Chapter 9 Meeting the Girls (1/2)

The eyes of the three snapped to Jack at the same time, the smallest of the three hiding further behind the other's robes as the largest stepped forward, walking through the smoking crater towards him, her sword arm extended to her side at the ready.

Jack kept waving and calling out for several more seconds until the largest woman got close enough for Jack to get a better look at her. Her skin was definitely as red up close as it was at a distance. Her face was turned up into a bit of a snarl, but was still very feminine and well-proportioned, with large yellow eyes, a slight nose, and high cheekbones. In spite of her grim appear and strange skin tone, he immediately found her insanely attractive. And even in spite of her armor, it wasn't hard for him to spot the presence of a very shapely body. Once she got close enough he felt he could bother trying to talk to her, he smiled and waved up.

”Hi! Hello! I'm glad you're here! I was sure they were going to carry me off and eat me!”, he said.

”Shut up”, the woman said bluntly as she drew up in front of him and looked down at him. Compared to his tiny miniaturized form, she was absolutely massive. She pointed the blade of her sword down at him. ”Who are you?”

”I'm, uhh, I'm Jack. Nice to meet you...?” He said, smiling awkwardly up at her as he found his will to keep talking vanish.

”You're human. Why are you so tiny?” She asked.

”Bit of an accident, really... I tried to make myself larger, and apparently said the wrong spell word or something”, Jack said, sheepishly. ”I'm still trying to figure out this whole magic thing. Frumpkin didn't really explain how it works.”

Before he could say any more, the red skinned woman turned and whistled in the direction of the other two, and called out to them as she waved them over. ”Eleanor, Madeleine, I found him. He's just managed to shrink himself. Come on over and give me a hand.”

She turned towards him and sheathed her sword, and extended her hand out to him palm up, as if signalling for him to climb up into it.

”Sorry about that. We were told a great human warrior was coming and that we were supposed to meet him on the path. I just didn't expect that warrior to be a tiny goblin hostage.”

”Wait, Frumpkin told you I was coming...?” Jack said, looking up at her with confusion.