Blood poured out of my hand and some clear fluid that became white, forming a disk on the front of the blob of blood. It grew a pair of finger width legs and arms and little cute hand and feet, then a red dot formed in the center of the white disc. Finally, a mouth opened filled with white teeth like some torture device, then it started to make noises, flailing its arms around in the air.
"Herga blerga habsantch bibizalwozzle," The little monster complained, wiggling its little arms and hitting itself.
'Kick him, he does this every time he gets summoned! Hard to or he will want more and make sure it's into a wall.' -Drania.
The thing was just below knee-high, so I kicked hard into the nearest wall and smacked into it with a sickening slurping noise, almost going completely flat. Then it rolled down the wall and into a puddle on the ground and then reformed, throwing its legs out to the side.
"Ta-da! K! Mei! Lesha! None of you know who I am, and I have to keep my mouth shut because that's the rules, but girls! How's it been? Mei, have they been keeping all the food from you? And look it went to your chests as usual! You look like you haven't eaten in a month! I'd let you take a bite out of me, but I think I'm already past due. Oh, and Ladies how is the love life going? Any fun awkward sex stories you wanna tell you good ole buddy, Gobby? No? Anyways, what are we doing today?" Gobby asked in a series of bounces going back and forth from each of us.
"What are you?" Mei asked walking over to the Gobby.
"I'm K's number one servant minion! The strongest and bravest one of them all!" Gobby announced.
"He is pretty cute, how long does he stay around for?" Lesha asked.
"You have me forever! I'm basically indestructible, and I'm good at taking down bad guys! Where is one? Let me at him!" Gobby said while making punching motions.
"Okay, let's go then, I want to see you in action, Gobby," I said, pointing to the next hall after I had picked up the claws that were leftover.
The dungeons always had monsters, and they had some kind of small items that were valuable, but there were also traps. So if this guy could make it through the traps and let them off without dying, that alone would be worth its weight in gold. We would be able to move faster if it worked; I wonder what kind of treats he liked?
"Sure thing Miss K! I'll use the Gobby Trapcuum Cleaner move!"
Gobby ran into the hall and splattered face-first into the ground, and then began to spread out to both walls. His eye was in the middle of the hall and blood connected the walls. Then he started to move up the hallway and set off three traps, so that meant the place was a higher level!
Well, we would just have to see about the next room, but he wasn't kidding about being tough! The floor spike and fire didn't even phase him. Instead, he just kept going like nothing had happened. Once he got to the end, Gobby pulled back together and waved at us jumping into the air.
"Got them! Look! See!"
"K, what is he?" Mei asked with a screwed-up face.
"I don't know, but don't make ugly faces like that. I think he looks cute, and he is a great help so far. I don't know if you've noticed, but the dungeon is at a higher level, so he will make it easy for us. Come on, we still have a ways to go."
Mei shrugged then followed Lesha and me down the hall where Gobby was waiting. There was a stone golem in the center of the next room that looked huge and menacing, so I was curious to see what Gobby could do against something like a ceiling monster that was three hands taller than me.
"Gobby do you think you can fight something like that?"
"That pile of rocks? Piece of cake, look! Watch me, okay?!" Gobby asked as he looked up at me with a hopeful and exciting look.
"Okay, I'm watching."
What was this? Had I just acquired another child? I know you need a man to have one, but I didn't want them, yet I seem to be acquiring them like burrs.
Still, I watched Gobby run over yelling and waving his arms, and the girls came up beside me. The Golem raised a long rock eyebrow and then stepped on Gobby. We all pulled back in revulsion at the splatting noise made by Gobby getting squished under the massive rock foot.
The big stone golem looked at the blood around its foot and then lifted it. The monster started to make a grinding laughing noise that was hard on the ears, but something was happening under his foot. Where Gobby had been smashed into the ground, his mouth and eye were still in the blood and the mouth was getting bigger.
"Oh, so you think you're a funny guy, do you? You like the stone grinding laughs? Try that move again, rock brain!" Gobby called from the puddle.
The Golem didn't stop laughing, but it did stomp down again, but the foot kept going as it had just fallen into a deep hole. The golem had stopped laughing now and was trying to pull itself free, but it was too late. Gobby's mouth was getting bigger until the rest of the struggling golem fell in and was ground up.
Gobby pulled himself together and then burped out a purple gem, catching it in his hands, then running it over to me.
"K! Look! I found a pretty stone for you! Did you see me?! He was all, I'm gonna squish ha ha, but then I was like, not today rock man, I'm gonna eat you! See?! I told you I'm the best!"
Gooby swept the next hall, but there were no traps this time, so we all headed to the next room where two big green orcs were waiting. I looked at Gobby, but he shook his head.
"It's not that I can't or don't want to, but if I eat them, I eat them all, blood and everything. Well, except for the other things, like that pretty gem I gave you!" Gobby told me.
That made sense, so I looked at the girls and they both nodded, so I pulled for the strawberry lemon liquid silk. I rushed into the room and rammed the first ogre, and I noticed that Gobby had run with me and jumped at the other ogre, but got batted into the wall. An upward strike from the ogre I had knocked down pushed me back, and I was lucky that I had my shield still up.
Then, Lesha was beside me and slashing into the monster's arm as it tried to get me again with a backswing. I looked over just in time to push Lesha out of the way, and then get batted back with a direct hit to my shield. Something was missing, and I looked over to Mei and she had her hand forward, but nothing was happening.
'She is out of mana, you must use the Services, call to the blood within you!' -Drania
The ogres were coming for me, and ignoring the other two, but that was good. I concentrated and called to the blood that was stored in my body. Power, advantage, come to me!
[Red Blood] Activated!
[Eosinophil] Activated!
All fatigue and pain disappeared in an instant, and power flooded into me and red patches started to pop up around the neck, and groins area. If I wouldn't have been so wired on power, I would have laughed out loud, but that was not the right time.
I blitzed forward and pulled from only the strawberry, and used my shield to knock the first one at Lesha, who took the head off with a spinning slash. Then I punched up into the throat of the ogre and rolled between its legs, kicking up with a flat-footed straight leg. The wheezing noise coming from the ogre was cut off along with its head as Lesha made the final stroke.
"K! It wouldn't work! I'm sorry!!" Mie said, running over to me, bawling her eyes out.
I caught her up in my arms as the blood started to form two bubbles of red and two smaller ones of clear, but I had a crying little woman to deal with first. I scooped her up and gave her a hug, not really knowing what else to do, and patted her hair. She was hugging me fiercely, but I split my attention to drawing in the blood, I wasn't sure how long it would last.
'It's better to do it sooner than later, the blood slowly leaks away, and the longer you wait the less blood you will have to absorb.' -Drania.
"K, I'm so sorry! I didn't know what to do, and those big things were trying to hurt you, but you're so strong! And Miss Lesha too! I wish I could be strong like you two!" Mei complained into my shoulder, the tears had stopped now, but I think it was time to get going back anyway.
It would be too dangerous to continue like this, so it was best just to call it a day. Plus, there were two more purple crystals with the ogre corpses. I retrieved them, and then we walked back to the previous room, and I gave the exit command.
"Return!" I called out once we were in the center of the previous room.
One of the nice things that had come with the dungeon was the exit phrase. It wasn't like it was written anywhere or where we were told it, but when you entered a dungeon, you just knew how to leave, Backtrack on room and then say return. Easy enough, unless you were just entering and you couldn't get past the first room, then you were in trouble, but as a rule that rarely happened, but that didn't make it impossible.
Once back outside, I carried Mei back with us. She was tucked into me, using my breasts to rest her face one, but she was already fast asleep by the time we got back to the city. The walk was about fifteen to twenty minutes long, but we were in no hurry, we just needed to walk home.
"She is really getting attached, isn't she, but where did your pet puddle of blood go?"
"I'm down here! I can change sizes and stick to things cause normies think I'm gross. I mean, they aren't wrong, but I got a feeling too!" Gobby said from the bottom of my shoe.
"Well, that was one thing we don't have to worry about, but you are right, she is starting to grow on me."
"I thought the two of you looked adorable when she ran over to you crying, and then you scooped her up like she was your little girl!" Lesha said, leaning in and kissing my cheek.
That brought a warm sensation creeping through my body from my head to my toes. Today was good, but tomorrow sounded like it was going to be a bit of a drag, but maybe I could see if Leana would talk the day of the time with Mei. Leana would love this...woman...frick, she was just a child, and maybe in the morning, Lesha and I would talk to her and see if she would open up to us.
The walk home was short, and Lesha opened the door for me, and then asked, what she should make, but I told her just to get the fire on and I would help her figure it out when I got back from putting mei to bed. I walked up to the top floor and put Mei into bed, but then I went over to the closet and pulled out a box of matches and lit a candle to find Mei naked again, standing, but barely awake.
I made her side done, and I rubbed lotion on her, and for most of it, she just leaned against me unless I needed to do the side she was leaning on. After she was done, I grabbed a second brown shirt that I had brought up yesterday that was a bit smaller than the first, I wasn't sure what it was doing with my dad's stuff, but it came to just above her knees making a cute nighty for her. I tucked her into bed and then was about to leave, but I turned back on an impulse and kissed the top of her forehead, before heading back down to help Lesha.
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