Whew! I'm back with the next and last chapter. 5K words and all. Thanks to all of you who followed and reviewed. Special thanks to Jashi Discord members especially Ore, Fox, and Techo for their suggestions that ended up making it even more funnier. This story was really fun to write than I imagined and I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did writing it!
Jack stood on stage silently with a confused expression on his face, wondering what he was supposed to do as he was being stared by the large audience, who apparently thought he was the princess of the play.
"And now Princess of Hearts, I have you right where I want you. And this time there will be no escape." said the priest actor.
Jack stared at the actor for a few confusing minutes before turning to the director, who was stomping his right foot impatiently, and Ashi, who was apparently the prince of the play, just shrugged. "Your line," the director told the samurai princess, pointing at his script. But Jack shook his head, not quite understanding what he means by line. "You're supposed to scream Aahh."
Jack let out a very weak high scream."Aahh!" The director face-palmed in disappointing anger while Ashi silently laughed to herself. Smooth Jack.
So the director told him his next line. "My fair prince will rescue me."
"My fair prince will rescue me," Jack said. He gave out an awkward smile, hoping that nothing else humiliating happens. But that fell short when he felt some shuttling in his blouse and an apple fell out of his dress, rolling far away from him and the actor. Another apple fell out of his dress, Jack quickly covered his chest and smiled very sheepishly as the actor looked at him flabbergasted and trying to ignore what had just happened.
Ashi covered her mouth with her hand to hold in her laughter, the director became very baffled by the apples and turned to her for an explanation. "She's sensitive about her chest size." She shrugged.
"Yes yes, your prince might come but he will be too late to save you from the Cheshire Dragon." The actor said as he pointed his staff to the cardboard castle. From behind the curtains, Ashi saw a huge shadow coming from behind the castle and was very familiar with the sickening horns of whatever she was looking at. Jack thought the same too as his eyes widened as he saw the shadow as well.
"Aku!" They both exclaimed. Jack quickly snatched the actor's prop out of his hand and gave out a battle cry as he pounced on Aku. Ashi took out her saber but feeling it's lightweight, she ran her finger against the blade and realized that it was fake. But she still decided to make the best of it as she charged on stage to attack Aku, ignoring the cries of the director "You're not on yet! You're not on yet!"
Unbeknown to Ashi and Jack, the creature that they took as Aku was actually a group of actors wearing a huge costume of an evil grinning dragon. The actors roared but their roars quickly turn to painful grunting as the samurai and former assassin attacked them brutally with their weapons of choice together. The audience and director watched in shocked as the two beat up the actors inside the dragon costume. Once the beast was defeated, the crowd went wild with cheer. The actors crawled out of the costume in pain.
"Whoops, sorry." Ashi gave the actors an embarrassed apology.
"Kiss you two!"
The samurai and former assassin turned to the director."WHAT?" they responded to the director's command in flabbergasted shock.
The directors hugged himself, pouting his lips as he mined the act in question to the couple while looking at them with a distressed look on his face. Ashi and Jack turned to look at one another, the samurai blushed profusely "Let's give the people they want." Ashi whispered in his ear as she grabbed his face and kissed him, planting her lips against his. He soon became relaxed into it as they closed their eyes and the audience cheer with passion. As they opened their eyes again, they soon noticed the white rabbit running out of the theater and dashed off the stage, disregarding the director's protests about their next lines.
Once they made it outside, Jack and Ashi looked around the street for the little thief and spotted it going to an entrance with a bunch of people. They followed it, avoiding incoming cars. They gasped as they entered the place. It was an enormous train station filled with people, waiting on catching a ride on centipede-like trains that rails were in different angles and heights. They wondered how are they going to find the rabbit in the crowd not too long before Jack soon spot it on aboard one of the trains on the next rails. Ashi noticed too as she and Jack glared at the furry passenger. After they jumped across the rails, they saw that the train was leaving and immediately chased after it.
But were stopped by three little-redhead girls who were in their way. "Look, it's the Princess of Hearts and The Prince!" The little girl in pink said with excitement.
"Just like in the play." The one in green, pointing at something. Ashi and Jack turned to where she was pointing and saw a poster sign of the play that they were forced to participate in with the picture of a woman and man wearing the same costumes that they were wearing.
That explains a lot. "Please, we don't have time," Jack told the girls.
But they didn't pay attention to what he said as they were gazing at his costume. "And she's wearing the magic apron. I want it!" The girl in blue excitedly cried out as she tears the white apron from Jack's dress.
"I want the dress!" As the green one ripped off the bottom hem of the dress.
"I want the blouse!" As the pink one torn the top of his dress.
"No, wait! Stop!" Jack yelled out as he was left with nothing but a torn skirt.
Ashi quickly stepped front of Jack before the girls might take the last piece of his clothing. "Stop it! We have to leave now."
But the little girls soon mistook her for the prince and wanted souvenirs of her costume as well. "I want the pants." The blue girl said as she torn off the pants of Ashi's prince costume. Luckily for her (and Jack) the bottom part of the suit was big enough to cover up a little bit of her womanhood.
Having enough of this, Jack removed his blonde wig from his head and Ashi's, which shocked the girls who they saw that they are not the prince or princess. They screamed and ran away from the two imposters.
Jack and Ashi noticed the train was about to leave out of their sight. "Ashi, hurry!" As Jack grabbed her arm and ran to chase after it. But he suddenly heard a ripping sound coming from behind him and felt something light in his hand like a cloth. Jack looked down at his hand and saw that he was holding the now torn shirt of Ashi's costume in his hand. Shockingly confused, the almost-naked samurai turned around and nearly had a heart attack when he saw his love, standing almost-naked as him with her breasts exposed and only wearing the bottom part of the prince suit.
There was too much fabric in the costume and wasn't sewn very properly. Jack had accidentally grabbed the sleeve of the suit instead of her arm, so when he ran he unintentionally ripped the whole shirt off Ashi's torso.
Ashi stood and stared at her now almost-exposed form in flabbergasted shock. Jack, however, was completely mortified and shocked by what he had done. "Ashi, I am so sorry. I-I...!" He frantically apologized to her as he quickly wrapped the remains of the suit around her chest and torso. Yet blushed when his hands brushed against her breasts as he was wrapping.
"No, it's okay. It was just an accident." Ashi reassured him with a shyly smile.
"Are you sure?"
"No damage at all." Jack smiled back as Ashi gave him a quick kiss. Once he finished, they began again with their chase for the train. As they were running, Ashi turned her head to Jack with a sly smile. "But you know Jack. If you wanted to see me topless, all you had to do was ask." she teased him with a wink. Jack's face immediately flushed as Ashi giggled while catching up with the train. They saw that they were keeping up with the rabbit by the window.
A short police officer was walking around the station with his baton until he saw the two running past him. "Hey, you! You folks can't walk around here almost-naked. Stop!" But they didn't listen to him. He ran over to a wind-it-up intercom, cranked it up, and called the other officers. "Calling all units! Calling all units! Almost-naked man and woman running loose in terminal! I repeat, almost-naked. Arrest them immediately."
As Jack and Ashi made it towards a tunnel where the train was heading, they quickly halted as three small police officers came in their sight in front of them.
"There they are! The balding officer said. "Hold it right there, you two." As he and the other two officers are running towards them. Ashi and Jack saw that the train was leaving and immediately jumped on the rails, chasing after it. "Stop!" The police officers cried out.
The couple continued their chase to the train. Ashi looked behind her and gasped. "Jack!" Jack looked behind him as well and saw the police officers driving a small beetle car on the rails and was heading towards them. He and Ashi picked up the pace.
Once close enough to the back door, Jack told Ashi to hop on his back and hold on. She did so as she jumped on his back, wrapped her arms around his neck, and had her legs plastered on the front of his. Jack got a strong grip on the door handle and hopped on the steps with Ashi still on his back. When he tried to open the door it won't budge. So he and Ashi both tried knocking on it to get somebody's attention, but the only person who notices them was a baby boy who was waving and giggling at them. They looked back and saw the officers getting closer.
"Hold on tight," Jack gently command Ashi as he pulled hard on the door handle, ripping it off its hinges. The broken door hit the officer's car, knocking them off the rails and causing a small explosion. They entered the back of the train and scanned the room for the rabbit. But all they found was the passengers staring at them in disbelief and shock.
"Why, they're almost-naked." An old man in pale red and orange said, pointing at Ashi and Jack. The woman in green screamed as she covered the baby's innocent eyes from their indecent-exposure especially the female's.
Jack and Ashi looked at their somewhat new attire and each other's and blushed brightly in embarrassment at their almost-exposure in the public eye. Jack quickly shifted back to their situation, "I guess it's not in here." Ashi hopped off Jack's back and stood next to him. His eyes wandered down her nearly-nude body, admiring her curves before silently shaking his head in embarrassment, berating his mind for being indecent at a time like this. "We'll have to check the next car," As he held Ashi's hand, escorting her to the next passenger car and also keeping her close to him in case any of the male passengers' eyes wandered on Ashi in an inappropriate way.
Meanwhile, Ashi was too busy admiring Jack's sculpted body, looking at every single detail of his upper and lower muscles. She didn't even hear what he said until he gently grabbed her hand."Right," Ashi agreed with a blush, feeling embarrassed for being distracted from staring at Jack's underdressed form as they walked out of the back car.
A tall humanoid man in blue was staring at Ashi as she left before he receives a painful whack in the head with a purse by his humanoid wife in purple and pink, who was sitting next to him and glaring at him.
"You obviously love women with that kind of thickness more than you love me. Admit it, you perverted swine!" The woman yelled at her husband with insulted-anger in her voice.
"Sweetie, I-I.." The husband tried to defend himself with an explanation but was met with even more painful whacks and slaps by his wife's purse and hand.
Back at the crash, one of the policemen quickly recovered, pulled out a wind-it-up walkie-talkie, and cranked it up. "Calling for backup! Calling for backup! Look out for an almost-naked man and woman on the A-train."
Jack and Ashi walked close together through each of the passager cars for the rabbit, searching each seat. They ignored all the stares they were given by the other passengers as Jack opened the door to the next car. He and Ashi scanned their eyes around the room before spotting a pair of white rabbit ears.
"Gotcha," Ashi whispered with a confident smirk as she and the samurai crept up slowly to the seat where the rabbit was sitting.
Jack was about ready to grab it when he heard a yelp coming from behind him. He turned his head behind him and saw some of the passengers tugging Ashi away from him while she yelling at them to let her go. "Let her go!" Jack growled, quickly forgetting about the rabbit as he pulled the passengers off of her, but was soon overpowered by even more passengers who were now tugging them away from the car and the rabbit.
"Stop right there."
"Not another step!"
"We got you and the little missy now, Buster!"
"No please! You don't understand." Jack tried to explain but they won't listen.
Once the train stopped, the passengers got out with the other ones dragging Jack and Ashi with them too. The police officers, who were called in as backup, noticed the almost-nudists coming out of the train. "Hey, that's them. The almost-naked man and woman. Stop them."
The two gasped as the officers were heading towards them. Despite the man's grip, Jack managed to turn his head to see the rabbit was heading to another train. Ashi noticed too as she and Jack looked up at the hanging lamps. She removed the man from Jack's shoulders by throwing him into the officers. Jack did the same for her with the man on her shoulders, throwing him into a cart of luggage.
"Nice throw." Ashi complimented Jack as they jumped up to the lamps and swung their way to the other train.
"Thank you, yours as well too!" Jack compliment Ashi as they entered the train. The two officers, who quickly recovered, ran into the other passenger car of the train. Once the doors closed and the train started, Jack and Ashi looked through the door window and saw the rabbit sitting in the other car, but also saw the officers entering the car and searching around for them.
"Are you kidding me?" Jack exclaimed while Ashi rolled her eyes. They both began crawling their way up to the engineer car.
The engineer was keeping his eye on the rails until the door opened by a strange man who was wearing nothing but a blue rag and with a beautiful woman who was wearing rags as well. Jack shushed the engineer to not make a sound, but the driver shifted his eyes to the alarm lever on the wall. Before he could even reach it, Ashi had him in a chokehold and held him there until he passed out. The samurai and former assassin looked down at the man and shooked their heads in disapproval as Ashi dropped him on the ground with a thud.
"They never listen to us, do they?" Ashi commented.
"No, not at all," Jack said as he picked the engineer up by the collar and stripped him out of his uniform.
The policemen felt the train moved rather roughly from the heavy thud of the engineer just a few seconds ago. "What was that? Let's check up front." As they went to the door of the engines and opened it, there they found the driver (or rather Jack disguised as the engineer) with his back turned on them. "Have you seen an almost-naked man or woman on the train?"
"No, sir! I can't say I have." Jack told them in an attempted British accent.
"Well if you do, please notify us."
"Yes, sir. Of course."
"'Come on. Let's check the cargo hold." One of the officers told the other as they went out the door. Unbeknown to the officers, Ashi was hiding just above their heads and was clinging onto the ceiling. Once they left, she dropped down, landing on her feet perfectly.
"Are they gone enough for us to get the rabbit?"
"I don't know. I'll check. You stay right here in case he wakes up." Jack said as they glanced at their underdressed victim. He left out the engineer and looked out into the car's door window to see if the officers had left the other car. When they left out the car where the rabbit was, he grabbed the door handle and...
"Look!" A woman yelled, alarming all of the other passengers and Jack while pointing at the opened door of the engine room. "Nobody's driving the train."
The passengers began to panic and turned to Jack. "Are you crazy, man? Get back in there. What are you waiting for? Hurry or we'll crash!" A dog-humanoid man told the disguised samurai, dragging him back to the engineer station.
Ashi was surprised when she saw Jack being pushed back into the room. "What's happening?"
"The passengers want me to drive the train before we crash." Jack looked at the controls of the train very nervously.
"Do you know how to drive a train?"
"No! I don't even know how to drive a car."
"Well, I think now is a good time to learn," Ashi said with a distressed look as she pointed at the incoming train from the other rails. She grabbed the unconscious engineer and tried to shake him awake, but no avail. "Come on, wake up, wake up."
"Wake up! Wake up! We're about to crash!" Jack tried to wake him up as well, but the engineer was too knocked out. So they decided to operate the train on their own. They pushed and pulled every button and lever to stop the train, but none of them worked until Jack pushed a button that causes the train to fly uncontrollably in the air.
"Don't you know what you're doing? Use the trackball, man." the dog-humanoid man, pointing at the trackball on the controls.
Curious of its purpose, Jack twirled the trackball to the right, causing the train to turn to that direction. A dragonfly-train was flying right at them, Ashi quickly twirled it to the left. The couple took turns with the trackball, avoiding all the flying transportations in the air and the ones on the rails until the train crashed against a beetle-shaped train. The train began to spin out of control as it was falling right out of the sky. The passengers screamed and panicked as they held on to each other. Ashi held on to Jack tight as he held her close in his arms, bracing for impact. The train soon crashed in a bizarre forest with a lot of damage and injured people.
Jack coughed and fanned the smoke away with his hand. He opened his eyes and noticed that the train was upside down and Ashi was unconscious next to him. He quickly recovered and turned to her. Fearing the worst, Jack held her tight in his arms and looked at her with a face of concerns. "Ashi. Ashi, wake up. Please wake up." he pleaded.
He let out a relieved sigh that he never knew he was holding as her eyes began to open. "Jack?" Ashi asked hoarsely as she rubbed her head with a groan.
"Yes, I'm here but are you alright?" Jack asked with concern, he smiled in relief when she replied yes.
Ashi looked around the room then turned to Jack as he helped her on her feet. "What happened?"
"We've crashed the train."
"And destroyed your disguise too." Ashi pointed at Jack's rags.
Jack looked down and saw that he was almost-naked again in his torn skirt. The crash must have damaged the engineer's clothes and torn it off from his body somehow. A few strands of his hair fell out of the pin as well. "Hehe, yes. Looks that way," Jack chuckled and flushed a bit. They soon heard the passengers exclaiming in pain and the policemen calling out to them to see if they're okay. "We should probably get out of here."
"Yes, I think that's a very good idea," Ashi said as she and Jack ran out of the train. They scanned the area, all there was just a few people injured until they saw the white rabbit running into the forest, and immediately chased after it. They ran through some strange flowers with faces on them and up a couple of hills.
The rabbit ran past the field of weird huge plants with holes inside as the samurai and former assassin ran by. They stopped for a moment to look around, Jack noticed the plants. Curious to if the rabbit was inside, Jack leaned over to hear a sound from inside one of the holes, but what he got was a blue-tongue creature sticking into his left ear. Jack backed away and covered his ear from the plant as more of the creature came out. He and Ashi ran away from the plant.
"Well, that was disturbing," Ashi commented until hers and Jack's ears picked up a dashing sound running behind them. They turned to a hollow log where it's moss has apparently moved for a few seconds. Moving the moss a bit from the entry, they looked inside and saw that there was no other end of the log. The two began crawling inside, they went as further as they can go until Jack fell down a hole so did Ashi, that led them to a small empty room with a little few plants. The room had absolutely no doors and the only way to get in and out was the tunnel, so they wondered where else could the rabbit may have gone to.
"Look," Ashi pointed at the rabbit's footprints that led to the wall. Bewildered and confused, Jack pushed the wall, revealing itself as a small tiny door that led to a room filled with items like someone lives there. They entered the room and behind a blue cushion was a pair of white rabbit ears.
"We got you now, rabbit." Jack grabbed the rabbit by the ears and lifted it up. "Ah-Ha!" He exclaimed in triumph but was surprised when he and Ashi saw that the rabbit was attached to a little girl in a red hood. What the?
"Hey! Put me down you! Let me go!" The child told Jack in her British accent. Ashi pulled down her hood, seeing that she was a normal little girl. "Hey lady, what's the big idea?" She complained as she pulled up her hood.
Jack just as bewildered as Ashi when they began to discover that the creature that they have been chasing was actually a little girl. But they shifted back to their situation. "You've stolen our weapons and our clothes," Ashi explained to the child, pointing out at her and Jack's state of almost-exposure.
"What have you done with them?" Jack asked her while still holding her by her backpack.
"Take it easy. They're in my backpack." The girl told them, pointing at her rabbit backpack.
"Your backpack?" Jack arched an eyebrow at the backpack in surprise.
"You mean this rabbit is actually your backpack?" Ashi flabbergasted asked as well.
"Sure." The girl said as she unzipped the backpack, opening it and releasing their clothes and weapons.
"My sword!" Jack exclaimed as his sword fell out of the backpack.
After a few minutes of privacy, the samurai and his love were back in their regular clothing again and had their weapons on them too. They turned to the little girl with a disapproving look on their faces. "Did not your parents teach you it is wrong to steal?"
The little girl shed and sniffed a tear as she explained. "I don't have any parents. I'm all alone," Jack and Ashi's expression soon turned into melancholy as they felt sorrow for the child as she continued. "I saw our stuff just sitting there so I took them. I'm sorry, I was hungry. Your sword and bathrobe looked valuable as her dress and chain knife. Almost as valuable as robot-slug tusks."
"Robot-slug tusks?" Jack and Ashi exclaimed in surprise and unison. Ashi turned to the child with a reassuring smile. "It's okay, besides I think we know how to help you with your hunger problem."
Ashi and the little girl were sitting on a boulder, waiting for Jack to come up with the expensive items in question. They all went back to the swamp where Ashi and Jack fought the giant robot-slug to receive its tusks from the muddy water.
Ashi suddenly remembered about her and Jack's private bath time together and wondered with great regret of humiliation if the little girl saw them. "Uh...Hey..W-When you said you saw our stuff sitting on the rock, did you see anything else?" She stammered, afraid to hear what her answer was.
"No," The child answered, Ashi let out a deep breath of relief. "Why? Was there's something I wasn't supposed to see?" she asked her with an eyebrow arch.
Ashi's face paled, not knowing to expose a young child to things that she really shouldn't know at her age especially one that involves her and Jack together. "No no, just asking."
No sooner when she said that, Jack emerged from the swamp completely muddy and holding the two enormous tusks in his hands. He set them down on the ground as Ashi and the little girl hopped out the boulder. "Will these do?"
The child grabbed the tusks in her hands so strong that it surprised Ashi and Jack for her age. "Wow mister and misses, Thanks. I'll never go hungry again." She happily thanked the two with joy in her heart as she walked away with the tusks.
"This has been very strange day today," Ashi commented.
"And an even stranger world I fear we have yet to visit," Jack said. He then turned to Ashi. "Promise me we will never speak of this day ever again?"
"Promise." Ashi took notice that Jack and his clothes were completely covered in mud and filth again. "Aww Jack, you're all dirty again. Well, I guess you have to get clean up again." And she soon took notice of debris on herself from the train crash and smiled shyly. "And I guess so I do too."
Jack's face flushed as he quickly remembered their little bathing time that had they on the run for their clothes today. "I really don't think that's such a good idea."
"Why?"
"Well, I-I mean After all the trouble we went through to get our clothes back, I think it wouldn't be a good idea for us to take a bath again until we reach a city or a bathhouse. A-and I don't want to risk the chances of losing our attires again and..." But Ashi was unhinged as she approached Jack, leaned forward, and kissed his lips with passion. He stood stiff there for a moment before relaxing and returning the kiss with equal lust.
"But Ashi," Jack purred as he took the kiss for a breath, resting his forehead against hers. "What about our clothes if we leave them unguarded again?"
Ashi shined a warm smile that basically melted Jack as she leaned in for another kiss. "We'll work something out," she whispered in his ear.
Ashi moaned softly as Jack's tender fingers massaged through her scalp. As the night and moon shined down, They have decided to bathe again in the pond but this time kept their attires close to them by placing them on a rock that closes to the waterfall where they were sitting on the edge of the water. "Told you this would work out nicely."
Jack leaned his head down a bit to whisper in her ear. "Indeed, it has. Much more than that actually," As he planted kisses on her neck with lustful turned around and cradled his face with her hands as she looked deep into his eyes. "My samurai princess." she teased him as she planted her lips against his in a kiss. "My beautiful prince." He responded back by deepening their kiss as their deep passion soar through the night without any interruptions.
The End