Castle Saga: Missing Manga part 5


            Ami was, as usual, rather pleased with herself. No one ever seemed to be able to get past the fact that a nominally reserved person such as herself could tickle so effectively… Felin’s latest mishap was just the most recent incident in a long line of them. Ami was, although viewed as an ‘easy’ target by people like Jelex who assumed her outward lack of aggressive posture and obvious physical ability screamed ‘victim’, one of the more feared ticklers around… So she liked to think anyway, the idea bringing a giggle to her lips.

 

            At the moment, she was headed back to her room, mostly dry except for the lingering dampness that was retained by her swimsuit, even that mostly mitigated by the towel she was wearing almost like a cape. Closing the door to her room behind her, Ami began to change back into casual clothing, smiling and humming softly to herself as she did so. She didn’t hear the door opening behind her, nor the silent footsteps that crept up behind her.

 

            Ami’s first, only, and insufficient warning was when she felt her arms being yanked around by the sleeves of her shirt. At that moment, she had been pulling a shirt over her head, so her eyes were covered and arms still only halfway through the sleeves. Somehow, before she could shout in surprise, deft and impossibly quick hands were tangling and knotting her shirt and sleeves, effectively blindfolding her and severely restricting her arms’ movement. Her attempt to twist away and back into her assailant, in the hopes of knocking whoever it was off balance, was deftly parried and Ami felt herself shoved towards her bed, falling face-down onto it.

 

            There had to be more than one of them, Ami realized, as her shirt was untied to allow her arms to be forced to the small of her back, where they were re-tied while hands still held her wrists in place. No, Ami corrected herself, it could be Jelex acting alone… there had been no noise thus far, and then there was Jelex’s skill in rapid takedowns to consider… Ami realized she was being manipulated and tied into a hogtie position, a fact which was confirmed as her feet were raised into the air and tied with her own nylons, then the trailing ends of those nylons used to tie her wrists again.

 

            Blindfolded, hogtied, face down, and very much vulnerable. Jelex, Kiri and Xei admired their handiwork, all without making a sound. Kiri looked at Xei, and the two androids seemed to stare at each other without blinking for a minute. As Xei had explained before, the two could exchange information through a wireless connection, and after a moment Xei nodded and just as silently slipped out the door, padding down the hallway. Jelex didn’t know what she had been sent to do, but there was no need for her to be here, really. She and Kiri could very easily handle Ami by themselves.

 

            Kiri flexed her fingers and ran them lightly over Jelex’s arm. Jelex got the message: Kiri had fingernails, short fingernails which were just perfect for exploiting Ami’s ribs and sides in this situation. Her wriggling was kept to a minimum by two of Jelex’s hands which kept her shoulders more or less pinned to the bed, although a bed by its nature allowed quite a bit of wiggle room. It didn’t really make much of a difference, Jelex scouted Ami’s dresser while Kiri went to work.

 

            Ami had been strangely silent up to that point, Kiri noticed. She tried to see if there was anything Ami had been doing surreptitiously in an attempt to escape, but a casual glance didn’t indicate anything. Well, no matter. Kiri reached around so that her hands were poised at Ami’s ribs, and began to scritch with her fingers, a very gentle motion, effected by short scritching motions while her hands slowly traveled up and down Ami’s ribs, exposed nicely by her arms pulled back behind her.

 

            Ami’s silence was short-lived, muffled giggles occurring within seconds of Kiri’s commencement of tickling, then longer, louder giggles when she changed her motion to long scratching up and down the length of each rib. The most effective tactic that Kiri discovered was to find the end of each rib and tease it relentlessly with gentle scratches. This led to the first muffled guffaw and Ami’s first serious attempt to wriggle away, checked of course by Jelex’s hands. Kiri did it on both sides, and Ami tried to wriggle in a wavelike motion, seeing that it was useless to squirm to either side.

 

            Jelex returned from her hunt just then, wielding a hairbrush of the type that had small plastic balls. For soft feet, such as Ami’s which had just returned from a bath no less, scritching-type implements would be less effective and might end up simply irritating the skin instead of tickling. For situations such as these, softer – but not too soft – things were needed, such as this hairbrush, which Jelex had used on herself and found to produce a pleasant tingling sensation on her scalp. Applied to the soles of her feet…

 

            Ami arched her back and giggled hysterically as she felt that familiar sensation, not on her scalp now but the soles of her feet. That combined with the extremely effective tickling assault on her ribs was causing her to giggle wildly, her squirming much more pronounced and managing to wriggle her body to some degree despite the hands pinning her shoulders. Yet Ami knew physiology better than anyone, and it was clear that the position she was in was disadvantageous in all regards. Her strength was going to be exhausted much faster than usual, at which point her body would probably already be flushed and sensitive, letting her tormentors move in for the kill…

 

            Kiri was herself keeping in mind the indicators she had been given by Felin as to when to stop. Though she hated having to ‘calculate’, Kiri decided that in this case she would be able to go just a little beyond what was normally acceptable, given the circumstances in which this session was taking place. So, then, Kiri decided to give Ami’s ribs a rest and instead went for the softer skin of her stomach. Her fingers dug in lightly now, changing tactics, and wriggled of their own accord, carefully randomized so that the sensation would be impossible to adapt to.

 

            Though Jelex and Kiri could not see, Ami’s face was a shade of light crimson, her still-mussed blue hair becoming even more disheveled as she squirmed and wriggled. It was contrary to what was best to do in this situation – Ami knew she should save her strength – yet each time Jelex rolled the hairbrush up the length of her soles – like THAT!!! – Ami couldn’t help but let loose with a string of squealed giggles, accompanied by a curling of her feet and arching of her back.

 

            Jelex motioned for Kiri to slow down a little bit. They clearly had Ami right where they wanted her, so why end it too soon? It would be a lot more fun to tease her into giggling herself silly. To that effect, Jelex set the hairbrush down and let Ami calm down for a moment. Then, she suddenly wriggled one fingertip hard at the base of Ami’s toes. Even as Ami yelped and giggled, Jelex had stopped, and Kiri had picked up on the game, drilling a finger at her shortribs. The roll to the side that this produced also had the effect of arching Ami’s left sole for just a moment, which Jelex exploited by tracing a quick circle on the skin.

 

            Ami felt the pokes come, hard, fast and brief, and knew she was being teased, knew she was being made to dance, but the extremity and locality of each sensation made a reaction hard to fight, especially since she couldn’t see where any of them were coming from. The shirt which had been covering Ami’s eyes had been slowly slipping upwards, so that now Ami could barely see her bedsheets from underneath the shirt, but that was of no help whatsoever, and turning her head to see if maybe she could get a glimpse of her ticklers, she found her movement suddenly halted by a series of rapid drillings walking up her hips to her ribs, which caused her face to fly into the sheets, where she giggled crazily.

 

            Kiri stopped her poking assault, and now scooted backwards to join Jelex at Ami’s feet. She waited until Ami had calmed down and wasn’t giggling so much, then held Ami’s toes with her fingers and nodded to Jelex, indicating that she should do so. Jelex took a moment or two to catch on, but finally she had Ami’s toes held back and still. Kiri untied the nylons that held her wrists to her ankles so that she could straddle the backs of Ami’s legs, but left the shirt that held her wrists tied at the small of her back intact. Jelex and Kiri then wrapped themselves as tight as they could around Ami’s legs, denying her feet any mobility at all. With that done, Kiri finally started, doing nothing more than drawing tiny, slow circles with her fingernails in the center of each sole.

 

            It started off as just giggling. Giggling suited to the slow, gentle motions that Kiri was making. But then Ami realized she couldn’t move her feet whatsoever, and she giggled a little harder. Suddenly it seemed to tickle a little more. Kiri just waited, her smirk and Jelex’s identical and growing wider by the minute. Kiri still didn’t tickle any harder, and yet suddenly Ami’s upper body jerked, wriggling as her giggling grew still louder.

 

            Jelex shared a wry look with Kiri. Ami started laughing still harder, but Kiri hadn’t tickled any faster yet. She was just doing the same thing, over and over and over… driving Ami mad with the same sensation in the same place that she couldn’t do anything to stop, wriggle and squirm as she might. Wriggle and squirm she did, her upper body rolling and wriggling all over the bed, her lack of leverage in the face-down position leading it all to be in vain.

 

            Finally it came, the first sounds out of Ami’s mouth that weren’t quite giggles, but more like attempted words mixed in and shot through with giggling. It was clear enough what she was saying, some form of ‘stop’ obviously, and Kiri mulled over how much longer she could really go on. She decided to end this with a bang, and without warning raked her nails rapidly along Ami’s soles. Ami kicked and squealed so hard that her torso rolled off of the side of the bed, and Kiri giggled, sparing one hand to help her back up, knowing that position was probably uncomfortable.

 

            Jelex winked and tilted her head towards the door. Kiri nodded agreement, and still silently, the two hopped off the bed and padded out the door, leaving Ami tied up in her own clothing and very much red-faced from giggling hysterically. It wasn’t until they got back to Jelex’s room that they burst out laughing. “We got her so good! I don’t think she knew who we were!” Jelex said, sitting on the edge of her bed.

 

            Kiri grinned and gave Jelex’s thigh a teasing squeeze. “Well, that was fun, but what now? We left her tied up on the bed for what?”

 

            “Well, first of all tell me what you sent Xei off to do.”

 

            “I sent her to tell Felin what we were up to, of course,” Kiri said matter-of-factly. “She’ll see if Felin wants us to do anything in particular next.” Kiri winked and hopped onto Jelex’s bed. “In the meantime I guess we just wait here until she comes back.”

 

            Jelex nodded. “Yeah, we’ll wait here…” She grinned, not facing Kiri. She couldn’t see that Kiri was grinning, as well…

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