“The the forest it is.” Naramis drew the sword Jack gave to him taking point and hacking a path for them when necessary. Fortunately it had not been too over grown though the canopy of trees overhead made it so the light here had been dim.

Still the pressed on, Naramis knew that they would need every second of the head start though he was wondering about this temple that Jack said he would meet them at. What was it, if anything that prevented the Urikians from capturing them there. There was something the rogue was not telling him he thought but for now all that was necessary was protecting the Princess.

They had been in the forest for about two hours when it happened. Victoria felt the piercing of something in her foot above the ankle, fangs as a huge snake-like humanoid with dripping green fangs rose up from a prone position. He had a snake tail though a humanoid torso and hands standing about seven feet in height smaller half-bloods, humans with one or two snake-like features emerged from hiding rushing the trio and by the looks of it they were very hostile ...

Victoria said a very unladylike word when the bite came. She looked down to see what had caused the sudden pain in her ankle. She screamed in alarm when she saw the fearsome looking snakeman lying at her feet. Her heart was instantly in her throat, racing furiously as it primed her for a fight or flight reaction. The creature rose up to its full height and she backed towards her guardian.

"Naramis!!" She warned as two more smaller creatures flanked them. This was bad. They'd been ambushed. And worse, she'd been bitten by that thing. Her ankle thronged and she felt certain she had been poisoned. Not that there was much time to worry about that. She drew out her dagger and stood poised to defend herself. "Damn it! We don't have time for this!"

The smaller men had one snake-like feature, forked tongues, fangs, slit for eyes, scales or what have you while the larger had one human-like feature, in this case his arms.

“You tassste sssweet ...” a forked tongue liked at the upper “lip” of the dark green serpent denoting intelligence. It looked bad, not only did these things have them out numbered but they were being pursued.

Naramis moved close to the Princess though even his skills in protecting her and dealing with multiple threats had been hard pressed.

There was a scream, an arrow pierced the upper shoulder of Francois and he soon dropped a moment later, convulsed and past, quite obviously these things were using envenomed weapons though Naramis managed to cleave through a fair number of them she had been left to fend off the larger one who was toying with her as the venom flowed through her veins feigning an attack so that the tip of his blade kept clattering against her dagger until he was ready and lashed out with his tail attempting to trip her up before pouncing in. He was far more interested in other pursuits with her and the abomination would take her away as his prize when this was all said and done.

Victoria did not like the perverse way the creature was looking at her. She blocked his sword with her dagger but his tail swept at her legs, hitting her injured one at just the right angle. She swore and went down, landing unceremoniously on her butt. She didn't have time to think, the creature would be on her in a second and she was certain she did not want the thing touching her. She rolled away from it and quickly got back up to her feet, but she had lost her dagger. "Damn it!" She swore again as she looked around for it.

The dagger was there not too far away but as her eyes dashed toward it so did the eyes of her assailant that dashed towards it seeking to cut her off from it's retrieval.

That tail poised for another attack. “I'm going to ssscrew you all night.” He chuckled as he watched her, darting in now seeing that the marginal threat of the dagger had been dealt with.

The princess flushed at the creature's vulgar statement. He couldn't possible mean to... How was that even possible...? She saw his tail as the threat that it was now and would not let it trip her again. She had to maintain her distance and not let the creature get a hold on her. Especially now that she understood its intentions. Her blood warmed at the very thought of what the creature would do to her if he thought her. Her loins tightened for some reason she could not begin to comprehend, surely she was not arouses by the notion of being ravished by this abomination.

"Shit!" She had been standing still too long at the creature lunged at her. She dove out of its way. landing her further from her dagger. Double damn! This was not going well. She had to focus on the fight!!

The abomination chuckled as she cursed. He gazed at her then slithered forward, unaware that the only ally that he had left at this stage had been the marksman with the poisoned arrows that had been trying to take out Naramis though any shots that came his way he cut in twine with his sword. He was good, damn good though he did not wish for the Princess to be subject to the lethal poison though is seemed that those with the lethal venoms focused on the men.

“Perhapsss I ssshall keep you around for a time.” He lunged in again still toying with the unarmed woman.

Victoria dodged again, wondering if she could continue this game of cat and mouse until they made a complete circle and the dagger was within her reach again. "I hope you don't take this the wrong way but I'm not really interested in what your plans are. I've already reached my pervert limit for one day. I suggest you find someone else to play out your fantasies with because I assure you I'm not going to be an easy prey."

“Easssy isss ssso boring,” he hissed out softly. Whether or not she got the dagger back was of little concern to him considering that he had only sought to keep her blood pumping and thrust the aphrodisiac continued to course through her blood stream as she is lunged at again by this thing which continues to toy with her …

He chuckled at her as Naramis' blade cuts through another arrow.

Victoria frowned, she really wished Naramis would take care of that Archie already and come help her out. She was starting to feel strange. Feverish and tingly in places that had no busy being tingly right now. "Drop dead..." She breathed. She could see her dagger now. It was still a little further than she'd like but she couldn't wait any longer. She had to end this now before she surcame to these feelings... She dove passed the creature in a desperate attempt to reach the dagger.

She moved and so did he lashing at her with that tail as she dove, narrowly missing her though that was his intend. The dagger would do her no good and her blood was pumping faster as he grinned as she recovered the weapon.

“Oh, dear ...” he chuckled turning as faced her. It was time to end this, he could see how labored her breathing was and it was now time as he pressed in upon her for the final time, making a feint with the sword followed by a lead in with his shoulder intend to bring her down to the ground knowing that he was the stronger of the two it was time to place that knowledge to use.

Victoria seized the dagger and rolled into her feet just in time to block the creature's sword. But the attack had been a rouse to distract her because as soon as she blocked it with her dagger the creature checked her with his shoulder and took her to the ground. "Noooo!" She screamed as she went down. She struggled to get out from underneath him but her body became inflamed where his body touched her's and cried out for more. She felt arousal sing through her, stealing the fight from her muscles trying to resist the strong, firm body atop her's.

He chuckled, her cry of defeat was the sounds of victory fore the serpent. A hand went to her breast, groping her there as he grasped her then tore away at that clothing there to get a look at the firm orb before tickling her exposed nipple with his forked tongue. His hand reaching down to try to get her legs apart, to slid between them as he continued to chuckle darkly.

“Now we fuck,” he stated as if it were all too obvious. He had done this countless times before knowing that it wouldn't be much longer for the venom to take effect now if it hadn't already, the drug already having pressed through her body.

Victoria gasped as the monster torn away her top and began to grope her now exposed breast. A moan escaped her and her will to fight melted away. She gave a last token struggle, knowing she should fight but her body had other ideas. "Naramis!" She called out desperately as the snake man worked his way between her legs. Oh God, she was lost...

No sooner had she called then a blade fell on the back of the creature thought it's scales where thick and it was protected from the attack. Still, it had been distracted at least for the moment, spitting venom in the exposed eyes of the man, blinding him as he chuckled and pulled back from Victoria. A retractable flap in the scales protecting a retractable cock that was in the process of open closed as he turned his attention to the blind human that wiped at his face and staggered about though he was still dangerous. His strength might allow him to pierce his scales if he were lucky enough as he gauged by the earlier attack. Thus he did not rush straight in but tried to circle around to strike him from behind though Naranis was turning as he moved as if hearing him all the while and keeping the serpent from doing as he wished.