Lost In Fantasy (for JosephLeeCollins)

[Andras]

Adam Ballard awoke.

The young boy saw over him a wooden ceiling, and in the room with him was a crackling fireplace. On a wooden mannequin was a chainmail vest, a shield, and a sword in it's sheathe.

Rising from his bed, he donned his armor and weapons, stepping outside.

The light of the rising sun hurt his eyes briefly as he stepped into his village: a quaint little collection of wooden and stone buildings on the side of a hill facing a river, with green grass stretching out in all directions.

The grass wasn't alive, however. Neither were the animals frolicking in the fields, or the butterfly which hovered over a bed of flowers near his house.

All of it was data. Code. Information.

Adam, however, was very alive...back in the real world.

For Adam was not a knight, in an ancient world. He was a young American boy from New York, aged ten, living in the year 2025. And he was playing the virtual reality mass online role playing game Chronicles of Fantasia, designed by the computer game company NetRealm.

No, that wasn't correct. Playing would imply a recreational activity. It was more that he was surviving it. Because at no point did he ever have the choice of leaving the game. The option to shut down the VR system didn't exist, and his body in the offline world was in a coma. That was what had become of everyone playing the game. One month after Chronicles went live, every player of the game was suddenly shut off from the real world in what was now known as the "Erebus Incident" after the virus that allegedly caused it. Ballard never knew what happened. Only he, and every player of the game, was unable to log off. No one knew what happened to NetRealm in the real world, only that the "Data Hive" that ran the game malfunctioned and locked off the rest of the world wide web. It was also observed that players of the game who died in-game lost a portion of their real-world memories when they respawned. Some people had lost their real-world identities entirely and just became lost and wandering nomads in the game-world.

Ballard, thankfully, had not. He had died twice, not out of recklessness, but due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. So why even quest and fight monsters at all? Well...

Ballard looked out at the village. For a moment, the entire land and sky of the game-world was replaced with static, as a series of blaring and terrifying noises; like electrical interference from Hell, assaulted his ears. But just as soon, the world returned to normal, the static departing...and with it, a tiny fraction of Adam's memories.

That was the other cause of "Data Decay", besides player death. Players who did nothing, didn't quest, didn't kill monsters, didn't level up, and just sat there would lose memories as well...and Adam had taken a long time off from questing. Of course, inactive-based data decay was a lot slower and more gradual than death-based data decay...but it urged on even the most scared and cowardly of players.

"Guess I took too long to start questing again...no rest for the wicked, as they say." thought Adam.


[My name is Adam Ballard, ten years old, birthday November 13th, 2015. New York State. I was on a baseball team as a kid. My favorite movie is Lord of the Rings. Lost my mom at a pretty early age. My dad has problems with drinking. I was lonely a lot growing up. Dad starts dating this young woman, Sandy, when I'm eight. I try to steal money from her wallet to go to the arcade with some other kids. She sees me do it. I remember her. Towering over me, hands on her hips, blond hair and brown eyes...she looks so disappointed in me. I lie about trying to nab money from her wallet even though she saw me do it. I try to walk away. She grabs me, picks me up. That makes me embarrassed. She carries me through the house, up the stairs and to my room. I try to struggle, but she's too strong...that makes me more embarrassed, and helpless. I tell her I'm not a baby. She says she wouldn't need to treat me like one if I wasn't being naughty. Puts me down, over her lap. She pulls down my pants and undies. I'm beyond embarrassed at this point. Her hand smacks my naked bottom hard. Stinging. Redness. I yelp aloud. I've never, never been spanked before. Her hand goes pap, pap, pap, pap, pap on my bottom. The noise is so humiliating. I struggle, I cry, but she just scolds me and keeps spanking me. I feel so unbelievably embarrassed. I'm overwhelmed. My weak boyishness and her all-powerful woman-ness. She seems like a goddess in strength, there's nothing I can do but accept her punishment. Then it's over. She picks me up and holds me. Rubs my bottom. Cuddles me. Lets me cry in her arms. Rocks me, comforts me. I've never felt something so intense before. Is this what having a mother feels like? I discover that I love her. I discover that she loves me. Sandy and dad have an argument. He's angry that she spanked me. She says I needed discipline, and that he should do more to watch out for me. She eventually gives me money and drives me to the arcade. I hug her before I get out of the car. I have a good time with my friends but my butt still stings a little. Sandy and dad break up eventually. She wanted to adopt me. But she had a prior history with drugs; clean now, but doesn't look good on her records. Dad just drinks and drinks and drinks. Occasionally we do things. But he's way out of it. I just go to school, come home, play video games, wash rinse repeat. Meet a cute girl at school, Layla Park. Rich girl from Korea. Very popular. Wears a lot of pink. Long black hair. She's so pretty. I catch her cheating on a test. Maybe you shouldn't do that, I say. Maybe you should stay out of my goddamn business, little boy, she says. I drop a piece of candy on the floor during lunch. I go under the table to get it. You're looking under my skirt, she says. No no no NO, I swear I'm not, I say. She's very, very angry now. Grabs me by the hand. Leads me away. I try to break away, she pulls back. I try to break away harder. She picks me up and puts me over her shoulder. She's so strong. How is she so much stronger than me. She carries me away. I struggle. I try to yell. She gives me one little pap on my pants, silences me. I blush. Limp now. Like an amazon taking a little prince as her prize. Carries me behind school. Up against the wall. Pants go down. Cute butt, she says. Pap pap pap pap. Stings, reddens, bounces with every pap. I try not to cry. Her feminine strength overwhelms me. I end up crying anyway. She's not a goddess like Sandy. She's a monster, a demon-ess. How can a pretty girl be such a bully. Punishing me, scolding me, spanking me. Learned your lesson, she says. Don't even bother telling the principal, she says. She has rich parents. I don't get up. Back over her shoulder I go. She pulls up pants to hide evidence. Carries me back like I weight nothing. I don't struggle at all, like a ragdoll. He got lost, she says smiling. He's really tired, had to carry him back. Fell on his butt climbing a tree. Liar. Dad gets me CoF for my birthday. I sink into it. Meet a friend named dnqh8e2rNFNJSNJDNQmkwkferrordatanotfound. He's my best friend. Thief class. All the sudden I can't leave the game. Lost. Trapped. Stranded. Leave Game option is blacked out. No one can leave. Panic. Terror. War. New guilds form. Data Hive broken. NetRealm mods unresponsive. What does dad think. Is he screaming to get me out of the game. Does he regret everything that happened. Does he regret drinking. Where is Sandy. I wish I could see her again. I wish she would...spank me again. Why would I wish for that. Such a painful memory. But I remember. I remember it so mu-]

Adam snapped out of his disorientation. He didn't mean to go that deep into his memories. He found that he was blushing. And he found that his eyes were a bit teary. He wiped his eyes. He got what he was looking for, he had forgotten the name of his thief friend. But he remembered more or less everything else about him. And he was going to meet him today for a quest. He was a Paladin, Level 5, and his username was Aden_Brightsword. Yeah, so original. Literally just his real name with some things changed.

Adam descended into town, going to the inn. In the town squad was a group of players, among them was a tall female Thief with long, blood-red hair, eyes of the same color, and red armor over a white dress. Adam knew and disliked her. Unfortunately for him, she noticed him.

"Hey sweetie." she said, grinning. "How's my cute little paladin-boy doing today?" she said, mockingly.

"Hey Scarlett." Adam replied, sheepishly.

"Don't me shy, come over here!"

She then used her Thief Teleport ability to appear behind Adam, grabbed him with both arms, picked him up and put him on her him before she strode back to the other party members with a few long-legged strides. Adam could only blush. Her Grab stat and strength was way higher than his, and wouldn't dare struggle.

"Me and him go a way back. We've done quests together. Haven't we?" Scarlett said.

"Y-yeah." Adam replied.

What she MEANT was that they were both doing a quest looking for the Sacred Grail in the Forbidden Forest. It was a one-time special bonus item put there as a challenge. So they both found it at the same time, and fought over it. Scarlett won easily. She took the grail as her own, and took him captive. Scarlett threw Adam over her shoulder, pulled down his pants, and spanked him as she carried him back to town with him the whole way, giggling the entire time. By the time she was done he was a sobbing mess, and his butt was the exact color of her name. He wondered if she was just Layla Park who lost her identity after dying so many times. Wouldn't surprise him. Or maybe she was just another Layla Park in the world, there were other girls like her. Unfortunately...

"Anyway, he's pretty cute, isn't he?" Scarlett said, making him blush more. "And reliable...if he knows his place. I'm thinking of making him a party member under my command. A servant player, essentially. Who answers directly to me." Scarlett looked him right in the eyes as she said that.

"Eh, he's pretty low leveled." another party member said. "Maybe if someone ran him through a few missions to level him up, he'd make a good ally. But I wouldn't bother otherwise."

Scarlett pouted mockingly. "Awww." she said. "But I want this little cutie in my party."

"H-hey Scarlett." Adam stammered. I...gotta go, okay. I got someone to meet."

"Okay." she said, putting him down. "Seeya later, Adam!"

As he ran away, she couldn't resist giving him one little quick ̶p̶a̶p̶ smack on the rump as he left. Adam blushed. She was so nasty, mean, and embarrassing. What a cruel girl, he though.

He entered the inn. There were a few patrons inside. Among them was a very tall woman, dressed in a short dress made seemingly of leaves, with light armor made of bark, brown boots, a crown of flowers and a wooden staff on her back. Her hair was long and green, with some flowers tied into it, and her dress was short enough to show off her long, shapely legs. Her name was Hestia, and she was a druidess and owner of this inn.

The job system was something added a week after the game. You could take on a job within the game-world to get gold and other benefits. You decided the hours you would work, and if you weren't there an NPC would take your place. Hestia was there almost all the time, though. And during that time, her and Adam had grown very fond of each other. The inn owner and druidess was one of his closest supporters and protectors in the game-world. She always helped him whenever he visited the inn, and she had protected him on many occasions. At one point, some nasty guild members came into the tavern and started causing trouble. Adam, in a moment of righteous indignation, tried to duel one of them. Hestia intervened immediately, snatching little Adam away and telling him to not put himself in danger. Adam was so angry he tried to duel her instead. Hestia defeated him so overwhelmingly swift and soundly that he was too shocked to resist when she picked him up, tucked him under her arm like a tiny little package in her amazonian grasp, and carried him up the steps to her private room on the second floor of the tavern, giving his clothed bottom little smacks as she went. There she put one foot on a stool, draped him over her long, muscular leg, yanked down his pants, and spanked him bare bottom for two minutes straight. His cheeks reddened and bounced, his legs kicked, his eyes flowed with tears...and at the end of it, she held him and rubbed his red bottom as she consoled him. It was no coincidence that of all the females he'd met in the game-world, Hestia was the one who reminded him the most of Sandy. She was busy a lot of the time, but when she wasn't, she looked after him.

Currently, she was passing a plate of food and drinks to some patrons. Then she noticed him. She walked over and hugged him in her arms, picking him up and giving him a kiss on the forehead.

"Hey, hon. How are you doing lately? Are you ok?"

"Hey, Hestia." he said, blushing a bit. But he felt loved nonetheless. She was always kinda embarrassing with him. As mothers or older sisters tended to be.

"Oh, I'm doing great! I was taking a break, but I'm meeting today to do questing with...Jason. Jacob? Jerem..."

Hestia's cheerful expression dropped. She looked very, very worried.

"I'll be back!" she said to her customers. She turned around, and carried Adam into the storeroom in the back.

"H-hey Hestia, wait! Put me down!"

She didn't listen, carrying him into the storeroom, closing the door behind her, and putting him down in front of her. She put her hands on his shoulders and bent down.

"Adam. Have you been receiving data decay lately? Tell me."

Adam stammered. "H...Hestia, I'm not in any da-"

She reached behind him and gave him a ̶l̶i̶g̶h̶t̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶m̶ ̶p̶a̶p̶ light but firm smack on the backside, making him yelp and blush a little.

"Be honest with me, Adam." she said sternly.

"A little!" he spat out. "Just a little. I...forgot my friend's name."

"I care about you, Adam. You know that. Did you only forget Joey's name, or was there more?"

"I...don't know. I don't think so. I also had this really intense flood of memories from my real life, too. It was so weird...my character data and quest files were messed up for a second. But they're better now.

Hestia pulled Adam into a close hug.

"Oh, Adam. I'm so glad you're okay. Dunno what I would do without my little paladin pumpkin."

She also reached around and rubbed his little tushy a bit, which made him blush again.

"H...Hestia, that's embarrassing..." he said, shyly and quietly.

"I gotta fix the damage." she said. "I may have good reasons to redden that cute little caboose, but I need to make you feel better afterwards. You've been over my knee enough times to know how that goes."

"Y-yeah..." he said, remembering the several times Hestia had spanked him and then comforted him afterwards.

"You know I don't want you getting into danger." she said. "But we have to keep fighting. If we don't do quests, fight monsters, or get EXP; we lose our memories. It's like muscles, if they don't work out enough they atrophy. Or better yet, we're like sharks...we gotta keep swimming, or else we die."

"That's actually a myth." Adam replied. "Sharks don't die if they stop moving. But I see your point."

Hestia laughed, not the slightest bit offended or thinking he was a smartass. He wasn't trying to be, after all.

"Learn something new every day." she said. "Do you remember the other reason why we gotta keep questing?"

"Uhhh...so we don't get bored?" Adam asked.

"No, the other thing. Every time someone beats a high-level quest, they get a little bit of code from the Data Hive. The idea is that if we get enough code, we can figure out what happened to the game and get the Hell out of here. I have a little piece myself.

She raised her hand, and in her palm appeared a glowing blue piece of the Data Hive's code.

"Got this when I beat the raid on Darkblood Abyss. That Grimlord Thanatos was a mean son of a...you know. Unfortunately, some players got taken down during that quest. They lost a lot of memories." she looked a bit sad for a moment, but realized she had to be strong for Adam.

"Now, go outside...Joey should be here now. You should join him."

With that, Hestia let Adam leave the storeroom and re-enter the lobby as she came out to serve her customers.

[17JosephLC]

Just as Adam reentered the lobby, a (mostly) familiar boy came in, dressed in the garb of a Thief. Username: 17CollinsJL, real name, Joseph. He used his last name, the initials of his first and middle names, and the year his foster family had adopted him.

The ten year old boy had short, curly brown hair and sapphire-blue eyes. He was a very happy, positive boy, despite being an orphan. His foster parents had tried to be good to him and his siblings, but there were, like, four of them (not including himself).

The day they had gotten CoA, he had been so excited. Normally, he wasn’t allowed to play without either one of the foster parents or a sibling with him, but the day of the Erebos Incident, he had snuck the game into his room and decided to play alone. He had quickly come to regret that decision. But he had persevered!

Joseph adapted quickly to their new world. He’d died a time or two, so he didn’t remember the names of his foster parents or siblings. But he had never allowed himself to slow down, he embraced this new life to the fullest. Admittedly, a part of him hoped they’d never find out what was wrong, as they were basically gods here. But he was careful to keep that to himself. He didn’t wanna alienate anyone with his kinda controversial opinion.

One thing the boy was grateful for was the presence of his best friend and party member, Adam the Paladin. Speaking of which... “hey Adam!” Joey waved to the back of the inn, then used Thief Teleport to head over. “Hi, Hestia! Can I get a Coca-Cola before Adam and I head out?” He tossed three gold at the druidess.

[Andras]

Joseph was unprepared for the sudden and high-impact hug that his friend Adam gave him. The blond, freckle-faced boy ran straight at him and hugged him tightly.

"Joseph, I'm so glad you're here!" he said. "I...suffered a bit of data corruption. I forgot your name, but Hestia reminded me!"

"So what about that mission we were going to do?" he added. "We gotta be careful...Scarlett and her goons are outside. Have you ever dealt with her, Joey? If you have, you'll know why we need to stay far, far away from her!"


"Sure thing, sweetie! That'll be five copper." said Hestia. "How are you doing today, kiddo?"

[17JosephLC]

Joseph was indeed surprised by the highly enthusiastic greeting from his best friend. But after a moment, he shrugged internally and hugged the Paladin back, glad he had such a carding friend! Then he learned about why the greeting was so enthusiastic.

“Adam, c’mon, man! I KNEW we shoulda headed out yesterday! Now you got data corruption and forgot my name! I haven’t had any data corruption sense the Erebus Incident... because I keep going on quests and stuff! Honestly, dude,” he shook his head in exasperation!

“But everything is all good now, right? It was just my name,” he asked for clarification?

Joseph then got excited, “there’s been some hellhounds attacking caravans, lately.” They were a rather average monster, not too difficult for players of their levels. Then he blinked, “Scarlett... I have never met her myself, but you told me she took an artifact you wanted one time. You never did tell me the whole story of what happened.”

Then he turned his attention to the druidess. “Five?! What the heck, it was three just two days ago!” He whined, pouting up at the maternal woman, his little face demanding a satisfying explanation for the slight upage in price. You never knew when you’d need every last copper, you know!

Yeah, Joseph could be kinda stingy with his coin, but he was a Thief, dangit! What were you expecting?!

[Andras]

"I know." Adam said, a bit regretfully. "I've just had some bad experiences. I couldn't bring myself to adventure for awhile. The good news is, I can do some side quests and get to your level soon. I'm not that far behind."

"Yeah..." he continued. "Just your name, I think. And Hestia reminded me."

Hellhounds were attacking caravans. That made sense. That was a thing ever since the Demonic Incursion patch was added, which was intended to lead into the "War of the Damned" expansion. It involved portals to Inferno (the game's equivalent of Hell) opening up across the game-world of various sizes and difficulties, which would spew out demon-type monsters which would control that territory and attack nearby players and NPCs until they were dealt with. This was a pretty small one, apparently.

"Ok, we'll deal with them." Adam said.

"Scarlett...uhhhh...she's a griefer!' said Adam, blushing. He was referring to a bully player who hurt other gamer's experiences, stole items for herself, and harassed lower-leveled players. "Just trust me when I say she's up to no good!"


"Hey, I don't make the rules." said Hestia. "The player economy shapes what the prices of items are in towns! But you already knew that, didn't you pumpkin?"

[17JosephLC]

“Uhh, griefers! I hate those kinda players! I wish there was a guild or something that griefed griefers, so they’d know what it feels like, and maybe cut it out!” Joey complained. Then he blushed a bit and looked up at Hestia, “I’m not a pumpkin...”

He then swiftly gave the motherly druidess another two copper, and stored the stamina-boosting drink into his invatory. That done, the duo quickly made their way out of the inn and off towards their objective.

About half way to the town gates, they were stopped by two girls. One was obviously Scarlett, but she had a friend with her. A teenage girl with bubblegum-pink, floofy hair that went down to just past her shoulders, and baby-blue eyes that sparkled with mischievous delight at all times.

She was a bard, the same level as Scarlett, and her username was apparently Pink_Siren-9,000. She gasped sharply, “Oh, my, gods, Scarlett! You weren’t lying, he’s totes adorable! And he’s got a friend too~” She skipped up to the surprised Adam and scooped him up into her arms!

“You are way too cute, you know that? What are a pair of cuties like you doing without a girl or woman to keep you safe and protected? Ohh, never mind, we’ll figure that out later!” The Bard leaned in and whispered into Adam’s ear. “For now though, your naked tush and my hand have a ballad to preform, just the two of us,” she giggled. “Who knows, maybe you’re friend can join us too~ The more the merrier when it comes to little boy spanky time~”

Then the girl casually put him under her arm, and began to lead him towards her place...

Joseph was unable to help Adam, as he was having his own “introduction” to the older Thief...

[Andras]

"Maybe we can create that guild when we're higher leveled." said Adam.

"Yes you are!" said Hestia. "If I say you're a pumpkin, then you're a pumpkin. No ifs, ands, or buts!" she said, smiling.

***

Adam and Joey walked to their mission. That was when he saw two girls: the dreaded Scarlett, and a Bard with pink hair. Scarlett then disappeared. She had gone into Sneak mode, which Joey would be very familiar with. But being higher leveled with much better stealth, Joey couldn't see her.

Adam tried to reach for his sword, but he couldn't draw it! He looked down and saw a purple aura around his sword and scabbard! Did this bard girl somehow cast Song of Disarm on him when before he knew she was there? She wasn't hacking or cheating...but she probably knew about some glitch that only worked inside this town. It wasn't illegal, but it was a DIRTY trick!

Before he could think of how to defend himself, the pink-haired girl cheerfully skipped over to him and picked him up!

"Ahhhh!" Adam yelped in surprise, blushing and squirming helplessly as the girl held him in her arms and told him he was cute.

"We-we're going on a quest! We don't need any protection, I swear!" Adam stammered. Then she leaned in and told him the horrible truth!

He gasped, his eyes wide with fear! She was going to spank him!

She tucked him under her arm, wrapped around his waist, leaving his body dangling helplessly in her grasp with his butt sticking out in front. It was a humiliating way to be carried, but the worse part was where he was being carried to!

"Noooo!!!" the little paladin whined, kicking and squirming. He didn't realize that his butt was in range of her free hand and he was about to get some warm-up spanks.

Meanwhile, Scarlett reappeared behind Joey. But it was a diversion: she used Illusion to make him think she had reappeared behind him, and when he turned around she appeared behind him again, the first illusion disappearing.

"Hello!" she said cheerfully as she gave him a light swat on the tush. This was, in fact, a Stunning Strike, and it rendered him completely helpless. She hugged him from behind like a teddy bear.

"Ohhh my god, you are SO cute! You can't believe how long I've been looking for a little boy thief to make my apprentice! I've been wanting a student for a very long time, and it looks like I found an adorable one!"

She then turned him around and picked him up, spinning him in the air as she squeed over how cute he was. At the end of her spin, she threw him over her shoulder!

"Now you get to be my little student sidekick! But wait!" she put a finger on her chin as she began to carry him away. "You stole an item that I was supposed to win in that one quest on Creeping Caverns! While I was busy fighting a rare monster, you had to sneak around and take it for yourself!"

She reached up and gave his bottom a few pats.

"But it's ok! Your new teacher is going to give your naughty little tushy it's first lesson!" she said, smiling as she carried him.

[17JosephLC]

“Sure, that sounds like a plan!” Joey nodded with a satisfied smile, happy he had such a good idea!

Then he shook his head, “nope, not a pumpkin!” They swiftly left the inn after that.

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Siren had smirked when she and Scarlett had seen the boys, and had cast subtle Songs of Disarm on the both of them before they even noticed the girl’s approach.

She then scooped Adam up into her arms and giggled at him, “you don’t need protection? That’s like saying you found dry water! Little boys always need protection, especially on dangerous quests! Who is gonna ensure you don’t die, and then discipline you for whatever naughty, silly things you get up to on the quest?”

She then started making her way to her house, giving Adam’s butt some light, warm-up spanks! Smack, swat, slap! This continued until they reached her home. Once there, Siren stepped inside, and waited for Scarlett to join them with Joseph. As soon as both girls were in the building, Siren closed the door, grabbed the waistband on Adam’s pants and undies, and yanked them clean off, dropping them into a pile on the floor! “Little boys are not allowed to cover up without permission in this household.”

She then carried her captive to the living room, sitting on a large, comfortable couch. She then maneuvered the bottomless paladin into the dreaded drum position! “Now, it’s little boy spanky time~” SPANK SPANK SPANK SPANK SPANK SPANK! She used both her hands, one on each cheek, like she were playing bongo drums.

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When Scarlett had disappeared, Joseph automatically knew she had gone into Stealth mode. Knowing he would be unable to see her, thanks to her higher level, he had hoped, in vain, that he could use his other senses to detect her! He listened, tried to smell for her makeup, anything! But there was no finding her.

She appeared behind him, and he wiped around, only to find a dissipating illusion, then Scarlett landed a Stunning Strike... on his tush! “OUCH!” He yelped with a blush as she then picked him up. “Hey, put me down!”

But she did not put him down. Instead, she put him over her shoulder and began to walk away with him! “I didn’t steal it, I claimed it, fair and square! It isn’t my fault you got caught by the monster!” The helpless little boy unwisely whined. Then he blushed when she patted his butt! “N-no, wait, please! Don’t spank me, I’ll give you the Living Shadow Cloak!”

The Living Shadow Cloak was the item in question. It was a cloak made from... well, living shadows. Any character who wore it would automatically gain the stealth perks of a master thief as long as they were wearing it.

[Andras]

Adam struggled helplessly, the little Paladin's legs kicking and squirming in the air as the pink-haired bard easily carried him beneath her arm.

"Put me down! You're a griefer and a bully!" he protested. But not only did she not put him down, she started giving his bottom little swats, lightly smacking his butt through his pants. It didn't hurt very much, but his face crimsoned with embarrassment nonetheless. She was likely messing with him and showing him she could do as she pleased. She ignored his struggles, carrying and spanking him the whole way to the house.


And then, once they were inside, she pulled off his pants and undies with one smooth yank!

"Ahhhhh! Nooooo!" he yelped.

His bared bottom and legs were fully exposed, he suffered such a sudden and crippling rush of embarrassment that he froze, briefly going limp. The bard carried him into the living room and sat on the couch, putting him on her knees facing downward. Each of his legs was on either side of her waist, and his little pale buns pointing up in full view of the Bard and fully available for her to spank.

"Nooo, don't spank me like this!!" Adam begged, trying to squirm out of her grasp. But it was useless. Her firm hands soon fell on his soft cheeks, each one bringing a fleshy thwack, a flash of stingy pain, and a surge of shame.

"Owww!!! Owww!!! Owwaaahhh!"

Utterly helpless, and spanked in a humiliating position, Adam's eyes soon welled with tears as he yelped aloud.

*****

"Ohhh no you didn't!" Scarlett said, teasingly. "That monster wasn't even supposed to be there! Some griefer kited it into the zone just cause they thought it'd be funny. Well, I didn't think so...so I tracked him down and stealth-killed him! If it wasn't for that loser, I would've had that Living Shadow Cloak for myself!"

As she carried Joey away, she reached up and pulled down his pants and undies, leaving his bare tush sticking up as he laid over her shoulder, completely vulnerable to her free hand. The devious rogue reached up and began giving Joey's bottom rubs, pats, and the occasional light spank which made his cheeks bounce slightly.

"I'm gonna sample your little tushy a bit." Scarlett said cheerfully. "Best way to let a cutie boy know he's gonna be spanked...and that's what's in store for you, little sweetie-pie apprentice!"

She marched into the house, carrying Joey inside. She carried him to an ottoman, and dropped him off her shoulder and onto his back on top of it. Before he could do anything else, she pulled his pants off completely and grabbed his legs, raising them directly up. She held his legs in one arm, looking down at him as she reared back her hand.

"You've been a naughty little baby boy, but a good, firm, rump-reddening spanking and some cuddles afterwards will be all it takes for you to be my cute, obedient apprentice!"

With that, the rogue began spanking him diaper-style, keeping eye contact as her free hand began to patter his bottom with one firm, stinging spank after another.

WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP WHAP

[17JosephLC]

Siren smirked and giggled, “a griefer and a bully? Don’t you think it’s a little stupid to insult the girl you’re about to be spanked by, baby boy? But I guess it doesn’t matter all that much,” she shrugged. “Your tushy is gonna get tanned good and hard by moi!”

The Bard bared the young Paladin’s posterior, “my, what a cute caboose you have, sweetheart! I’m gonna have to have you join my parties so you can stay at my place, and I can practice on these big bum-drums whenever I want!”

Then she took him to the living room and put him in that oh-so embarrassing position, and began to spank him! SPANK SPANK SPANK SPANK SPANK SPANK! “Well, how else should I spank you, baby? Maybe over my knees? Or perhaps you prefer the diaper position like your friend is getting?”

Siren lifted him up slightly, so he could see the predicament his poor friend was in! Then she dropped him back down, and spanked him some more!

SPANK SPANK SPANK! “This cute butt is just begging for some attention!” SPANK SPANK SPANK!

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Joseph had not known that a griefer had left the monster there. But he did gasp, “y-you killed them?! How could you do that to a fellow player?! Who knows what he forgot because of you!” Joseph shouted angrily, and tried to kick her, but he couldn’t.

But then she bared his bottom! Joseph’s cheeks immediately colored ruby red, and he was petrified from shame and embarrassment! While Siren was almost playfully swatting Adam, she hadn’t bared his bottom until they’d gone safely inside her home! But Joseph was now bare bottomed in public! He couldn’t help but to tear up!

Scarlett then lightly rubbed and patted his butt as they walked, and she even gave him light spanks, that had him gasping! By the time they got into the house, his southern hemispheres were already a light shade of pink.

The griefing Thief then laid him down on his back on an ottoman, and she yanked his pants and undies off! “Nooo, stop!” Whined the humiliated younger Thief. She then lifted his legs, keeping eye contact with him, and began to spank her soon-to-be-apprentice!

“OWW! OWAH! YOW! Stop, that hurts! YOUCH! OWIE! AHH!”

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Meanwhile, another little boy was back at the inn, another little boy was sitting by himself. He wore leafy, green and brown robes, and had a staff. He had short, ginger hair and chocolate-brown eyes. His name was Austin, and he was a Druid. But what was his level? 1. He was a level 1. The day of the Erebus Incident had been the day he had gotten the game and made his character.

He had heard that a great Druidess owned this inn, and he had hoped that maybe he could become her apprentice, as he had no party or guild to help him. He had even seen the Druidess a few times now, but he was too shy to approach her.

Could she tell the boy was watching her? Maybe, or maybe not. But, well, he was sitting at the table in the dining area, and had yet to be waited on...