SAND
"Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh!" Sand whined as she slowly reahced out with her hand, using the very tips of her claw-fingers to close around the back of the ratty, wrapped up carpet. "Why are we doing this? How did we get here?"
Sand's horrible, awful, no good Kobold, her arms crossed over her chest, her face grim, watched her without pity and without remorse. "Just...get it over here."
"Uuuuugh!" Sand whined.
She hauled the awful, damp weightiness around. It slapped down next to the trash heap while Samwyn shook his head, then took his heat off. "Tis as I feared," he said, quietly. "She's here."
The carpet slapped down, half rolled open, and a single pale arm flopped free, tipped with partially extended claws. Mavlynn reached out, then drew her hand back, her fingers touching her lips. Sand leaned over and saw the empty, stairing eyes of the corpse. An elf girl, pretty and tough looking - relaxed in death, and dripping with moisture as rain pattered down on the metal awning over the trash pit. Sand whimpered, then looked back at Mavlynn.
"Do you know her?" she whispered, softly.
Mavlynn nodded.
"Slake," she whispered.
MAVLYNN, A FEW HOURS AGO
"You know what this reminds me of?" Mavlynn asked as she walked towards the bar that Sand had picked randomly off the internet. "When I first met...Slake."
Gasp!
Sand asked.
Who is Slake?
Mavlynn chose her words very, very carefully. The tiny dragon inside of her brain was still quite happy and eager to yank and grab at her ability to speak any time it detected that she was going to spill the beans about being turned against her will into a kobold. "She was an old doorkicker I worked with, before I decided to become a kobold." Technically, she had decided some things. Maybe. Kinda. If you squinted.
Maybe we'll meet her!
Sand said as Mavlynn pushed open the double doors to the DRAGON SPEAR and looked around slowly. Her heart lumped in her chest - excitement buzzing along her nerves, while Sand quivered all over her body. The poofy had she had formed almost deflated in excitement as Mavlynn took in the bar. It was a bit less of a total dive than the CUM Pit, for one thing, it hadn't been named the CUM PIT at any point in its existence. The doorknicks who lived around here...were
rich
. Well, not rich. They were well to do by doorkicker standards - with flash new garb and gear, shiny new implants, and gold to spend. The music was fierce and feral, and the elf girl stripping by the bar looked as if she was actually enjoying swinging herself around and around the pole. The bar had a large, healthy looking tap who was splayed across a few metal bars, his dick hanging free as he actually watched the stripper move along. The barkeep gave her a big grin between his thick mustaches while Mav shouldered her way between two well dressed kickers and gave him a nod back.
"Straight piss please," she said.
"Right up," he said, taking hold of the dragon's dick, aiming it at a tankard. "You in off a kick?"
"Fresh in town, actually," Mav said.
"Heh, welcome to Wyrm City, buddy," the man said.
Behind her, a cold voice spoke.
"This seat was taken, Nechte."
Mav...had been pushed around a lot over the past few days. She had her brain fucked with. A dragon was in there, in fact. She had had her body, her will, her soul itself reshaped. And now, she was out on the town in a combat capable augmented kobold body, wearing her mistress' daughter like a fine three piece suit, and she realized that the voice behind her did not belong to a dragon, it didn't belong to a mysterious man who ran the evil organization that trafficked in living people to be turned into fucktoys. It belonged to some lowly, barely functional street-dwelling wanna be adventurer who made their money by kicking in doors and killing corporcs.
She didn't have to take
shit
.
She picked up her tankard and started to drink. And drink. And drink. And drink.
Fresh from the dragon's dick, the mana rich liquid was warm and fierce and it left her belly bubbling with the energy. She slammed the wooden tankard down and slowly turned around to find that she was facing a short, squat looking dwarf who had modded dragon fins onto his head. His right hand had been hacked fully off and replaced with an enlarged dragon claw, the bladed fingertips as long and as sharp as small knives. He grinned, showing her a lot of sharp teeth. He was flanked by the two rogues she had stepped past, the two of them both elves in black leather jackets, sunglasses covering their eyes, though she could see both of them had standard dragon ports on their wrists for jacking into the dragon lines that threaded every machine in Wyrm City together.
"Was it?" Mavlynn asked, her voice a low, quiet purr. She wondered if maybe Sand would tell her to tone it down. After all, she was her owner's daughter, she could order Mavlynn to back down and Mavlynn would have to listen to her.
Fuck you're hot, holy shit,
Sand said.
"We don't like random new nechtes from other cities trying to muscle into our favorite seats when we're fresh off a hot kick," the dwarf said. "Now, unless you wanna get poleaxed, I say, you should get the fuck out." He jerked his thumb over his shoulder. The big thumb, to be clear. He could move that clawed, massive hand remarkably fast.
"...so, like, do you jerk off with that hand, or what?" Mavlynn asked, the beer making her feel light and bouncy.
The dwarf's eyes widened at her.
"I was just wondering, cause, it looks like you'd have a hard time noticing you even grabbed anything, so much bigger than your dick and all," Mavlynn said, smirking down at him. "I heard dwarves were short, I didn't think they were tiny too."
"Tik, Tok," the dwarf growled. "Hold this fruity out of towner in place, I'm gonna show her why they call me Big Claw."
"Hey!"
The voice behind her was the barkeep. He was pointing with one finger at the four of them. "You break anything, it's on your fucking tab!"
Mavlynn shrugged, spreading her hands, then smirked down at the dwarf. She felt the buzzing rush of her adrenaline, pumping in her veins. She didn't have anything to be afraid of. She felt alive and free for the first time since...she blinked, and nearly lost her entire head because she was struck so profoundly by the realization that she hadn't even felt this good
before
she had been captured and turned into a kobold. In that moment of distraction, Big Claw stepped back, then very carefully swung his claw up in a curving arc, clearly planning to completely disembowel her. Time seemed to slow as Mavlynn's wicked fast reflexes kicked on, her nerves buzzing with energy. If she stepped back, she was pretty sure that his claw was going to smash into the bar and she'd have that on her tab. So, instead, she stepped in, to the side, grabbed onto his wrist, twisted and hurled. The dwarf, clearly not expecting anyone to try something as foolhardy as grappling a dwarf, was a bit off balance.
Normally, this would not have mattered. He was a
dwarf