Roland then looked at the spirit and spoke
"Oh great spirit of the forest, we are here because our friend Jamie is under your protection at the Inn. However we have need of him to be released of this. We will protect him
"YES I RECOGNISE HIM. I HAVE BEEN WATCHING HIM. HE HAS KEPT SIDE OF THE BARGAIN. I'VE ENJOYED WATCHING HIM. HE IS ENTHUSIASTIC. "AHHH..KEEP FUCKING ME SAMMY" the spirit said sending us visuals of Jamie and Sammy fucking last night. Jamie and Sammy both blushed.
"IN FACT I RECOGNISE ALL OF YOU. SO YOU WISH THE BOY TO BE RELEASED TO YOU?"
We all nodded and I said Jamie was my best friend and I would protect him, that we had a mission to do for the benefit of the world. Sammy then said that he loved Jamie and would protect him as well. And Roland said he would make sure we were all protected.
"I SENSE YOUR MISSION IS DANGEROUS EVEN IF YOU DO NOT. BUT I UNDERSTAND I SHOULD NOT KEEP YOU HERE. YOU HAVE A DIFFERENCE TO MAKE TO THIS WORLD. VERY WELL. I WILL RELEASE THE BOY TO YOUR PROTECTION AND LET YOU GO. AS I SAID PAY OR DIE SO I LOOK FORWARD TO COLLECTING PAYMENT. I MUST MATE WITH SAMMY, AND MY CHILDREN WILL WANT TO MATE WITH THE REST OF YOU"
He shifted slightly and his acorn shifted into a hard large wooden carved cock, that was glistening and oozing a clear sap. And the saplings by him shimmered and there were three small wooden boys, they put their hands down like roots into the ground and grew to more like our size, and their wooden carved cocks to the size of their Father's, none of us were getting off lightly! They also oozed sap so I hoped it wouldn't hurt too much
"MY SAP HAS POWERS YOU WILL FIND USEFUL, AS I AND MY CHILDREN SHOOT IT INTO EACH OF YOU YOU'LL BE GIVEN THE POWER TO TALK TO ANIMALS AND PLANTS OF THE FOREST WHEREVER THEY MAY BE IN THIS WORLD. NOW TAKE OFF YOUR STRANGE GARMENTS"
"Well of course we have to be fucked, I'd expect nothing else in this bloody world" whispered Sammy. We stripped off and Roland spoke and said we would pay the price.
"EXCELLENT." he said and his branches shot out, wrapped around Sammy and pulled him over to sit on his hard wooden cock. The saplings walked over to the rest of us, pushed us so we bent over and entered us. It felt fine going in, a bit strange. I'll not lie, it was weird even for this world.
It didn't hurt, the wood was well lubricated and felt really good going in and out, it was a slightly bendy wood like yew I guess. The strange thing was that they didn't make any noise so the only noise was us groaning and grunting as we were all fucked. I suddenly felt my insides coated by whatever the sap was the tree shot and suddenly my mind was full of noise.
"THAT WAS AMAZING. LET'S DO IT AGAIN" "LET'S SWAP" "YEAH!" "LET'S KEEP THEM HERE FOREVER AND JUST USE OUR ACORNS FOR ALL TIME".
I realised I could hear the saplings talking to each other. "ENOUGH!" thundered the forest spirit. "YOU HAVE KEPT YOUR PROMISE AND YOU MAY GO AND TAKE SAMMY WITH YOU."
Not wanting to risk a change of mind we hurriedly got changed and noticed it had started to get dark and we realised we were going to be stuck in the forest if we weren't careful.
"WHERE DO YOU HEAD NOW" asked the Forest Spirit, "Elderbrook" I answered.
"THIS FOREST REACHES CLOSE TO ELDERBROOK ALTHOUGH IT IS MOSTLY JUNGLE BY THEN. HOP ON BOARD MY BACK AND I WILL TRANSPORT YOU TO THE EDGE OF IT. HOLD ON TIGHT THOUGH" he said and changed into the large deer. We climbed aboard and with a whoosh we were off, faster than anything I'd ever seen, the woods flashed by. Suddenly we were at the edge of the forest. We climbed off.
"FARE THEE WELL AND GOOD LUCK. WE MAY MEET AGAIN. WE MAY NOT" the Forest Spirit said and it flashed away into the distance.
We were in a clearing at the edge of the trees. It was slightly strange, half forest, half jungle, with lots of vines around. It felt more jungle than forest to be honest.
We could see the lights of Elderbrook flickering in the distance, it still looked a couple of hours walk away. The air hummed with the sound of insects, it was hot and humid, the cold of the Halfway In seemed a long way away.
"Hmmm, this isn't ideal" said Roland, "even though it's Elderbrook, it's still dangerous to be out late at night, it's not like we're armed and let's be fair, there are probably hundreds of bad people waiting to rape us!" he said, not in jest either.
I could hear the sound of the trees and animals but none of it made much sense, I guess they weren't exactly conversationalists!
At that moment, the leaves behind us rustled, we jumped and formed a line, waiting to see if we were to be attacked. To our surprise out walked a boy, our age, maybe slightly younger, it was a bit difficult to tell in the oncoming darkness. He was completely naked aside from a small loincloth and had East Asian features. He looked at us quizzically, then smiled and bowed to us and said "I'm Ben, I've been waiting for you for a long long time. It's dangerous to be out after dark. Please follow me"