"What was that?" Ranma asked as he looked around the hallway for his opponent.
"It was a spell called 'Undress,'" Mercurial mumbled, watching as the scroll turned to dust in her hand, its magical energy spent. "I was guessing that it would tear off the clothes and armor of your opponent. And since it was magically animated armor..."
Ranma nodded, impressed despite himself. "Not bad. You also do that?" He pointed to the two women nestled against a red ogre in hakama.
Mercurial blushed a bit and nodded at Ranma's expression. For some reason his approval made her feel awfully warm and fuzzy inside.
"Hey! These are MY panties!" Came Rii's voice from within the room behind them.
Ranma's first instinct was to run into the room at feminine shouting. It was promptly tackled by all his other instincts that demanded he take a look at what was being said before he barged into a possibly humiliating situation.
"What's going on in there?" He asked suspiciously, looking at the mostly broken door to the lingerie lab.
"Er... just a moment?" Mercurial asked in embarrassment as she slipped back into the room.
Rii was holding up some plain cloth underwear in annoyance as she stooped over a large table covered in alchemical equipment. "What was he doing with these? None of my other stuff is in here..."
"Ooh! Mercurial! Here, try these on!" Sereni said enthusiastically as she waved a pair of dark blue panties and matching brassiere in the mage's face.
Stuttering slightly, Mercurial accepted the garments and backed away into a corner where she slipped the things on under her robe.
Rii glared at the pile of underwear on the edge of the alchemy table, tempted to strip once again and change. The girls had all grabbed underwear off the wall because they were more obvious, and because they were in a hurry to get dressed, but Rii didn't exactly find the garments ideal. Besides being multicolored and having strange designs etched into them, they were far more... racy than what she was used to.
Also, she was wondering if her new thong panties were going to be riding up her ass during the entire trip.
"Hey, is Ranma okay?" Myna asked Mercurial, who was in the process of putting on her bra.
"For the moment," the blue-haired mage replied. "Our enemies are out of it for now, but I'm not sure how long that'll last."
Myna grinned upon hearing that Ranma was okay and unoccupied, and quickly walked toward the exit.
Lyta tripped her. "Why don't you do some 'locksmithing' and figure out if there's anything else here that we can use," the fighter growled. Now that they had found clothing, Myna was the only one who was underdressed due to her magically induced allergies, and Lyta didn't want the half-naked elf around Ranma without supervision.
"Ooh! These are so cute too!" Sereni said cheerfully, pocketing another set of underwear. Well, actually, that wasn't true. But Myna was the only one who HAD to be underdressed.
"Damn it, would you get some clothes on already?" Rii yelled at the blonde paladin, who flinched.
"But it's so hard to decide! There are a lot of neat-looking sets here!" Sereni complained, pointing to the few underwear sets that remained. Most of them had already been stuffed in Sereni's pack.
Rii's eyebrow twitched. Strike that, Sereni didn't have her pack. That was HER pack.
Turning toward the pile of plain undergarments on the table, she grabbed a pair and threw them at the paladin. "Here! These are yours, right? Put 'em on! And then get in those pants!"
Sereni dodged the underclothes. "But I like these better!" She insisted, gesturing to the wall. "They come in colors and have these neat designs on them!"
Something in Mercurial's mind clicked. Designs? Turning away from the cabinet where she had been checking alchemical agents, she looked left, then right. Then she grabbed the hem of her robe and yanked it up, leaning over at the same time so that she could a good look at her panties.
"Mercurial, WHAT are you doing?" Came Rii's exasperated voice.
The mage "eeped" and jumped upright, her robe falling back into place. Then she looked at the others, who had naturally all focused on her the moment she was doing something strange.
"I think that these clothes are enchanted," Mercurial said seriously, trying to distract them to a new topic as quickly as possible.
Rii glanced at the wall the mage was gesturing at. "Enchanted underwear." She said simply. "You have GOT to be kidding me."
"Well, it would explain why out of all the gear that was taken from us, the only stuff here is our underwear," Lyta allowed. "And, y'know, it would explain why one of my bras is floating in that beaker over there." She gestured at the container sitting atop an open flame. She had recognized it as hers pretty quickly (she was the - Ahem! - biggest of the Companye, and usually ranked higher than the populace at large as well), but wasn't about to reach in to take it out and wear it.
"That is SO COOL!!" Sereni suddenly shouted, causing Rii to groan again. Immediately the blonde elf started grabbing down all the underwear on the wall. "What does it all do? Which one should I put on? Are there any that increase strength or something? Or maybe a bra that gives the same protection as armor? Oh, but these ones are so pretty!" She began stuffing more and more underwear into Rii's pack, such that it was starting to bulge with bra straps and panties hanging out of the top.
Mercurial took a few steps away from Rii, who was starting to shake while clenching and unclenching her fists. "I don't know what any of them do. I don't have an identify spell..."
Lyta shook her head as she turned away from a cabinet. "Well, it looks like magic underwear and a few of those spell scrolls is all we're going to get from here. None of our other stuff is here, and there are no weapons either. Unless you found something, Myna."
Silence met her prompt, and Lyta looked around to take a visual survey. Rii, seething angrily. Sereni, finally getting dressed. Mercurial, going over those scrolls and shaking her head. Myna... nowhere to be found.
"GYAH!!" Came Ranma's shout of surprise. Lyta fought the urge to curse.
Ranma had done a quick check of the surrounding area after Knight Quill was disposed of, poking around at torches and suspicious places while trying to keep a close guard on the door.
After hearing a lot of shouting about panties, Ranma decided that he could probably find something useful to do elsewhere. The girls seemed fine in that room, wherever they were.
Since the green armor hadn't come back, Ranma turned toward the two sleeping women and one sleeping ogre and decided to take action while they were still unconscious. Remembering the cell he had landed in before while trying to get away from the lemon-dusted girls, Ranma backtracked and carefully carried them into the cell, leaning the Kuno-lookalike ogre propped up in a corner with the two girls propped up on his chest. He also took their weapons, idly shaking his head at how easy it was to take advantage of weapons users. Well, their loss was his gain. Hopefully this mission would go a little easier once the girls were actually armed.
Exiting the dungeon, he had been accosted by a few of those scattered clothes-eating worms, but just skipped by them. As he had been in the neko-ken when they had last attacked, he didn't know what they were, just that he didn't have time to waste stomping vermin.
On his way back down through the hallway, he frowned upon feeling that he was being watched. Stopping slowly, Ranma let the shortsword, longsword, and the katana fall out of his arms and onto the floor, and then gradually moved into a defensive stance that would make it easy to counter the initial charge.
Something moved in the shadows around a bend in the hallway. Years of painful and strenuous martial arts training paid off in the form of a successful spot check.
It didn't help him one bit as Myna launched herself out of hiding, still mostly pink, and still mostly naked.
Glomp!
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