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THE UNINTENDED CURSE Ch. 9 Needless to say, I was glad that I was actually a blob doing this, rather than trying to squeeze that guys hulking frame through that water-way. * * *

(FLASHBACK)

• * * A few minutes later, my friend finally came back to check up on us. He claimed that it was getting late and that we needed to head back to the ship soon to prepare for tomorrows day at the market. Mainly, what other fish that would be sold the next day and such. I told him that I needed to take care of the little kitten before I would head back and that he should start heading back before me. With a shrug, he nodded and began to pack up the shop and the two of us went out into the woods to find the stream that would lead to the underground water-way that ran below the cells of the jail. Once we'd found the river and followed it up for a ways, I saw that it did run under a large stone wall and could faintly hear the sounds of clinking chains and other loud noises coming from within/beyond the stone wall. 'This definitely sounds like the place.' I thought as I turned back to the little cat girl and gave her a smile. "You've definitely held up your end of the bargain, so here," I reached into my coin pouch within my britches and produced a few coins that I plopped into her cupped paws. "This should suffice for your services. Don't go spending it all in one place though." The little cat/girls eyes went wide when she saw the coins that were now in her paws and did a few double takes to make sure that she wasn't seeing something that really wasn't there. "Are you kidding me? Your giving me this much for just leading you to this place?" She said in a disbelieving tone as she quickly hid the coins somewhere within her raggedy cloths. "You would be surprised to how much some people will pay for information, little one." I couldn't help but laugh at her facial expression. "Make sure that you keep that in mind for the future. Keep your eyes and ears open and you never know what you'll learn from loose lips. As that information can earn you a few coins from the proper buyer of information." Just then the little girl did something that I never expected, she leapt out to me and hugged the legs of my host, and let out a long drawn out purr of contentment. After returning the hug for a moment, the little girl finally let me go and took a few steps back so that she could look up at me without hurting her neck. "Though I still don't understand why your just happy with only knowing where this water comes out from under the jails. Wouldn't you like to know more about what the insides of the jail look like, where certain prisoners are kept, and such?" I could see a little twinkle in her eyes and knew that she was picking up on my little lesson quite quickly. "Thanks, but no thanks. I've already given you enough coin. I can handle myself from here." So with a few goodbye's the two of us parted ways and I watched as she quickly disappeared into the woods to probably head back to where her little friends were hiding out and teach them about what I'd just taught her. Once she was safely out of sight I knelt down and started inspecting the water. The water that was running under the wall looked to be moving at a fairly slow pace and wouldn't prove difficult to move through. "And since water is one of the elements that wont hinder me in any way, I can probably just take my time in looking for whom I'm looking for." So doing a few looks around the area to make sure that I was truly alone, I turned back to the water, and started to retch. A few seconds later a large chunk of myself started to form around his mouth and then plopped into the water with a little splash. I'd made sure that the part of me that was still in my hosts body would only just go back to the ship and rest for the next day, while the main part of me would go searching within the cells for whom I'd seen earlier in the day. * * *

(Flash-Forward)

• * * Being in the water in my blob form felt very nice and very profitable to me as well, as a small fish would occasionally come swimming on up the stream to inspect me for a moment, only to be caught by my sticky body and then quickly digested. This continued for quite some time until I finally found an opening in a grate above the water (just like the little kitten had said) and then oozed my way on over to it to listen. The opening to the water way looked fairly large and a brief thought confirmed my suspicion of it being where the girl had escaped from as a large barrel fell down through the opening to start floating down the river. 'Well if that isn't obvious enough, then I must be dumb and stupid.' I thought to myself as I started to make my way up to the opening along the walls and peaked around inside the place where the barrel had just come from. It was just as the little cat girl had described. The room was full of barrels that had the scent of wine and mead that permeated the whole place. There seemed to be two different stacks of the barrels as they lined both sides of the room. 'Probably one side for the mead and the other for the wine.' I thought as I took a little closer look about the place. I eventually spotted the man that'd dropped the previous barrel through the opening and saw that he had a bit of a glazed look in his eyes. 'He must've been sipping from the barrels.' I thought with a bit of glee as I saw him sit down on a barrel and produce a flask to take a long pull from it. Eventually the man lay back against some of the barrels and his head fell back as he passed out. This proved to be my chance, I quickly got into the room and hid myself behind some of the barrels to make sure that I wouldn't be seen for a little while. 'Maybe I should take over his body and make my way to the cells I thought,' But I quickly gave up on he idea as I could see that he didn't have the keys to the cells or even looked like he was a jailer. 'I guess that means that I'm just going to have to do this all myself.' So going up a wall, I slowly made my way out of the room by traveling along the roof. Every few feet I would stop to listen to the area, just to make sure that I hadn't attracted any attention, even though I knew that blobs don't really make any noise other than a slight squishing sound as I moved, but all my plans would be ruined if one person were just to gaze up and see me. So keeping my body as flat against the roof whenever a person would walk near/underneath me, I made my way around the area. It took me quite some time to actually find the cells to the jail as many of the other rooms to the place looked to be torture chambers or filled with other means of pain inducing devices. I was thankful for one thing though, many of the guards that were guarding this place were sitting at the at a table near the prisoner cells and didn't seem interested in much, as most looked to be passed out with several mugs and empty mead/wine bottles across the top. By seeing this I knew that they'd probably had been drinking for quite some time and would be 'out of it' for a good long while. 'That is going to be one heck of a headache they're going to have once they wake up, but I'm going to take full advantage of this and do what I came here to do.' Quickly moving over to one of the men that had a large set of keys, I quickly moved up his chair and then slowly spread over his body and began the whole process of reverse sweating into his body. 'This way I can spread all over his body rather than going into his stomach then spreading throughout his system.' I thought as I shuddered at the thought of him waking up from something blocking his airway, thrash around to clear his airway, and by that waking up all the other guards in the process. Once I'd fully taken over his body I quickly looked through his memories and smiled. 'Good, they're still here.' So with that thought I slowly heaved up his body and began to make my way towards the appropriate cell. It was kind of sad to see all the different types of creatures that these slavers had brought in, just to be sold to who knows what to do who knows what to them. A part of me wanted to free all of them right then and there, but I knew that if I did that that there would be trouble and it would be that much harder to get away with it all scot free. So making my way down the cells I could see it's occupants were mostly cuddled in the corners or huddled together for warmth in their dark and cold cells. Many of them had different kinds of restraints on them, mostly to disable them form using their natural abilities to either hurt the jailers or escape, though they all bore the same large metal collar around their necks which were stamped with the same insignia of the regional lord. I walked along the cells until I reached the ones in the back and finally found what/who I'd been searching for. Within the last of the cells in the farthest part of the jail sat two fully bound/nude elves. They both had their arms bound behind their backs, blindfolds over their eyes, and gags over their mouths (probably to prevent them from casting spells and aiming them properly). Other than a slight difference in height (since both were lightly gray skinned), their wasn't much to tell them apart other than their hair, the elder looking of the two had silver hair that slowly turned into a light rust colored at the ends while the younger had the same silver at the top while hers turned to a very light greenish/blue color at it's tip. I don't know how long I stood there looking at the two while they stared at the ground (though I really couldn't tell thanks to the blindfolds) but something told me that they already knew that I was there. It was then I shifted the hosts posture and heard the sound of the keys jingle which caused both the elves' ears to twitch to orientate fully on me, but neither moved an inch in surprise. "It's almost as if you already knew I was here." I said aloud as both their ears twitched a few more times. Looking over my shoulder I could still see that the rest of the guards were still asleep but that wouldn't guarantee that they'd stay that way if someone were to come down here for a drink or to check up on the slaves. 'I have to be quick about this. No telling when my plan may go up in smoke.' Reaching down I took of the keys from the hosts belt, sorted through his memories for which key would unlock this door, then quickly unlocked the cell. Once the cell was unlocked I quickly walked in and knelt before them. "I don't know if you really can understand me but I need your help. If your willing to help me, I'll free the two of you and help you to escape from here." I said to them. Both turned towards each other and began to twitch their ears. It was almost like they were talking between each other with just their ears. Finally the elder of the two nodded to me and lifted her chin to show off the chain around her neck. I quickly reached on over and quickly undid her chain then quickly worked at her arms as she turned to the side and allow me better access. In short order she quickly reached up and took off her blindfold and I found myself frozen in place. "And what makes you think that..." She stopped in mid sentence as she slowly looked deeply in my hosts eyes, then I saw her eyes go wide. "Wait a minute your..." I didn't give her the chance to say more as I quickly spat myself right into her face and covered her whole face with myself. She began to tare at her face in a desperate attempt to remove me from her face, but that all proved for not as I quickly pushed my way past her sealed lips to move throughout her body. It took a lot longer this time to gain control of this new host and I found her mind very hard to gain control of. 'If you think for a moment that I'm going to hand over control of my body to...' "Would you shut up!" I said to her in her own voice which caused her to stop talking for a moment. "I don't want to take control of you. I just want to get the two of you out of here." I said to her as I had taken control over her vocal cords. "Then why did you?" "Stop talking and help your sister." I told her as she continued to fight my attempts to move her body in the way that I wanted. "I promise that once we're out of here I'll explain everything. Now, take up the guards keys before he wakes and free your sister." She only paused for a moment before she did just that and quickly freed her younger sister from her bonds. Once the younger elf was freed she quickly turned towards her older sister and looked at her with wide open eyes. "Sister. What's going on. Are you fighting with yourself?" I quickly reached out with my hosts hand and placed a finger on her lips to stop her from talking further. "There is no time. We need to escape from this place." I reached into my hosts mind again and spoke directly to her mind. 'Please don't fight me this time and allow me to show the two of you to freedom.' Both sisters looked at each other for a while, while I noticed that their ears were twitching again, until the younger nodded. "Lead the way then." I stood up my current hosts body and slowly began to make my way towards the water way. All the way I paid close attention to the guards and would freeze up my current hosts body whenever one of the guards were to stir in their drunken slumber. The gods must've been smiling down upon us as we made it to the water-way. "This is the..." I turned around and saw that the younger sister wasn't behind us. 'Damn it all. Where'd she...' I stopped in mid thought as I looked out of the room and down the corridor to where we'd just come from. I saw that the younger elfish girl was working at some of the other cells with the keys. Fearing for the consequences of her actions we both moved as quickly and quietly over to her and quickly pulled her away from the cell. "There is no time for this. If we release all these prisoners at once, then it's going to be that much harder for us to escape." She didn't seem to get the meaning of this as she continued to reach out to the lock that she'd been working on. "Let me go sister. It is not right that they should suffer this kind of fate when we are able to release them form it." She said as she continued to struggle in our arms. "Doing this is selfish and unkind." She then stopped struggling and looked up at us. "Maybe it isn't you who is really doing this sister. Maybe it's that blob that's infected you." This caused us both to balk for a moment, but then the sister shook her head. "It may be true that the blob is now within me, but he/it doesn't govern me. I am still myself and free of it's control." She then picked up her sister again but she didn't fight it. "It is just at this moment that we agree that freeing these prisoners can cause problems for our escape," She then grabbed the keys from her, then threw them into the cell to the prisoners within. "Though, that doesn't mean that they can't free themselves later." The younger sister smiled at that and...all of us quickly headed for the water-way and to freedom.