Heroes Unite
Story by TikTikKobold on SoFurry
Cynwrig has lost Tik Tik in the Hustle and Bustle of Anteronia. Now, the bug finds himself feeling inadequate in the face of adversity. Can anything bring his spirits up?
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Anteronia is such a large city for such a little bug like Cynwrig to be lost in. He can only imagine the pain and worry that Tik Tik must be going through, all alone out there with no one to help her. Things have become tough, asking for a little kobold lost in the big city, but through it all, Cynwrig does not lose heart.
However, he can't say he isn't distracted.
Women line the streets and sit in the windows of shops, flaunting their skin and their moves. Men show off their tanned, toned bodies, impressing the ladies and the less physically impressive of their counterparts. Sex shops galore offer delights the likes of which the beetle has never considered, and he just so happens to be the one who has a hold of the party's coin purse.
Every so often, Cynwrig stops in front of a shop, his antennae twitching and his pulse racing. He presses his hands up against the glass and let his breath fog up the window as he watches, but then, the shop keeper would chase him off with a broom.
And then night rolls around, and he is alone, left to lay back in a park, entirely without shelter. Sure, he could rent himself a place, but with Tik Tik out there all alone, he just can't bring himself to do that to her.
He sighs and turns on his side, resting his cheek on two of his hands. “Some hero I turned out to be," he mutters to himself. “I'm just a pervert among perverts. I'm nothing special."
He finds himself drifting off to sleep, knowing that his dreams would be as disappointing as the rest of his being, but just as he floats away to that temporary oblivion, he jolts awake as something crashes into the ground next to him.
Cynwrig flops onto his back, staring with mouth agape as a massive, muscled, and naked woman climbs up from the crater she made. She dusts the dirt off of her shoulders, snorting and grinning from her tusked mouth. She pauses, sniffing the air, and turns to stare straight at Cynwrig. With a broader grin, the woman's glowing eyes brighten, and her smile widens. "Hey, little boy," she growled, standing tall "wanna be a man?"
Cynwrig cannot hide the betrayal of his manhood. Whatever this woman is, she exudes power and dominance like nothing else he had ever seen. Already on his back, he shamefully presents himself to her. “I-I-I'm actually a full-grown man, miss."
She snorts at that, one hand on her hip. “Sure, but yer a real little one to me, and I like 'em little." She stomps out of her crater, heading straight for him, when, out of nowhere, a pink shield bashes her across the cheek, sending her flying into a nearby tree, breaking through the foliage as she tumbles away.
Another woman, this one a human, lands on the ground right behind Cynwrig. She dresses in a pretty pink dress and has long, curly locks of hair. The bug scrambles up to his knees, bowing quickly before her. “Oh, uh, thanks miss. You… saved me?"
She nods over towards him, putting her fingers in a V over her left eye. “No problem. It's all part of a day's work for Purity!"
“P… Purity…?"
The monstrous woman throws the tree aside and stands up, wiping some blood from her lip and spitting. “Purity, huh…? I hear nowadays you ain't so pure. They say your power went away when you got a good fuck."
The magical woman's lip twitches. “W… what makes you say that?" she laughs, rubbing the back of her head with her shield arm. “I'm just as powerful, and as pure, as I've always been!"
“Oh yeah?" the oni says, stomping up towards the two of them. “Well, guess I'm just gonna have to make sure you've lost it myself!."
“Y-you want to fight, then go ahead!" Purity says, holding her shield in front of herself. “I'll protect purity and cleanliness throughout the city."
Cynwrig clenches his fist and nods. “Right… I'll protect Purity, too!" With that, he opens his wings and launches himself up and straight at the giant woman!
The oni takes the first hit like a champ, despite going right at her jaw. What she can't take, however, is the fifty other strikes on her face, her shoulder, and her chest. With a fantastic flurry, Cynwrig pummels the monstrous woman over and over, knocking her down to the ground with a large thud, leaving her seeing stars.
Cynwrig lands on the ground beside her and produced his own V for victory using three of his hands. The other rested squarely on his hip. “And that's why no one messes with a true hero around here!"
Cynwrig's moment of triumph ends in a flash of pain as a shield bashes against the back of his head, sending him sprawling forward.
Standing over Cynwrig with a disgruntled vein upon her forehead was Purity, her shield arm in a post-punch pose as she stood over him. “D-Dummy! This isn't how it was supposed to go down!"
And so, Cynwrig drifts off into the sweet embraces of unconsciousness after all.