Operation 'DO NOT DIE'

"Alright, operation 'DO NOT DIE' is a go, boys."

Exzola said with enthusiasm. It looked like he was going to be the leader in this suicide mission. The sun had come up and even though they did not see the two girls leave their tent, which they were sharing, Exzola was sure they were at the oasis's spring at that time.

"For the man who have tried and failed, and the man who are too cowardly to take this mission, I do not blame them as I will not blame anyone who chooses to leave now."

Exzola said those words with so much passion you would think that they were going to war. It was Sheyken's only chance to back out of this suicide mission but with his third leg resonating with Exzola resolve, and seeing Falgur who looked like a lost puppy, thinking it would find a juicy bone if it followed the big dogs as they sniffed the air for one, seeing he could not stop him from going, he took a gulp of his saliva and stood firm.

"Good, I see your resolve man and young legends, let us commence. Follow my lead and keep low."

All nine of them turned in one direction with Exzola as the lead. They were as quiet as a mouse walking through what little vegetation the oases had except for one person, Lasore. Sheyken could not shake off his annoyance of him fumbling about as they went on. The others were so focused and drunk that they did not notice how much noise he was making. Sheyken thought that with the old fool there, the mission had less than 1% to succeed, but he had resolved himself and he would still take it. He put his force field around him and gestured him to stay quiet. Lasore was even happier to get to float again such that he could not help but smile and drink as that was all he needed to do.

Exzola gestured to them that it was 50 meters left till no point of return. When everyone nodded and Falgur still nodding with vigor and not knowing why he was so excited, they moved on.

"Awe, Salina, looks like we have some brave souls in our ranks."

"What?"

Salina asked as she stop enjoying the warm water and looked at Seduralto.

"Nine of our men seem brave enough to try and take a pic at us as we bathe. Well, they deserve medals if they do not die."

Seduralto said watching Salina get angry.

"Don't they know I can tell who they are from a mile away since the desert is like my domain? Let see who they are."

She said as she started to focus. Salina's eyes were already on their way to becoming red.

"Looks like, Exzola is leading them. Well, they did choose a good leader. He is followed by the three idiots, Pilalo, Laker, and Butt Chaser. Then there is Tapona followed by Lariote."

When Salina heard Lariote's name called out, she almost went berserk right then.

"Then Falgur and then their idiot of a guardian Lasore who is made to float in the air by Sheyken."

When Salina heard Sheyken's name her eyes instantly returned to normal and even though most of her body was underwater, she tried to cover herself using her hands.

"Awe, what do we have here. You have never shown that reaction before."

Salina's face instantly turned red.

"Awe, its surprises all around today. This trip is already worth it."

Selduralto said teasing her.

"Well, there are kids in the group. I just thought I should cover myself."

Selduralto was not born yesterday and she already knew why she was acting that way.

"He is something else, isn't he?"

Salina stayed quiet like she did not hear her.

"I know you heard me and you know who I am talking about."

"He is, and his eyes sometimes look at me and when I look back at him it is like they are the eyes of a grown man."

"Hahaha, well, I see he has been making moves on you."

Salina stayed quiet for a bit.

"He is just a kid and kids play games. If I entertain them, people will start to think I am taking advantage of a child."

"Well, you are right about that, but I am sure that will not stop him from going after you with what I have seen of him, and who said he is playing a game."

Salina did not say anything.

"There are nobles who get engaged at a very young age while one of them would already be of age. They do this for many reasons. The King of kings and the Queen are prime examples."

"I am not a noble and why are we talking about me liking a kid?"

"Says the one they call the princess of Senjira"

Seduralto retorted.

"And who said anything about liking him?"

Salina's face went slightly red.

"Well, I am not your mother and she chose not to say anything about this, but as the future leader of the guild, securing someone with such potential and talent to Senjira by having his hand would be a massive step for the town."

"Why are you saying these things, I do not even want to talk about him."

"Because where he is going, anyone who sees him for what he truly is will want to take him in their family together with his brother using any means they can."

Salina kept quiet.

"But as a friend, I would want you to be happy and choose how you want to live, but do remember that I am an eighty four year old who is still a virgin. I would not want anyone to follow in my footsteps."

Salina blushed again.

"Do not worry friend, you are dedicated to climbing the steps of the mage's world, and me and my father will support you till you reach your limit if you have one. I think this is something you should not concern yourself about for now. He is still growing and you might not be the only crush he has during his growth. Just focus on getting stronger because I have no doubt he will catch up in no time. Trusting what I see in him, if he really likes you, he will come for you with all he's got once he comes of age and no amount of spells you have will keep him away."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because as young as he is, I think he is the only boy that can handle your nature."

When Seduralto said those words the whole of her face turned red making her try to hide underwater.

'It would truly be something great if we can have his hand or unwavering support.'

Seduralto thought.

At that point in time, the boys had made it to their destination.

"Alright, boys this is it. Our eyes shall bear witness to the bare truth of our goddesses."

Exzola whispered while sweating profusely. They were hiding behind a big boulder that looked over a spring that was covered by tropical trees. Exzola lifted his hand, gesturing that they should all look over the boulder on the count of three.

'One, two, three...."

They all lifted their heads and what they saw made all of their noses red. Seduralto was all alone in the spring but with her back facing them. That alone with knowing that she was naked underwater made their thoughts go wild.

'I think that is a good enough of a reward for brave soldiers.'

Seduralto thought to herself. Seven golems appeared out of nowhere and stood behind them. When the man saw the golems shadows, their stomach instantly felt like a black hole had formed inside them with it contently turning in on itself. goosebumps ran throughout Lasore's skin as he instantly sobered up.

"Abort, abort the mission, the enemy of men's ambition has sported us."

Exzola said out loud. His instructions to his fellow men made Seduralto laugh as she put one hand over her mouth trying to hide that she was laughing.

'Boys will be boys.'

She thought, remembering when she was young and the men who pursued her. Unfortunately for the boys, the golems captured them all except for Sheyken and Falgur as no golems were there to capture them. Seeing this and seeing their comrades being put on the laps of the golems like they were about to spank a child's buttocks, they wanted to go and save them.

"Save your selves!"

The captain of their mission gave them an order and they could not refuse it as they saw the resolve in his face. They did not waste time and ran for their lives right as the hands of the golems raised up. A sound like that of a machine gun fire ring was then had though out the oasis, waking everyone. They thought they were being attacked as they heard the sound of men begging some kind of goddess for mercy.

The boys stopped before they reached the campsite. They wanted to go back but the sound of men crying out squashed what little resolve they had. After a while they heard footsteps and thought it was their comrades. They came out of their hiding spot to see meet them but they were met with two girls, one with her face red and the other giving them a wink as she passed by with a smile.

"You can go check on them."

Seduralto said as she passed. The boys gulped and immediately went to see how their comrades were doing.

"It hurts, it hurts."

"Ahhh, I want to die, please kill me."

"Ahhh... I can't feel the one good butt cheek I had left. Quickly boys, tell me, is it still there? I am afraid to touch it and see if it is."

The boys did not know whether to laugh or act sad at the scene of men crawling all over the place with one thinking he did not have butt cheeks anymore. Lasore had fainted from the pain and Sheyken did not feel sorry for him one bit.

"I wonder why we were spared."

"Because you are the Legends of Senjira,"

Exzola said as he had crawled all the way to where Falgur was.

"This was my first and last mission little one. I pass the touch to you to carry to the next generation.... please... please... keep, it, alive...."

Exzola said as he finally fainted from the pain as it seemed he got the worst of it since he was the leader. Falgur looked so proud that he was chosen for something so important that even his chest packed up thinking he had grown up.

'Well, at least we achieved our mission objective, which was to not die.'

Sheyken thought, not wanting to even think how much the spanking of grown men hurt. They help them to their respective tents with the people looking on wondering what had happened. With even the Legends of Senjira not wanting to say a word about it, they thought it was something terrible, so they let them be. The boys had resolved to never talk about the incident as grown men being spanked was just so embarrassing it could drive one of them to suicide.

Night came and everyone went to sleep, tired from staying up till late the night before with some of them having not slept at all. Sheyken woke up from his sleep with his veins feeling itchy. His blood seemed to be reacting to something and it was a feeling he had never felt before as he did not know what was wrong with him. Seeing Falgur fast asleep and still in the position he had fallen asleep on, his intuition told him something must be wrong as he had never done so ever since they met.

After him trying to wake him up being unsuccessful, he knew something must be wrong.

He left him to see what was going on outside and found the place deafly quiet. He got a bad feeling about what was happening until he saw Esiyana's mother walking up to him carrying her sleeping body like she was carrying a sack of potatoes.