Earth Dies

Thankfully, the evening had been uneventful. By the time the trio had gotten home, they had just enough energy to ensure that nobody had messed with the farmhouse in their absence, Colin recast his alarm spells, they grabbed a cold dinner, and then crawled into their beds. Bridgette had hung her ripped battle dress on a hangar in the closet, hoping the self-repair feature would fix it overnight.

Alice yawned and stretched, snuggling back into Bridgette as the other girl spooned protectively around her. She hoped she never got tired of waking up like this. Alice felt Bridgette start to stir, muttering in her sleep and reaching out an arm that snagged around Alice's boob. Alice grinned happily, scarcely able to believe that this was her life now. She placed her hand on top of Bridgette's, giving it a gentle squeeze, before turning and kissing her friend on the nose.

"Wake up, sleepyhead. I think we gained a level."

Bridgette's eyes shot open. "Really? Holy shit you're right. That's awesome!" Bridgette glanced around, noticing her hands cupping Alice's breasts. "Hmm, maybe I had something more important I was thinking about in my sleep..."

"Later, you insatiable lech. I want to level and see what we all got and then eat breakfast. You can't keep distracting me with sex!"

Bridgette waggled her eyebrows at Alice, "Are you sure I can't distract you with sex? I can be extremely good at it."

Alice scoffed, "So confident with your skills, are you?" Alice started to climb out of the bed. "I'm hungry, let's go eat."

Bridgette stepped out of bed and grabbed Alice by the waist. "I'm hungry, too," as she dragged the other girl back into the bed.

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An hour later, the two made their way down into the kitchen where Colin had left now cold plates of eggs and bacon at their places. The wizard calmly sat in his chair, feet propped up on the kitchen table, and glanced at the two girls with a playful scowl on his face. "Your breakfast is cold."

Alice blushed a scarlet red. "I'm sorry, Colin. I had tried to get us up early, but Bridgette didn't want to get out of bed."

Bridgette stepped around Alice, slapping her on the ass and making the shorter girl squeal in surprise. "Can't you just magically heat this back up for us, oh kind wizard sir? Us poor womenfolk needed our rest this morning and were unable to come down until now."

Colin turned his head slightly and pointed at his elongated ears. "You forget that I'm an elf, Bridgette. I can hear really fucking well, even when I don't want to. There wasn't a lot of rest going on in the last hour upstairs."

Alice buried her face in her hands, "Oh god, I'm going to die of shame." She sat down at the table and pulled her plate over, staring intently at it and pretending nobody else was in the room.

Bridgette laughed at Colin, "Well played, you got me there. Okay, I'm sorry we wasted your breakfast, but thank you for cooking for us. Fighting makes me horny and I needed to work it out of my system. Hey, did you level too? Get anything cool?"

With a sparkle in his eye, Colin wiggled his fingers and a red glow surrounded Alice's plate for a moment. "All heated up for you, Alice." He turned to glare at Bridgette and mean mugged. "You can just eat cold eggs."

Bridgette stuck her tongue out. "You're such an ass. I said I was sorry. But fine, cold eggs it is."

Colin sighed and repeated his trick, heating Bridgette's plate quickly. "Fine, whatever, I'm such a nice guy. But yea, I hit level three when I woke up this morning. Probably the biggest thing is that I'm now an evocation specialist." Noticing Bridgette's blank stare, he clarified. "Evocation means magic that goes blows shit up."

"Oh, nice. But didn't you already blow shit up?"

"Yea, but now I can cast bigger spells and when I do, I can ensure that things that have a wide area of effect won't hurt allies, like you, if you're within the area. For example, if I drop a ten-foot wide fireball onto a pack of kobolds while you're standing in the middle, I'd prefer not to burn you alive."

Alice poked her head up from her plate, "I'd prefer that, too."

"So yea, I can do that - and then I've got two new spells. One is a big booming damage spell called Shatter, and then I can turn invisible."

"What a fucking perv. Invisible, huh? I'll bet you were the guy who always tried to peep into the women's locker room at school." Bridgette quipped with a smile.

Colin sputtered in shock, "That's not it at all! There are countless legitimate combat and non-combat applications for invisibility and I thought it would be an excellent utility spell to add to our arsenal."

"Yea, but now we have to worry 'what if that's Colin standing invisible in the corner jerking off?' every time I get my fuck on with Alice."

"WHAT? I would never!" Colin shouted, as Alice squeaked, turned an even brighter shade of red, and covered her face with her hands again in shame.

"Sure, I know you say you'd never, but how would I know if you're there jacking off? I mean, I fill her so full of cum that it's leaking all over the damn room, we'd never notice a little more splashing on the bed."

"B, stop! Enough!" Alice managed to blurt. "Colin isn't like that. I know you're just messing with him, but ... stop."

Bridgette leaned back in her chair, laughing hysterically. "You two are such prudes. The looks on your faces." She gasped for breath, still trying to get her laughter under control. "Okay, I'm sorry. I know you'd never do that Colin, that's why we love you. You're an awesome guy, not skeevy at all. I'm just poking fun. Invisibility is awesome and I can think of many use cases for it. But oh man, if I had an invisibility spell? Straight to horny jail."

Alice finished her breakfast and stepped over to the sink to clean her plate and put the dishes back away. "Third level seems pretty plain for me in comparison to that. I get second level spells now, including one where I can make a magical weapon appear and fight on behalf that seems pretty cool. Also, I can paralyze people temporarily, if I'm reading this right? In general, being able to cast at second level means that I'm going to be able to put out more heals and when I do upcast them, they're going to heal for even more, so a nice survivability boost, even if it's not flashy."

"Very nice, Alice. That's going to be an awesome boost to our healing and help us chew through the bad guys even faster." Bridgette patted Alice on the shoulder, encouragingly.

Colin nodded his agreement, "Healer levels aren't always the coolest, but they're honestly more important than anyone else. That will be a huge help."

Alice blushed and smiled, "Thanks guys. You do most of the hard work, I just stand in the back and cheer. Maybe next time I'll bring pom-poms and do a routine." Alice saw Bridgette's eyes glaze over as she started to smirk. "Hey!" She punched Bridgette on the arm. "No dirty thoughts! I thought you already got that out of your system this morning."

Bridgette chuckled, "Okay, okay. A girl can try, can't she? Anyway, yea. I hit level three as well, and it looks like a good one for me. I picked up a new specialization, seems to be called 'Zealot of the Lusty Goddess.' Naturally, it gives me an ability called 'Lusty Fury' where I deal additional damage to my targets, with the caveat that the ..." Bridgette uncharacteristically trailed off into silence. She blinked a few times, then cleared her throat and tried to quietly rush through, "with the caveat that the damage is of type erotic energy."

She glanced over the kitchen table to see both Alice and Colin staring at her, open-mouthed. Colin regained his senses first. "What in the fuck is erotic energy as a damage type? That's just stupid. How does erotic energy even hurt someone? That's just an absolutely stupid made up skill and lazy writing."

Bridgette growled, "Get over here nerd boy, and I'll show you how much lazy writing hurts." Alice jumped up, putting her arms out to calm Bridgette.

"It's okay, babe. I think it sounds cool, even if we don't know what it is. Maybe we can do a practice fight at some point, or else we'll just go find some more kobolds."

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After breakfast, the three set back out across the fields, looking for more kobolds. They cleared two small dens without even waking the kobolds within, having gotten much more efficient at finding and killing the small lizard-like creatures. It really was too easy for them to sneak up and kill unsuspecting kobolds in their sleep, but the trio felt no remorse as they continued slaughtering their way through corn fields.

"This is just too easy," Bridgette commented as the three sat and ate lunch under a tree near the creek. She threw a rock out, watching it skip over the water and end up in the bushes on the far side. "I'm not saying that I want it to be difficult, but there's something about the thrill of battle, being knee-deep in blood, swinging my axe, and fighting for my life that helps you feel alive. And butchering kobolds in their sleep just doesn't hit the same."

"Careful what you wish for," Colin cautioned. "You never know who is listening."

"Yea, I suppose you're right," she said. Bridgette got to her feet and helped Alice up. "Let's go back to hunting for more shit to kill. I need to get my murderhobo on."

As the trio walked away from the tree, a cluster of small mushrooms with peculiar red markings could be seen just barely peeking up above the soil where Bridgette had been eating, growing toward the sunlight above.

---

An hour and a half later, Bridgette got her wish. They had found yet another kobold den, but this time as they entered the den, they found it was empty.

"Huh, weird. Nothing here, not even corpses, but also none of our markings that indicate we've been here before. So I wonder where the kobolds are?" Colin peered around and threw out a few more light pebbles, trying to illuminate the rest of the dingy underground cavern.

"Actually, look over here," Alice called out. She crouched by a corner of the den and pointed at a tunnel that seemed to curve downwards. "It looks like we can go even deeper."

Bridgette let out a childish laugh, "That's what she said." She then walked up behind Alice, grabbed the other girl's hips, and mimed thrusting her pelvis forward repeatedly until Colin gently smacked her on the back of the head.

Colin shook his head and sighed, "Focus, Bridgette. I swear to god, if school counselors were still a thing, I would be filing so many sexual harassment complaints ..."

Alice pouted at him, "You're not even the one being harassed, how does that work? If anyone should be complaining, it's me. She treats me like a piece of meat. Just sex, sex, sex, all day every day."

"... meat. ... meat. ... meat. ... MEAT." came echoing up from the tunnel they stood in front of. The teens blinked in surprise.

"Uhh... that's unexpected," Bridgette stated to explain the obvious. "That didn't sound like an echo, exactly."

"MEAT. WANT MEAT."

"Okay that's fucking creepy. Step back guys and give me a little room," Bridgette warned, pulling her greataxe. Colin glanced over his shoulder to ensure the rest of the den was still empty, which it was, and he and Alice stepped a few paces back from Bridgette as she also took a step back from the tunnel. "You got any more of those light pebbles you can toss down here, maybe give us a heads-up about what's coming?"

"Yea, one sec." Colin grabbed a few pebbles and began throwing them down the tunnel, each blossoming with a calm white light as they left his hand. Almost immediately, the lights went out.

"Huh," Bridgette said, with a confused expression on her face.

"You are a pathetic excuse for a lover, you leave your partner unsatisfied and begging for stray dogs to finish her properly. You dress like a cheap whore, and your parents never loved you." The eerie voice came echoing out of the tunnel. Bridgette staggered briefly, grabbing at her head.

"What the fuck?" she whispered, wincing in pain as blood started to trickle from her ears.

"B, are you okay? What's wrong?" Alice called. "Don't let that voice get to you." Bridgette shuddered, her whole body shaking, as she shook her head like a dog trying to shake a flea. Bridgette readjusted her grip on her axe, shifting uncomfortably.

"Come get some, weird voice," she called, trying to sound brave. "You're all tough when you're hiding in a tunnel."

A bolt of crackling green energy came sailing out of the tunnel and blasted Bridgette in the face, knocking her flying backwards about ten feet, bouncing off a wall and landing clumsily on her knees. Blood started to drip from her ears, nose, and eyes as she stood back up.

"B!" Alice screamed. "Get your head in the fight. If he doesn't come up here, you go down and get him. We'll be right behind you. Heal," she called as she tagged Bridgette on the shoulder and cast a healing spell. Erotic pink energy suffused the taller girl, Bridgette briefly moaning in pleasure as she was healed.

"Right, got it. Time for my new ability." Bridgette squared her shoulders, gripped her greataxe, and shouted, "Lusty Magical Girl Transformation!" A blinding pink light erupted from Bridgette's midsection as Alice closed her eyes against the glare.