Chapter 2 - Return to the City

Brittany Lockhart received many strange looks as she approached the bridge to the city of Mondstadt carrying a large weave basket on her back. But it was the thing inside the basket that had heads turning and eyes blinking in surprise. A slime. A Silver slime to be exact. But a slime nonetheless. Simon had wondered if he would ever return to the city of Freedom in his new body, but he’d never imagined his return would be quite like this. He was less a prisoner and more a…curiosity to the lovely adventurer woman. “Perhaps Mona can divine the hidden secrets within you.” She said casually, as if she knew he’d understand her. She obviously couldn’t have known this for certain, but perhaps she found it comforting to simulate a conversation. 

Mona was a name Simon recognized from his previous life. Mona Megistus, famed astrologist and known far and wide for her powers of divination using the power of the stars. Simon recalled getting a reading from her almost a year ago. She’d told him that the stars aligned in an odd manner with him, but that ‘fate’ would come to greet him sooner rather than later. Oh, how right she’d been. 

Nevertheless, seeing the city once more was almost bittersweet. He saw many familiar faces, people he knew by name in his previous life. He began to wonder, had they mourned for him? Was he forgotten by most of them already? He found himself sinking into a mire of sorrowful thoughts when he heard a distant toast from a group drinking outside the Cat’s Tail. “For Simon! For the Defenders of Mondstadt!” There he saw a trio of his fellow Knights, all of whom he’d personally trained in his earlier years. They were raising a toast in his honor, and somehow that alone made him feel like his life had been worth living.

Still, that didn’t mean he wasn’t going to savor his new life for as long as possible! But hearing the toast did manage to lift his spirits, tremendously, so much so he’d completely zoned out and forgotten his current situation. That was, until Brittany was at the front door of Mona’s house.

“Mona? Mona are you home?!” Brittany called out as she knocked at the door. Not too loudly, but certainly loud enough to get someone’s attention. 

“Coming! Just a minute!” Mona called out from within. A few moments later and her door opened and a strange blonde girl in purple rushed out. 

“Until our next fateful encounter, Lady Megistus!” Fischl called back to Mona before happily skipping away. Mona stood in her doorframe looking slightly embarrassed and sighed heavily under her breath. 

“I swear, Amy you really are a handful…” Mona whispered before shaking her head and smiled at Brittany. “Ah, my apologies for keeping you Brittany, it’s good to see you again and….uh…” The moment she noticed Simon Mona’s expression turned into pure bewilderment. “Why do you have a slime with you?”

“As it so happens I wanted to have you perform a divination on it with your scryglass. I encountered it in the wilds and can confirm that it is no ordinary slime. I figured your powers might be able to help me deduce it’s true nature.” Brittany said very matter-of-factly, despite what had transpired in the wilderness. Shifting the basket from her back and onto the ground she watched as Mona looked down at it with growing curiosity. 

“It’s Silver? How strange…” Mona whispered, falling deep into thought. “Well, I’ve never attempted to use my scryglass on a monster before, but I don’t see the harm in it. Come inside and set it down on the floor.” Mona ushered Brittany inside and led her to her living room where Brittany carefully set Simon down and stood back to observe. Simon himself wasn’t exactly keen on the whole affair, but he knew all too well trying anything hostile was out of the question. And would her powers even work on him? Even he had to admit he was curious to see what might happen. 

“Now then…” Mona took out her scryglass and began to examine the alignment of stars. But as soon as she began a sudden gale of wind knocked against her windows, pushing them wide open! “Gah, what is this breeze!?” The winds whipped and teared around the room, and at Mona herself. “Ah, no! My clothes! Not again!” She quickly stopped her divination, lest she was stripped down. “Forget it! I’m not about to try that again!” She said with a tearful pout, sniffling in embarrassment. 

Brittany was unfazed, seemingly, but did her best to avert her gaze. “W-Well, that was most…unexpected.” That was putting it mildly, she realized. The entire affair was unlike anything she’d expected to see. Yet, Simon could’ve almost sworn he’d heard a familiar, joyous giggle in the howling winds as they whipped about the room. Still, this left Brittany still without any answers. 

Once they’d cleaned up the mess, and Mona’s attire, she began to ponder. “You could have Lisa examine the slime. She’s the foremost scholar in the land, and a graduate of the Sumeru Academia. If anyone might be able to discover the hidden secrets of this creature, it’d probably be her.”

Brittany smiled brightly at the suggestion. As a fellow scholar and lover of books, she and Lisa had plenty in common. “A fantastic idea! I just hope she won’t be too perturbed by the sight of a monster in her library.” 

“I’ll come along as well.” Mona added. “I’m curious as well about this Silver Slime, and the strange elemental presence it seems to carry with it.” With that, the two departed Mona’s home and made for the Knight’s of Favonius headquarters, which doubled as the city’s library inside the eastern half of the building. 

Lisa was in her usual spot, her miniature makeshift office to the side overlooking the library’s main floor from upstairs. “Oh? What brings you two to me all of a sudden?” She asked with a curious smile as she watched Brittany and Mona approach. But her gaze quickly shifted to the odd creature Brittany was carrying on her back. “And is that a slime I see with you? Did you shift your research into domesticating wild slimes, Miss Lockhart?”

“Not…precisely.” Brittany said, doing her best to keep her composure and not think back to the day prior and what had transpired. “I encountered this…unique slime while out in the wilderness, studying ley lines. It appears to have no primary element, despite slimes being, by nature, elemental beings. I witnessed it come into contact with the hydro element and then take on the features and characteristics of a hydro slime in turn. But even then, it’s abilities are far from the norm of average slimes and it produces odd and….intense elemental reactions.”

Lisa could tell from Brittany’s tone and rushed speech that there was something else she was hiding, she seemed flustered like never before seen. “Hmm, well that does sound unusual indeed, but why is Mona here?” Mona quickly explained her attempt to use her scryglass, and the disastrous results that had transpired. “Interesting…” Lisa mused as she gave it some thought. “So your attempts to use the stars' guidance failed, now you’re hoping I might be able to lend a hand in discerning this slime’s inner secrets?” Lisa’s curiosity had begun to get the better of her as well upon hearing of the slime’s unusual aura and Mona’s failed divination. “But, the library is hardly suitable for an examination of that kind. Let us adjourn to my private office where we can perform a more thorough study of this unique slime.” 

Lisa led Mona and Brittany to her office on the second floor of the building. Inside was a veritable lab of sorts, with more than a few knickknacks leftover from her days in the Sumeru Academia. “A perfect place to perform some tests.” Lisa said with a confident smile. “Now, how about we try applying some Dendro energy to the slime first, Brittany?”

The adventurer nodded as she set Simon down and called on her elemental powers from her Vision. The radiant, lush green glow that spread from her palm was swiftly drawn into Simon’s Silver body, causing his texture to shift. Moss-like foliage grew along his body as a large flower bud sprouted at the top, bright red like the Dendro Bloom he’d created the day before. Brittany watched the flower sprout and bit her lip, wondering if the flower possessed the same…unusual pollen. “T-This is similar to what happened yesterday. Be careful, if it creates a burst of pollen it might have…side effects.”

Lisa raised an eyebrow and smirked. “Oh? What kind of side effects?” Her curiosity was piqued now, especially seeing Brittany’s barely concealed look of embarrassment and excitement. Yet the flower did not bloom, much to Lisa’s disappointment. “I wonder what will happen if I apply some electro?” Placing her gloved hand against the flower bud, her eyes glowed with a flash of electro as a jolt shot from her hand and into Simon.

The jolt rushed through his body, but didn’t hurt. Instead he felt invigorated! A rush of energy made him feel like bouncing up and down, but then he felt something else. Something growing, quite literally! The flower bud began to open, exposing bright red petals as it grew bigger and bigger, rising off his body with a thick stem. Brittany gasped, but then paused when she saw no signs of the pollen. “This is…different than yesterday.” She said, taking a tentative step closer. Along the flower’s stem she saw something begin to ooze out, clear with a touch of yellow pigment. “Is this nectar?”

Lisa tilted her head curiously at the sight. “Well, let's try it.” She said with a smirk. “Nothing ventured, as they say.” With a finger she wiped up some of the nectar and brought it to her lips, immediately shuddering as the taste soaked into her mouth. “Oh my! Exquisitely sweet! This is delicious!” To Mona and Brittany’s surprise Lisa scooped up a second taste, and then a third!

“I-Is it really that tasty? Well, I’ll need to judge for myself.” Mona reached in to wipe some onto her finger and brought it to her lips. The sweetness nearly made her dizzy with excitement! Never had she savored something like this before! Not even Amy’s parents cooking compared! She began to savor another scoop of the delicious nectar, her eyes bright like stars. “This is more delicious than the fudge pie Amy’s parents made for me on my last visit!” 

Brittany watched the two and hesitantly reached out for her own taste. Just like the others, she too became mesmerized by the sweetness filling her mouth. Soon all three were surrounding Simon, wiping up scoops of his nectar. But it wasn’t enough! Lisa leaned in, dragging her tongue up and down the flower’s stem. “So good…so sticky in my mouth…” Her licking devolved into a lewd display as she pressed her breasts against the stem, eyes glazed over as she sank into the sensations the nectar filled her with. 

Mona and Brittany soon joined her, licking the stem eagerly, trying to scoop up as much nectar onto their tongue’s as was possible. “Oh no…i-it’s like yesterday…I can’t stop myself…” Brittany moaned, realizing far too late the pleasurable side effects the nectar was having on herself and the others. Simon shuddered from the sensations, their eager tongues working his flower stem faster and faster, their sweet moans filling the room. They kept licking until Mona and Lisa’s tongues found the same spot, and in a dizzy haze of lust they began to lick at one another’s tongues, their lips locking together a moment later. 

Brittany watched with lewd jealousy. “Let me have some too…” She pressed together with the other two, and they began to share the sweet nectar between themselves with lustful, deep kisses. Their tongues danced together as the nectar flowed between their mouths. The sounds of their suckling lips and moans echoed all around, hands greedily fondling one another in a frenzied haze of passion.

Simon couldn’t sit back any longer, not after watching that! He felt his body grow, thick vines sprouting from the base of the flower stem. They whipped around the trio of ladies, causing them to moan excitedly. “Oh, this Slime’s a naughty boy!” Lisa moaned as the vines slipped up her dress, pushing her soaked panties aside to rub against her folds. “Oh yes…go…go deeper, you naughty slime…” Her encouragement was all he needed as he began to fuck her vigorously, her trembling body clinging to Mona and Brittany as they too received the same treatment! 

Thick vines filled them as they moaned and kissed, their clothes discarded in stages, save Mona who kept her singlet on the entire time and let out a whine as the vines had to tear her outfit’s crotch out to fill her. But she wasn’t complaining long. Soon they were all basking in the erotic pleasure, fondling each other's breasts and kissing like long-lost lovers. The haze had swallowed them up, but soon their soaking pussies began to leak out more and more, the crescendo of lust reaching its peak! 

The trio let out a wanton cry of pleasure as they came together, their own nectar soaking the vines that filled them. They were left exhausted on the floor, clinging together in a sticky embrace. Lisa moaning and grinning as her mind began to become clear once again. “Well…one thing is for sure…this is no ordinary slime…” Simon was left drained, but sated, and wondering what the next day might bring!
