Dungeon Prowler : One Man Army 237 Suffering Bird

"How long has it been since we held the ritual?" asked Dustan as he pulled out an old throne from his ring and started dusting and cleaning it with the utmost care. "About 5 years, we have been slacking in doing it ever since we stopped needing his luck", said Bai with a nostalgic look.

Fae was playing around with her variant slime, while Lucian was giving Leader her daily back rub, Balin was working on some sort of contraption while scratching his head with one of its corners every now and then. Debauchery party members were taking a rest back in the privet dimension, they had been especially sad lately since the youngsters have been away for a long time and they missed having the extra mouths when making noise.

"If we kept the ritual that b.l.o.o.d.y bird would have been ours from day one, it has been giving us too much trouble ever since we stepped on its nest by mistake!". Dustan was very hurt and indignant about the whole ordeal, so he was visibly happy when Reina popped from behind him tweeting like a songbird "you deserved it, you should pay attention to small things no matter how big you are". The visibly happy mood Reina was in, infected everyone as they drew smiles on their faces.

"So how did it go, you just said you were going on an adventure but said nothing else, care to tell us what happened?" Fae was so curious she directly threw her slime on Balin's beard as he skittered stealthily towards the fluffy girl, it has been too long since he last had her in his arms especially now that the two tails have become 4 with a fifth growing out, that bought Fae enough time to scoop up the kitsune and hug her tight enough to keep away Balin.

"Well, hubby brought home a hole city from the dungeon and we went to explore it, we found this unbelievable palace inside, so we took it to our little kingdom and then Yunan held court in the new palace, you should have seen how dreamy and cool he looked, and then there was so many colourful lights and rainbows that made him look even more kingly, and when he held court he was so dignified and was so kingly i was gonna die from happiness".

As the news had nothing to do with Reina herself Debauchery tuned it out as white noise and just ignored most of it, the gist was that Yunan got lucky again and now he looks kingly just by sitting on a freaking chair, as his wife Reina was acting more like a mistress and not a wife. She was swooning over him like he was the best there ever was and there ever will be, she soon was joined by Ophelia and Kitty who kept singing praise to Yunan for hours while he was in the bath taking a nap with Lili and Sarah by his side.

Debauchery listened to the white noise coming from the girls until it was dinner time, there Yunan had to ask why is Balin bringing his work to the table and why is Dustan still carrying around that old throne of embarra.s.sing rituals. "It's a bird". "What bird?". "Not a bird, the bird", "bird is the word I see". "Explain please". "So while in the 81st floor Dustan stepped on the nest of this little bird and it has been causing us trouble ever since. When we sneak on something it alerts it when we fight it brings reinforcements if we take a rest it s.h.i.+ts on our heads or drops rotten fruit, we tried every trick in the book to catch it but we couldn't" Lucian explained.

"Why not just bring it home, if you are not lucky enough to catch we can bring Fortuna herself and we can see how long it can last, anyway, why are you even making traps for it?" Reina was as brutally straightforward as always saying hat should not be said. Debauchery was not very impressed but still said "I think it knows somehow, we tried to use that method and it stays out of the ten-meter range at all times and no matter what we do it does not fall in our traps, we are at wits end" Leader was not too bothered about it by her tone.

"Alright before you guys move out tomorrow let's do the luck ritual and see how it goes, let me bless that trap you are building too, we should cover all the bases, if not for the fact that I am too weak I would go with you there myself". Yunan could have stopped there and all would be fine but he has been too relaxed for his own good even his death seeking tendencies returned to the surface.

He said with a sn.i.g.g.e.r "but to think the almighty Debauchery would be reduced to wit's end by a bird, surely you must have gone down the self-esteem ranking lately" that was all the words it took for Yunan to flip a switch in Debauchery, and killing intent started hurling itself at him, only then did he realise what he said was the wrong statement at the wrong time, he should have waited until they caught the bird before letting such a line be heard.

The punishment was not too severe at all, Yunan almost got away scot-free, he was only turned to a bird and made to eat some grains and earthworms from the garden hand picked by Dustan for maximal gross factor, Yunan the bird had his feathers plucked, regrown and plucked again enough times to make a very soft pillow for leader, he was given to Sapphira to toy with him for a bit, then he was put in a cage for the rest of the night.

And if he refused to tweet and sing in his new melodious voice, he was poked by a rod to sing and sing until they offended Debauchery was satisfied, probably the other bird has escaped this treatment thanks to the contributions of Yunan, well he literally suffered for the bird's sins, even if the line Yunan used was not that bad in the scheme of things, it was the straw that broke the proverbial camel's back.