Applejack Jungle Adventures
Chapter 8
Previous ChapterNext ChapterFluttershy heard a crack. The smirk she'd been wearing up until now fell off her face as her eyes shot down, just in time to see a great split in the seam of her wooden automaton, a split that was growing wider by the moment, with all the sounds she didn't want to hear. She reached out for it, fingers extending, the tips already beginning to glow with magic... she could fix this, she just had to...
And then Fluttershy was thrown free as the whole carriage came apart from underneath her.
With a great roar, a bellow that rattled Fluttershy's sensitive eardrums and bounced back and forth around the cavern's stone walls, Applejack straightened her back, avalanches of muscles shifting as her great, thick arms shot out to either side, fully extended. The interlocking vines and tree-trunks went with them, dragged apart like a tree sawed straight down the middle. Splinters of wood, branches and snaking vines shot in every direction.
Fluttershy was thrown completely free, hitting the ground hard enough she bounced, rolling end over end, ending up a bruised heap on the yellow and orange rocks underfoot.
Fluttershy struggled just to raise her head... and Applejack could see all too well the beauty had a split lip, the skin of those big, girlish kissers parted in a small gash. Slowly, and with obvious pain, Fluttershy got up on one hand. Her hips were perfectly framed in the reclining posture as she scooped up handfuls of pink hair and threw them back over her shoulder. "Ugh... You b-bitch..." she whined, before tapping a fingertip to her smoochers. "Oops. I said a bad word!"
Fluttershy glanced sideways at Bow. "Nnn! Sorry, sweetie, please don't follow mommy's example..."
Applejack's heart and mind were racing. When the bards sang of such colossal feats of strength, they often failed to mention the aches and pains that came afterwards. Every muscle up and down the Amazon's spine was strained, her entire back feeling like a mess of pincushions, to the point where even standing to her full height was difficult. But there was no time to rest now, was there? She had a head to split like a ripe coconut.
And maybe she would have... if not for Seraph choosing that exact moment to strike. Applejack was hit from behind, the muscular form of the great bear coming down on her from behind, driving her down onto the rocks. His jaws were on her iron-hard skin almost immediately, his claws scraping at her back, splintering and shattering on her muscles with each impact. It was possible he was doing himself more harm than her in this reckless attack, but it was buying Fluttershy time to crawl back up to her feet, and renew her assault. Applejack needed to act fast.
Even after exerting her titanic strength to the point of sending needles of pain up and down her spine, Applejack refused to fall to her knees, determined as ever to emerge from this battle triumphant. She had battled bears before, her blessed might and indomitable body having made the task more or less trivial, when it came to the typical grizzly.
But Seraph was no such specimen. He had grown larger and stronger than his common cousins in the harsh environment of the Toxic Jungle, his strength tempered by a fierce loyalty to Fluttershy. It was this love that drove him to performing his savage, almost recklessly suicidal attack against Applejack's back: he would do anything to assist his mistress. Each swipe of those savage claws impacted the battered blonde's broad back, striking with enough force to crush a lesser woman, the impacts going on to echo throughout the magma-filled cavern.
Yet Applejack still did not crumple. Moreso, she actually turned to face the enraged beast right in the middle of his barrage, completely unflinching in what should have been a withering assault. With her axe still out of reach, the blonde was forced to use her bare hands to combat bear hands, and wait for the right moment to counter.
It finally came when Seraph reared up on his haunches, preparing a double-clawed swipe that would have taken her head off if it connected. Applejack knew her time to fight back had come. When he swung down, her hands shot up, and she caught both of the tremendous ursine's paws. She hauled him forwards, trapping either paw in the crooks of her arms, where her biceps could really do some work on then, and putting him in a debilitating hold. The beast immediately roared in her face, brightly-glimmering jaws snapping under his mask and spraying hot air and spittle in her direction.
Applejack offered her retort in the form of a brutal head butt, driving her head right into the bridge of his nose... and prompting the giant ball of fur to simmer down a little bit. Applejack felt she had the upper hand, but time was short... Her true enemy was Fluttershy.
She couldn't allow herself to waste any time. Having noticed Fluttershy's fondness for the oversized brute, a plan began to ferment in AJ's brain. She turned back to Fluttershy, a threat on her lips: "Come and get me iffin' you dare! I ain't never cracked open a bear before, but I reckon this is good a time as any to give it a try!"
Under normal circumstances, Seraph's momentary distraction would have been everything Fluttershy needed to seal the deal. She had already proven she was no wilting daisy, but a powerful killing machine almost without equal. Until crossing swords with Applejack, she'd had a flawless 100% victory rate. It was a figure she'd certainly have to reconsider now in light of this.
But the factors had added up against her. Being spotted before Seraph could move into position, allowing her chariot to be ripped apart by the Amazon's otherworldly power... It had all contributed to what was rapidly becoming her first ever defeat.
Inwardly, the buxom pinkette felt great shame in her heart. Her cheeks burned with embarrassment. It might be true that she could easily let Seraph fall where he lay, abandon her friend's life to buy the time she needed to reconstruct her armour and reset the fight. To do so would put her back at full strength against the exhausted, bitten and bleeding barbarian, but at the same time...
At the same time, her warrior's heart refused to let her. And it was not Seraph's life hanging in the balance that forced her hand. She prepared herself to speak. Her features changed.
In that moment, in seeing the life of her dear, beloved friend threatened, the soft features of the warrior woman known as Fluttershy unexpectedly hardened. Up until this moment she had appeared to Applejack as something like a spoilt child playing at being the forest princess, and the defender of the overgrown spirits of nature that permeated even this place.
But now, it was as if a fel wind had passed over the other woman, and a different side of her was now awakening. In other words, she was taking a well-needed break from being such a brat.
"Not my bear!" she cried.
"No... I won't let you harm him," she said firmly.
"Seraph doesn't deserve that. All of my defeat can be traced back to my errors... and I won't let him end his life when he... when he did the absolute best he could to protect me and fight alongside me. Please don't hurt him!"
The busty pinkette straightened up to her full height, taking a thoughtful pose. She touched one hand's fingers to the other's elbow and the other hand to her chin, turning slowly, lazy circles with her hips. On any less-developed woman it might look cute, but on Fluttershy it looked obscene. Her breast-span not just wider than her shoulders, but *significantly* wider swayed from side to side as she kicked her hips. Her tongue pushed out of her mouth, rolling over velvety pink lips that seemed to go on forever, supple and red as roses in full bloom. Her full head of hair swayed from eclipsing one eye to the other.
But most of all, that little green tassel between her legs, the only thing keeping her pussy from exposure, swayed back and forth. Every time it reached the apex of its swings, one thick, plump cunt-lip was fully revealed, the bulging mound of her slit laid back. It was big, big enough to drive the thirst that had driven her here... It had to be to handle Bow, after all. And it had to be to power the thirst that had brought her here.
And then she sagged, finally realizing she was defeated. "Alright, you win. Let... Seraph go, and I'll disappear. You can... take my lover... and go."
Applejack's ears pricked up. Lover?
"Lover? Y'all are tellin' me that shrimp over there, Bow... He's yer... lover?" A tone of astonishment was running through every word Applejack spoke.
With a deep belly-grunt befitting a woman of her considerable stature, the great bronzed Amazon hurled Fluttershy's furred mount Seraph to one side. A great thundering boom echoed about the cavern as he landed, rolling with the throw to end up on all four paws, shaking the dizziness from his head. He began to growl anew, only to be silenced by the authoritative hand of the pinkette across the room.
It was quite unlike the nearly-undefeated barbarian to show mercy to one who had threatened her life - or even tried to - but somehow Applejack knew in the pit of her heart that this woman warranted it. She glanced to Bow, then back to Fluttershy, and the connection between the pair might as well have been painted on their faces as clear as day. She wagered, wisely, that her ordained partner would prefer that today was not Fluttershy's last day in the mortal realm.
Many moons ago, mercy would have been the last thing on Applejack's mind for any foe. She would never have let an enemy as strong - or as outrageously proportioned - as Fluttershy go free, but the decision seemed out of her hands now.
Glancing back at Bow, seeing how helpless and frail her lover was... That was what made the decision in the end, and stilled her bloodlust.
If Applejack had been alone this day, she would have battled for hours, hurling her brute strength against this supernatural she-devil over and over again, spilling blood on the rocks, shrieking like a wild banshee as she hewed a bloody swath the likes of which the world had never seen... She would have so succumbed to a warrior's rage that she would have battled till not an ounce of strength remained in her body, until she collapsed on the cavern's floor and risked death itself. If only she could still do that!
But Bow was helpless without her. A mere man would never leave this cave alive, let alone unscathed as she wished for. They were not out of the Toxic Jungle yet, and the dangers ahead were still numerous. Dragging the fight out unnecessarily would only make the road ahead harder, and she might just end up finding herself buckling under the strain. Climbing the cave's stone walls with the young man clinging to her still-flat waist like an infant ape would be hard enough, but could Applejack do it with slashed tendons? With seeping wounds? She groused over the new protective sensations stirring in her belly... How much of her decision to end their battle had been made by her cunning and wit... and how much had been made by the lustful caprice of her man-craving womb?
Applejack brushed her battle-mussed hair from her eyes and crossed the rocky floor to where her battle axe had fallen. Slinging it behind her, where it would do no harm, she turned to stand proudly over her slumped foe.
Applejack smirked, placing her hands on those goddess-widened hips of hers, laughing inwardly over how she could barely even see her fallen foe over her newly filled-out bust. Now that was something to toast that thrice-damned Goddess for, milk cans that could make even a woman like this bimbo before her recoil in awe! Applejack had always lusted to be the greatest in all fields she entered in, and her womanhood was one that she was most fiercely competitive about. She bounced her chest arrogantly, flaunting her growing curves at the beauty laying before her.
Applejack wiped her brow, and extended a hand towards the other woman. She took Fluttershy's dainty, lily-white fingers in her own calloused grip and slowly helped the other girl to her feet. As she touched down, Applejack held the grip for many moments, staring into the smaller girl's eyes. Whether it had been the deadly terrain or each woman's own mystical powers, both Amazons seemed to inherently understand that this had been one of the toughest battles either of them had ever faced: it was nothing short of a miracle that they were both still alive, and largely unharmed. Fluttershy's strength in particular gave Applejack pause: it just served to underline the disconnect between what the pink-haired tribalist was capable of, and the coddling attitude she seemed so intent on displaying with her sickeningly sweet words.
"Hrmph, well, little missy, lover or not, I couldn't return him to you even if I wanted to. The Goddess has decided for me that we are to be paired, and I reckon I'm as good as already carryin' his child. Prob'ly gonna be multiples, too, I reckon."
The announcement struck Fluttershy with more force than any of Applejack's physical blows ever could have. Her stomach lurched. Her knees nearly gave out. She buckled under the tremendous weight of that heart-stopping denouement. "No... It can't be..."
Fluttershy's vision wavered and blurred, the bulging biceps of mighty Applejack passing in and out of focus. She felt her strength fading, her will to continue leaving her. In forcing her way into nature's wildest domain, this golden-haired warrior woman before Fluttershy had not just defeated her in battle, but now also in the field of motherhood. Her, the living avatar of fertility! A being that existed solely to procreate.
Now that avatar of nature felt tears brimming in her eyes. With a pained cry, the grief-stricken maiden tumbled forwards, knees pounding down onto a bed of broken leaves. All around her, the many living things she had conjured with the goal of tearing Applejack limb from limb were losing their lustre, turning from Spring greens to Autumn browns and yellows.
Fluttershy might have lost consciousness then and there, if not for a piercing cry suddenly reaching her ears. Bow.
With the tension that had been gripping his body broken, the man had come running, brown legs carrying him as fast as he could towards the two women. He picked his way through ground left cracked and broken in the aftermath of their battle, dashing over and between tangled snarls of now-limp tentacles
"Bow! Stay back!" cried Fluttershy, her voice choked with emotion, her eyes downcast. She looked away from her lover, and raised delicate fingertips to her angelic features. When she glanced up again, she saw him hovering behind Applejack, uncertain of what to do.
She eased the tension gripping her like a shawl before she spoke again, wiping a tear from her eye. "You shouldn't see your dear, sweet bride-to-be like this. Mm." She smiled, despite the situation. "Goodness, I've really fallen apart, you'll have to excuse me, aha. My little sweetie has never seen me like this."
It was still hard to believe such an elegant, pure-looking women, both as savage and radiant as the jungle she watched over, could be this small man’s betrothed. He was skinny and small, the runt of his litter, while she represented decadent excess in every possible way. Even curled up on the ground as she was now, her breasts were almost spilling into her lap, her immensely-thick thighs fully eclipsed the legs tucked under them. In the innate sense alone, her curves were comparable to Applejack's.
And now, all that woman was moving forwards, thrusting herself at Applejack. With a pained expression on her face, Fluttershy seized Applejack's loins, tangling her hands in the other woman's tattered skirt. She stared deep into Applejack's eyes, a mixture of anger and desperation brimming there. "You must not take Bow from me."
"You cannot take him away from me as much as you would deprive the flora of this jungle sunshine or water!" ... Or living flesh, in some cases... "If you will not return my love to me, then take me with you!"
She drew herself up so close to Applejack that even the blonde's immense thighs began to vanish into the depths of Fluttershy's cavernous cleavage. If Fluttershy was right, and the man was capable of nurturing that kind of growth, Applejack might just have to be even more careful than before, lest her new assets render her immobile. "I'll do anything you wish to be by his side! Life is not worth living without the love of my heart!"
Applejack glanced back to Bow, and found the man looking at her with the same level of sincerity Fluttershy was. In truth, Applejack knew that whether she cast this woman aside or not, Bow would still be compelled by the Goddess to love her... But forgiving her might be another matter.
"Take you with me!? Little missy, you gotta be ten kinds of funny in the head iffin' you think I'm gonna let you step so much as a hundred leagues near me after this! You just tried to kill me, I've killed dozens of your tribe's men... In fact, it were only on account of Bow intervenin' and all that you're still drawin' sweet breath!"
It was the toll of many years spent traveling alone. Over countless years as a loner - partnering only for coin, and so often betrayed - Applejack's heart had become as hard as a stone... This amount of protesting was expected, necessary even, in the face of the outrageously buxom Fluttershy's arms and breasts almost totally engulfing her Amazonian thigh. By the Gods, the weight of those Orbs of Power in her bikini top, and that padding in her hindquarters, was considerable: even Applejack's superhuman might would have been tested had she sought to drag the buxom bombshell in her wake. Fluttershy was subjecting her to a vice-grip that could make a Toxic Jungle Python envious, forcing the amazonian blonde to drag her along the ground as she tried to be on her merry way. After all, Applejack reminded herself, the end of her journey was well in sight. The end of the Jungle was in sight, she had the Morbusaian's head, and the assassin sent after her by the savages had been... "tamed" for want of a better word. The sooner she made it out of this cave and back to civilization, the sooner she’d be curled up by a warm ale house fire, spending her well-earned gold on grog and whores.
In the end, Applejack got as far as to pick up her trusty greataxe when she realized that her desperate foe hadn't yielded in the slightest: Fluttershy's grip was as strong as ever, her determined pout as unshakably adorable. And worse yet, the battle had left Applejack with but an ounce of her strength remaining, while this part-pixie, part-harpy still seemed to have all the energy still in the world at her fingertips!
Applejack began to turn back towards Fluttershy, when a crude thought made her pause. Had she really almost rushed headlong into making this troublesome woman her ally, just out of love for Bow? She tried to reconcile her current actions with the old Applejack the Barbarian, and found these fantasies taking place had no purchase there. The old Applejack would have cleft this meddler in twain for daring to threaten her life, gigantic cowtits and all! She would have hefted Fluttershy over her head and hurled her into the lava itself if it meant she would have had one more stepping stone to cushion her considerable weight.
So why, then?
Applejack froze on the spot, her breath catching in her throat. The curse. It was entangling itself in her thoughts more and more, subtly guiding her actions... A second woman in Bow's life... more sex. More cum churning in those already-bloated little nuts of their strong, sexual prodigy. Someone else around to care for and raise the children of the world's greatest Heroine... Applejack didn't want this woman around, but the curse did...
It wanted Fluttershy here with them very much.
Of course, Applejack could have resisted if she had truly wished, right until the end. She could have taken Bow and stormed out of here. But she did not. And when she realized what was at stake here, the barbarian gulped nervously.
The curse had rewarded her coupling with Bow tenfold, because it wanted the two of them together. It had sealed male and female bodies together in a way she'd never imagined possible, taken her to heights of pleasure undreamed of by mortals... And if it wanted her to be with Fluttershy... to be kissing those soft, rich lips, to be smothered under those colossal udders adorning the beauty's cushioned bodice... It would mean much more of that drug-like pleasure coming to her, making her reel, making her moan...
The Amazon's lust for greater sex eventually made the decision for her. Letting her shoulders droop in resignation, Applejack let out a long, chest-wobbling exhale, and was forced to reconsider her decision. Turning towards Fluttershy as best she could with one leg firmly anchored, the sweat-dripping barbarian looked the Witch Doctor straight into the eyes, and uttered her own 'surrender'.
"Alright! Fine! I'll think about allowing you to come with us..."
She shook her leg, and Fluttershy finally slackened her grip. "Just... Let go of me! And stop looking so dang pitiful! We're still in a volcano! I can't get nowhere like this, least of all over that lake of magma."
Soon, the trio were on their way to a brighter future.
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