The Hunter - Part 4

The fight had been a tough experience. For Felixia only that is. Still being quite young and small, as well as lacking experience in combat, Felixia did not come out unscathed.

For the others, their fight had been uneventful.

With them only needing a conk on the head, taking down the Efflers had been a simple matter for the girls. Ameril was a little frightened at first, but once she saw Philly easily take one down, it wasn't long before she joined in and assisted.

Once Felixia had taken down its first Effler, they had moved in, heading to the sides where they had seen all the Efflers congregate. From there it was a simple matter of making sure the Efflers focused on them. Being as single-minded as there were it wasn't hard.

As they quickly took them down, they did hear some cry's from Felixia's fight. It was a mix of Felixia's voice and the squealing of the Efflers. Given that the squealing happened after Felixia it was safe to say it hadn't suffered too much injury, being able to fight back like that.

Once they had taken down the Efflers surrounding them, they headed over to check up on Felixia. They watched as Felixia took down one Effler just in time for the other to jump and latch onto its fur. They started to move in, thinking their assistance was needed, but as Felicia jumped to the side knocking it off, they realised there was no need.

The fight ended with both participants collapsing. One due to death and the other due to a lack of energy.

Checking out Felixia's wounds they saw blood in a few places, some of which was from Felixia but a lot was from the Efflers. Other than that, some of its fur was missing and they saw teeth marks on its tail. Philly said it was all quite minor and a few of her potions should deal with the damage.

So, Olivia slowly and carefully picked Felixia up, and once the girls grabbed a load of Efflers, they headed back to the camp.

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A quick walk from the massacre and they were back at the camp. Lyrika had thankfully not needed to use the emergency distress bottle, so all was fine with here and their gear.

A quick greeting between them all was given before Lyrika quickly made her way over after seeing Felixia.

"Oh no. What happened?"

The girls explained how Felixia's hunt had gone, ending up with a battle against two Efflers. All the while Philly was inspecting Felixia, checking the extent of its injuries.

She quickly concluded that it was as she thought. Nothing was life-threatening or permanent and really, things would just heal in time. But having her as the alchemist meant a much faster recovery was possible.

Philly took out a couple of jars, filled with some sort of paste or cream inside. It was something she always had on her, which was used to deal with minor injuries to the skin.

"Rub some of this gently on all of Felixia's wounds."

Olivia took the jar and started to liberally apply the cream over the bite and the scrape marks, giving them a good coating. She had to be very careful with the tail given how lithe it was, but she was able to coat the area that the Effler had bit onto.

The tail wasn't broken, thankfully. It just looked bloody and lacking in fur in a few places, but it probably hurt Felixia quite a lot. Even Lyrika commented about the pain it must be feeling given how sensitive tails are.

Once Olivia was done, Philly had finished rummaging around her bag for the health potion she was looking for. It was one that they had brought from the apothecary. It wasn't the most potent, like she had said, nothing was life threatening, all it would do is help speed up Felixia's natural healing ability.

However, Felixia needed to be awake to drink it.

"Felixia, come on you need to wake up," Philly said in a very sweet and caring voice. It was quite different from the uncaring voice she normally responded to them with. Olivia guessed she either cared about animals a lot, or she was just doing it in order to treat her patient.

With a few more cooing words and some ear scratches, Felixia's eyes slowly opened.

Philly then held out a small bowl which had several drops of the potion out to Felixia, in order to get it to drink.

Being the smart creature that it was, it understood that it's pack were trying to help nurse it back to health, and so without any issue, started to lap it up. Once it was all gone, Felixia closed its eyes to get some more rest.

"That should do it. After a good night's rest Felixia should be back to normal."

And with that, the whole group let out a sigh of relief they didn't know they were holding.

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Felixia slept like a baby.

The girls tried to keep quiet as they went about their day, but even with any accidental noises, nothing woke the sleeping Zentora.

Olivia did check every now and then that Felixia was still alive because of that, just to be sure. Lyrika chided her a bit, even though she too had the same fear given what Felixia had ended up sleeping through, but thankfully all was fine.

The girls prolonged their break, making she Felixia got a good amount of healing before moving on. During that time the girls had a nice meal using the Efflers, aside from Philly who opted just for hard tack and a few vegetables they had managed to find.

"This is actually exquisite. How have I never eaten an Effler before?"

Ameril was enjoying her first meal on the road, finding that simplicity was good in its own way. Being able to eat her meal right after it had been cooked was quite a different experience from her home. There the chefs would cook it all and keep it heated so it was ready for whenever her and her parents ate. There was also always so much going on on the plate. The more complex a meal was the more 'high class' the meal was this. This meant you had to scour through the lavishes of the meal in order to reach the actual food, which inevitably was lukewarm.

Now however, she got to try Effler meat right off the bone and right after it was cooked. And she was loving the change.

"May I have seconds, please."

Another helping was given which Ameril then slowly enjoyed it. Lyrika also helped herself to some more, having already torn through her first…maybe second as well, Olivia wasn't sure. Philly had finished her vegetable stew and had moved on to a nice juicy fruit as afters.

The girls continued to talk about random things. About what they expected to find in the village, stories from their past, even going so far as to talk about favourite colours and foods. Really, they were all just getting to know each other, as this was the first real sit down that they had all had together.

There was still a little bit of distance between Lyrika and Ameril, but with all that they discussed, it seemed like they getting closer. As people, they were very different, but it wasn't impossible for them to enjoy each other's company. It would likely end up coming down to the…extracurriculars between herself and them, and the friction that they would cause.

It was on that note that as Olivia looked around at the three girls, she just relaxed as they talked. She couldn't help but laugh internally at how she had three very beautiful girls with her, two of whom truly cared for her in a romantic way.

To think that in this world as a monster, she was doing better than she had on Earth. Well that's not entirely fair to say. She had her share of girlfriends, just not two at the same time. But still, for this to be happening while she was a creature that many fear, is quite an oddity.

She then looked over and Lyrika and couldn't help but recall what had happened last night.

'To think that we almost went all the way. We barely touched before Ameril interrupted. That still led to a fun night in a different way, but still.'

She couldn't help but wonder how things would have gone if Ameril hadn't shown up. Would something else have caused them to stop. Or would she have gone all the way with Lyrika.

'It's going to be amazing when it happens. She was all for it so I'm sure the next time we get together we shall finally do it. I can just picture her, laying there completely naked, with myself over her.'

Her mind then started to get flooded with images of how the night would go, starting off very relaxed at first, it being her first time using her asset in that fashion. She started to mentally drool as things progressed.

But before long, the images in her head started to get…rougher, more aggressive. A part of her seemed to enjoy seeing that, but another part told her how wrong that would be. Before long, the images of herself and Lyrika started to shift and change to herself with Ameril and Philly, again, with similar sort of scenarios.

Before things could go even further she quickly opened her eyes. She didn't even realised she had closed them.

'What was...what was all that?'

As far as she could recall, she had never imagined things like that before. Being with the beautiful girls at her side, sure that cropped up from time to time. But in the aggressive and…forceful ways that her mind was showing her, never.

It frightened her a little. Where had that all come from?

Its possible that her tastes had changed when coming to this world. And, given what she thought it might be, in a sense that was probably right. She had wondered how the biological urge that Goblins and Orcs faced on a daily basis would manifest, and maybe this was it. Why it hadn't really happened before now she didn't know. Could it have been because she now had a 'harem', which she made sure to air-quote, having experienced lovely times with two separate women? Or could it have been due to how close she and Lyrika ended up getting to going all the way?

Whether those thoughts were because of this urge, or something else, only time would tell. But what she was more concerned with was whether that would be the extent of it.

For now it was thoughts in her head. But was it possible that someday, she wouldn't be able to stop herself from liking the idea and applying it in real life? It was a scary thought and something that she would definitely need to keep any eye on.

And something…that maybe a very analytical mind would be able to help her with.