Sexy Warriors, Episode 27

"Urgh...," Lady Grizelda groaned as she came to.  She hadn't opened her eyes yet, but she knew three things simply from her sense of touch; her head was resting on a table, her butt was sitting in a seat, and...her armor.  It was gone.  She sat bolt upright and opened her eyes.

She saw Shallista seated across from her at the table.  Then she looked down at her body.  "Sexy armor?"  She looked at Shallista again.  "You!  What did you do to my armor?"

"I've put it in a place for safe keeping," Shallista said.  "Welcome to the Sexy Warriors headquarters."

Another female voice said, "We're sorry, milady."

A sad female voice said, "We got our asses kicked."

She looked around.  It was her guild members, all wearing sexy armor and looking thoroughly embarrassed.  "Lady Raven?  Lady Vivian?  Lady Milicent?"  She shot an angry look at Shallista.  "What is the meaning of this?"

"This is your punishment for attacking Penelope," Shallista answered.  "She's currently in the hospital because of your actions.  You will make it up to her.  You will pay her bill in full.  Until you do, I'm absorbing your guild and making you all Sexy Warriors."

Lady Grizelda shot up to her feet and pounded the table with her fist.  "Absurd!  You think we'll go along with this?"

"I'll stomp the life out of you if you don't," Shallista said, the most eerie smile on her face.

Lady Grizelda looked around at her guild members, who all looked scared.  She grumbled, then sat.  "This is bull."

"It was bull when you attacked my guild member for no reason," Shallista said.  "It's only right that you make it up to her.  Starting tomorrow, you'll be doing busywork around the village."

"No..." Lady Milicent said.  "You expect us to go out in public like this?"

Lady Vivian looked down at herself sadly.  "Hmm..."

Lady Raven looked down at herself as well.  "I do feel a little bad about what we did to your friend.  I guess if this is what we have to do..."

"That's a bunch of garbage," Lady Milicent said.  "You really want to wear it, don't you?"

"Hey, this is hard for me, too," Lady Raven said.  "But we're in it now.  The sooner we get this done, the sooner we can stop wearing this humiliating stuff."

Lady Grizelda looked at Shallista.  "How do you wear this everyday?  It's embarrassing just sitting in this room wearing it.  How do you wear this out in public?"

Shallista slid her chair back from the table and stood.  "You'll learn soon enough.  Anyway, I'm off to bed.  I'm an earlier riser.  You're free to do whatever you want until then."

After Shallista walked off, Lady Grizelda grumbled.  "This is crap.  We don't have to do this."

"Yeah," Lady Milicent said.  "This is crap."

"But what do we do to get out of it?" Lady Vivian said.  "She's too strong to fight and we can't very well bolt to the next town like this."

"It's simple," Lady Grizelda said.  "We'll walk into town, buy some armor and weapons, and then we'll beat her into submission.  I gave her a good run for her money by myself.  She can't beat us all."

"But she won't be alone his time," Lady Vivian said.  "We'll have to fight her entire guild and I believe they outnumber us by quite a margin."

"Besides, we'd have to actually go into town in this embarrassing armor to get real armor," Lady Milicent said.  "I-I...can't..."

They were right.  "Damn it," Lady Grizelda said.  "If only I had my chess set, I'd have never made such a miscalculation.  But she's going to force us to go into town like this tomorrow anyway.  We have to figure something out by then."  She sat for a moment in thought.  "Ah, I've got it.  Lady Raven, you can go get us some armor or at least some decent clothes.  Then we can all make a run for it."

"No."

Lady Grizelda looked at her in shock.  "What?"

"I s-said no," Lady Raven said.  "I'm staying."

"You're defying me?" Lady Grizelda asked.  "After all I've done for you?"

"I'm s-sorry, milady.  I want to make it up to that woman we beat on.  I think we all should do it.  After all, we all participated."

"I knew it," Lady Milicent shot.  "You want to be a slut and you're trying to guilt us into being sluts, too.  Well, that's not going to happen.  We don't need you.  Right, guys?"

Lady Vivian looked down at herself and groaned as if her stomach her hurt.  Then she said, "I-I'm staying, too."

Lady Grizelda couldn't believe this was happening.  "My guild...she destroyed my guild."  She pounded the table and stood up.  "You're all fired!"  She hurried for the door as tears stung her eyes.  She couldn't let them see her like this.

As she ran out into the darkness of the night, she thought about everything they had been through.  The battles they fought.  The times they shared.  They had become like little sisters to her and that redhaired whore took them all away.  And she was powerless to stop it.  She stopped running and dropped to her knees.  "I'm a maggot.  A worthless, filthy maggot."

She was about to let it all spill out but heard footsteps behind her.  She stopped her tears, looked back over her shoulder, and growled, "Who dares approach me?"  It was Lady Raven, Lady Vivian, and Lady Milicent with tears in their eyes.

"We're f-fired?" Lady Milicent asked.  "Y-you don't really mean that, d-do you?"

"I failed you," Lady Grizelda said.  "I have no right to be your guild leader anymore, so I'm letting you all go."

"You have every right," Lady Raven said.  "I don't want to be a part of her guild.  I just want to make it up to Penelope.  Make no mistake, you are my leader."

"Same here," Lady Vivian said.

"You mean it?" she asked them all.

They all nodded.

"Okay, no one is fired.  We'll all wear sexy armor and suffer together."

Lady Milicent put her hand on Lady Raven's shoulder.  "I'm sorry I said those horrible things to you.  I didn't mean any of it."

"I know," Lady Raven said.  "We were all just a little stressed out.  In times like that, sometimes crap just slips out."

Lady Grizelda stood up and dusted herself off.  "Hey, what do you say we go into town and get some drinks?"

"What?" Lady Milicent asked.  "Like this?  Are you serious?"

"It's not like we can avoid it at this rate," Lady Grizelda said.  "We might as well reintroduce ourselves to the town and apologize to the watchmen while we're at it."

Her guild members looked unsure about it but all said, "Yes, milady."

*

Harmon and the watchmen were at the bar having a meeting.  There would be no drinking.  The last time they did that, they wound up short a member.  Penelope, their seventh member, was laid out in the hospital, all because they decided to let their guard down and cut lose.

"I'm sure ya know why we're all here, boys," he said to his fellow watchmen.  "We have it pretty easy in this town.  Ain't too many things that threaten us out here in the middle of nowhere.  But as we learned earlier today, maybe we have it too easy.  Seein' Penelope tied to that bench all motionless...well, it did something ta me.  So, startin' today, I'm swearing off drinking.  I hope you'll all join me in this endeavor to be a better watchman."

One of the watchmen raise his hand.  "If those women hadn't used their charms on us, Penelope wouldn't be in the hospital right now.  So, I'm swearing off women.  As a matter of fact, starting today, I'm officially gay."

Another watchmen scratched the back of his head.  "I don't know if I'd go that far, but you do you."

That's when Lady Grizelda and her ladies walked in.  They all looked quite embarrassed .  "Umm...hi, everyone."

Harmon could only stare in shock.  "L-lady Grizelda...t-trying out a new outfit, I see."

One of the watchmen nudged the one who swore off women.  "You still gay?"

He shook his head.  "Nope."

"We just wanted to say w-we're sorry for what we did," Lady Grizelda said.  "So if you wanted to start over with some drinks, we'd be happy to join you...if you don't hate us."

"Well, I'm not drinking, but feel free to enjoy some with my boys," Harmon said.

"Oh, yes!" another watchmen said.  "We'd love to ogle...I mean have drinks with you."

The other watchmen went along with it.

"Okay, you enjoy your drinks," Harmon said.  "I'm headed out to the main gate.  One of us has ta watch for wolves or something.  Take care of my boys, ladies."

As he headed for the door, Lady Grizelda grabbed his hand.  "Hey.  Can I come with you?"

"It's just boring watch duty," he said.  "Ya sure ya want to?"

With a twinkle in her eyes, she said, "I would like nothing more."

Did it really mean that much to her?  Well, he wasn't going to argue if a beautiful woman wanted to do watch duty with him, especially if she was truly sorry for what she did to Penelope.  "All right, come with me."