138 Whakamutu Mutu - Part 3 (1/2)

Everyone on the deck starts to relax and spread out from their battle lines. Aoi curls up and lays down; Lina and Ciel sit down on her large form; Yunia leans against the bridge tower; Hana and Roxanne cuddle near the starboard railing; the bodyguards lean against the railing near the bow; and Oritiki stands behind the prow.

She turns to the town just as a Holly notices a commotion. It seems that a bored scout has finally spotted our ship and alerted the town.

A group of small and lithe Chimeras scramble to the small delta wing planes and take off vertically, then zoom out of the dock at an impressive speed, flying in a delta formation.

Their yellow planes are like mouse cursors: triangular and wide with a small tail pointing out the back. They're so small that there's barely enough space for the pilot in the cockpit. Most of its volume actually comes from its wingspan, which is five times as wide as the cockpit in its entirety.

I see three small gems at the tip of each plane: one green, one brown, and one red. If I were to make a guess, these gems cast [Wind Blade], [Earth Bullet], and [Fireball], respectively. I don't think they'd send these small planes to intercept us if they didn't have any offensive capabilities.

The blue-furred goat turns to Aoi and looks at her curiously, then they turn to Hana and ask with a young male voice, ”So, how did you tame a dragon and teach it to use a halberd?”

”I'm not tamed. I chose to follow him,” Aoi responds with her deep, sensual dual voice, and Lina translates for her.

The young goat-man lets his mouth hang in surprise. The other bodyguards turn to us, too, suddenly very curious, and Oritiki holds back a chuckle.

”I'm pretty sure that he tamed you with his dick,” Hana comments, then says it in Reo, too.

”You know he didn't ask that!” Aoi exclaims, not because she's ashamed of Hana's words, but because she recognized her teasing tone.

The composure of the brown bull breaks, and he fidgets nervously while his eyes dart between me and Aoi. ”H-how would that even work?” He asks, flabbergasted.

Oritiki turns her head back, and her blood-red eyes give the brown bull a frightening glare. ”Paraaone, these are land-dwellers. Respect their privacy,” she chastises him.

The bull immediately stands at attention, and his eyes look off in the distance. ”Apologies. I forgot my position,” he says.

”It's fine,” I say and wave my hand.

”I can reduce my size so that it squeezes tight. His penis can change shape and grow, too,” Aoi says and gives them a toothy grin as Lina translates while blushing.

”Grow…?” Oritiki faintly asks. They are all too stunned to inquire any further.

”How attractive do you think Oritiki is?” Alissa asks through [Bind].

”Not particularly, though we can't really see her figure under all her armor,” I reply.

”I know you like wolf girls, at least,” Roxanne teases.

”Well, it is in my name,” I reply.

”Wait, seriously?” Alissa asks, and I respond with an internal nod.

”You're not a wolf, you're a human dragon!” Aoi exclaims and pouts internally.

”And you're a dragon human,” I say, and she smiles internally.

Oritiki simply runs a hand through her fur and looks towards the approaching planes while the bodyguards start whispering among themselves. They have no reason to believe Alissa's words, but she also offered to prove it, so you could say that some of them got a little interested.

Once the intercepting planes notice the Celestial Horns escorting us, they slow down and add to the escort. The wind elementals become even more interested in the Celestial Horns and bunch up while mimicking Alissa's cute expressions of confusion.

One of the planes flies alongside the ship and matches our speed. They rest a wing on the railing of the ship and Oritiki grabs it to keep it in place, then the cockpit opens, and the pilot talks to her.

I see a khaj-… cat woman in a dark green jumpsuit heatedly discussing the procedures for our reception. Oritiki wants to take us directly to the higher docks due to the exceptional circumstances of our arrival while the cat woman wants us to go to the lower docks since we're commoners.

”I think they're actual nobles. The pilot has a large harem, a dragon, summons, a Living Armor following them, and he gave me his last name,” Oritiki whispers, but unfortunately for her, the Holly at the prow can hear her perfectly.

”Did he introduce himself as a noble? No! They should go to the commoner's docks,” the cat woman hisses.

”I'm sorry, Kaatohe Ngerua, but I'm going to use my rank this time. We're going to the Golden Docks,” Oritiki says with finality in her tone.

Kaatohe actually hisses at Oritiki, then closes her cockpit and flies away.

--

I start to notice a spell in the air, it feels very familiar to Yunia's [Spirit Shield]. I look back and notice that the spirits aren't gaining on us anymore, they're actually slowing down.

I see… this is why the town hasn't been overrun by spirits.

”So, your group is… quite diverse. Are you all from the same place?” Paraaone, the brown bull, asks.

The names of the kingdoms changed after the empire conquered them, so we have to match our stories.

”I'm from the Domum Kingdom, ever heard of it?” I ask.

”I think my father once said that you Domums use a spell to transport people and goods instantly everywhere,” Paraaone answers.

”Exactly, that's called [Gate].”

”Well, it seems like the land-dwellers are faring better than us…” The blue goat glumly comments.

”What happened to us was a calamity, not a result of our failings,” Oritiki says, then motions for us to continue.

”I'm a slave from Mountainhome,” Lina says and bows quickly.

”We're from the Sommer Kunikreich,” Hana says and pulls Ciel into a hug.

Rabanara didn't exist until long after Arreira's time.

”I'm from the Brumeux Forest,” Alissa says.

”Aloresta,” Yunia calmly says.

”Succubi Holy Lands,” Roxanne says with a smile.

They might not even know what a Blood Slave is, so it might be better to just say that they're all my wives, except for Lina.

”We all met in the Sky Lands and… fell in love, then decided to explore the Broken Skies,” I say and grin awkwardly.

The blue goat and the quiet white goat suppress a chuckle.

”Apologies, but the blunt way you put it undersells the impressiveness of your group,” the blue goat says with a wide smile and tugs at his small white goatee.

”I'm impressed at how well most of you speak Reo,” the white goat says.

Only I have ten points in Reo while the girls each have a varying amount, so they have a noticeable accent, unlike me.

”I learned Reo to aid in our exploration of the Broken Skies, and my wives learned it to help with our daily lives since we'll be spending quite a bit of time among the Chimeras,” I say and give them a diplomatic smile.

Oritiki raises an eyebrow, but doesn't say anything. Our first meeting was rather awkward, so I think she might be suspicious about our background.

”What about that Living Armor and the floating dolls? What are they?” Paraaone asks.

”They are servants, consider them as something similar to summons,” I respond.

The attention of the bodyguards is drawn to the golems. They look at them curiously, though Jarn's appearance is slightly comical, so they focus more on her. They think she's a Living Armor while the dolls might be cursed in a similar way. Yunia, who's the closest to them, subtly tells them to not correct the bodyguards' guesses.

”Enough questions, we have to dock, so don't distract the pilot,” Oritiki says, and the bodyguards straighten their postures again.

--

She pulls us out of the Looping Winds and guides us up to the top of the town.

The buildings slowly increase in size as we ascend. First, they become mansions, then they gain gardens of increasing size.

The Holly scouting the town discovers a rare human or two, naked among the Chimeras. They might be why the Chimeras know some Andraste.

The interceptors disengage from our escort and return to their own docks, then, a minute later, we finally reach the Golden Docks. In true God-Ruler fashion, the dock is covered with details in gold. The first emperor really disliked using gold and silver as decoration, so this sort of art isn't present in most imperial homes.

The Docks is a large landing strip made of concrete, protruding out from the town and supported by a lattice of thick, metal beams. On each side of the landing strip, there are four platforms with wooden hangars in between them. On the outer edge of the platforms, there's a raised wooden walkway with some sort of rolled up bridge. It looks like each platform can fit a ship approximately triple the length of ours.

The thick, colored clouds all over the Broken Skies blocks out a lot of the sunlight, making it difficult to notice the difference between day and night. This dungeon also doesn't really follow the outside world's day-night cycle, so I have no idea what time it might be right now.

My watch says that it's currently daytime, but the illumination is so low that it feels like night for us. Because of that, the landing strip has been marked with glowing crystals in the same way they are on Earth, reminding me of my plane trips between Brazil and Canada.

Oritiki guides us to the closest platform to the town, a place normally reserved for the upper class. The entire Docks is empty except for a small galley-like ship, which is similar to ours, but it has lots of details in gold, just like the rest of the Docks. Instead of wings, it has five masts with furled sails laid out in a fan shape.

Ooh… I love seeing new airship designs.

We gently land, and a welcoming party comes towards our ship. I see one naked Chimera along with four others carrying spears and armored with gambesons and leather.

Alissa and I finally release the controls, then we head down to the deck, and I stop near Oritiki.

With a gesture from her hand, she dismisses the flying Celestial Horns, then turns towards us. Her eyes immediately land on Gify, and she stops for a moment, then looks me in the eye. ”I'll ask that you remain on this platform until I return or someone else comes to receive you,” she says.

I nod in agreement, and she jumps off the ship, followed by her men, then spreads her white angelical wings and gently floats over to the walkway. She lands in front of the welcoming party, exchanges a few words, then flies off towards the top of the town. Now that their glowing armor is out of sight, my eyes begin to feel the tiredness from looking at something so bright for too long.

We huddle up on the port side of the ship and wait for the Chimeras to come to us. They stop in front of the rolled-up bridge, and an armored soldier activates a small enchantment, making it unroll itself towards us and stop right on top of the railing, then metal clamps secure it to our ship. Ropes running along the bridge's railings suddenly tighten and pull the suspended bridge taut.

The naked Chimera is a man with a monkey head with a lot of bright yellow fur covering most of his body, which explains why he doesn't feel cold. The weird thing I'm noticing is how most of the men walk around with a half-chub. Enough blood to keep it long, but not erect, and this monkey dude is the same, though his is quite long, almost reaching his knees.

This group of people doesn't have wings and are much less well-built than the Celestial Horns. They also have an eclectic variety of body parts, making me salivate as I see the white and light blue wolf that looks rather feminine.

Here's hoping that that one is female.

Their puffy armor makes it impossible to know whether they have breasts or not.

Hana and Aoi stare bemusedly at the yellow monkey's long penis, but the other girls avoid looking down. Alissa, most of all, is noticeably disgusted at seeing another naked man, though the prospects of having me ogle naked women counters that negative feeling.

The monkey man stops near the end of the rolled-out bridge and stares at me with a serious expression. Even his long yellow tail is standing still in the air from the tension. He's nervous, but his tone is perfectly diplomatic as he says, ”Wolf Ryder, I'm harbormaster Koura, and I'm responsible for dealing with entry and departure of aircraft. As Oritiki may have mentioned, it's been such a long time since we last had visitors that the correct procedures to deal with this situation have been lost.

”I ask that you remain here as she has instructed since you won't be considered a simple guest for us. The news of your arrival will spread through the entire town, and we'd very much like to receive news from the outside. We ask that you understand our situation and cooperate.”

I give him a diplomatic smile, easing some of his nervousness, and nod, then I say, ”I understand. We're explorers, so we aren't in any particular hurry to depart. We'll wait for as long as necessary.”

He bows deeply, then smiles diplomatically, but his face becomes much gentler. ”Thank you for your understanding. I'll be in my office in case you have any need for us. I'll leave two guards here so that you may ask them for whatever you wish.”

I nod gently, and he turns around, then walks away. I give one intense look along with a subtle smirk to the beautiful wolf Chimera before they walk away. The feminine wolf stiffens for a second, feeling the intensity of my gaze, and shyly glances at me before going to stand at the entrance of the suspended bridge.

”I kind of like seducing others for you. If you can, let me have that one,” Alissa says through [Bind].

--

I pull out sofas for us, then we enjoy a simple honey and water Tonique tea.

”Should we take off our armor? If we are going to be received by their high society, then that would give the best first impression,” Yunia suggests.

”If they aren't living humanoids, then I don't trust them,” Alissa says.

”Unless a spirit has been corrupted, it won't turn evil or Wicked,” Ciel says.

”I can't say whether or not they've been corrupted, but they don't seem evil,” Yunia says, and Roxanne agrees.

”Let's change into our formal clothes, but I'll keep the elementals on the ship, just in case,” I say.

--

The sexy wolf Chimera stands still, allowing me to admire their body, but they can't stop themself from taking repeated glances at us.

”It's getting a little hot today, isn't it?” She says with a gentle female voice.

Fuck yes!

”Uh? Yeah, I guess,” the raccoon man responds and shrugs.

The wolf woman loosens her gambeson, revealing a hint of her milky white bosom.

She's a bit too far away for me to use [Sense Soul] on her, so I can't see her name yet. She's as tall as Hana; her fur is quite fluffy, like a Samoyed; its color is pure white with small light blue spots at the ends; her ears are triangular and tall; her snout is quite long and thin; and it's her eyes that have the most ”feminine” look with their long eyelashes and their seductive, angled shape.

I guess I've become a furry.