, Ikuno swung her legs over and hung by her claws for a moment before dropping to the ground next to the unconscious man.

Kneeling next to him, she checked Kal over in between lightning flashes, the flickering sky making her night vision almost useless on the shadowed ledge. The oni could immediately tell that he was in very bad shape, in multiple places he was bleeding where shrapnel from the boulder had struck him and both of his legs broke from the fall, but thankfully he was still breathing. However, even as she watched his breathing was becoming shallower and shallower.

“No, no, no, no, no!” she said in alarm though she still couldn’t hear. She knew she would have to work fast, and it was going to be difficult to save him with the lightning storm still raging above them. Though the outcropping above offered some protection, she would still only have a few seconds to heal him before the energy in the lightning sought out her magic. She had to be certain she canceled her spell before it reached her. Moving quickly, she set the bones of his legs in place, so the spells would have less to do, then waited for a particularly long string of flashes hoping it would drain some of the energy from the clouds.

Magic circles appeared in front of both hands as her healing spells went to work, for a moment she was envious of Kal’s ability to pump more and more magic into a spell.

Two seconds went by.

Kal’s legs lined up and the bones joined.

Three seconds.

Shrapnel began pushing its way out of his body as the bones in his legs just barely began to mend, he breathed deeper as a portion of his chest seemed to inflate.

Above her lightning struck the mountainside, once again making a jagged path towards the source of magic.

Four seconds.

Kal’s entire body straightened and Ikuno realized he had broken his back. If the lightning could hold off just a moment longer.

Ikuno knew she had waited too long when, as if in slow motion, a tiny, dimly glowing feeler of electricity split in two just above her healing spells and connected with both of them.

The spells shattered as the full power of the bolt slammed into them, flaring as bright as the sun and followed by a crash of thunder that nearly threw Ikuno off the ledge into the abyss below. As she flew through the air, the oni could only watch in anguish as the blast bent her fingers back, stripping some of them down to the bone.

Noise assaulted the blue woman’s senses as the thunder bounced among the mountain tops. Sitting up she peered about in surprise that she could see or hear anything at all after the lightning strike. Looking down at her mangled hands, her surprise turned into astonishment as flesh grew and bones mended before her eyes. Light coming from where she had been standing caught her attention. Still floating where the lightning touched them, her healing spells illuminated the stone shelf around Kal as they surged with power. Ikuno hissed in pain from her fingers as the magic circles grew dimmer and winked out, the spells fading before she had fully healed.

Cradling her injured hands, the oni stood and made her way back to the injured young man. His legs and back were now straight, and his chest was no longer dented in on one side as it rose and fell normally. Small pieces of shrapnel from the boulder still stuck out of him in places, but the rest had been pushed out and healed over.

Using her feet, she slid Kal further up the stone shelf, pushing him up against the rock face under the overhang he had fallen from and getting him out of the worst of the rain. Sitting down next to his unconscious form, she leaned back against the stone.

Ikuno looked from Kal to her unresponsive and severely aching fingers.

“Worth it.”

——

Hours later, Kal was still lying on the ledge unconscious. The oni had wrapped him up as well as she could, but his clothing was soaked through and the weather had turned much colder now that the warm air from the storm had passed on. Rain turned into flurries, then into a steady snowfall that was common for these elevations, but the dropping temperatures now had Ikuno worried that if they didn’t get off this ledge her young lover may end up freezing to death. To make matters worse, the sun was going down.

Earlier, Ikuno had taken off Kal’s vambrace that held the healing rune and attempted to fix her fingers, only to find that something in the lightning had completely drained her. She wasn’t surprised, other magic-users who had lived through a lightning strike, some who weren’t even using magic at the time, reported finding any crystals on their person emptied along with their natural reserves.

She tried waking Kal up for a quickie, not only to keep him warm but also the subsequent increase in her magic regeneration, however, he steadfastly refused to stir. With things getting starting to freeze she knew that her natural resistance to hot and cold temperatures was eating up a good portion of what magic she regained.

After a few hours she tried again and still hadn’t stored enough to activate the healing rune, though it did glow for a fraction of a second. Worse yet, she discovered another of Kal’s abilities to cause her mild annoyance. Without Kal’s control over how magic flowed into the runes, both healing and the shield rune lit up on the bracer when she tried to heal herself, wasting precious magic trying to create the unneeded shield. Frustrated with their predicament she sat back down next to Kal, leaning her head back and closing her eyes.

With no answers coming to her she looked down at Kal. He was wrapped as tightly in his cloak as she could get him without the use of her hands and had positioned him so he was laying facing the wall, hoping that his body heat would get trapped between the rock and his cloak. For the hundredth time that day, she cursed herself for leaving their bedrolls in the shack, thinking they would be back without any trouble. Ikuno had managed to carefully remove his travel pack with her feet, a process that took a fair amount of patience since she had to be careful not to cut him with the claws on her toes. She was currently using it to keep him propped up on his side.

Ikuno’s eyes widened and she groaned in irritation at her own forgetfulness. Kal usually kept a charged crystal in his pack and the lightning that made the boulder explode hadn’t hit him directly.

“Sorry Kal,” she mumbled as she hooked a damaged hand through the strap and dragged it away, letting Kal roll onto his back. “With luck, we’ll be out of here soon.”

As she began undoing the leather laces with her teeth, movement from Kal made her stop and look in his direction.

Kal was shivering.

The oni bit through the laces, her sharp teeth slicing through the leather with ease. A fleeting thought applauded Kal’s courage to put his penis anywhere near her mouth. With her back to the drop-off, Ikuno carefully dumped out the pack, not wanting to take a chance on the crystal bouncing out and possibly falling off the ledge.

She whipped her head to the side to stare at the rock face on the other side of her from where Kal was lying, she could have sworn she saw something move out of the corner of her eye. Worried that the stress of the situation might be making her see things, she continued to cautiously shake out the pack’s contents. As Kal’s spare crystal bounced out and up against the bottom of the overhang, her eyes were again drawn to the stone wall off to the side. Ikuno carefully picked up the crystal using her wrists then brought it up and held it between her lips. Getting Kal’s vambrace she adjusted it so the shield would activate in a safe direction and began pulling power from the crystal. It took a moment to overcome the strong resistance before both runes on the piece of leather lit up and her fingers resumed healing.

As her hands finished mending she kept looking at the rock face, something wasn’t right about it. There was a small section that jutted out a bit and was slightly different color from the rest of the wall that she was certain had not been there earlier. She pushed it out of her mind as she flexed her fingers and quit powering the runes on the vambrace. With a power source and access to her magic again, it was time to get Kal back on his feet. Ikuno took the crystal out of her mouth and knelt next to Kal’s shivering form, the magic circle of her healing spell appearing in front of her hand as she continued repairing the damage to his body. Once she healed him, she could get them out of there, even if he was unconscious, and down to lower altitudes where it was warmer. The oni smiled as a thought came to her. If she could spare the magic for a speed spell once she got off the mountain, Aradelle would be more than willing to help her warm Kal up.

A rocky hand closed on the arm holding the crystal and pulled Ikuno away from Kal, swinging her out over the drop-off. For a terrifying moment she thought her assailant was going to fling her off the mountainside to land on the jagged rocks below. It was almost a relief when the person swung her all the way around to slam sideways into the rock face before falling on her side.

Quickly getting her bearings, the oni looked over to see a rock golem, an earth elemental who looked like a woman with various body parts made of stone, standing over Kal’s body.

Dropping the crystal, Ikuno dug her claws into the stone and launched herself at the woman. Surprised at the speed with which the oni recovered, the rock girl dropped down over Kal’s body and sank into the mountain, taking him with her.

Ikuno came to a skidding halt, digging claws on both and hands and feet into the stone to keep herself from flying off the other side of the rocky shelf. Standing up, she looked at the place Kal and the golem had disappeared.

Ikuno swore under her breath, she could feel through their connection that Kal was alive, but he was traveling down and away from her very quickly. She made short work of picking up the contents of Kal’s travel pack and stuffing them back into the satchel. Retrieving the crystal, the oni cast a strength spell on herself as she looked at the overhang Kal had fallen over earlier that day. With pack and crystal in one hand she leapt upward, her claws sinking deeply into the stone before pulling herself up one handed and making her way back up the snowy slope to the trail.

“Sorry ‘Dell,” said Ikuno, looking sadly in the direction of the alarune’s forest. Turning away, she began trudging through the snow toward her cave, trying to formulate a plan to rescue her lover.

——

Pleasant feelings from his groin coaxed Kal from his slumber, along with it came a painful throbbing in his head, back, and legs.

“Ikuno stop,” Kal groaned without opening his eyes, “I feel like I was just trampled by an ox.”

As memories slowly filtered back in, Kal recalled watching a column of lightning stop just up the slope from where he had fallen and coming to rest on a boulder, everything after that was darkness. Judging by how his voice echoed, he assumed that something bad happened and Ikuno brought him back to her cavern.

The pleasant feelings continued, which was uncharacteristic of Ikuno, not that he had asked her to stop very often, and then only because he was in the mood for something different at the time. Regardless, before now she had always quit whatever she was doing immediately when asked, with one exception, but that was a special circumstance.

“Ikuno, stop!” he said more forcefully and waved a hand over his groin to shoo her away, after the incident with her getting drunk on magic Kal felt it was safer for his manhood to never push her away when he was in her mouth. The back of his hand smacked against a piece of rock… that was moving… over his dick… like he was getting a blowjob from a boulder.

Kal’s eyes snapped open as he sat up, ignoring the screaming pain in his head he fought through the dizziness and looked down his body to see… he was getting a blowjob from a boulder.

Jerking his hips to the side he pulled out of the creature’s mouth while the strength rune came to life. He tried to push the thing in front of him away, instead sending himself sliding backwards on whatever soft material was beneath him.

Looking about he saw that he was in a small cavern dimly lit by glowing mushrooms and lichens. He sat upon what appeared to be some type of moss bed that covered this small section of the cavern floor. The air was damp and warm, and he could hear a trickle of water coming from somewhere, though he couldn’t tell where in the faint light.

He scrambled to his feet with painful protests from his legs and back along with another wave of dizziness, in front of him the creature was also standing up. Not wanting to deal with this thing while injured, he pushed magic towards the healing rune. Nothing happened. It took him a moment to realize the bracer with his healing rune and shield was gone. The creature stomped forward attempting to pin him to the wall but Kal easily avoided its slow movements. Stumbling his way to the other side of the cavern on legs that didn’t want to obey his commands, he quickly drew two runes in the air. One was the drawn version of the light spell that Ikuno had made him learn, instead of replacing the glowing rock he had lost.

The rune for the light spell spun in the air for a moment before turning into a ball of light and floating to the middle of the cavern ceiling, finally giving him a good look at his opponent. The woman appeared to be half-rock and half-human. Starting at the side of her nose, the upper left quarter of her head was made entirely of deep gray stone that protruded from her skin by about a finger’s width. A deep recess mirroring the placement of her human eye held a glittering red gemstone that shifted and glinted in the magical light as she looked about. Her right arm looked like she wore a giant stone gauntlet that covered her entire forearm, with a large spike extending from the elbow. On both of her feet were similar stone ‘boots,’ only these boots had toes and moved like a normal foot as she walked towards him. When she got closer, Kal noticed tiny white flecks within the gray stone that occasionally caught the light just right and shimmered for a moment.

The rest of her body was relatively normal for a human woman, her breasts sagged just a bit but had a tantalizing sway as she walked.