{ "submission_id": "3601156", "keywords": [ { "keyword_id": "1007", "keyword_name": "blood", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "21520" }, { "keyword_id": "4917", "keyword_name": "breloom", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "335" }, { "keyword_id": "5214", "keyword_name": "combat", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "1264" }, { "keyword_id": "932", "keyword_name": "death", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "12647" }, { "keyword_id": "4513", "keyword_name": "eevee", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "12036" }, { "keyword_id": "123", "keyword_name": "female", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "1102803" }, { "keyword_id": "2968", "keyword_name": "fighting", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "4935" }, { "keyword_id": "25531", "keyword_name": "linoone", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "808" }, { "keyword_id": "165", "keyword_name": "male", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "1212692" }, { "keyword_id": "27233", "keyword_name": "pmd", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "1850" }, { "keyword_id": "464", "keyword_name": "pokemon", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "196503" }, { "keyword_id": "27232", "keyword_name": "pokemon mystery dungeon", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "2307" }, { "keyword_id": "5275", "keyword_name": "raichu", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "5967" }, { "keyword_id": "9745", "keyword_name": "revenge", "contributed": "f", "submissions_count": "1273" } ], "hidden": "f", "scraps": "f", "favorite": "f", "favorites_count": "1", "create_datetime": "2025-04-20 12:55:24.696969+00", "create_datetime_usertime": "20 Apr 2025 14:55 CEST", "last_file_update_datetime": "2025-04-20 12:53:54.61941+00", "last_file_update_datetime_usertime": "20 Apr 2025 14:53 CEST", "username": "Rylasasin", "user_id": "34998", "user_icon_file_name": "43058_IAMELIPHAS_mag3thum.gif", "user_icon_url_large": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/large/43/43058_IAMELIPHAS_mag3thum.gif", "user_icon_url_medium": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/medium/43/43058_IAMELIPHAS_mag3thum.gif", "user_icon_url_small": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/43/43058_IAMELIPHAS_mag3thum.gif", "file_name": "5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.rtf", "file_url_full": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/full/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.rtf", "file_url_screen": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/screen/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.rtf", "file_url_preview": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.rtf", "thumbnail_url_huge": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/huge/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.jpg", "thumbnail_url_large": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.jpg", "thumbnail_url_medium": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.jpg", "thumb_huge_x": "260", "thumb_huge_y": "85", "thumb_large_x": "200", "thumb_large_y": "65", "thumb_medium_x": "120", "thumb_medium_y": "39", "files": [ { "file_id": "5534326", "file_name": "5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.rtf", "file_url_full": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/full/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.rtf", "file_url_screen": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/screen/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.rtf", "file_url_preview": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.rtf", "mimetype": "text/rtf", "submission_id": "3601156", "user_id": "34998", "submission_file_order": "0", "full_size_x": null, "full_size_y": null, "screen_size_x": null, "screen_size_y": null, "preview_size_x": null, "preview_size_y": null, "initial_file_md5": "a2e2d57282fbefb3cf3fd9f9a9c21399", "full_file_md5": "a2e2d57282fbefb3cf3fd9f9a9c21399", "large_file_md5": "", "small_file_md5": "", "thumbnail_md5": "12a98c7edcb4428abe2e27743f815fbb", "deleted": "f", "create_datetime": "2025-04-20 12:53:54.61941+00", "create_datetime_usertime": "20 Apr 2025 14:53 CEST", "thumbnail_url_huge": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/huge/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.jpg", "thumbnail_url_large": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.jpg", "thumbnail_url_medium": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/5534/5534326_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_11.jpg", "thumb_huge_x": "260", "thumb_huge_y": "85", "thumb_large_x": "200", "thumb_large_y": "65", "thumb_medium_x": "120", "thumb_medium_y": "39" } ], "pools": [ { "pool_id": "98635", "name": "IronSwap", "description": "A story where the main characters of Sands of Iron are swapped around.", "count": "18", "submission_left_submission_id": "3596366", "submission_left_file_name": "5534325_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_10.rtf", "submission_left_thumbnail_url_huge": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/huge/5534/5534325_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_10.jpg", "submission_left_thumbnail_url_large": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/5534/5534325_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_10.jpg", "submission_left_thumbnail_url_medium": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/5534/5534325_Rylasasin_ironswap_chap_10.jpg", "submission_left_thumb_huge_x": "260", "submission_left_thumb_huge_y": "85", "submission_left_thumb_large_x": "200", "submission_left_thumb_large_y": "65", "submission_left_thumb_medium_x": "120", "submission_left_thumb_medium_y": "39", "submission_right_submission_id": "3617738", "submission_right_file_name": "5562972_Rylasasin_epilogue_1_final_goodbyes.rtf", "submission_right_thumbnail_url_huge": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/huge/5562/5562972_Rylasasin_epilogue_1_final_goodbyes.jpg", "submission_right_thumbnail_url_large": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/5562/5562972_Rylasasin_epilogue_1_final_goodbyes.jpg", "submission_right_thumbnail_url_medium": "https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/medium/5562/5562972_Rylasasin_epilogue_1_final_goodbyes.jpg", "submission_right_thumb_huge_x": "260", "submission_right_thumb_huge_y": "85", "submission_right_thumb_large_x": "200", "submission_right_thumb_large_y": "65", "submission_right_thumb_medium_x": "120", "submission_right_thumb_medium_y": "39" } ], "description": "And there we have it. The end to this wild ride, at long last!\n\n...Well, not quite. As mentioned previously, there are some threads left to tie up. A series of epilogues, if you will. \n\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/submissionsviewall.php?rid=c6a9fd4348&mode=pool&pool_id=59838&page=1&orderby=pool_order&random=no&success=]Ironswap is a swap of Sands of Iron by InfinityDoom[/url]. All characters belong to them.", "description_bbcode_parsed": "And there we have it. The end to this wild ride, at long last!

...Well, not quite.  As mentioned previously, there are some threads left to tie up. A series of epilogues, if you will.

Ironswap is a swap of Sands of Iron by InfinityDoom. All characters belong to them.", "writing": "Just as Brene lifted the mace above her head menacingly, and Rai closed his eyes and winced the best he could in the pain that was about to flood his body. A loud female voice reverberated off the stone walls of the maze.\n[b]\n\"NOO!!\"[/b]\n\nBrene brought the mace down to bear on its target, the crotch of her former pupil. However, a mere few inches above its target, another piece of iron slid in front of it, blocking its way. The two weapons once again clashed and ground against one another, as the now irritated Breloom looked over to the sword's new wielder.\n\nRai watched as the blade hovered mere inches above his chest. His eyes went wide as the piece of iron, bit by bit, was forced further and further down. He fully anticipated the cut it would inflict upon him. He tensed up as the blade touched his skin...\n\n... And sighed with relief upon feeling it. It was the blunt side. It wasn't going to damage him. His eyes shifted towards the one wielding it, as did the Breloom's. The latter narrowed hers in annoyance as she saw who was holding onto the offending piece of iron robbing her of her fun.\n\n\"I won't let you touch him!\" Loona growled angrily as she held onto the blade for dear life, both hers and his. But at this moment, mostly his. Brene growled at her new combatant. She was close, but not close enough to use the same spore trick upon. Besides, it was still charging from its last use. Still, she didn't need them. Not yet.\n\n\"Foolish bitch!\" She yelled as she let go of her mace with one hand. She charged forward, her fist colliding with the Linoone's cheek. The Linoone stumbled back in pain as the Breloom likewise leapt back to get some space between the two. \n\nThe distance was quickly closed however as Loona quickly recovered from the breloom's underpowered punch. With a feral yell, she raised the sword above her head, running towards the malicious Breloom and bringing the sword down as hard as she could. Brene quickly raised her mace to block and parry it out of the way, but Loona quickly swung again, the Breloom dodging the incoming blow by a mere inch. The Linoone's moves were unskilled, but they were ferocious and feral enough to put even this skilled bandit on the backfoot as time and again her mace's metal shaft crashed against Rai's, now Loona's blade.\n\nDespite being on the defensive, Brene was no less confident. Now that the initial shock had worn off, her arrogant smirk had returned as she blocked, parried, and dodged blow after blow.\n\n\"You honestly think you stand a chance against me?!\" She angrily taunted as she blocked another blow. \"ME?!\"\n\n\"Probably not. But I can at least TRY.\" Loona growled as she pushed the blocking Breloom away with a determined shove behind her blade. It did not take long for Brene to regain her footing however, and soon she was giving off her signature maniacal laugh as she easily parried the enraged Linoone's blows.\n\n\"You really ARE an idiot.\" She cackled.\n\n\"Maybe.\" Loona shouted. \"But at least I'm not a COWARD!\" She swung her blade hard only for the Breloom to block it once more. As their weapons clashed against each other, the Breloom laughed in her face.\n\n\"You seriously think you can win this?!\" She chuckled menacingly. \"You?! A fucking savie Linoone?!\" The Breloom shoved her away. Now she was the one to take the offensive as she raised her mace over her head, and swung it over to the side. Loona blocked it just in time, nearly losing her sword in the process but she kept her grip tight enough to keep onto it. However, this was only the beginning of the Beloom's onslaught, as she swung again and again, it was all Loona could do to block and duck out of the way.\n\n\"You're a weak species.\" Brene jeered at her, determined to attack her psychologically just as hard as she was physically. She grunted as she blocked a counter swing by the Linoone. \"You're a normal type. The worst type in existence.\" She swung her mace, knocking the blade out of the way, yet the Linoone still hung onto it. Brene tried to jab the sharp tip of the mace straight into her chest, but Loona sidestepped just in time, the mace a mere milimeter from scratching her skin. Brene continued her taunts. \"You have no combat experience either.\" She blocked another strike by Loona as she continued. \"No good moves, and no experience wielding ir-\"\n\nHer taunt was cut off as Loona swung her blade, harder than she had before. Brene lifted her mace to block it, but Loona had hit it hard enough and just the right angle that it was torn from the Breloom's grip. The two's attention were momentarily distracted as they both turned their gaze to the mace, which tumbled over itself in the air until it hit the side of the bandit's cabin, hitting the wood side with thud before landing in the sand.\n\nLoona, now more confident than ever, and amazed that she'd even done this, pointed the sword at the breloom's face with an angry smile written all across her face.\n\n\"You were saying, bitch?!\" She huffed. She was panting heavily from exhaustion. That last swing had taken everything she had out of her. She could barely keep the thing lifted. Yet, she did her best not to convey that fact, as the proud, open-mouthed grin tried to show. She just needed to gain a small bit of her strength back, and then, she'd end this once and for all...\n\nBrene however, despite her anger, remained calm. She had a snarl on her face, but showed no fear.\n\"As I was saying...\" She continued. \"The worst part...\"\n\nLoona blinked, and that was all Brene needed. Before Loona could react, Brene used a burst of AGILITY and leapt at the Linoone. The Breloom grabbed the would-be heroine's right wrist with her left paw. Loona tried to wriggle it away, but in an instant, Brene delivered a Mach Punch with her free right paw, one aimed right at her arm. Pain shot through the Linoone's limb as she felt the weight in her palm lighten. With horror she realized she had just dropped the blade. Before she could attempt to break free to reclaim it however, she felt another blow. This time, it was from the Breloom slamming the top of her head into face in a powerful Headbutt. The move was too fast, too powerful for the unskilled Linoone to take. She was flung to the ground, her head spinning madly. She could barely make out the words as the Breloom finished her taunt.\n\n\"The worst part is that you went and [i]pissed. Me. Off.[/i]\" Brene growled those last three words as slowly and menacingly as she could. She quickly picked up the blade that the Linoone had dropped. Loona's eyes went wide as she saw the Breloom with the blade in hand. She tried to get up, only to feel a foot on her chest slam her back to the ground. She tried to roll off to the side, but the Breloom's foothold on her was too strong.\n\n\"Ya know...\" The Breloom growled as she stood over her latest conquest. \"Normally, I'd have just offed your boyfriend, taken you for myself for a while. Heck, you would have been reunited with your little 'friends' in my happy-funtimes house before I got bored and sold you off as a slave or something. That's what I was [i]going[/i] to do...\" Her eyes narrowed. \"If ya hadn't decided to try to be a hero and make me mad. Now... Now you're simply too much trouble.\"\nThe breloom twirled the blade in her paw lazily, keeping it in one paw the whole whole. After about two full twirls, she gripped it again and pointed the tip at the Linoone's throat, and grinned.\n\"So I think I'll just skip to the [i]point[/i], and [i]cut[/i] my losses here and now.\"\n\nLoona's own eyes bore into hers angrily. She did her best not to show any fear in the sight of this monster, but deep down, she was terrified. And regretful. She'd tried to at least stop Brene, but failed. They both have. She knew there was nothing she could do, but she wasn't going to give her the pleasure of pleading for mercy or giving up.\nNot that it would do her any good anyway, she knew. No, she was determined to be defiant to the end. Like she told Brene earlier, she at least wasn't a coward. And she wasn't going to go out like one.\n\n\"You really are a sick freak, you know that?!\" She spat up at her.\n\n\"Yeah yeah.\" Brene rolled her eyes. \"I've heard it all before. I mean, you're right of course. But still...\" Her gaze returned to her prey. \"Look at the bright side, [i]hun[/i]. At least you won't live to see me rip your precious boyfriend to bloody pieces.\" Her evil grin returned. \"I guess if I were you, I'd consider that a win in its own way.\" She shrugged.\n\n\"Fuck you!\" Loona shouted out angrily.\n\n\"If you hadn't tried to kill me, I'd be doing exactly that.\" Brene chuckled. \"Ah well. Woulda coulda shouda and all that. Welp...\" The insane Breloom put her other hand on the sword, changing its grip from straight out to straight down. She held the blade right above the Linoone's throat, and lifted the blade straight up. Her grin morphed into a malicious, tooth filled smile. \"Time to say goodbye, bitch!\"\n\nLoona closed her eyes, not wanting to bear witness to the blade as it would come down upon her. \n\n----\n\"I'm sorry...\"\n\nSome distance away, a cloaked figure stretched out a three clawed paw. It glowed with a purple energy.\n----\n\nBrene brought the blade down as hard as she can, as Loona clenched her eyes and teeth as hard as she could, bracing herself for the impact that would split her neck in two, ending her short life as well as any hope for veera of any rescue from this hell....\n\n... Seconds passed, and yet she was still breathing quickly. Loona didn't know what was going on. Did it end already? Was she dead? She didn't feel any different. Or....\n\nShe opened her left eye, very slowly, squinting at the scene in front of her. Brene was still there, her foot still on her chest. The blade was still there in her hands as well. She opened them further, and saw the point of the blade but a mere few hairs away from her neck. Brene had indeed brought the blade down. Had she been faking the whole time? Was this all just some sick game of hers? \n\nHer eyes slowly trailed up the blade, and the look on her attacker's face. It was just as shocked at this turn of events as hers was. It was apparent that this wasn't intentional on the bandit's end. She'd fully intended to kill the Linoone, but was stopped by something. A look pure rage quickly took over the shock on Brene's face as she yanked the sword back, and began look around the maze frantically.\n\n\"I KNOW YOU ARE OUT THERE, YOU TWO TIMING LITTLE SHIT!!\" She yelled out as she turned about frantically trying to find the source of the offending power that had stopped her from racking up yet another kill under her belt. \"SHOW YOURSELF!!\"\n\nShe knew darn well what this was. Yet another pissant figment of her past crawling out of the woodwork to stop her fun. \n\nWhat she did not see however, was a hand reaching towards the almost now forgotten mace.\n\n\"COME ON, I KNOW YOU'RE HERE!!\" Brene screamed, looking about the tops of the maze for the object of her rage. She huffed and puffed angrily as her eyes and body shifted and turned to see as much as possible, while focusing on nowhere for any length of time.\n\nA pair of slowly feet shuffled closer and closer to the pair, as the business end of the mace hovered mere inches off the ground, unnoticed by both Breloom and Linoone alike.\n\n\"STOP HIDING! GET OUT HERE AND LET'S HAVE ONE LAST LITTLE-\"\n\nBrene turned back towards the cabin, and finally saw it, the creature creeping up on her with mace in hand. However, she noticed it far too late, as the mace was now in full swing, and even with all of her speed and agility, the Breloom could do nothing but grunt out in a shocked pain as one of the spikes on that wicked weapon dug straight into her chest, like a knife through wet cardboard. Her green blood spilled out of the wound, and the sound of her ribs cracking could be heard by all three as severe pain shot through the Breloom's body. \n\n\"Ack!\" Was all the mad Breloom could hack out as the blunt force knocked her off her feet. She landed on the sand with a thud, right next to her would have been next kill. Both she and Loona looked up at this new assailant, the one that had finally knocked the berserker to the ground. \n\nShe expected to see Rai. Or whatever mysterious figure had stopped Brene's blade with psychic energy. But instead, the pair saw...\n\n\"V... Veera?!\" Brene coughed, beating Loona to the punch by a mere second. \n\nIndeed, the mon holding the mace, with a look of pure rage and pain, was the disheveled, abused victim that Loona and Rai had come so long, and nearly died to try to save. Now she was here, holding the very weapon Brene used to overpower the two of them. The one that had taken who knows how many lives before then. She stood menacingly, her breathing slow and angered.\n\nBrene's shock turned to rage as she spoke. \n\n\"Y... You...\" She growled \"I told you never to... Touch that...\" \n\nShe sat up, her hand outstretched to grab the mace away from her sex slave, or perhaps grab Veera herself. But either way, it mattered little as Veera was just one step ahead. She swung the mace hard with both paws, the solid Iron weapon swatting it away and breaking the bones in her paw. Brene roared in pain as she gripped her open hand, and realized only too late that she left herself open to yet another blow to her chest, breaking what little ribs were not already broken as she was once again forced back onto the sands. \n\nBrene coughed, her green blood spilling out of her mouth. Loona meanwhile found herself frozen, unable to do anything at the moment but watch on as victim took revenge against her abuser.\n\n\"S... So...\" Brene coughed. \"What goes around, comes around, is... is that it?\" She laughed. \"You really think that?!\"\n\nHer pained growl suddenly turned into a malicious smile. \n\n\"NOT AS LONG AS I CAN DO THIS!!\" She yelled, her valves under her 'hat' opening up, ready to deliver another round of spores to the victim now hovering above her, to put her either to sleep or in an awake stun. Oh, she'd make the little bitch suffer alright. Suffer more than she could think possible for doing this. She would...\n\nShe would...\n\nHer eyes went wide as her thoughts died as she looked to her side. Nothing was coming out of her hat. No cloud of spores. The Eevee in front of her was neither asleep, nor stunned. \n\n\"W... Why?\" She questioned. Her grin remained, but now her eyes betrayed a look of fear. \"How?...\"\n\nIt was only then that she remembered. She'd used her spores, twice that day. Once on that 'Shia' kid, and the other on Rai. \n\nShe was out of spores. \n\n\"Well...\" She sighed as she looked back to the eevee who glared upon her with rage. \"Well, shit.\"\n\nMerely a second after the words left herself, the mace buried itself in the side of her face. The same spike that had pierced her chest now found its way into her eye socket. Robbing her of her eye as it was pulled out. The pain was indescribable as blood gushed from the open wound. This time however, she did not scream out in pain. Instead, she laughed. Laughed with that mad, high pitched screech she was known for. She choked up blood, but still continued to laugh.\n\n\"Go on then...\" She choked out. \"Take your revenge.\" She chuckled. \"But the fact remains...\" \n\nShe managed the most malicious grin she could muster, a look of pure insanity stretched across every feature as she yelled. \n\n\"I RAN YOUR LIVES STRAIGHT INTO THE GROUND, AND I REGRET NONE OF IT!!\"\n\nShe laughed maniacally as Veera brought down the mace as hard as she could, all the rage and hurt and pain that the Breloom put her through overtaking her in the moment. She hit her rapist over and over, each blow disfigured the once proud Breloom more and more. Yet, the laughs nonetheless continued until all she could manage was a weak gurgled. Yet, Veera did not stop there. With three more determined blows, she completely crushed the head of the mushroom dinosaur bandit, the once proud shroom head now reduced to little more than a green mess of blood and parts. It was only then that the gurgled died completely, and the body of the fallen Guildie had finally fallen silent.\n\nYet, even as the laughs and gurgles died, the final haunt of Brene's last bout of insanity lingered in the air.\n\nVeera stood there in silence, her expression softened to a blank as she surveyed her handiwork. Her paws still held onto the now blood-dripping mace. As the weight of her actions began to weigh down upon her, her body began to tremble and shake. The mace slipped out of her hand, the spiked ball hitting the sands first followed by the handle with a thud. \n\nThe little eevee, overwhelmed physically and mentally, dropped to her knees. The guilt, the anger, the regret, everything came flooding in an instant. It was all too much for the little vee. She felt sick to her stomach, and she clutched it painfully. The eevee felt herself go through the motions of vomiting. Yet, despite the coughs, despite the noise, nothing but air left her mouth, for there was nothing in her stomach to revolt. She hadn't been fed very much. What did come out however, were tears. Tears, and the loud sobs as days upon days of trauma came out all at once, and the reality of what she had done hit her.\n\n\"V... Veera?\" It was at this moment that Loona had finally found the strength to get to her feet. She did not waste a second however, and quickly rushed over to her dear eevee friend. She threw her paws around the tortured, crying eevee, hugging her tightly and comfortingly. Veera in turn, turned around and hugged her friend as she continued to sob in her shoulders, the Linoone's fur wettening and matting from the wetness from her poor friend's tears. \n\n\"There there...\" The big linoone woman cooed comfortingly as she started patting her bawling friend's back. \"It's okay. It'll be okay.\" \n\nThey sat like that for quite a while, during which time the stun spores on Rai finally wore off. He too rose to his feet, and joined the two girls, as the finality of the situation set upon all three of them:\n\nIt was over. It was all finally over.", "writing_bbcode_parsed": "Just as Brene lifted the mace above her head menacingly, and Rai closed his eyes and winced the best he could in the pain that was about to flood his body. A loud female voice reverberated off the stone walls of the maze.

"NOO!!"

Brene brought the mace down to bear on its target, the crotch of her former pupil. However, a mere few inches above its target, another piece of iron slid in front of it, blocking its way. The two weapons once again clashed and ground against one another, as the now irritated Breloom looked over to the sword's new wielder.

Rai watched as the blade hovered mere inches above his chest. His eyes went wide as the piece of iron, bit by bit, was forced further and further down. He fully anticipated the cut it would inflict upon him. He tensed up as the blade touched his skin...

... And sighed with relief upon feeling it. It was the blunt side. It wasn't going to damage him. His eyes shifted towards the one wielding it, as did the Breloom's. The latter narrowed hers in annoyance as she saw who was holding onto the offending piece of iron robbing her of her fun.

"I won't let you touch him!" Loona growled angrily as she held onto the blade for dear life, both hers and his. But at this moment, mostly his. Brene growled at her new combatant. She was close, but not close enough to use the same spore trick upon. Besides, it was still charging from its last use. Still, she didn't need them. Not yet.

"Foolish bitch!" She yelled as she let go of her mace with one hand. She charged forward, her fist colliding with the Linoone's cheek. The Linoone stumbled back in pain as the Breloom likewise leapt back to get some space between the two.

The distance was quickly closed however as Loona quickly recovered from the breloom's underpowered punch. With a feral yell, she raised the sword above her head, running towards the malicious Breloom and bringing the sword down as hard as she could. Brene quickly raised her mace to block and parry it out of the way, but Loona quickly swung again, the Breloom dodging the incoming blow by a mere inch. The Linoone's moves were unskilled, but they were ferocious and feral enough to put even this skilled bandit on the backfoot as time and again her mace's metal shaft crashed against Rai's, now Loona's blade.

Despite being on the defensive, Brene was no less confident. Now that the initial shock had worn off, her arrogant smirk had returned as she blocked, parried, and dodged blow after blow.

"You honestly think you stand a chance against me?!" She angrily taunted as she blocked another blow. "ME?!"

"Probably not. But I can at least TRY." Loona growled as she pushed the blocking Breloom away with a determined shove behind her blade. It did not take long for Brene to regain her footing however, and soon she was giving off her signature maniacal laugh as she easily parried the enraged Linoone's blows.

"You really ARE an idiot." She cackled.

"Maybe." Loona shouted. "But at least I'm not a COWARD!" She swung her blade hard only for the Breloom to block it once more. As their weapons clashed against each other, the Breloom laughed in her face.

"You seriously think you can win this?!" She chuckled menacingly. "You?! A fucking savie Linoone?!" The Breloom shoved her away. Now she was the one to take the offensive as she raised her mace over her head, and swung it over to the side. Loona blocked it just in time, nearly losing her sword in the process but she kept her grip tight enough to keep onto it. However, this was only the beginning of the Beloom's onslaught, as she swung again and again, it was all Loona could do to block and duck out of the way.

"You're a weak species." Brene jeered at her, determined to attack her psychologically just as hard as she was physically. She grunted as she blocked a counter swing by the Linoone. "You're a normal type. The worst type in existence." She swung her mace, knocking the blade out of the way, yet the Linoone still hung onto it. Brene tried to jab the sharp tip of the mace straight into her chest, but Loona sidestepped just in time, the mace a mere milimeter from scratching her skin. Brene continued her taunts. "You have no combat experience either." She blocked another strike by Loona as she continued. "No good moves, and no experience wielding ir-"

Her taunt was cut off as Loona swung her blade, harder than she had before. Brene lifted her mace to block it, but Loona had hit it hard enough and just the right angle that it was torn from the Breloom's grip. The two's attention were momentarily distracted as they both turned their gaze to the mace, which tumbled over itself in the air until it hit the side of the bandit's cabin, hitting the wood side with thud before landing in the sand.

Loona, now more confident than ever, and amazed that she'd even done this, pointed the sword at the breloom's face with an angry smile written all across her face.

"You were saying, bitch?!" She huffed. She was panting heavily from exhaustion. That last swing had taken everything she had out of her. She could barely keep the thing lifted. Yet, she did her best not to convey that fact, as the proud, open-mouthed grin tried to show. She just needed to gain a small bit of her strength back, and then, she'd end this once and for all...

Brene however, despite her anger, remained calm. She had a snarl on her face, but showed no fear.
"As I was saying..." She continued. "The worst part..."

Loona blinked, and that was all Brene needed. Before Loona could react, Brene used a burst of AGILITY and leapt at the Linoone. The Breloom grabbed the would-be heroine's right wrist with her left paw. Loona tried to wriggle it away, but in an instant, Brene delivered a Mach Punch with her free right paw, one aimed right at her arm. Pain shot through the Linoone's limb as she felt the weight in her palm lighten. With horror she realized she had just dropped the blade. Before she could attempt to break free to reclaim it however, she felt another blow. This time, it was from the Breloom slamming the top of her head into face in a powerful Headbutt. The move was too fast, too powerful for the unskilled Linoone to take. She was flung to the ground, her head spinning madly. She could barely make out the words as the Breloom finished her taunt.

"The worst part is that you went and pissed. Me. Off." Brene growled those last three words as slowly and menacingly as she could. She quickly picked up the blade that the Linoone had dropped. Loona's eyes went wide as she saw the Breloom with the blade in hand. She tried to get up, only to feel a foot on her chest slam her back to the ground. She tried to roll off to the side, but the Breloom's foothold on her was too strong.

"Ya know..." The Breloom growled as she stood over her latest conquest. "Normally, I'd have just offed your boyfriend, taken you for myself for a while. Heck, you would have been reunited with your little 'friends' in my happy-funtimes house before I got bored and sold you off as a slave or something. That's what I was going to do..." Her eyes narrowed. "If ya hadn't decided to try to be a hero and make me mad. Now... Now you're simply too much trouble."
The breloom twirled the blade in her paw lazily, keeping it in one paw the whole whole. After about two full twirls, she gripped it again and pointed the tip at the Linoone's throat, and grinned.
"So I think I'll just skip to the point, and cut my losses here and now."

Loona's own eyes bore into hers angrily. She did her best not to show any fear in the sight of this monster, but deep down, she was terrified. And regretful. She'd tried to at least stop Brene, but failed. They both have. She knew there was nothing she could do, but she wasn't going to give her the pleasure of pleading for mercy or giving up.
Not that it would do her any good anyway, she knew. No, she was determined to be defiant to the end. Like she told Brene earlier, she at least wasn't a coward. And she wasn't going to go out like one.

"You really are a sick freak, you know that?!" She spat up at her.

"Yeah yeah." Brene rolled her eyes. "I've heard it all before. I mean, you're right of course. But still..." Her gaze returned to her prey. "Look at the bright side, hun. At least you won't live to see me rip your precious boyfriend to bloody pieces." Her evil grin returned. "I guess if I were you, I'd consider that a win in its own way." She shrugged.

"Fuck you!" Loona shouted out angrily.

"If you hadn't tried to kill me, I'd be doing exactly that." Brene chuckled. "Ah well. Woulda coulda shouda and all that. Welp..." The insane Breloom put her other hand on the sword, changing its grip from straight out to straight down. She held the blade right above the Linoone's throat, and lifted the blade straight up. Her grin morphed into a malicious, tooth filled smile. "Time to say goodbye, bitch!"

Loona closed her eyes, not wanting to bear witness to the blade as it would come down upon her.

----
"I'm sorry..."

Some distance away, a cloaked figure stretched out a three clawed paw. It glowed with a purple energy.
----

Brene brought the blade down as hard as she can, as Loona clenched her eyes and teeth as hard as she could, bracing herself for the impact that would split her neck in two, ending her short life as well as any hope for veera of any rescue from this hell....

... Seconds passed, and yet she was still breathing quickly. Loona didn't know what was going on. Did it end already? Was she dead? She didn't feel any different. Or....

She opened her left eye, very slowly, squinting at the scene in front of her. Brene was still there, her foot still on her chest. The blade was still there in her hands as well. She opened them further, and saw the point of the blade but a mere few hairs away from her neck. Brene had indeed brought the blade down. Had she been faking the whole time? Was this all just some sick game of hers?

Her eyes slowly trailed up the blade, and the look on her attacker's face. It was just as shocked at this turn of events as hers was. It was apparent that this wasn't intentional on the bandit's end. She'd fully intended to kill the Linoone, but was stopped by something. A look pure rage quickly took over the shock on Brene's face as she yanked the sword back, and began look around the maze frantically.

"I KNOW YOU ARE OUT THERE, YOU TWO TIMING LITTLE SHIT!!" She yelled out as she turned about frantically trying to find the source of the offending power that had stopped her from racking up yet another kill under her belt. "SHOW YOURSELF!!"

She knew darn well what this was. Yet another pissant figment of her past crawling out of the woodwork to stop her fun.

What she did not see however, was a hand reaching towards the almost now forgotten mace.

"COME ON, I KNOW YOU'RE HERE!!" Brene screamed, looking about the tops of the maze for the object of her rage. She huffed and puffed angrily as her eyes and body shifted and turned to see as much as possible, while focusing on nowhere for any length of time.

A pair of slowly feet shuffled closer and closer to the pair, as the business end of the mace hovered mere inches off the ground, unnoticed by both Breloom and Linoone alike.

"STOP HIDING! GET OUT HERE AND LET'S HAVE ONE LAST LITTLE-"

Brene turned back towards the cabin, and finally saw it, the creature creeping up on her with mace in hand. However, she noticed it far too late, as the mace was now in full swing, and even with all of her speed and agility, the Breloom could do nothing but grunt out in a shocked pain as one of the spikes on that wicked weapon dug straight into her chest, like a knife through wet cardboard. Her green blood spilled out of the wound, and the sound of her ribs cracking could be heard by all three as severe pain shot through the Breloom's body.

"Ack!" Was all the mad Breloom could hack out as the blunt force knocked her off her feet. She landed on the sand with a thud, right next to her would have been next kill. Both she and Loona looked up at this new assailant, the one that had finally knocked the berserker to the ground.

She expected to see Rai. Or whatever mysterious figure had stopped Brene's blade with psychic energy. But instead, the pair saw...

"V... Veera?!" Brene coughed, beating Loona to the punch by a mere second.

Indeed, the mon holding the mace, with a look of pure rage and pain, was the disheveled, abused victim that Loona and Rai had come so long, and nearly died to try to save. Now she was here, holding the very weapon Brene used to overpower the two of them. The one that had taken who knows how many lives before then. She stood menacingly, her breathing slow and angered.

Brene's shock turned to rage as she spoke.

"Y... You..." She growled "I told you never to... Touch that..."

She sat up, her hand outstretched to grab the mace away from her sex slave, or perhaps grab Veera herself. But either way, it mattered little as Veera was just one step ahead. She swung the mace hard with both paws, the solid Iron weapon swatting it away and breaking the bones in her paw. Brene roared in pain as she gripped her open hand, and realized only too late that she left herself open to yet another blow to her chest, breaking what little ribs were not already broken as she was once again forced back onto the sands.

Brene coughed, her green blood spilling out of her mouth. Loona meanwhile found herself frozen, unable to do anything at the moment but watch on as victim took revenge against her abuser.

"S... So..." Brene coughed. "What goes around, comes around, is... is that it?" She laughed. "You really think that?!"

Her pained growl suddenly turned into a malicious smile.

"NOT AS LONG AS I CAN DO THIS!!" She yelled, her valves under her 'hat' opening up, ready to deliver another round of spores to the victim now hovering above her, to put her either to sleep or in an awake stun. Oh, she'd make the little bitch suffer alright. Suffer more than she could think possible for doing this. She would...

She would...

Her eyes went wide as her thoughts died as she looked to her side. Nothing was coming out of her hat. No cloud of spores. The Eevee in front of her was neither asleep, nor stunned.

"W... Why?" She questioned. Her grin remained, but now her eyes betrayed a look of fear. "How?..."

It was only then that she remembered. She'd used her spores, twice that day. Once on that 'Shia' kid, and the other on Rai.

She was out of spores.

"Well..." She sighed as she looked back to the eevee who glared upon her with rage. "Well, shit."

Merely a second after the words left herself, the mace buried itself in the side of her face. The same spike that had pierced her chest now found its way into her eye socket. Robbing her of her eye as it was pulled out. The pain was indescribable as blood gushed from the open wound. This time however, she did not scream out in pain. Instead, she laughed. Laughed with that mad, high pitched screech she was known for. She choked up blood, but still continued to laugh.

"Go on then..." She choked out. "Take your revenge." She chuckled. "But the fact remains..."

She managed the most malicious grin she could muster, a look of pure insanity stretched across every feature as she yelled.

"I RAN YOUR LIVES STRAIGHT INTO THE GROUND, AND I REGRET NONE OF IT!!"

She laughed maniacally as Veera brought down the mace as hard as she could, all the rage and hurt and pain that the Breloom put her through overtaking her in the moment. She hit her rapist over and over, each blow disfigured the once proud Breloom more and more. Yet, the laughs nonetheless continued until all she could manage was a weak gurgled. Yet, Veera did not stop there. With three more determined blows, she completely crushed the head of the mushroom dinosaur bandit, the once proud shroom head now reduced to little more than a green mess of blood and parts. It was only then that the gurgled died completely, and the body of the fallen Guildie had finally fallen silent.

Yet, even as the laughs and gurgles died, the final haunt of Brene's last bout of insanity lingered in the air.

Veera stood there in silence, her expression softened to a blank as she surveyed her handiwork. Her paws still held onto the now blood-dripping mace. As the weight of her actions began to weigh down upon her, her body began to tremble and shake. The mace slipped out of her hand, the spiked ball hitting the sands first followed by the handle with a thud.

The little eevee, overwhelmed physically and mentally, dropped to her knees. The guilt, the anger, the regret, everything came flooding in an instant. It was all too much for the little vee. She felt sick to her stomach, and she clutched it painfully. The eevee felt herself go through the motions of vomiting. Yet, despite the coughs, despite the noise, nothing but air left her mouth, for there was nothing in her stomach to revolt. She hadn't been fed very much. What did come out however, were tears. Tears, and the loud sobs as days upon days of trauma came out all at once, and the reality of what she had done hit her.

"V... Veera?" It was at this moment that Loona had finally found the strength to get to her feet. She did not waste a second however, and quickly rushed over to her dear eevee friend. She threw her paws around the tortured, crying eevee, hugging her tightly and comfortingly. Veera in turn, turned around and hugged her friend as she continued to sob in her shoulders, the Linoone's fur wettening and matting from the wetness from her poor friend's tears.

"There there..." The big linoone woman cooed comfortingly as she started patting her bawling friend's back. "It's okay. It'll be okay."

They sat like that for quite a while, during which time the stun spores on Rai finally wore off. He too rose to his feet, and joined the two girls, as the finality of the situation set upon all three of them:

It was over. It was all finally over.", "pools_count": 1, "title": "Ironswap: Final Chapter", "deleted": "f", "public": "t", "mimetype": "text/rtf", "pagecount": "1", "rating_id": "2", "rating_name": "Adult", "ratings": [ { "content_tag_id": "4", "name": "Sexual Themes", "description": "Erotic imagery, sexual activity or arousal", "rating_id": "2" }, { "content_tag_id": "5", "name": "Strong Violence", "description": "Strong violence, blood, serious injury or death", "rating_id": "2" } ], "submission_type_id": "12", "type_name": "Writing - Document", "guest_block": "t", "friends_only": "f", "comments_count": "3", "views": "64" }