Chapter 2251

Daniel growled and pulled out of her. She cried out but Daniel flipped her over onto her front. He grabbed her hips and lifted her to her hands and knees. He grabbed her ass cheeks and spread them painfully apart and then drove his cock deep into her ass. Maeve bucked and came screeching.

"Yes!Yes! Yes! Harder!" she screamed.

Daniel slapped her ass with all his strength. The sound cracking through the air and Maeve came again like a banshee, screaming. Daniel's orgasm slammed into him, and he pumped thick ropes of cum deep into Maeve's ass. His head felt light, and he felt a wave of dizziness wash over him and he almost fell over. His hands on her ass steadied him and he grunted and pumped his cum until his orgas m left him breathless.

He pulled out and watched his cum pour from her ass in a torrent. Bubbles formed and popped. Maeve collapsed prone and Daniel sat back on his heels, his head lowered, sweat dripping from his face.

Maeve cried out and flipped over and dug at her asshole with her fingers."Fuck!Get it out!It burns!"

"Burns?"

"Like fire!" Maeve screeched and then clappedher hands. Suddenly an oscillating blob of suspended cum hovered in front of Maeve.

Daniel stared at it in surprise. "Is that my..."

"Yes!" growled Maeve and made a gesture andthe ball of cum flew off into the distance. Maeve turned her asshole toward Daniel."Is it burned?"

Daniel looked at her raw, red asshole. It looked burned. "Yup." That pleased him.

"Fucking phoenix!"

"What?"

"The phoenix in you. She burnt me."

"In me?"

Maeve gave him a look with which he was

familiar. Grace looked at him this way sometimes. Like he was an idiot.

"Can't you heal it?"

Maeve didn't answer. The air shimmered and suddenly Daniel and Maeve were dressed as before. Daniel looked himself over. He felt fine. His robe was clean and fresh. He felt like he had woken from a long, night's rest.

Then Maeve's face loomed large in front of him and grew larger, looking down at him. He should have felt afraid, but instead he felt annoyance. Warmth flowed through his body.

Maeve growled at him, and for a moment the earlier horrid face of Maeve appeared, her sharp teeth covered in blood."You shouldn't have freed the gnomes. That really pissed me off."

Daniel wasn't expecting that. He opened his mouth to speak when he heard Grace call out for him. Immediately after, he heard Amy and Jasmine, too, calling his name.

He turned his head toward the sound and called

out."Over here!"

Suddenly he was on his back and his head throbbed. He rolled off the bricks and onto his hands and knees. Blood dripped from his forehead.

What the fuck?

Then Amy was there beside him."Daniel!Thank the Gods!We found you!"

Daniel tried to sit up and stared hard at her."Is it really you?"

"Really me? Daniel? What are you talkingabout?"

Grace appeared next to him, squatted, and took his head in her hands and looked him over. "That's some cut."

"Maeve was just here. She healed me, I thought.We, uh, I mean she uh...."

Grace looked at Amy."Heal him already!" She looked at Daniel."Maeve can bend reality to whatever she wants."

"So that wasn't real?"

"Oh no, it was real. Just her twisted version ofreality. You just tasted some of her power. What did she do?"

Amy started to heal him, and Daniel shuddered at the pleasure of it.

"She said she doesn't have the egg. She said toask the Light fae about it."

Grace snorted. "Unlikely. What else happened?"

Daniel looked at Amy. "She, uh, she..."

Grace looked concerned and studied his face and then she smirked. "She fucked you, didn't she?"

Amy snapped her face to look at Daniel. "Daniel? Did you fuck her?"

"Kind of, yeah."

Amy's face glowered at him."Kind of? KIND OF!"

Grace tutted."Easy, Amy. This is the Wilds. You can't fight it. You can only survive. Don't blame him."

Amy turned on Grace."Don't blame him? He just fucked Maeve!Last I checked it takes two people to fuck!"

Jasmine arrived and landed beside Daniel and wrapped him up in her arms."Daniel!Don't ever do that again!"

"Get picked up by my head by an ogre andtossed aside?" Daniel kept an eye on Amy as he said this. She was pissed.

"Jasmine," said Amy."Daniel just fucked Maeve."

Jasmine looked shocked and then grinned."How was she, lover?" she asked Daniel.

Daniel's eyes went round and looked between Amy and Jasmine, not sure how to answer.

Amber saved him and walked round to stand in front of him looking down. He was overjoyed to see she held his spell book."You lost this, numb nuts," she stated and dropped the book down on

his groin. He grabbed it just in time and slipped it into a pocket, scowling at her.

"Thanks, Amber. I guess I wasn't able to holdonto it, sailing through the air."

Daniel and the girls could feel the anger radiating off Amy through the circle. It was all directed at him. He looked at her."I'm sorry, Amy. I'm not sure I could have stopped it if I wanted to. I was at her mercy."

"Amy," said Grace."He wouldn't have been ableto. Maeve rules this realm. The Wilds is Maeve. Stop twisting your panties into a knot."

Amy wasn't convinced but finished healing Daniel. Amber wet a rag from her waterskin and handed it to her. Amy wiped at the crusted blood on Daniel's face.

Daniel looked up at Grace."Where's Bitty? Maeve said I shouldn't have freed the gnomes. She looked genuinely pissed about it."

"That bothered her? How strange."

Daniel then described everything that had

happened with Maeve. Grace was annoyed he never asked Maeve more about the phoenixes, reminding him that was one of their purposes here in the Wilds.

Once he was done, he peered at Grace."Was that how she truly looks? The way she was at the end?"

"Yes. That was her true appearance, more orless. At least how she remembers how she looked once. My mother said she was once very beautiful. And very old."

Amy snorted and shot Daniel a look."And so incredibly ugly inside."

"That, too," agreed Grace.

* * *

Days passed and Amy finally forgave Daniel, although she insisted Brian and Jennifer bless his cock before she would allow him back inside her. They wandered the Wilds and looked for Maeve but her and her creatures seemed to have disappeared for the time being.

The Circle was working very well together as adventurers. They had learned their strengths and weaknesses, and the Wilds were becoming much more manageable. The issue of using their shields was discussed with the veterans and they made suggestions which had proven to be effective upon testing.

Unfortunately, Bitty was proving hard to manage without constant supervision. She kept wandering away at the worst of times. She was fascinated by the plant life in the Wilds. They could all see it was vastly different from the plants of the Realm. Lusher. Fuller. Brighter. Bitty said they were way more potent.

It was when Jennifer took her eye off Bitty for a moment that Jasmine cried out in warning.

Bitty, her eyes on a new plant, walked right across a mushroom circle. They had all learned to recognise them. Bitty should have seen it, but she didn't this time.

All eyes turned to watch in horror, but Bitty just walked through it like it didn't exist.

"What the fuck?" declared Grace and rushed

over to Bitty and squatted in front of her and looked her over."Are you okay?"

"Yes, why?"

Grace pointed at the mushroom circle."You just walked through that!"

Bitty's face paled and eyes went round."I did!? But nothing happened!I thought something was supposed to happen!Wait? Am I in Maeve's realm now? How do I tell?"

Grace chuckled and hugged the gnome."No. You're right here with us. Thank you, thank you, thank you."

Daniel breathed a sigh of relief. Grace had taught them this little trick. If someone said thank you three times, they weren't one of Maeve's minions.

"Then how?"

"I don't know," muttered Grace."As far as I know,you're the first gnome to enter the Wilds. What makes you so special? That's the real question."

Bitty bit her lip."You said a circle was safe, right? Because of how they can communicate with one another? That they'll never be alone?"

Grace nodded."That's what my mother thinks."

"Well," she looked around at them nervously."Gnomes are the same way."

"Huh?" said most of them.

"We are all interconnected. It's how the curseaffected all of us. One was cursed, but it hit all of us equally. Or so they say. It was such a long time ago even for gnomes. Gnomes are a collective. Individuals, but a collective, too."

Daniel remembered all the strange conversations with Bitty and chuckled."That explains all your obscure comments about gnomes all somehow communicating with each other. It's your magic, isn't it?"

Bitty frowned."No, it's science. Our nature. But yeah,I keep the other gnomes informed and they're all kind of annoyed with me at the moment. They want oaths from you all to protect this knowledge."

Daniel nodded and was the first to give his oath. The rest followed suit.

Bitty sighed with relief once it was done.

"This is happening all the time?" asked Daniel.

"Oh gods, no!We control it. Like breathing. ButI've had it on since we got here. There's so much to see and learn. The gnomes are ecstatic I'm here. The new plants are amazing!They keep asking me to look at all of them."