That was the turning point in the war and the act that made me a hero. Pensée invincible, the leader of the Ancients, took out the artifacts from the Dungeon and brought them deep into the Sacred Temple, and both waterborn and kissborn committed soldiers to defend it.
Liberation of the long-imprisoned girls from the Dungeon also gained us allies and friends. The foodborn dropped their neutrality and joined the cleans. The Ancients turned to our side. And even among the mudborn and the slimeborn, the resistance to their leadership grew.
Our quest in the Dungeon would have been a pure victory if it wasn’t for the curse that struck me and Xeelee. Even weeks later, it still didn’t stop. We were weak and sick and we kept vomiting. And there was only one thing we knew at the time that could heal us: the Conception Ritual. When two girls join together to produce children, their bodies are fully healed and cleared of all ills.
We chose to do it. It was very unusual for girls of two different nations to have a child together but we loved each other and we needed it, so everyone agreed and helped us.
The ceremony took place in the Travertines in waterborn territory. The Travertines are an amazing place: a cascade of hot spring pools set into the limestone mountain, and the pools have the power to heal.
Over two thousand girls assembled in the Travertines, most of them kissborn, but Xeelee’s family also managed to come and some other slimeborn were in attendance, as were some girls of other nations.
The ceremony called for me and Xeelee to drive into the assembly in a luxurious carriage, holding hands and wearing ceremonial conception dresses of our respective nations, and for the carriage to arrive in the center of the Travertines.
“Are you nervous?” I asked as I saw the first calciform pool out the window.
“Not at all,” she answered, “I’m just happy!” I looked at her and indeed her happiness was palpable. I felt happy, too, but to be in front of thousands creating a child, how could I not be nervous?
The carriage stopped and I gulped.
A well-dressed waterborn entered the carriage and tied my right hand and Xeelee’s left hand together. “May your union be blessed and may your love for each other be eternal” she whispered and bid us to follow her outside. Xeelee opened the carriage door and we stood in front of the crowd. It was enormous.
The waterborn who got us out of the carriage then addressed the crowd: “Girls! Waterborn, kissborn, slimeborn, foodborn, and mudborn! I welcome you to this special Conception Ritual where with our help, Xeelee of the Slimeborn and Astra of the Kissborn will attempt to produce a child! (applause)
“Their love is not like a mighty lake, but rather like a surging stream falling off the mountain peaks. It seeks new experience and new adventure. (applause)
“But unlike many others, the water in this stream has already been tested by many battles. Indeed, in such a short time, these girls have already managed to become heroines to each other, to their nations, and to the world. (applause)
“Not only have they managed to liberate our long-lost sisters, they have also managed to do so by working together, side by side, even though they look nothing alike. In this difficult time, they have shown us then the future is ours if only we are united. (applause)
“Let this union of Astra and Xeelee then be the start of a new era for them and for everyone!”
(“Did she really say all that, Astra, or are you making that up?”
“It happened a long time ago, Jouette,” I said, smiling, “but it went kind of like that.”)
“Now to the ritual itself: We will start off with the kissborn part, it being cleaner, and then move to the slimeborn part. Unless anyone has any objections, Astra, Xeelee, you may now strip out of your dresses and enter the pool.” I thought it was rather weird to dress us up first when we were going to get naked as soon as the people saw us, but that was the ceremony.
There was ceremony to the undressing itself as well. Some kissborn perform elaborate dances where they slowly tug on their partner’s dress here and there or where they slowly tease the audience, lowering their panties centimeter by centimeter. There are even names for the various legendary dances and even their parts!
(“But it’s just… but you’re just taking off your clothes…” said Alrae, puzzled.)
I had opted for a quick dress-down with a short striptease. I stood up at attention, raised my arms and bent towards the audience. That allowed Xeelee to pull off my dress over my head, and gave the people a view of my bare back for a moment. Then I went into a handstand, which I could hold solidly even then, and Xeelee pulled off my skirt.
I then went back on my feet, turned my back on the audience, put my butt up a bit to exaggerate it and then moved my body in just such a way that my panties were slowly slipping down, revealing more and more of my butt. I had trained this beforehand. When my panties fell to my ankles, the audience applauded. I turned to them and with a pre-primed magic spell, I caused my bra — the final piece of clothing — to disintegrate into pieces. I bowed and was treated to another applause.
It was Xeelee’s turn and hers couldn’t have been more different. We played a mock boxing fight for the audience. We both pulled our punches, of course, and Xeelee especially, because I was already naked at the time and because she was supposed to be the star of this part.
We had also enchanted my fists so that wherever I hit Xeelee, a hole would burn in her dress. So I hit her shoulder first and that part of the dress burned away and exposed her shoulder. After I took a few hits from Xeelee, I made a rapid fire burst of fists into her chest, exposing her midriff.
The audience was captivated. I think seeing Xeelee pull her punches and participate peacefully in a kissborn ritual did a lot to help the audience see the slimeborn as friends.
And frankly, I was captivated as well. We had trained this beforehand as well, but it was here I realized we were really doing. I was spawning a baby with a girl I loved. In my dreamy state, I seemed to stop paying attention so Xeelee hit me in the belly a little harder to wake me up.
Thankful to her, I then mopped up the remainder of her clothes with carefully placed punches. The last punch was ceremonial: when Xeelee only had the behind part of her panties left, she presented it to me herself and courteously waited for me to deliver the last punch to her butt.
We joined hands and ascended the steps to the calciform pool under a thunderous applause.
Together, we stepped into the clear shallow water of the natural pool and lay down. Then it was time for the ritual itself.
Each conception ritual, as you know, requires two parts for a baby to be spawned: love from the inside and love from the outside.
For the kissborn, love from the inside is demonstrated by a single passionate kiss of the two lovers; for the slimeborn, the two girls smear slime into each other’s crotch. This was the first time a kissborn and a slimeborn were conceiving together, so there was little guidance on the ceremony, but we opted to do it at the same time.
Two slimeborn girls, dressed in beautiful garments, brought a small ball of sticky slime to each of us and ceremoniously passed them in our hands. When they left, I and Xeelee embraced each other with one hand while using our hand with the slime ball to stimulate the other. We closed our eyes and kissed.
(“Aww,” said Daina.
“Now, Jouette, Daina, kiss.” I ordered.
They blushed, and Jouette placed a perfunctory kiss on Daina’s cheek.
“That’s not a kiss!” exclaimed Luna. “Tell them it’s not, mom.”
“It’s not.”
Jouette offered Daina a light kiss on the lips.
“Luna,” I said, “you have Alrae. Show them how it’s done.”
“Okay,” smiled Luna, hopped off her chair and wrapped Alrae in a hug. Surprised, Alrae couldn’t react and Luna kissed Alrae on the mouth and didn’t let go. We kissborn learn to kiss passionately at an early age. After half a minute, Alrae realized that Luna wasn’t going to let go and returned the kiss. She wrapped her arms around my daughter as well and lost herself in the kiss.
Seeing this, Daina grabbed Jouette and started kissing her as well. As they all kissed, I continued my story.)
Six minutes later, when all the slime dropped off, that part was over and we lay down in the water. It was barely one centimeter deep, so our whole bodies were above water. It was time for love from the outside.
For the kissborn, that means receiving one thousand and one kisses on the body, from one thousand and one girls.
For the slimeborn, it’s one thousand and one balls of slime. For this part, we went in order.
Guests came, gave each of us a quick kiss and then went. Most of the guests kissed our cheeks or lips but some chose different body parts: the hand, the chest, the feet; and of course, some chose the nipples. All parts were allowed and given that there were a thousand girls, I think I got kissed absolutely everywhere.
I thought I would get bored, but I didn’t. Because, of course, you don’t find opportunities to get kissed by a thousands girls in a day just lying around.
When that was the done, it was time for the slimeborn portion and the bombardment began. Each girl went again, except instead of kissing us, they threw slime at us. That was the most fun of the entire ritual for me, I think, which is a little perverse: I’m a kissborn, after all, but that’s how it was. I really enjoyed getting buried under a small hill of slime slowly being built up by hundreds and hundreds of girls.
As we reached the line of a thousand slime hits, I felt the arousal within me rising. And when it was done, I was hit with an orgasm so powerful that I haven’t known its equal since. My entire body spasmed in delight, and then again, and again. I uttered a deafening moan. And I knew, instinctively, that Astlee was conceived.
The audience understood, too, and erupted in another applause.
It would still take a couple of months for my first daughter to be born, but when she was, Astlee was perfect, the best daughter you could wish for, adorable, excitable, clever and happy. The people loved her, too, and when she became adult, she served as a diplomat and mediator between the slimeborn and the kissborn, and she remained in that position until the slimeborn ceased to exist four hundred years later.
The curse of the Dungeon ended right at the moment of conception, and so we delved right back into the war.