Princess Elia, Yuki, Wanda and...?

((Feel free to join this group battle if you post within the first few days. I want to propose a new rule for this battle. If more than three days pass without a move, someone else can write your move and its results to keep things rolling along...))

It was a hot, steamy day in the arena, and Aloysius wiped the sweat from his brow as he spoke into the horn of the arena's magical sound system. "We have a special battle for you, ladies and gentlemen, it's a survivor series! Multiple combatants will enter. Only one will leave clothed! And our dear queen demands that the winner humiliate each of the losers in a fitting way, not missing a single one! This should be quite the show! First, we have Wanda, the Red Rose! She's been in this arena before, and, if you remember, it didn't go well for her. But she seems to have been training with the Ebon Whisper, so let's see if she's picked up any skills."

Wanda was sweating bullets in her leather costume as she wandered into the arena. She'd been "owned" by the arena since her arrest, and after her total humiliation at the hands of Halia, and her second loss in the company of Zoraida, things had only gotten worse for her. She wished she hadn't been chosen for this match. "Oh, my...here we go again. Try not to make yourself as big a fool as the last two times." said a voice coming from her belt. She drew the dagger and scowled at it. "You shut up, or I'll have you melted down for horseshoes."

Aloysius' voice boomed over the sound system. "And next, we have..."

"...Ellia the Princess of Rothe!" The announcer exclaimed. "Since a diplomat from Rothe insulted our lovely king, Syndra has decided that their lovely princess will have to fight in the arena for the entertainment of the great people of Enferia!"

An applause broke out as a metal gate lifted. Behind it, Ellia refused to budge. She stood proudly, arm's crossed. That was until two guards roughly pushed her forward into the arena.

"HEY!" She yelped, stumbling into the sweltering arena. Ellia was quickly growing to hate Enferia! She had come here for excitement, to change up the restrictive life of a princess. Well fighting in some kind of strip gladiator match was hardly what she had in mind! Ellia was no fighter. Luckily, she had some tricks up her sleeve. So she prepared herself, hiking up her blue gown for maneuverability. She wished she had something else, something better in the heat and less restrictive to fight in!

"Our survival match is not limited to just two fighters!" Aloysius said. "So next, for your viewing pleasure we introduce..."

Li Mae emerged into the heat of the Arena and squinted in the sunlight. She thought of cool rivers and morning rain. Of the dark sides of mountains and she felt the water of her mind cool her body.

In the dead muggy air of the arena, her robes almost seemed to have a wind about them. She bowed to her knees before Queen Syndra, touching her head to the ground and crying out on the viewing sphere. The viewing sphere took this opportunity to show this bow from behind her, focusing on her round behind as it stretched against her robes.

"I pray for your wisdom and for the strength to impress you, Queen of Queens!" And that would have been on the viewing sphere, too, if Aloysius hadn't cut her off with her own introduction.

"Li Mae...the monk? Well, let's hope she did more at the monastery than copy books, for her sake! Li Mae is paying off her debt in the Arena after she released two fabric eating spirits at the cotillion of Lady Columbine."

Li Mae got up, dirt falling from her robes. She looked at the princess in her dress and felt bad for her.

"If I were Lady Columbine, I'd be betting against this one to hedge my bet. This is one first timer in for a greeaaaat introduction to the Arena. But that's not all! Our next challenger, for your delight and amazement..."

Yuki enter in the arena under the warm sun. The heat was suffocating. She have the chance to prove that her science his better than this stupid dangerous magic !

"In the mane of Science, I will win this fight ! Today you will learn that logic and intelligence is far superior to this so called magic !"

"Okay... So this presumptuous person is Yuki, an.... Inventor ???? Oh right, another bo... Girl sorry, she's a girl who believe in some stupid thing." say the commentator while looking her

A princess, a monk and a nobody.... After analyses, Yuki conclude that the monk the real treat.
She prepare her gun and wait the signal of the beginning of the match. Her high intelligence, her weapon and the power of science will helps her to win !

Zaleria sat in her private box in the sands, taking this in. Wanda had been one of Zoraida's lackeys, but otherwise she didn't know the competitors, beyond the reputation of Elia's family. She would remain neutral, for the time being, until she made up her mind. Next to her, Brandywine was having the same thoughts. They turned to each other, and both wanted to bet against Wanda. That wasn't a wager, they'd have to think longer on this.

Wanda looked at the competitors. That monk moved as effortlessly as Makkuro, but...differently somehow. She'd be one to watch out for. As a noble, Wanda had been taught to envy people like the princess. But then, it was people like her that made her life hard in school. The one with the funny looking spear, she didn't know what to make of. Who makes a spear that's too heavy on the back end?

"You're in over your head again, darling," the voice from the dagger offered. Wanda couldn't decide who to attack, other than staying as far away from the whose moves reminded her of her trainer. She readied her bracer crossbow, and looked at the other two targets. The princess was covered in loose fabric, the kind that a grappling hook might well tear off. She aimed the dart between the legs of the skirt, pulled the lever, and hoped for the best.

Li Mae looked at the latest challenger and her strange wand. Their eyes locked for half a second. She had a look on her face like only wheels and gears turned behind her eyes.  Mae would have to throw off the balance of this magician. "Saying logic and intelligence is enough to win in a field of honor is like a man with no eyes claiming his ears are enough to appreciate a waterfall. He may believe it, but he is still a blind fool!"

At the sound of the crossbow firing, she lept up into the air, crossing the distance to Yuki.

((Seeing as the action seems to be kicking off, I'm going to assume it's just a bit too late to join in?))

((Bring someone in soon, I don't think it's necessarily too late))

"Oh, what's this?" Aloysius asked nobody in particular. "It seems there was another combatant! The, ah, list of today's fighters carried on to the back of the sheet, and it seems the young lady was waiting for me to introduce her!"

A figure came sprinting out of the arena gates and onto the sands, the heavy iron gate slamming down behind her shortly after. Taking a moment to adjust her vision to the daylight, the newcomer looked around at the other combatants she was expected to fight today.

"Ladies and gentlemen, another newcomer to the arena, I am pleased to introduce Shi... ah... Shizune Tachibana?" Aloysius said, stumbling over the unfamiliar name as he read it. "Calling herself a... samurai? Am I saying that right? Er, no matter! Let's see if our newcomer can show us whatever it is that a 'samurai' does!"

Shizune was more than a little surprised to see two other women like herself in the arena. Being so far from her homeland she hadn't expected to see anybody that looked familiar in features to herself. The samurai wasn't yet sure if this was a comfort or a cause for concern.

The fight may have been a free-for-all, but it wouldn't hurt to form at least a temporary alliance until the numbers thinned out. Taking a defensive stance, Shizune opted to observe for now and try gauging which of her opponents would make the best temporary ally.

SSHHRRIPP!
Before Ellia was even ready to start the chubby one fired a crossbow bolt straight at her. Ellia covered her face, but that was not the target. The bolt shot between her legs, shredding her gown between them. Ellia looked down in shock. She'd already been hit! Her dress was still functional but she'd lost it from about mid thigh down.
This did not look good. No one else was even fighting yet and she'd already started loosing clothing. She wasn't ready for this! Luckily, her enchanted items provided by her father's wizards had not been taken from her. She reached into the folds of her dress and drew the Breeze Han kerchief. The wizards had given her a demonstration. Whichever way the breeze was moved would be engulfed in a fast, strong wind, enough to knock an unprepared enemy prone. Perfect tool for a big multi person fight! So Ellia drew the handkerchief, then swept it before her, sending out wind in the general direction of all the other fighters!

(Up to each of you how this plays out for your own fighters.)

Another challenger enter into the arena, A samurai who come from the same country than Yuki. Actually that's it's not important, she will striped like the other.

Suddenly, the fight begin. The noise of grappling hook can be hear and then the ripped sound of cloth.

The princess dress is the spot of the hook. The first blood have been taken, now the fight will begin and their will be no mercy until only one stand victorious !
Apparently the monk take The young inventor for an easy prey. Because she leap in the air in direction of Yuki.

Seeing this, Yuki aim peacefully her rifle, targeting the belly of the monk, stop breathing and shoot !

"Eat my fireball bullet, stupid monkey !" before shoot a second time, she's begin to reload her rifle. while the bullet was flying in the direction of the jumping monk

Mae's body was a leaf on the wind. She saw Yuki raise her wand up and let loose a tiny ball of flame. She would step on the ball as it passed her and keep going. Then she was tumbling to the side as the wind from the handkerchief hit her. The monk's light body was sent spinning in the tumultuous air.

Then, she felt the flames. The ball of flame had not caught her ditectly, but it had ignited her shoes and the hem of her pants. She felt the alchemical flames lick up to her knees. It would have progressed further up her legs when she saw the ground rush up to kiss her.

"Uff!" She yelped as a she landed hard, tumbling from the momentum. She sent up a cloud of dirt in the hot air.

As she bounced the second time, she somersaulted on her shoulder and lept fist first at the first shape she could make out in the dust. She would use her shattering technique on the rivets that held the armor together. In the confusion, she had become disoriented though.

Her rivet shattering fist contacted the breastplate of Shizume with the dull whine of a tuning fork. As the vibration increased in volume, she looked contrite.

"Apologies, warrior."

Wanda grinned as the grappling hook retracted a piece of frilly dress. Maybe all her training was amounting to something after all. Then she saw Ellia doing something...what was she doing?

There was no way a whirlwind was going to move Wanda. She was too heavy. And her clothing, structured as it was to hold in her girth, didn't budge either. The result was the wind left her a little shocked and her hair a mess.

She was still frightened, as there were some formidable opponents in this ring. She didn't know their capabilities, so for now, she'd focus on the princess. She decided to close the distance with Ellia, and remove her dress the rest of the way with her dagger.

(I made a little outside post to explain something about Yuki Rifle. Rifle doesn't shoot spell. it shoot bullet with the spell inside the bullet. so when she firing her weapon, you can a bullet go out and the spell is release when the impact come. thank you ^^)

((I understand, Percolator. But Li Mae doesn't understand guns or science. I write from her perspective. From the monk's understanding, science is magic, and the gun is a wand. She thought she could use her training to run on the bullet like legend describes kung fu masters standing upon arrows mid flight. I was going to have this trigger the spell and immediately lose her pants, but Elia's wind blew her off course and ironically preserved a bit more of her dignity.))

Ellia wheeled, bare legs flexing, as Wanda charged her, dagger drawn. Ellia, while not conventionally armed, had an arsenal of concealed magic weapons provided by wizards. So, seeing the one who'd torn her dress come at her, she yanked the comb from her hair. The comb had been sharpened, and laced with Hydra venom. In a normal setting it would paralyze anyone stabbed by it with pain. Here, in the arena it would doubtlessly sting quite badly. Ellia figured if she could nick this heavyset enemy with it she could strip her while she would be distracted. She just had to poke Wanda before that dagger got her!

"We should really agree what we're betting on. I really have no need for money." Zaleria said. "Nor I, really. Let's make in interesting." Brandywine had a big smile on her face. "Whoever loses the bet takes a public spanking from the winning bettor. Bare-assed." Zaleria shook her head, "underwear." "Fine," said Brandywine, "underwear, but you have to make out with at least one of the winning contestants." "If they'll allow it." "Oh, they will." "But who are you betting on?" There was a pause as both women surveyed the contestants.

"I have a bet for you, darling," Brandywine smiled at Zaleria. "It wouldn't be fair to be forced to bet on Wanda since you hate her...I want to add the monk and the samurai..." Zaleria grinned at her, "You know, the monk and the samurai, that's a bit much. You can have Wanda and the monk." "No, Wanda is useless..." "So is that princess, probably..." "OK, I'll take Wanda, the monk, and the inventor. You can have the rest." "OK, the Samurai and the princess," Zaleria said, shaking hands. Then, she scrunched up her face. "Wait, that isn't fair at all, really." "Too late, darling, you've already taken the handshake. What have people told you about betting against halflings?"

Wanda charged at Ellia.  Although she started her arena fights with no formal training, Makurro had at least forced her to develop some basic skills and discipline.  She made it to Ellia, and started cutting what was left of her dress from her.  Ellia wasn't able to stop her but did manage to dodge to the side.  As Wanda tore the dress from her body, she turned her back.  This is when Ellia chose to strike the biggest target in front of her: Wanda's plump backside.  The comb easily cut a slice through the fabric of her trousers, but even more importantly to Wanda, it hurt!

"YeeeOOOw!" Wanda screamed, dropping the dagger as both hands flew to her smarting backside.  There was a slice in her trousers that was growing as her flesh poured out of its tight restraint.  If it got to the seam, the trousers might simply fall apart due to the pressure and their challenged structural integrity.

Shizune grimaced as her armor cracked under the monk's powerful blow. Thankfully the samurai's armor was designed by people familiar with monks and their fighting style, otherwise the equipment likely would have been destroyed completely. As it was, the armor was significantly damaged but still in one piece. Another hit like that would change that though.

"If you wish to apologize, help me dispatch the others." Shizune said as she drew her katana and stared down the other woman. "I would be honored to face you in single combat then."

Gauging her other opponents quickly gave Shizune her first target. The young woman throwing around magical items was a danger to herself as much as others with her reckless method of fighting. Really she would be doing the aristocrat a favor by taking her out of the fight quickly.

With a surprising speed Shizune dashed forward, her katana a metallic blur as she sliced at whatever top garment Ellia had been wearing beneath her dress.

Li Mae grasped her fist in front of her and nodded in a show of respect. Then she turned her head at Wanda and Ellia trading blows. As Shizune took off after the princess, Li Mae ran beside her, watching the tear developing in the stubborn thick fabric of Wanda's pants.

She thought of how tight the clothing must be on the thick red head. And she came up with a plan. She taunted Yuki again, as the alchemist finished reloading her weapon.

“Your science magic certainly is very slow!”

She flipped up and over Wanda, positioning the burglar between herself and Yuki. She landed immediately in front of Wanda.

“Did you know you have a hole in your pants?” Li Mae’s own pants had been burnt to the knee, and she was not in a hurry to face down Yuki and her alchemy.

Mae watched the stretched stiches on Wanda’s pants and top. Her chi flared, burning around her feet, hot white, and whining with power. Rather than even attempting to disintegrate the top, Li Mae would try to weaken every piece of fabric on Wanda by a small amount. Li Mae struck out in a savage kick to the the burglar and thought of the stiches that held all Wanda’s clothing together weakening, popping, and tearing along every seam.

"Shattered Silk Explosion!"

"Heh. And this monk is trying to put me out of a job, now. I call the plays, Reverend Li!" Aloysius chuckled.

Yuki see, that actually nobody take her as a target so she take the time to reload her rifle. The samurai and the monk have join their forces to undress the princess and the nobody.

Suddenly, the monk teased Yuki with :

“Your science magic certainly is very slow!”

The inventor didn't take the time to answer to her. Yuki see that was the good moment to throw a Itching powder grenade on the monk the other girl.

she take the grenade on her belt and throw it in the direction of the monk.

"Taste the power of science, monkey girl !"

Ellia was shocked by how fast things were moving. She'd never even seen an arena match, and was unprepared for the shocking flurry of activity. First the heavy set red head had torn the bottom of her dress. Then the same woman had charged her, drawing a dagger. Ellia had drawn her own poisoned comb, but the dagger had greater striking reach, and Wanda had managed to shred the side of Ellia's dress and rip it from her body!

Ellia looked down. There was her body, her royal frame, stripped down to her underwear! Her small yet toned arms and legs showed off her curvy, wide hipped torso. Her small, muscular stomach was exposed, moving up and down with her heavy breathing. Her small breasts were contained in a silken bra, her privates and rather large and perky buttocks sealed in silken panties, both matching blue. She still had her high heels and tiara, adding an element of comedy to the fact that she was down to her underwear.

Ellia blushed, crossing her arms over herself. She'd managed to poke Wanda, the irritation from her poisoned comb saving her from another dagger attack. Then, to Ellia's shock, the two martial artist combatants seemingly settled their dispute to attack her and the fat woman! It was total chaos. The unarmed woman flipped at the fat red head, giving Ellia some breathing room. But then she saw the heavily armored sword carrying opponent was heading straight towards her!

Ellia grew scared. She was a royal, a representive of Rothe. She could not just be stripped, it would humiliate both her and her country. So, in rather extreme desperation Ellia grasped one of the gems from her tiara, which would freeze an opponent in place. She only had five but she couldn't allow herself to get stripped so suddenly! She threw the gem at the samurai, hoping to paralyze her and strip her while she was helpless...

Wanda's good start had turned bad quickly. This princess had stabbed her with something. Her dagger was lying in the sand, and now, this woman in orange was doing something odd. Her clothes strained. It was the pants that went first. As the tear from the comb reached the seam, they exploded off her. The viewing sphere showed the flesh of her legs and backside, no longer restrained, growing to their full girth. Her hands immediately went down to cover her rose-patterned cotton panties. At the same time, the seams of her top weakened, and stitches started to pop. In moments, the structured garment was lying on the ground before her, leaving her in her underwear and boots. She thought she'd have fared better this time. She had been training hard, but now, here she was, in the growingly familiar position of being half-nude before the arena crowd. She froze for a second as a tear formed in her eye.

That's when the powder hit her. Everywhere, a white powder, coating her from head to toe, and the woman in orange as well. So much had happened to her so quickly, she hadn't had time to comprehend it, yet.

Up in the stands, Zaleria elbowed Brandy. "One of your fighters is almost out..." Brandywine smiled back. "The useless one. Why don't you worry about your own two? The princess is having a very difficult time."

Li Mae saw as she froze in her pose and brought her leg back to her that Shizune was frozen by the Princess' magic. If the Princess won, the Queen would be displeased.

If Li Mae lost, who knows how long before her indenture would last? She would need to win matches until she was free. She had not expected to be so effective on Wanda's outfit, but as she spilled forth, Mae understood.

"You have studied with the Ebon Whisperer? You should practice more. She is a good-"

Thunk thunk went the grenade, rolling between her and Wanda.

Li Mae did not know what a grenade was.

POOOOMPF went the grenade!

"Gah! Ah! Ahhhh!"

It was like a hundred biting ants or being soaked by hot water. She had to get this powder off., but the monk had to keep her head. Fear is the mind killer. The powder was trapped between her clothes and her skin. She pulled her combat top over her head and balled it in her hands, whipping it at Princess Ellia.

The viewing sphere zoomed in on her camisole, orange like her robes and her generous, but restrained chest. Her abs tightened and showed surprising definition, then her spine flexed backwards.

"Well, we rarely see weaponized clothing here in the Arena."

She flipped backwards, and leapt right out of the powdery pants, kicking them into Wanda's face as she bounded backwards.

The viewing sphere displayed her well muscled ass emerge from the pants in slow motion replay. Beneath her waist, she wore tight little orange short shorts. As she landed on one hand, her leg straight out to the side, and one leg bent beneath her, the sphere showed a tracking shot up her inner thigh and beneath her, gazing up at the tight orange fabric. It finally rested on her firm and flexing backside from behind.

"The Monk is so skilled at stripping, she's accidentally floping her own clothes around!" cried Aloysius. "Either that, or no one explained the rules to her." He added wryly.

She could silence the small amount of powder she had left on her, but she was not happy about losing her fighting clothes. They were much tougher than what she was wearing now. She felt more exposed in her tiny shorts and tank top. They had explained the rules to her, so she had worn every layer she had to her clothes. Now, she would have to use her wits.

((Took off two garments, acting normally next round))

Shizune saw the princess reach for one of the gems on her tiara and throw it. Realizing that it was almost certainly another magical trinket, the samurai briefly considered trying to dodge the attack before deciding to continue pressing her attack. As such, the samurai quickly found herself frozen in place. Shizune's speed, however, proved good enough as the end of her katana still managed to connect with the fabric connecting the cups of Ellia's bra before the frozen samurai slid forward on the sand.

This small victory was somewhat tarnished when the ice showed an unfortunate secondary effect. With her chestpiece already damaged by the monk's earlier attack, the freezing of the material proved more than enough to crack the armor completely. Shizune's chest plate fell to the ground around her in frozen shards as she struggled to break free of the ice paralyzing her.

Wanda hadn't felt the itching immediately, with allt hat was going on. But now it was on her. Everywhere. She kicked off her boots while her scratching hands tore off her bra, the rounded wineskins of oil that filled it fell to the sand, leaving her disproportionately small breasts on display. Her whole body jiggled as she writhed, trying desperately to keep her panties on, as both her hands went inside them to scratch.