Chapter 13 - Recovery

The next time Valentine opened his eyes, the first thing he perceived was a stinky smell that he had already gotten used to.

The clear image of a beautiful lady appeared in front of him, her gaze stared right at the front with bags under her eyes.

"Faye…" He mumbled, a little tired and still pained, several spots of his face were still charred, let alone the rest of his body!

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When the blonde heard his voice, it felt like she could finally lower her guard, she's tired… hungry… thirsty… But she wouldn't ever lower her guard.

"Valentine… finally." Her tired voice spoke with the closest resemblance to relief specially at how he called her, last time she was too worried to care, but not now.

Still with the knife in his her hand, she lowered her gaze to stare at him.

It had been a day and a half.

"How long… has it been?" He inquired, moving his gaze around and analysing the cave.

The rain fell on the cave's entrance, but it seemed like it was about to finish due to the scarce volume of acid falling on the ground.

"One day…" Fayette answered and he noticed her tired voice.

"Sleep, I'll take over. are you hungry?"

"I am…" She stared straight at him without even concealing her desire in the slightest.

Yes, surely they're at that stage…

He struggled to sit beside her, totally aware he's likely more capable than her right now, and with the knife, took out a barely 'cooked' piece of his flesh!

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"UGH!" He grunted in pain for a minute, not really minding the pain if it's for her and gave her a good chunk.

"Go and… cook it." He stuttered.

Their doings never escaped the gaze of the three men and the two women still alive in the cave.

Yes… by consensus, a fat girl named Kelly… got brutally eaten by the group.

Fayette gave him a briefly glance, not truly wanting to separate, but relented due to the hunger, "Shouldn't I give you one… and then we can eat together?"

"No… I'm okay, go on, I will guard." He caressed her cheeks with a smile and surprised her with a peck.

She answered with two and a smile before moving to the cave entrance to cook her 'treasure'.

Valentine decided to cut his arm again as cutting his already damaged legs would stop him from performing properly.

He analysed the survivors inside, they were staring straight at him.

"You're lucky to have a girl like her! If I was you, I wouldn't look left and right!" The man with an Asian appearance that looked like the toughest in the street, grasped the 'pretty' lady against him, fondling on of her moderate sized breasts as she hummed slightly in discomfort, her gaze fixed at Valentine.

The other two seemed to fight for their lot, a woman that seemed to be in her fifties with European appearance, her eyes were lifeless.

Valentine didn't answer, instead he focused on Fayette.

This woman is slowly but surely, replacing Rose in his mind.

He didn't want to forget the beautiful girl, move on like he had done thrice already… her beautiful face and seductive body for her young age, appeared in his mind every time he stared at Fayette.

But this event is receding, Fayette Blanchet… He had never found a partner so reliable before, someone he could give his back to and be totally assured that he wouldn't get stabbed in the back one day… not even his sister, maybe Francesca would have been like this, if he treasured her well enough.

But that's in the past.

Truthfully he wouldn't look left or right, because what sat in front… is as perfect as it can get.

***

It took another day for them to fully regenerate, he was hungry, but to a tolerable degree, Fayette wanted to cut a chunk of her flesh for him, but he told her that not yet.

Having regenerated enough, it's time to go for what they came.

The two stood up and walked to the group that was immediately on guard, except for the 'pretty' girl who sensed the time has come.

"Show me where you have all your crystals and 'stones', I thought you would have food with you but… guess I was wrong, what a waste of a trip." He yelled with annoyance, the sole purpose of coming here was for food, and there was 'food' in front of him, but not the one he desired.

"Why should we!? We are five while you're just two! are you out of your mind!?" One of the men, the strongest one, suddenly took out a knife.

They wouldn't act violently, but that didn't mean the would get trampled upon.

He didn't expect that the first thing the man would do is to rob them clean!?

Those crystals tasted horrible, but they could still be eaten!

His knife was more than a sharp claw cutting straight at his own flesh than a knife.

The moment he grasped it, he grunted slightly and blood started to seep through!

Valentine sighed and walked forward.

"HAAA!!" seeing this, the man attacked while the other two prepared.

*SLASH!*

A clean cut on his neck was all that was needed, the naked man fell on the floor like a corpse and Fayette started to look for the crystal.

"S-Stop, they're in the deeper end of the cave, I can show you!" One of them spoke and the other nodded!

"Don't follow them! There is a trap with knives in the ground there!" Surprisingly the one to speak was the fifty years old woman!

"Y-Yes, it's a trap!" The pretty girl followed seemed that there is no need to act kind anymore!

!!!

"Y-YOU SLUT!- AHHHH!!" One of them yelled and intended to take at least one of those whores with him to hell, unaware he's already in hell…

But all he received was a long wolf claw piercing through his body!

"HHHAAAAA!!!" The last one attacked releasing there is negotiation here, and just like the others got cleanly manhandled.

'S-So easy…' Vera stared at Valentine with wide eyes, he killed them all so fast!

None of these men had any experience fighting.

…

"Can I… eat him…?" Vera raised her voice and the duo stared at each other… they wanted to feel disgust but couldn't.

"By all means… What's your name?" Valentine asked the fifty year old woman as Vera took the knife the man had before and proceeded to cut his flesh frantically to eat it!

'That slut Kelly was just a bunch of fat and no flesh!' Inwardly she said maniacally, intending to follow Fayette's example, she couldn't believe they ate raw when they could have cooked so simply.

***

While Fayette took the other man's

"T-Thank you for 'saving' me… My name is Elke..." The woman introduced herself with a low voice, her eyes a little more livelier than before.

Elke was very polite and her nakedness seemed to not affect her in the slightest.

Valentine lifted his eyebrows at her name, "Are you German?"

"…?" The woman tilted her head in confusion.

"Sorry, I don't recognise that state? I'm from Constantinople, could it be that you're from the North?" The woman inquired, she could only guess giving Valentine's slightly tanned skin that she wasn't familiar with, only having seen that bulky bastard and his so far…

'Maybe in the far north, they have this complexion?' She didn't know.

Her question left Valentine baffled, 'Constantinople, far north?'

"Do you recognise the name, Ahmed I?" Fayette spoke next with crossed arms, still not aware about why Valentine cared about random people's backgrounds, but it was certainly interesting to meet people from all places and times in here.

Anything is posible!

"Ahmed I? Sorry, I don't recognise that name?" Elke asked with bewilderment.

Fayette furrowed her brows, "Then, what's the name of the ruler of your territory?"

The woman's gaze paled, "Do you refer to the sultan, Suleiman?"

…

Fayette and Valentine caught up onto that incredibly quick.

'It's interesting the diversity of people in this place…'

Clearly time is in a disarray in this place.

"I see, you're from the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman the Magnificent…" the two concluded and calculated the age straight away.

"Y-You're not?" Elke asked in confusion.

"No, we're not… anyway, show us where they store their crystals and stones." He thought it is very interesting however, he only wanted to know what odds there were that he found Magnus in here.

He pointed his knife at her, not totally trusting her despite her predicament, but his gaze didn't contain maliciousness.

His father could have come here millions of years ago if hell was even that old and died, or he could be here living now… and the last option, it might take him a million more years before he comes…

He only wanted to know if there is a pattern in which they're sent here, so far… there isn't.

"The stones are all buried there, he got them from the beast, we don't really know what their use is except eating them, but they taste horrible, so… he just placed them inside a bag of fur and dug a hole… be careful with those places, there are holes there with knives inside" Elke answered and walked to the point where several stones were 'arranged', she didn't mean to be pointed at after seeing Fayette and Valentine's behaviour, she noticed they weren't violent… at least not to innocent people.

The duo entered cautiously and looked everywhere before dwelling further, there was minimal light in here.

No one would really think there was anything to regard in this cave.

"And the crystals?"

"We don't know where the crystals are, I think Shaquille carried them on himself all the time…" Vera's voice spoke, it's seems she finished her 'meal'.

She walked closer to Valentine, technically invading his private area, "I can dig it for you, do they have any use?"

Vera didn't notice Fayette clenching her hand tightly.

But Valentine did… he gave the 'pretty' girl a brief glance of disgust and moved aside.

"We don't know their use." He said and sat on a corner together with Fayette.

Elke sat opposite to him with her legs crossed, her arms covering her chest.

Maybe due to his gentleman behaviour, she felt ashamed to show him her body like this… Ever since she came here she had to do such dirty stuff with so many men… all of them treated her like a whore, now that someone was treating her like a lady, it felt weird.

"We have eaten several of them, but they taste so horrible… Yet they do sate hunger…" Vera dug with a log and shortly after took out a bag that had three shiny big stones, the same ones they obtained from those wolves.

She placed the bag beside him and intended to seat by his side, but Fayette's glare, that was colder than the Netherfrost, impacted her with the strength of a thousand needles!

'If you so much as dare to sit there…'

She bit her lips and moved to sit beside Elke, Fayette's glare didn't stop her from trying her next card.

She sat down, hugging her knees and stared at him, waiting for him to answer her preposition, but… Moving her legs to the side, her squished pussy was totally visible for him!

Valentine however, couldn't feel anything else other than disgust.

"If you don't close your fucking legs and behave in front of my man, I'LL HAVE ELKE EAT YOUR DISGUSTING CORPSE!"

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Fayette Blanchet just lost it!

'You dare seduce him in front of me!? DEATH!'

Her explosion got interrupted when Valentine took her and placed her on his lap!

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"Are you jealous?~" He whispered on her ear and a gallon of blood pumped from her heart, coating her pretty face!

He used her same card!

"You looked…" She whispered back, crossing her arms underneath her huge chest and avoiding his gaze.

"God gave me eyes to see…"

"And I'm going to gouge them out!"

"Oh so you're indeed jealous~" He smelled her stinky hair that needed a deep washing, still, he loved it.

'It's hers…'

She gritted her teeth but refused to talk!

!!!

At that moment, his hand that had been caressed her waist, moved up and squished her fur covered big breasts!

She gulped a mouthful and moved her waist above his crotch a little, instinctively.

"D-Don't get naughty, you know we can't yet…"

"Why is that? We can share piss but not this?~"

"Don't say that in front of people! This and that are different!!"

He smirked and continued to press her chest together, looking at her cleavage from above.

"Your breasts are the biggest I've ever had." He teased but got nothing out of the Commander.

He isn't lying, he has bedded or been in a relationship with lots of women, but so far, Fayette Blanchet is the sexiest… Maybe due to her futuristic genes and whatnot.

Even after being covered in layers of dirt after so many weeks of wandering, her body is still highly desirable.

"Am I supposed to say 'thank you'? these babies are also the biggest you will ever have~ now stop or you're really going to turn on my switch and we won't be able to stop… See, the rain stopped."

She pointed to the entrance where the rain had certainly stopped, but they knew by experience that they needed to wait several hours before coming out.

…

Their whole conversation was stared by the two females.

'They're so into each other…' Elke couldn't help but think and even thought they're cute.

She thought Fayette is very lucky to find such a handsome, strong but at the same time gentle person in this unknown world.

She's been here for months, and so far he's the first one she has seen.

Meanwhile, Vera stared at Fayette with outright jealousy and envy.

'How can she be so lucky?!'

She didn't know their story, but for them to be so chummy and confident with one another in this accursed land… It wouldn't be surprising if they were together from the very beginning.

Her 'relationship' with Shaquille had been totally different… she was just a delightful pussy ready to be fucked… In exchange, she would get flesh to eat and a hit in the face every so often when he was pissed off!

It might sound like a bad bargain, but it was a paradise compared to what the other girls in this cave went through.

A total of eleven women have arrived in this cave ever since she arrived, only two remained… Shaquille had taken all their crystals when he left.

Now a man like this was in front of her, but there was a big breasted barrier in between.

"Are the two of you leaving?" She asked offhandedly after reluctantly sitting on a more... prudish, way.

"Yes… In a few hours, there is nothing more for us to get here… moreover, I have a hunch…" Valentine answered still holding Fayette in his arms.

'I think I finally realised.... think outside the box.'