Chapter 14

Rain gradually came back to consciousness as something tugged at him with greater and greater determination. His eyes cracked open and he looked down blearily to see Opal tugging on his arm, her small hand gripping at his fur. She looked up at him and bit her lip.

“What is it?”

“I...”

Rain wiped some of the sleep from his eyes as he slowly became more alert.

“Is something happening? Why did you wake me up?”

“ ... I want...”

“You need something?”

“I want to feeeed youuu!”

Rain blinked at her.

“We’re wasting time just snoozing in bed, I want to go and find monsters and levelers for you to eat and make you bigger and bigger and Bigger! C’mon c’mon! Let’s go!”

Rain sighed.

“You might have an addiction.”

“Don’t tell me you don’t feel hungry, you’re always hungry.”

“Now you mention it I am ravenous and there’s a cute little snack right beside my bed.” He opened his mouth flashing his carnivorous teeth at her.

Opal slapped his arm. “Not me, I’m not a snack, I am cute though.”

He gruffed a laugh and sat up.

“We can go hunting, but not mushrooms, too slow and inefficient, I need meat, real and bloody and juicy meat.”

“Yes! And lots of it!”

“What about fishing?”

Opal made a face, “I can fish, but It’s not enough, one big fish every one to three days, it’s just not enough. I’m not a fishing Gobbo, I’m a scouting Gobbo, I’m better at not-fishing stuff.”

Rain gave her a questioning look. “Okay, so what not-fishing things do you have in mind?”

Opal smiled slyly. “Oh, I have something in mind. I know the area you know.”

“I know you know.” He gestured with a paw and Opal crawled from the tent. He watched with amusement as she left a few drips of white behind her, still leaking from the night before. He crawled out after her and clambered to his feet where he opened his maw wide and yawned, cracking his joints in the cavern light. He had no idea if it was truly morning or night, the dungeon seemed to operate on a casual cycle, I.e sleep and wake when you want. It didn’t matter what your sleep schedule was, the moss and crystal light would always be steady and continuous.

Opal was still on the ground having crawled out of the tent. She looked up at him and then with a look of determination in her eye she got her feet under her and with trembling legs slowly rose to stand. Her knees shook as a line of white rolled down her inner thigh.

“I’m, I’m okay, I can walk, watch.”

She lifted a foot forward carefully, then stepped, paused to catch her balance, then took another step. She looked up at Rain with a grin.

“See.”

She lost her footing as she looked up and her legs buckled. She grabbed at Rain’s waist and clung to him to keep herself standing.

“I’m not sure I do see. Your legs are like a pair of wet noodles.”

“No they’re not!” she glared at him fiercely.

Rain pursed his lips and stepped away from her. Without support she sunk down to the ground and sat down.

“This is your fault!”

“You’re right it actually is, I fucked you silly until you went weak in the legs and you loved it. I didn’t know you would take such a long time to recover from it however. Just stay there and try to recoup your strength while I decamp.”

She crossed her arms and huffed but watched as he pulled down the tent and kicked apart the fire then stowed all their stuff in Opal’s rucksack.

He looked between the Goblin who was currently struggling to rise to her feet and the large rucksack.

“You’re not good for much if you can’t even do the thing you said you could contribute you know.”

“That’s not fair! Your dick made me like this!”

Rain scratched his chin and rolled his eyes. He then stalked over to the Goblin and to her dismay lifted her up onto his shoulders using his outsized strength. She protested loudly but being able to do nothing to stop him she soon quieted down. He picked up the rucksack with one paw.

“Directions.”

“Hmphh. Still need me huh?” She lifted one hand from where she was holding onto his wolf ears for balance and pointed. “It’s that way.”

Rain nodded and set off across the plateau and climbed down into the forest. He stomped through the grass and undergrowth between the trees, Opal wobbling along on his shoulders and trying to avoid any low hanging branches. It wasn’t long before they made their way to the edge of the foggy ancient woods and came to a halt by a dark cave that sloped away into the ground. The Goblin had guided them well away from any sleeping mushroom monsters and they had been undisturbed as they walked.

Opal tugged at his ear.

“W-wait. Let me get some clothes on first.”

She wiggled and he gently lowered her to the ground bum first and then tossed the rucksack beside her. She gave him an annoyed look but rifled through it.