Chapter 15: Lexi’s Test Results

Several hours later, Lexi’s eyes blinked open groggily. At first, the paladin had not the faintest idea where she was. She remembered that her party had descended into the labyrinthine underworld, but the futanari struggled to think of a good reason why she was lying completely naked on a pile of pillows, snuggled up against the incredibly soft furry backside of her new mothkin follower, Luella. However, a glance at the enormous black panther paw casually draped over her hip sent a lightening bolt of recollection through Lexi’s mind, and the evening’s events all came flooding back to her, right up until the end when she and Luella had mind-broken each other in an intense simultaneous pair of orgasms and drifted off to sleep alongside the sphinx whom they had only just defeated in sexual combat.

Jesus Christ! the paladin thought to herself, sniffing the air and getting a huge whiff of dried cum and pussy juice. This place fucking REEKS of sex now, yeesh.

Feeling the soft pads of the large panther paw move slightly against the bare skin of her hip, Lexi looked back over her shoulder to see that Valeria was also awake. The sphinx’s glowing red eyes locked onto Lexi’s clear blue orbs as Valeria unfolded her black feathered wings, stretching them straight back behind her as she arched her spine and flexed her paws, revealing the knife-sized hooked claws concealed within the velvety black fur. After an exaggerated yawn, the sphinx casually lifted her paw from Lexi’s hip, giving the fur a few licks like any house cat waking up from a long nap.

“My, my,” she purred. “You actually proved quite true to your word, my brave paladin. And not only that, but you certainly went — shall we say — above and beyond to pass my test.”

Lexi chuckled sheepishly, a flush of mild embarrassment spreading across the lightly freckled white skin of her breasts and face. “Yeah ... I may have gotten a little carried away after ‘passing’ the test at first...”

“You’ll hear no complaints from me about multiple orgasms,” Valeria said jovially. “Particularly given that I was allowed to briefly experience sex the way that you do, having both a pussy and a cock.”

The exchange between Lexi and Valeria served to rouse the rest of the paladin’s party, the three girls variously yawning and stretching as they all woke from their respective orgasmically induced slumbering. Seeing that her party was all once again conscious, Lexi hopped to her feet and began dressing herself. And while she was not terribly keen about putting fresh clothes over a body caked in dried cum and pussy juice, she was grateful that her clothes themselves were not similarly soiled.

“Rise and shine, girls!” Lexi called out merrily, feeling quite refreshed after the nap.

Luella was the first of the three to rise, all four of her furry arms pushing the mothkin gracefully up into a brief handstand and then into a somersault as she rolled up to her feet like an acrobat. The mothgirl gave Lexi a grin and a wink, waggling her furry antennae slightly as she walked over next to the paladin to begin slipping on her own clothes. From the corner of her eye, Lexi realized that Samantha and Danica had not even bothered to doff their clothes before tearing into each other’s pussies. So crazed with lust had they been from the effects of Lexi’s spell that the two girls had merely pulled their clothes aside and started going at it — leaving the pair already fully dressed as they rose to their feet.

“Is ... it m-morning?” Danica yawned.

“Actually,” Luella said, closing her eyes and waggling her antennae slightly. “I think it is morning up above. Not that it means much to us down here though.”

“So,” Lexi asked the sphinx, seeing that her party was now all dressed and re-equipped. “We’re all good to go?”

“Yes, my young futanari,” Valeria purred, once again seated in the typically feline position, with all four of her enormous panther paws lined up beneath her. “Having succeeded so admirably against my challenge, you and your party are free to pass through the portal.” It was only then that Lexi noticed a large arched doorway behind the sphinx — something she did not think had even been there before Valeria mentioned it. “Fare thee well, adventurers.”

“Bye!” Danica said, covertly reaching out a hand to ‘pet’ Valeria’s black fur as she skipped by. “Sooo soooft!” the elf whispered, loud enough that everyone in the room clearly heard.

Samantha rolled her eyes and gave the elf maid a firm, but playful, smack on the ass as she came up behind her. “Move it along,” the monk said sternly. Danica initially looked back with mingled indignation and embarrassment, but all that melted away when she saw the hints of a smile tugging at the corners of Samantha’s mouth.

As soon as the party passed through the stone archway, Lexi looked back out of curiosity to see what the sphinx would do after her party had gone. However, to her shock, not only did she see no sphinx, but neither did was there even a portal leading into the chamber from which they had just come. Instead, the paladin was face to face with a smoothly wrought wall of stone blocks, with the corridor into which the disappearing doorway had led them now looking like the end of a cul-de-sac.

“Wait, what the fuck?!” Lexi gasped, starting in shock.

“Hahaha, oh yeah!” Luella laughed. “I should’ve mentioned this earlier, I guess. Sorry about that! Anyway, it’s pretty common down here for passages with assigned guardians to seal themselves up once the challenge has been passed.”

“That this place re-arranges its architecture is mildly disconcerting,” Samantha said in her typical deadpan fashion, belying the intense oddness of a dungeon which could apparently open and close passageways on its own, which implied some kind of intelligence guiding the entire subterranean world. And, although Lexi knew that this was likely another manifestation of the system administration’s invisible hand, the intense realism of this world left the paladin with a creepy feeling in the pit of her stomach.