Exploration RLA: Part 8: The Scouter's Ball - The Hunt
#8 of Exploration RLA
This took me a while, but I finally got out of my slump to write this down. I hope you all enjoy it and I hope to update again soon. This story chapter contains M/M/M sex, so legal rules definitely apply here.
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I bolted into the hall at breakneck speed. All of us hunted had broken off in different directions. I made a few quick turns, taking a quick look at the small cubic terminal following me. I figured it was a recording device, just based on the single flashing red light. I pulled out my staff and pressed the button. The staff came out fine and I retracted it, putting it back under my watch. I also checked the watch and found I had only ten seconds until the hunters would be after us. I huffed in some air and continued running.
I continued running for a few more minutes, and I hadn't run into anyone yet. That changed when I turned around the corner and spotted Valmeero, in his police officer outfit. He turned to spot me and I ran back. I looked behind to see that I wasn't being followed.
‘Was I not a preference,' I thought, ‘or was that the Polymorph character?' I reduced myself to a jog and turned to another corridor. My watch said 10:11 at this point, so I was eleven minutes strong. It didn't take me long for one of the hunters to spot me. It was Iris, what luck. I turned around and bolted just as she spotted me and gave chase. I heard a small noise and turned my head as I ran. She had cast haste spell and was closing in distance fast. With a quick wit, I pulled out my staff and jumped toward her. I pushed the button right as she reached me, then bam. Next thing I knew she hit the wall hard, knocking the wind out of herself. I wasn't expecting to trip her so hard, but decided to take it as it is and turned down another corridor.
I managed to avoid anyone else until 10:37. From there I made another turn and regretted doing so. From there I ran square in the middle of a group of hunters. Draco, Salbar, Takori, Alex and Brendan, and a couple other wolves were all there, and they all spotted me.
"Oh Fuck," I said bluntly and doubled back down the way I came.
"He's mine," I heard Draco say. I certainly didn't want to get stuck with the dragon for another hour and eighteen minutes and sped up my pace. I pulled out my staff because I knew I would need it, and I turned down another corridor. I saw a glimpse of Alduin running down a hallway and was glad he didn't spot me. Draco, like Iris, was closing in fast and knew I had to do something quick. In a split second, I huffed and ran half-way up the wall, backflipping over the dragon. Draco also collided against the wall and I ran towards Salbar and Takori. I snuck between them and swung my staff backwards. I knocked Salbar's swords off his back, then hit them midair towards Alex and Brendan. Takori reached for me and I blocked his arm, then swung a reverse low kick to knock him flat off his feet. I quickly ran off as Salbar went for his swords, fortunately, Alex and Brendan dodged and deflected the blades, but seemed a little bit fazed.
I turned down a couple corridors and found my breath running short.
"Gotta... Hide..." I noticed a couple doors and opened the nearest one. Seeing it empty I quickly slipped inside and closed the door. I knew it wasn't a good idea, but it sure beats the idea of running for another 20 minutes from that large group. The room itself was a plain white office, with a rounded foyer leading up to the desk. I checked my watch again as my breath caught up to me.
"10:45," I said to myself, "almost half way there." Time certainly flies when you're having fun right? As I wiped sweat from my brow I heard a couple chuckles and turned around, noticing the same two wolves from before.
"Well what do you know Wedge," the first one said, "Prey on a silver platter."
"You said it Biggs," the one called Wedge began, "we finally scored."
"Don't count on it," I said brandishing my staff. They saw it and smirked.
"Don't make us laugh," Biggs said, "it's two to one. We have-" I charged quickly and caught my staff on their necks. Not enough to kill them, but enough to disorient them for a while. Then with a low sweep I knocked them to the ground and ran out of the office. I could have sworn I saw a glow of blue when I swung at them.
10:51. This was the last point I'd get a break for the rest of my run. After a couple of turns I saw Simba's cousin Abigail. She had a threatening looking projectile weapon and was looking smug in her biker style uniform. She smiled and fired. I ducked down another corridor just in time. I could hear the cackling of electricity right behind me.
‘Great, a high powered tazer gun,' I thought and kept running. In a split second though, she quickly reappeared 2 feet in front of me.
"Woah!!" I shouted and ducked as another shot went off. I even felt a small part of the shock as I got back up to run. As I got to another corner, Abigail cut me off once more.
"Surrender and I'll go easy on you," she said and aimed. A rogue flame came out of nowhere and knocked the weapon out of her hand.
"Go and run Ryan," Orion said as he ran to me, "just note that you owe me one." I nodded and took off again. I looked back one last time and saw that Time Dancer appeared, chasing down Orion with Abigail.
10:58. After another few turns I ran right into the view of Silverine. As I turned back, I saw Draco turn across the corner I came from. I pulled out my staff once more and thought of whom to go for as the fight or flight response kicked in quickly. I suddenly found myself running for Silverine, who seemed only slightly surprised at the charge. I swung the staff at him, but he parried with a hard swing, sending me back towards Draco, and slicing the staff clean into two pieces. I looked in slight disbelief as I switched my holding, using them like twin blades. I jumped during the knockback to gain air over Draco, and soared just over his head. I stumbled as I landed, but with a slight gain in speed, took off again.
"Here I come you wily boy," only Draco chased me, ready for round two. He chased me for nearly ten minutes, me only able to barely duck and dodge away from him. It wasn't until I saw Runo running did Draco finally leave me be. I guess Runo was his target after all. I also noticed as I slowed down that Valmeero was fucking... himself? That polymorph made a convincing disguise. 11:06. As I jogged I heard another pair of footsteps and turned. Gareth was now the one on my tail.
"Someone... give me... a break already," I huffed painfully as I picked up the pace. After all this, I was finally running out of steam. Gareth kept his pursuit for five minutes, and I just couldn't shake him off my tail. At 11:11, Alduin finally showed up into view, and by the look on his face, he had something up his sleeve.
"Fire both rounds," he shouted and the hall went up in smoke. I shielded my eyes as I collided with Alduin. I flipped high into the air and landed on my back hard. The staff remnants I forgot I held were long gone now and I struggled to get up. Gareth found himself colliding with Alduin hard and was out of it. I stumbled and took off into the hall again. This time Alduin was chasing me, and he was faster than Gareth. Each passing second he got that much closer. I was losing too much focuse, I thought for sure he was going to catch me.
That was when I was caught.
All of a sudden, two figures tackled me hard onto the floor before I knew what happened. I took a gust of breath and looked up. The red light on the cubic terminal above us, switched off. The eyes of Salbar and Takori were looking down on me.
"I guess we can't all have it my way eh?" Alduin asked.
"Maybe, better luck next time," Salbar said.
"Very well," he said, "but hurt him and I'll shaft you both in my bionic form."
"I think that's up to us," Takori said.
"You don't want to cross his master," Alduin rebuttled, "I'll think of a cruel and unusual punishment for you if you hurt him. Enjoy." With that he took off, leaving me with my hunters.
"Alright then," Takori began as Salbar slipped a sword underneath my shirt, and shredded it off, "We caught you at 1 Hour and 12 Minutes. Very impressive, and nice enough to leave us forty minutes time."
"Start sucking," Salbar said, holding his already hard cock up to my mouth. Not wanting to cause trouble, I obliged, doing my best to please the lizard. While I sucked him off, Salbar kept talking. "Impressive weapon use by the way. Only a real martial artist can use skills like that." As the lizard spoke, the dark tiger moved down my pants and was stroking me to erection, making sure I was good and ready. It wasn't long before he was thrusting into my ass, going only slowly at first.
"How did you get so good?" Takori asked, as I tried to get used to the barbs on his shaft. Salbar pulled off just long enough for me to answer.
"I just trained for years in my home town, with various resources and teachers," I said, then resumed my work on the lizard.
"Just wait until the other hunted see that performance. I think Alduin in particular would be most intrigued to see it," Salbar explained. I thought as the two used me for their purposes, about what Alduin would think about my performance. I made it past the half way mark, which was good, I also managed to outrun Draco on two occasions, which amazed even me. When we first met he caught me in a second. Now he couldn't even touch me. I felt good all of a sudden and got more excited on Salbar and Takori. They chuckled and went with me, going increasingly faster, until I got so pleasured I climaxed without any stimulation on my hard cock.
"I like my humans sweaty," Takori said, as he cummed hard into my ass, Salbar followed suit into my mouth. They slowly pulled out and helped me up, allowing me to pull my underwear and shorts back up. I noticed my torn shirt.
"Sorry about that," Salbar said, "I wanted a little revenge when you knocked my swords away."
"It's fine," I replied, "it's just a gym shirt." We finished cleaning up and headed back to the grand hall. I was glad I was caught for one thing, they could lead me back for they knew the place rather well. As we walked, I was aware of a lone glower, who with a pulse, suddenly replaced my torn shirt with a new one right on me. It was free of sweat and smelled vaguely knew. I guess Alduin won't know if I got hurt or not, even though I was actually enjoying the scenario. The recording terminal continued ahead of us. I just hope no one was watching us during that time, how embarrassing. We got back to the grand hall and waited for the rest of the hunted and hunters to arrive. Deltora and Polymorph were there with their respective captors. Both looked incredibly miffed, maybe they weren't satisfied with the results. I was still surprised about how well I did, Alecto even gave me a fist up rocker sign, to show he was impressed. Orion came back with his captors and we made a quick high five.
"Know anyone who made it the whole two hours?" I asked. He shook his head.
"Nope, everyone was caught. Alduin, Draco, and Silverine each got one of the dragon brothers. Grant got Kodey, who also put up an impressive performance. You and Kodey are the upsets this tournament." Speaking of which, both panther and reindeer had walked back inside and waited beside the rest of us. Fortunately, we didn't have to wait long for the rest to come back. I saw Alduin looking at me and I smiled. He smiled back, seeming very satisfied for what was performed. As everyone got situated together, hunters with the hunted they captured, Silverine walked up to us.
"Once again all hunted were caught," Silverine said, "hunters, give yourself a round of applause." The crowd gave a mighty roar, one that almost made me quiver. "Although once again, Alduin was the one who stole the show, spotting all of the hunted around."
"I'm quick and I have Doran backing me up," he said, "how else did you think I do so well?"
"He's also resourceful," Orion whispered to me. Silverine continued.
"I suppose everyone wants their times for the hunt," he began, "first things first. Polymorph, your trick worked well until you ran into the guy you was impersonating. Your final time was 27 minutes." There was some applause from the crowd as Silverine continued.
"Deltora, despite your skills, your time definitely doesn't represent what you are capable. Simba's ambush caught you at 41 minutes." There were more cheers, but she looked like she was about to burst into tears, I felt sorry for her.
"Kodey," he began, "you were the biggest surprise of all. You ran faster than I thought, lasting 58 minutes." There was a louder roar from the crowd as he finished, then turned towards me.
"Ryan Lewis," he smiled, "your performance was awe inspiring and more than a show of your capabilities. You kept your wits and your eyes on the path ahead of you and even showed Draco and Salbar a thing or two about quick maneuvers. Your final time is an impressive 1 hour and 12 minutes." There was a mighty roar from the crowd, almost as loud as the first one. Alduin in particular cheered me on, which got a might blush from me.
"Orion, the magic being thrown at you, my albino friend, would have moved a house, and yet you were throwing the same back. We have high hopes of your magic progression, you went for 1 hour 26 minutes." Then Silverine turned to the dragon brothers.
"Working together is nothing less than I expected from you three, and you all performed well individually and together. Unfortunately the numbers were stacked against you, and it's hard to work at all when you've had your eyes blinded. Runo lasted 1:39, and Sunrise and Hinori one minute longer." Everyone gave them a final cheer and applause. When that was done, Silverine spoke one more time.
"Very well, I declare the Hunt closed, go and enjoy yourselves!" With that said, most everyone started walking off. Orion and I walked up to Doran and Felicia.
"Did you enjoy yourself Ryan?" Doran asked me, I nodded.
"So what happens now?" I asked.
"Didn't we tell you?" He asked.
"I don't remember," I replied, "tell me again."
"After the hunt, all of central has a party," Felicia says, but of a more adult variety. I clicked things into place.
"You mean it's all a large orgy?" I asked.
"Yep!!" Orion and Doran looked at me excitedly.
"No thanks," I said and explained despite their disappointed faces, "I'm too tired to go on. Salbar and Takori gave me one hell of a ride earlier and all that running and fighting was a little too much for me. I think I'm just going to go find some quarters to sleep in. Or at least find a place to rest without getting disturbed."
"I guess we understand," Doran said, "see ya around big guy." All of us left the Grand Hall after that. I left last of our group, I turned for one last look, only to find that all the water was gone. The hall had reverted to normal. I just decided to leave it as a trickery for the eyes and headed off any which direction.