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It was just another day in Rigbarth at the local SEED office. Things had been getting extremely busy lately with Scarlett being called back to SEED HQ. So poor Ares was forced to handle the day to day tasks all on his own. Well at least that was the case. Livi had informed him that Priscilla was taking a few days off from her job at the bakery to lend a hand at headquarters. Mostly to deal with the day to day paperwork, and the paperwork Livi was too lazy to finish doing herself as well. However today would be an interesting one, one that would be kicking off a chain of events that would cause Ares’ life to never be the same ever again.

Ares awoke bright and early to start his usual rounds around town, making sure nothing was out of place, and taking care of any requests that have shown up on the board over the course of the night. Ready to get the day started the Earthmate headed down to the ground floor to see if Livi had any updates that he needed to be aware of before he went out for the day.

“Good morning Livi!” Ares said with a cheerful smile as he entered Livi’s room.

“Someone sure is in a chipper mood this morning.” Livi said while trying to stifle a yawn.

“Is there anything new that I should be aware of before I get started today?”

“Well…you probably aren’t going to want to go outside today.”

“Why is that?” Ares inquired. And as if on cue a large rumble of thunder drowned out the early morning noises.

“Seems like a Typhoon is rolling in today, and probably won’t be cleared for the next couple of days.” Livi said while clearing the sleep from her eyes. “I’ve also noticed you have already harvested this week’s crops too, so you don’t have to worry about anything getting destroyed in the fields over the next couple of days.”

“I see…well shouldn’t I go around town before the storm sets in to make sure everyone is ok?” Ares inquired, slightly disappointed at the developments.

“No, I don't think that's necessary.”

“Well…there has to be something I can do, anything really!” Ares was nearly begging at this point. Clearly he wanted to keep busy.

“Well…” Livi said while pondering into deep thought. “There is one thing you can do.”

“Awesome!” Ares cheered. “What will need to be done from me?”

“Well, have you ever noticed the strange hole under the table in the main room of the office?”

“Now that you mention it…I always did find it weird. What is it for?”

“Well this office was built kind of strangely. You actually use that to open up the floor to enter into a crawl space. Here I’ll show you.” Livi said while getting up and showing Ares to the main area. They both climbed into the cozy work area where Priscilla and Lucy normally do their volunteer work. She took Ares to the spot Priscilla does most of her work, moving her chair out of the way and removing the rug she showed Ares the odd crawl space. Opening the two segments on each side of the hole revealed a narrow passage.

“You want to lay on your back here and crawl your way down. Its easier that way so when you crawl out you won’t be trying to crawl out and not know where you’re going.”

“I see…” Ares said unsure as he crawled into the space.

“Once you reach the bottom you will find a small room, once you’re there just flick a few of the switches down there. It seems like a mouse or something flipped the switches causing a key defense system to go down.”

“It’s…a bit of a roundabout way to get to it isn’t it?”

“Well duh. We don’t want just anyone going down there.” Livi said half annoyed. “Anyway, I need to get this paperwork done…I doubt Priscilla will be stopping by in this weather to help out, so you get on that.” Livi said while closing the hatch on Ares. All that could be seen in the hatch is his face through the whole. “Has anyone told you your face looks like it could make for a good footrest there?” She teased. Ares shuttered at the thought before crawling his way through the tight space.

With Ares on his underground adventures, Livi gave out a great big yawn only to be drowned out by the clash of thunder and lightning, the rain had been coming down pretty hard for the last few minutes.

“Well, so much for having Priscilla help me out today–” But before Livi could finish her thought the door to the outpost swung open. Bringing in a large gust of wind that nearly sent Eliza flying off the front counter.

“Sorry I’m late! The wind made it extra hard to get here.” the pink-haired girl said slightly exhausted.

“Priscilla! What in the world are you doing here?!” Livi said in near shock. “Don’t you know there's a Typhoon out there?”

“Oh there is? Whoopsie. When I left out this morning it seemed pretty clear out to me.” She said with an innocent smile. “If that’s the case I’ll just help you with the paperwork and stay the night. I can always go home when the weather clears tomorrow!”

“That's if it clears tomorrow…but I’m not going to complain. I got a ton of paperwork that needs to be filed and completed.” Livi said with a smile. “There's already some paperwork on the desk, you can get started on it, I’ll bring you out some more in a bit.”

“On it!” Priscilla said with a smile, taking her seat at her usual location. When she sat down she instantly noticed the hole on the floor.

“Hey Livi, what’s this hole on the floor?” Priscilla inquired.

“Oh that? Thats just the entrance to the crawl space, but it can also be used as a nice foot rest!” Livi smiled. “It’s been over an hour, he should have been back by now, if not, well I guess I’ll leave him to his fate.” Livi said almost with a maniacal laugh.

“What was that last part Livi?”

“Oh nothing, just saying you should get as comfortable as possible, take your shoes off I don’t mind!” Livi said, placing even more paperwork on the table.

“I may just do that!” Priscilla said, returning the smile. She seemed to have not a care in the world despite the weather all around them.

“I’m going to have to have a long talk with Livi about this crawl space.” Ares complained to himself as he began his crawl back to the entrance. “The amount of monsters living just under our base is almost disturbing, but thankfully I was able to take most of them out.” Ares was struggling to make his way back through the tight underbelly of the building, but he could see a dim light in the distance, signifying his escape. Or at least he thought. “Once I’m out of here I feel like I am just going to go right back to bed and sleep through this whole storm.” But as he got closer to the entrance, his heart began to sink at a realization. In the distance he could hear Livi talking to someone. Is it Priscilla? Ares thought to himself. As he reached the end of the crawl space he was greeted to the sight of two pink, yet fluffy objects over the entrance of the hole. The smell of a flowery perfume and a little bit of sweat began to waft to Ares' nose. “Wait is that Priscilla’s–” but before he could finish his thought, Ares came to a horrible realization, in picking up a few items from the monsters from under the building he had found himself stuck under the floorboard, with his face firmly placed in the hole on the floor. “This isn’t good” Ares thought to himself. Ares was about to call out to Priscilla for help, the awkwardness of the situation be damned, but before he could say anything, a sweet, yet salty, cloth fell directly into his mouth.

“Oh no!” Priscilla gasped. Ares had hoped she had finally noticed her new prisoner, but he had no such luck. “Livi my socks fell into the hole in the floor! Should I go down there to fish them out?”

“No don’t bother, I’m sure whenever Ares gets back he will be more than happy to get them for you. Focus more on your work and don’t let little things like that distract you!” Livi said laughing to herself, almost as if she knew what was going on under the floors.

“These are her socks?!” Ares thought with absolute horror. He tried his best to spit them out to call out for help, but both of her socks had fallen directly into his mouth, and no matter how much his tongue tried to push them out, they wouldn’t budge. They were being weighed down by the sheer amount of sweat that had managed to accumulate in them. Then it hit Ares. The taste. It was a mix of both salt, and stale roses. A flavor combination that was starting to overwhelm him the more he tried to push the socks out of his mouth. He tried to wiggle around to hopefully get Priscilla’s attention, but he was firmly stuck in place. He would be stuck there until someone was finally able to notice his face matching with the floorboards. “This can’t get any worse” Ares thought, but as if on cue, Priscilla returned her now bare feet to the hole where his face was stuck in. “Priscilla no!” Ares wanted to scream, but before he knew it, his vision was now obstructed by her feet now resting firmly on Ares’ face. Her feet were a bit larger than Ares had thought given her stature, and were pretty pale, which makes sense she wasn’t the most athletic. Her toes then perfectly cuffed over his nose after getting familiar with his face. In his panic Ares began to breathe deeply as he wasn’t sure what was happening. This however did not make things any better, as he was now smelling Priscilla’s feet at an alarming rate. The scent of her feet, while not the worst thing in the world, was unnerving to him, mixed with the flavor of her socks currently in his mouth. Her feet were sweaty and felt almost like they were sliding over his face. The strong smell of foot funk and perfume nearly overwhelmed him as he began to feel light headed at the whole ordeal. Clearly his heavy breathing hadn’t gone unnoticed, as Priscilla let out a shriek, but her feet remained firmly in place on Ares’ face.

“What's wrong?” Livi inquired.

“Oh nothing, it feels like there may be a draft coming in from under the crawl space, as I felt some air brushing across my feet…it honestly feels nice.” Priscilla said with a sheepish smile.

“Oh, looks like we will have to get that fixed at some point.” Livi grinned, it seemed like she knew exactly what was going on, but noticed that Priscilla’s work output had increased as a result of her enjoyment. “Stay strong soldier…at this rate I may not have any paperwork to do for the rest of the month!”

“What was that Livi?”

“Oh nothing, keep doing a good job, I’ll have some more work for you soon.” All of this was said to Ares’ horror. She knew exactly what she was doing now. Ares wasn’t sure to feel mad or scared at this whole ordeal, but didn’t have much time to think about it as Priscilla’s sweaty soles continued their assault on his face. It had only been a few minutes, but it had felt like hours had passed. Priscilla continued to work without a care in the world, meanwhile her feet kept doing the rounds on Ares’ face. She would occasionally cuff all ten of her toes around Ares’ nose, intensifying the levels of foot funk that he would be endearing. The mixture scent of roses, sweat and stale corn were causing Ares to begin to feel light headed at the whole ordeal. But no matter what happened he never got fully over the line of passing out. It seemed as if Priscilla was unknowingly regulating his breathing to make sure he got the most optimal amount of feet sniffing in as possible. This went on for hours, Priscilla happily chugged away at her work at a rate she didn’t even think was possible, all while her feet were having a lovely date with Ares unbeknownst to her. No matter how long he sucked on Priscilla’s socks they never let up in their assault on his taste, never letting him fully spit them out no matter how much his tongue lapped around them. From the little light that he was getting, Ares could tell it had been nearly a whole day, and it was getting dark, but the storm raged on around them outside.

“So you’re still planning to stay the night then?”

“Of course! I’ll finish up this paperwork then maybe sleep in Scarletts bed.” Priscilla said cheerfully, filling Ares with dread, knowing his “date” would not be ending any time soon as he heard the sound of more paperwork being piled onto the table. Priscilla then began happily tapping her feet on Ares face, or well more like slapping them. After all this time they were still giving off an ungodly level of sweat, so with every tap on his face it felt like he was being hit with a wet sponge.

“When she goes to sleep I will finally be able to get out of here and erase this memory from my mind” Ares thought to himself, but little did he know things were not going to get easier any time soon.

“I’m not sure why, but I really feel like I could work all through the night!” Priscilla said cheerfully. It was already getting pretty late and it seemed like Livi had already gone to sleep. Ares could only pray that Priscilla would get tired soon and fall asleep. Sadly his prayers would be answered, just not in the way he hoped. Soon the constant attacks on his face by Priscilla’s feet came to a halt, as they firmly came to rest directly on his face. Only moving slightly to scratch the other foot from time to time. Ares was unsure as to what was happening, as he could only see things through a ten toed filter over his view. But it would soon become apparent as to what happened as the sound of light snoring could be heard.

“Oh Ares…you have…such a way…with my feet…” Priscilla giggled to herself in her sleep. She had fallen asleep while working. Panicked, Ares began to squirm again and was able to slightly move himself, but not enough to crawl through the space again. But after nearly a full day was able to finally spit the socks from his mouth, this caused her feet for the first time in almost sixteen hours to be moved from his face, but as if they were drawn to it, she slid her feet directly back to where it felt like was their proper home. Ares, having enough of this, was finally going to call out to Priscilla to get him out of there.

“Priscilla wake–” but before he could even finish his sentence, her left foot found its way directly into his mouth. Ares’ eyes widened in shock and horror as her toes began making themselves at home all in his mouth. He danced his tongue around, desperately trying to avoid the direct flavor of her feet, but instead ended up coating her foot in a direct tongue bath.

“Heehee” Priscilla giggled to herself in her sleep. Completely oblivious as to what was happening under the floor. Her right foot then found its way directly over Ares nose and eyes, engulfing all of his senses with her feet. Unlike the socks, no matter what he did he was unable to remove her foot from its new home. Desperately he tried licking her feet and actively sucking her toes in hopes the sensation would wake her up. “The water…is cold today…on my feet” Priscilla grumbled to herself. Tears began to well up in Ares' eyes as the flavor and smell of her feet totally dominated him. His only solace in this was that this was Priscilla doing this to him and not someone like Lucy, whose feet were larger and no doubt much more potent in their taste and smell compared to Priscilla’s. All Ares’ could do is hope this torment would end when the morning came. But as the clock in the office began to rang, it was only two o’clock in the morning. He was in for a long night of sucking toes and smelling Priscilla’s feet.

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It has been a couple of weeks since the events that happened that night at the SEED outpost. Ares was all too thankful that Priscilla never truly found out what caused her feet to feel so “refreshed” as she put it afterwards. Sadly Livi was aware of the whole situation and still mocks Ares about it when he starts to slack off. Ares hoped what had happened was just a freak accident, but it seemed like fate had other plans in store for him…and his sense of smell. It was another long day of working with SEED, going on his patrols, capturing wanted monsters, tending to the farm, you name it. Ares was in prime form today as he worked. In fact he was working so hard that he forgot to eat anything today. When he returned to the SEED outpost to look at the clock he was alarmed to see how late it was.

“Man, I really have been working a lot today.” Ares sighed to himself. “I really don’t feel like cooking today, so I think I’ll head over to Lackadaisy for a nice warm meal.” Ares said with a grin as he headed out towards the restaurant. All seemed quite around Rigbarth as he made his way to the restaurant, most people were making their way home after a long day.

“Oh Ares!” a familiar voice called out to him. Ares turned around and saw Prisicilla, he instantly blushed, not being fully over what happened the other day.

“What can I do for you Priscilla?” Ares inquired, trying to hide his blush.

“I see you’re heading over to Lackadaisy, can you check on Elsje for me please? She hasn’t been home in almost two days, but the restaurant has stayed open normally…I'm worried about her new increased work effort.” Priscilla said worryingly.

“Sure, I don’t mind, I was heading over there for something to eat, I’ll talk to her once I'm there.”

“I knew I could count on you Ares!” Priscilla said with a smile before turning to run off home.

“I wonder what's gotten into Elsje?” Ares thought to himself. “Normally she would find any reason to close early but staying open later?” Ares continued to think on the matter as he approached Lackadaisy. When he approached the front door, he caught a faint whiff of something. “Is Elsje still cooking? It's almost time for her to close.” Ares pondered as he opened the door. When Ares walked in the smell became much more potent. Ares took a huge whiff into the air trying to figure out what he was smelling. “Wow whatever the smell is, it smells…delicious!”

“What a pain…another customer? Just when I thought I could relax.” Ares heard a familiar grumbling coming from the other part of the restaurant. “Wait Ares is that you?” The voice perked up.

“Yeah, I wanted to check in on you Priscilla was pretty worried.”

“I see. Well since you’re here can you do me a favor and lock up? I’ll whip you up something in a second, I just need to take a load off.” Elsje sighed from the other room. Ares obliged in her request and locked the door to the restaurant and changed the open sign to closed. He then returned to hungrily sniffing the air trying to discover what kind of dish was Elsje cooking?

“It smells…cheesy…a new risotto maybe?” Ares thought to himself. But what was odd as he was following the scent wasn't taking him to the kitchen, but to the lounge area that Elsje was in.

“Elsje what is that amazing smell–” Ares was cut off when he entered the lounge, still sniffing away, when he realized what the source of the smell was. Elsje had her large feet propped up on the table. She sat there half asleep and scrunching her toes, with each scrunch causing more of that appetizing scent to waft its way under Ares’ nose.

“Ah…today was such a tiring day at work…” Elsje sighed. “I don’t know why but I couldn’t stop myself from working up a storm these last couple of days. I hated it.” Elsje sighed again while trying to stay awake. Ares was still entranced that her feet were the source of the amazing smell.

“Elsje your feet–”

“Ugh, tell me about it. Ludmilla gave me a new extract to use in a new dish, but like an idiot, I spilled it all over my shoes. A large part of it seeped into them and coated my feet in it. Ever since then I had a strange desire to just…work. It was hell.” Elsje said while giving off a great yawn. “I think I am going to take the next…few days off…sorry Ares, but you may have to make your own food to eat. There's nothing currently made I can give you.” she said while scratching one foot with the other. Ares however could not avert his eyes to Elsje’s large sweaty and clearly tired soles. For some reason the scent was still calling him. “Oh, see something you like?” Elsje teased slightly. “Yeah I guess my feet have been soaking in that extract for the last two days, haven’t had a chance to wash it off yet. Sorry about the smell.”

“T-they smell..GREAT!” Ares blurted out before clamping his hands over his mouth.

“What?” Elsje said slightly taken aback how anyone could find her feet in their current state smelling anything other than putrid. “Ares they smell like stale cheese mixed with rotting fruit, is your nose like, broken or something?”

“N-no thats not what I meant, I couldn’t stop myself from saying that and–”

“Oh that crafty witch…”

“What?”

“Nothing. Hey Ares, your eyes haven't left my feet since you got here. Go ahead.”

“Wait, go ahead and do what–?” But before he could finish his sentence he started moving closer and closer to Elsje’s feet almost like his body was moving on pure instinct. Before he knew it he was sitting on the floor with Elsje’s feet at eye level with him. The smell was even more overpowering than before. Ares felt light headed and had no clue what he was doing.

“What am I–” but before Ares could finish his thought he grabbed Elsje’s feet and began rubbing his face into her warm and sweaty soles. Her soles were clearly carrying a great deal of sweat and funk. As soon as his face made contact an audible “splash” could be heard.”

“Ahhh~ That…actually feels good.” Elsje muttered to herself. Elsje then began slowly rubbing her large feet in Ares’ face. He sat where he was completely unmoving and took all the abuse her feet gave his face. He found his nose exploring every arc and between every toe of her feet. The smell was one hundred times more potent than before…she was right, the smell of molding cheese and rotting fruit could be smelled from her feet, but for some reason Ares could not stop himself from craving it. Elsje cuffed her toes over Ares' nose forcing him to get a pure concentration of her foot funk directly into his lungs. “Has anyone ever told you your nose makes for a good foot massager?” Elsje said with a sarcastic smile.

“W-why are you doing this?” Ares asked. “Why can’t I stop smelling y-your feet?”

“Good question. If I had to guess this is the power of that extract. If I were to put this into food people would be coming all over to try the dish. But sadly it was wasted on my feet. Although maybe it wasn’t” She grinned while continuing to play with Ares face, constantly wiping her foot sweat all over his face. “You’re pretty cute this way Ares, I can see why Pricisilla has a crush on you.” she chuckled. Ares could not only not stop smelling her feet, but was now completely flushed red at being called cute with her feet overpowering his poor face. For the next several hours Elsje would just toy with Ares face with her feet, forcing him to smell every inch of them. His hair was nearly drenched in her footsweat, but yet he couldn’t stop himself from pushing his own face deeper and deeper into her soles, causing more fountains of sweat to come pouring out. The sweet smell mixed with the salty sour smell of her feet created an intoxicating combination. Almost as if his nose was trying to hone in only on the sweet smell to escape the bitter cheese smell, which only caused his sniffing of her feet and toes to amplify even more. Ares couldn’t tell if he was in heaven or hell with all the mixed emotions her feet were giving him thanks to this extract.

“This has been fun.” Elsje smiled. “But I am getting really tired, but this is also so relaxing, it’s great.” She said with a yawn. “Alright I think I am going to go ahead and call it a night.”

“Oh good so we can leave now–?”

“No. I am sleeping here, get back to work. Consider this an official SEED request. Help Elsje relax.” She said with a smug grin. After saying that, much to his horror, Ares felt his desire rage up again and fully embraced her soles. This time planting kisses all along the bottom of her feet.

“Oh– I wasn’t expecting that. But i'm not against it. Keep going.” She said waving her hand at Ares. Ares with tears in his eyes continued planting kisses on her sore and red feet. From time to time Ares heard Elsje moan in satisfaction at this level of pampering. But at this point Ares just wanted to know how long this could possibly go on for, and why can’t he just stop pampering Elsje’s feet. After a solid hour of just kissing her feet, Ares felt like he was on the verge of passing out from the lip work he was giving her feet.

“Alright,” Elsje said with a yawn. “Before I fall asleep. Lick.” Elsje gave with a command.

“E-excuse me?!”

“You heard me. Lick my feet. Maybe you can clean that extract off. Who knows, just don’t stop licking until I wake up.”

“I am not going to–, I am not— I am–” Ares was losing his train of thought, and looked deep into Elsje’s warm and sweaty soles. Before he knew it, his tongue was leaving his mouth against his will and began making its way up Elsje’s bare soles. At the touch of his tongue on the bottom of her feet she let out a pleasurable moan before closing her eyes and going off to sleep. “You…owe me…” Was the last thing she said before dozing off. Ares couldn’t focus on what she said, all he could do was continue licking her feet. The taste was unimaginable. All he could taste was her sweat and a faint hint of leather from her shoes, and maybe a taste of blueberry? Perhaps that was the extract. Like before his brain focused only on the sweet taste and hungrily licked the waitresses feet seeking that sweet sensation. He bathed and lathered her feet up and down with his tongue, trying to clean up every drop of sweat that dropped from it. But like her sister, it seemed like she was producing more sweat the more he licked, causing a vicious cycle to continue. Ares closed his eyes and continued licking Elsje’s feet praying she would wake up soon. But after remembering how long she slept when they first met, he knew fate wouldn’t be so kind. He continued to lick her feet like they were premium lollipops until suddenly Elsje grumbled something else in her sleep. “Hrghm…suck…” And as if on command, Ares stopped licking her feet and shoved one of her feet in his mouth, latching onto all five toes. His tongue now dancing around the five digits in his mouth. The toes themself began to wiggle in delight as if knowing they were there for a bath. In the corner of his eye, Ares could see a small smirk on Elsje’s face as he continued to suck on her toes. He picked off every piece of toejam stuck in her toes and hungrily consumed it, after remembering he hadn't eaten all day, he continued his sucking of her toes desperately trying to find more toe jam to eat as he never realized how hungry he actually was. After awhile of sucking on her foot, Elsje scratched Ares’ face with her other signifying it was that foot’s turn and like it was the most natural thing in the world Ares turned his attention to the other foot and began the process again, greedily looking for any traces of toe jam to consume. Continuing the dance between his tongue and Elsje’s wiggling sweaty toes. This dance went back and forth for hours until the clock struck five am. The chime was loud enough to wake Elsje from her slumber.

“Ah…you’re still here. Good boy.” She said reaching over to pat Ares on the head while he was still sucking on her foot. “I think you deserve a bit of a rest.” She said while removing her foot from Ares’ mouth.

“F-finally” Ares stammered, hoping to finally leave.

“I never said you were done, it seems like the extract got really deep into the skin of my feet, see–” She said, holding up her foot showing that it was still as sweaty as ever and giving off the alluring aroma. “So here, lay your head down here.” She said throwing a pillow on the ground. Ares, feeling like he had no choice, laid down in front of the sofa that Elsje was sitting on. She then hovered her feet over Ares’ face. Elsje smiled at him and said “We’re going to be doing this at least once a week.” Before slamming her sweaty soles right into Ares face. Ares tried to struggle, but his body was weak after the exhausting night. He just wanted rest. Within minutes he heard the snores coming from her. Ares finally decided to just close his eyes and attempt to relax. Breathing in the scent of Elsje’s feet heavily, trying to again focus only on that sweet scent that was at the core of her foot funk. With that Ares sorted drifted off to sleep. He was still Lucid and surrounded by the smell of Elsje’s feet, but he didn’t care. He was tired, and gladly breathed in the scent of Elsje’s loving feet while he just relaxed. Knowing how long Elsje would be asleep for, he knew he was in for a long sleep.

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It was a warm summer morning in the town of Rigbarth, and everything was going along as peacefully as usual. People went about their day to day lives and just overall enjoying their time enjoying the early summer. However the summer does bring along its own issues as well, and that would be the increased SEED requests coming in. It's not just the people of Rigbarth enjoying the warm season, but the monsters too. Many requests of monsters finding their way close to town, or causing some issues for travelers were being sent in, and it was up to the Rangers of SEED to do their best in limiting this menace. The Rigbarth SEED office was making use of all of its rangers available, especially their two top ones Ares and Scarlett. Things had been hectic for the last couple of weeks as Scarlett had been away on SEED business for special training. But now that she's back, she has seem much more motivated than usual and has been accepting and doing requests left and right, spending all day in the hot summer heat. She would often leave at the crack of dawn, and return home as the sun was setting and collapse right into bed, not even having time to remove her shoes and socks. She was truly giving it her all after being gone for so long. However, Ares was no slouch…on most days, he was doing his best to try and keep up but she was absolutely leaving him in the dust. When Ares went to report to Livi first thing that morning Scarlett was already gone.

“Good morning Captain!” Ares saluted in a cheerful manner.

“Nyaa….it’s too early for this.” Livi complained.

“Captain, it's eight in the morning.”

“Yeah but Scarlet woke me up at six to get a list of wanted monsters…oh well, at least I found this delectable treat in the fridge!” Livi said while eating a spoonful of pudding.

“Isn’t that a bit unhealthy to have for breakfast this morning?” Ares said sighing

“It’s fiiiine. It’s even a super rare pudding cup that they only make during certain times of the year too!” Livi said cheerfully as she took a second bite.

“Where in the world did you even find that pudding cup anyway?”

“Oh, it was in the fridge, when I was checking it for snacks this morning to wake myself up it was right there in the center all nice and shiny!” Livi said while continuing on the cup. “Its like pudding directly from the heavens!” She was clearly in her own little world as she continued to eat the pudding. “Nyaa…a shame these won’t be back in stock again until the end of the Summer.”

“Right…” Ares sighed “Well I am going to be heading out to do my daily rounds, seems like more monsters have been causing some trouble outside of town.”

“I can always count on you and Scarlet,” Livi said smiling. “Oh and Ares before you go you have another request.”

“Oh what is it?”

“It’s from Elsje, she said she needs some “help” cleaning the restaurant again, geese didn’t she just have you do this last week? What is she doing there.?” Livi asked, looking at Ares expectantly.

“It’s…nothing…” Ares sighed before leaving to start his day.

The long day was coming to a close, Scarlet had given her all and was ready to spend her weekend relaxing after putting so much work behind her.

“I really did a lot today.” Scarlett said entering her small room in the back of the office. “I even picked up a lot of Ares’ slack as well. He is unbelievable, taking his time with these monster extermination requests putting people in danger.” Scarlett said as she opened her fridge looking for her long awaited reward. “I am going to have to give him a stern talking to…later…” Her words tapered off as she scanned through her fridge. “W-where is it?!” Scarlett asked in a panic. “My special reward for all my hard work! Where did it go??” Scarlett asked herself, her panic turning more to anger. “Ohhhh when I get my hands on who ate my pudding cup, they are going to wish they were carted off to SEED HQ!”

“Nyaaa…what seems to be the problem Scarlett?” Livi asked coming to check in all the commotion.

“My pudding cup! I brought back a super are pudding cup from HQ. They only sell these during certain windows of the year and I finally got my hands on one!” Scarlett said now with a bit of a fire in her eyes.

“Oh…that pudding cup…” Livi grumbled to herself. “Yeahhh, I think I saw Ares eating it this morning on his way out.” Livi said with a slight smirk.

“You saw what?!”

“Nyaa, keep it down, I remember seeing Ares leaving with the pudding cup. I remember him saying how good it was too.”

“Unbelievable! First he slacks off on his requests, now he eats my pudding cup?! The thing I was saving to reward myself with?!” Scarlett sighed and took a second to regain her composure. “Captain!” Scarlett said with a salute.

“What is it?”

“Permission to personally discipline Ares for neglect of his duties and theft of a co-workers precious snack!”

“Ohh, he's been neglecting his duties eh? What a slacker. Fine, permission granted!” Livi said with a smirk before leaving. As she was leaving she turned around and asked. “What do you plan to do with him?” Scarlett thought for a second while sitting on the side of her bed and taking her shoes off. Probably for the first time all week she actually had time to air out her feet and the smell wafted up to her nose and she noticeably recoiled to the smell.

“I think…I just had my idea.” Scarlett said with a smug smirk.

Not long after Scarlett returned back for the day, Ares returned having finished the last of his rounds. “Man I can’t believe Scarlett ended up doing most of mine today before I even started, she’s amazing!” Ares said to himself entering the outpost. When he entered, Ares noticed something was off, like the atmosphere of the place felt incredibly tense. “Helloooo, anyone home?” Ares asked to no response. “Weird…I thought for sure Scarlett would be back by now.” Ares mumbled to himself as he approached the staircase to return to his quarters. As he reached the stairs, he was shocked to see Scarlett at the top of them. The blue haired half-elf had her arms folded, and her piercing gaze was diving right into him as their eyes met.

“O-oh Scarlett there you are!” Ares said, shocked.

“We need to have a talk about your conduct Ares.” Scarlett said, raising her right arm. A green and red orb began forming in her hand as she charged it up.

“What are you doing?” Ares asked confused.

“I am performing the new sealing spell I learned while I was at HQ. I wanted to see if it worked properly.”

“Oh what are you trying to use it on?”

“You.”

“Me?! What are you–” But before Ares could finish his thought the sealing spell was thrown at him engulfing him in green and red magical chains. Ares felt his entire body restricted, and soon fell backwards, before he knew it, everything around him went black. Scarlett climbed down the stairs to assess the situation, red and green magical chains were wrapped around Ares binding him. He would be unable to move again until she released the sealing spell. Without a word Scarlett dragged Ares back to her quarters, prepared to start her “advanced” disciplinary action.

Ares wasn’t out for too long, soon his vision returned to him and the world around him stopped spinning. Looking above him, Ares saw what looked like to be the underside of a table. He was unable to move his body but when he looked to his left and his right, he saw a frightening sight. Two green shoes that could only belong to Scarlett.

“I see you’re finally awake.” Scarlett said paying him no real mind as she continued working on her puzzle.

“Scarlett! What are you doing?!” Ares said in a slight panic.

“As of now, I am here to administer your disciplinary action.” Scarlett said, slipping off her shoes and placing her socked feet on both sides of Ares’ head. The smell of her feet could easily have cleared a room. There was a mixed scent of old leather, sweat and the finest aged malt vinegar around with a hint of corn. The smell of her feet were easily as bad as Elsje’s, but with no “secret ingredient” there was nothing to hide their pure funk.

“N-no w-what did I do to deserve this?!” Ares said with a new scream, but before Scarlett could even respond she planted her socked feet in Ares’ face. The heels of her feet firmly rested in his hair while she covered his nose and eyes with a fierce ten toe grip. The smell hit Ares like a punch to the gut. He was unable to do anything as the seal spell left him fully immobile and Scarlett’s feet were keeping his head firmly in place.

“I don’t hear you sniffing!” Scarlett barked. “If you want, I can have you shipped to HQ and you can spend a few days in a holding cell.”Unsure if she was bluffing, Ares felt he had no choice but began to hungirly sniff away at her feet. She occasionally restricted his airflow by pinching his nose with her socked toes, only to release so he would be forced to take deeper and deeper breaths. Not only that her socks were completely soaked with sweat, and left trails all over his face as she danced her toes all over it. “Good, accepting your discipline is the first step to improving.” Scarlett said with a caring smile, but that was soon replaced with another stern look that Ares couldnt see. “Now then, you are being disciplined with neglect of your duties as a ranger, I ended up doing nearly 75% of your assigned work today! You should have been up earlier and ready to go to get to work as soon as I was.” Scarlett said as she tapped her feet in Ares’ face disappointedly.

How was I supposed to know to do that?! Ares thought to himself, he refused to open his mouth lest he invite the wrath of her socked toes.

“Next is theft in the workplace!” Scarlett barked with a fire in her eye. “You stole my expensive rare pudding cup and ate it this morning without a care in the world!” The tapping of her feet on Ares' face intensified as Scarlett’s anger rose.

Wait, is this over the pudding cup that Livi ate?! Ares screamed internally.

“Livi told me she saw you take it from my room. Had you asked me I would have gladly shared it with you, but no you had to be greedy!”

“Scarlett I didn’t–” But before he could finish his sentence Scarlett slid her socked toes right into Ares’ mouth. And like a rag an entire waterfall of her trapped footsweat entered into his mouth as he was forced to suck on her socked foot. “How does that taste? Maybe this will wash the taste of my pudding out of your mouth!” Ares had never heard Scarlett this angry before. “That dessert was going to be my treat for all the hard work I've done this week. I've been working nonstop and picking up your slack to boot. And i'm sure you can tell by now, these socks are the same socks ive been wearing every day since I returned, I haven’t had much time to change them.” Scarlett added with an uncharacteristic smug grin. This news came to Ares' horror as he wanted nothing more to rid the socked foot from his mouth. He would get his quick reprieve, but it would not be the outcome he had desired. Scarlett removed her socked feet from Ares’ mouth and face, but this was only to set things up for the real show. Scarlett slowly peeled off her socks one at a time. They took a bit of effort getting off as they were nearly glued to her feet with the sheer amount of sweat and gunk that had caked in there over the last week or so.

“Scarlett you have to listen to me I didn’t steal your pudding–” Ares tried to plead but then Scarlett wiggled her toes causing sock lint and gunks of toe jam to rain on Ares’ face with most of the toe jam landing directly in his mouth. The taste put Ares into a desperate pleading spree for Scarlett to let him go and to explain the situation better.

“You know Ares, had you just fessed up to eating my pudding and offered me a foot massage I would have let you go with a warning, but your constant lying is unbecoming of a ranger! Not only did you steal from me, but you’re accusing our commander of being the one to steal from me!” Scarlett said with a fire in her eyes. “This is unacceptable, and it's time for your discipline to truly begin.” Scarlett said as she lowered her now bare feet into position over Ares’ face.

“You’re so hopelessly incompetent, denying a lady of her simple pleasures.” Scarlett said, looking down on Ares as her feet fully entered his view, and still thinking back to her lost pudding. “This is the least you can do to atone.” She said before slapping her now bare feet directly onto Ares’ face. She let her bare feet sit there for a solid few minutes, to let Ares soak in everything he's done wrong, and the sweat on her feet. Ares' nose for some reason began sniffing her sweaty soles into overtime. He wasn’t sure if this was due to panic or fear of what Scarlett had planned next. But the smell of her bare feet were much worse than that of her socks. The slimy and greasy feet made their way all around Ares face, filling his scent with more malt vinegar and a moldy cheese and corn mix. There was no sweet scent this time like Elsje’s feet to latch onto to try and escape, he was in pure feet funk hell. After letting her feet rest she let all of her toes explore Ares’ nose in great detail, cuffing themselves over it to imprison his nose to get a pure blast of her toefunk. All the while Scarlett continued working on her new 10,000 piece puzzle that she was determined on finishing tonight. Tomorrow was her day off after all and she was going to make the most of all of this.

The dance of Scarlett’s toes and soles in Ares’ face and hair continued well into the night as Scarlett continued to work on her puzzle. “Wow I made a great deal of work on this tonight! I have to say having a personal foot massager down there must have really been what has kept me energized. Perhaps I should have you do this more often.” Scarlett said with a chuckle, but this was no joke to Ares as Elsje’s words from the other night were eerily similar. However before Scarlett could place another piece of her puzzle she let out a great yawn. “Well it is getting pretty late. I guess we can go to the next stage of the disciplinary action.”

“N-next stage? I’ve been smelling your feet for hours, what do you want me to do no–” But before Ares could finish that sentence, Ares’ taste buds were assaulted by a barrage of five of her toes making their way into his mouth.

“I saw how much toe jam was there, its your job to suck it out now.” Scarlett said returning to her puzzle. “I’m not removing this foot until I feel your tongue getting all of that gunk out of my toes.” She said as she place another piece down. Feeling like hes been here before, Ares begins flossing between each one of Scarlett’s toes with his tongue, doing his best to try and get every piece of toe jam he could fish out. This was becoming incredibly harder with each toe he had to dig through, but he must have been doing something right as he heard Scarlett give a few signs of relief. “Wow Ares, this is actually more energizing than a massage would have ever been.” Ares just grumbled to himself as she kept her free foot firmly over his nose so his sense would only be her feet. The consistency of her toe jam was chewy, and the more he got the harder it was to swallow it. After awhile he finally was able to remove most of the toe jam on her foot. Feeling satisfied, Scarlett removed her foot from his mouth and inspected it. “Not bad. Now do the other one.” Before Ares could react the assault on his taste was renewed by a whole new foot. With the ‘clean’ one taking its place resting in his hair. By now, his hair had probably consisted of 90% of her foot sweat as she constantly played with his hair with her feet. After another hour of toe sucking and being a foot wipe, Scarlett felt Ares had done a ‘decent’ enough job.

“Alright Ares. You’ve done an alright job, you will have to improve when we continue this next time.”

“N-next time?!” Ares stammered. “What do you–” but before anything more could be said Ares' mouth was filled with Scarlett's sweat stained socks.

“There we go. The commander approved of weekly correctional sessions with my feet until she believes your work ethic has improved. So every Friday you will spend the night here with my feet until then.

Livi approved this?! Ares thought in pure shock.

“But don’t think you’re done for today. Its the start of the summer and my feet get pretty sweaty at night.” Scarlett explained while picking Ares up and placing him in a curled position at the foot of her bed. “You will be spending the night with my feet in your face, absorbing any sweat, after all I just changed these sheets and I would hate for them to be ruined by my excessive foot sweat.” Scarlett said with a smile. Ares tried to thrash, but the new seal spell seemed to have him completely curled up in this position. The next thing he knew was everything around him going dark, and a familiar pair of objects entered his view once his eyes adjusted. Scarlett’s pale feet towered over his face, for a brief moment they seemed to look like divine objects as the sweat starting to pour from them glistened, but before Ares could ‘appreciate’ these goddesses, they came crashing down on his face, constantly rubbing themselves all over. All Ares could do was lie there and absorb every drop of sweat that was produced from her feet tonight. The heat of being under the blanket also did nothing to help with the matter of the smell, as even though he sucked her toes thoroughly, the scent of vinegar and cheese persisted, and soon that was all he could smell in this dutch oven of her feet. Ares had hoped that Scarlett would wake up bright and early as usual…but unfortunately for him, tomorrow was her day off, and she decided for once in her life, she was going to sleep in as late as possible. Who knew when she was going to wake up?

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Another day, another list of requests posted on the SEED outpost request board. Ares has been a lot busier than normal, having to accept “special” requests from Elsje every so often, to his now weekly “disciplinary correction” with Scarlett he has had to really put in overtime if he wants to get any work done around the farm or in town. This morning Ares decided to report directly to Captain Livi to see if there were any pressing requests that had come in.

“Captain Livia, have there been any urgent requests put forward?” Ares asked, standing at attention.

“Wow look at you, being all attentive! Seems like Scarlett’s ‘training’ is working well on you.” Livi said with a smirk.

“Let’s…not talk about that, I rather do some work that gets me out of the outpost for a while.”

“Well you’re in luck, looks like you got a request directly from Simone herself to help out. She says this one is urgent and she needs help with one of her latest medical concoctions. She even said if not taken care of properly this could spell trouble for the whole town, no the region!” Livi said with a bit of shock to her voice.

“W-wow, that bad huh?” Ares stammered. “Alright then! I’ll go over to the clinic right away to see what I can do to help!” Ares said, running to the door. “There's no possible way this can involve feet right?” He asked himself muttering before heading out on this warm summer day.

“Simone! I’m here!” Ares called out entering into the clinic. The clinic was oddly empty today, it didn’t seem like Lucy was in as no one was at the front desk. 

“Oh Ares, I am so glad you showed up to take my request!” Simone called out to him from her desk. Ares made his way over to Simone’s work area to see her working on a mountain of paperwork. “Don’t mind me, I am just filing some information on my latest medicine I’ve made.” Simone informed Ares while keeping her attention to her work.

“Oh wow, what was the medicine this time?” Ares asked curiously. 

“A new mix that seems to not only recover all of your lost stamina, but also increases it temporarily.” She said with much excitement in her voice.

“Wow Simone! You are amazing! With something like that I could get so much work done in the day!” 

“I know, this request came directly from the capital itself, so I had a lot of pressure riding on me for this one.”

“So what seems to be the issue? In your request you said that this was urgent and could lead to some catastrophic events.” Ares said with a bit of concern watching Simone put down her pen and pushing some of her paperwork to the side. 

“Well, the medicine itself seems to be a great success, however…there is a bit of an issue.” Simone said while being a bit blushed. 

“And that would be?”

“Well…the medicine itself really stimulates the body without the user feeling much of it outside of the energetic feeling…however for some reason a lot of this stimulates one particular part of the body.”

“And that would be…?” Ares inquired, but before he could have more time to think he heard the sound of two clunks, the sound of Simone peeling off her shoes, and with that Ares felt a sinking feeling. Simone then proceeded to prop her nylon clad feet on the table, look wise, her feet were in immaculate condition, her nails were pedicured with black toe-nail polish, however the real issue with them was the smell. It was like her feet were stuffed inside of an air tight gym locker and left there for weeks. She wiggled her toes and the smell of vinegar, sweat and cheese with a hint of lavender perfume began to fill the air. The smell was so strong it caused Ares to back up a little bit and cough from the intensity of it.

 “So…that would be the side effect, it causes a great deal of sweat and smell to come from the users feet.”

“I-I see…” Ares said while coughing. “Is–Is there a reason why you can’t wait for it to wear off?”

“Well, I thought that too when I started taking it two days ago, after the first dose Lucy began complaining about how bad my feet were, so I decided to stop, however with each day that passed the intensity of my feet only got worse.” Simone explained while looking through her notes.

“S-so it’s permanent? I can see why you said it’s urgent…but how do you expect me to help?” Ares said with a bit of worry in his voice, having an idea of where this is going.

“Well…it turns out the only way to cure this is a lot of smelling and licking of my feet. And so I decided to enlist the services of SEED to help cure this little side effect.”

“I-I see…well you know…this isn’t what SEED is really for and you–”

“Ares, Elsje has already told me of your arrangement with her, so we both know that’s a lie.” Simone said with a slight smug grin. Ares’ face turned completely red in embarrassment at the fact that Elsje spilled the beans about their “quality” time together. “Oh it’s not like she told me maliciously, I just caught her mid-nap and she's much more loose lipped around that time. “ Simone continued. Ares wanted to run, the smell of Simone’s feet was quickly filling up all the breathable air, getting worse and worse in real time. “But I would advise you to do as I say Ares. Who knows how bad this could get if left untreated. I can’t help the sick of this town if they are passing out at the scent of my feet going through my shoes!” Simone said, a little annoyed at Ares’ hesitation. Ares realizing he didn’t have much of a choice, decided to go through with Simone’s demands. 

“I-I just have to smell your feet to help get rid of this…?”

“For now.” Simone said with a smile. Ares gulped and began taking steps closer to her feet. Ares got down on his knees and was now facing down the two smelly sweaty feet before him. Wanting to get it over, he grabbed both of her feet and inhaled their scent deeply. Tears immediately began to well up in Ares’ eyes as her steamy foot funk made its way directly into this nose.  Simone stayed silent observing Ares’ behavior and taking notes on things she found peculiar. Ares continued smelling her feet for a solid hour, spending a large portion of that smelling between her toes, trying his best to get the cheesy smell out of her feet. But after this time went by, the smell hadn’t really changed, it seems to have only gotten worse. 

“I see…so it has to be my bare feet for this to have any real effect.”

“W-what?!” Ares stammered, but was cut off when she shoved one of her nylon clad feet into his mouth.

“All part of my research, it seems like it needs to be in direct contact with my feet.” Simone noted as Ares’ mouth began to fill with copious amounts of foot sweat. Simone then removed her foot from Ares’ mouth, causing him to go into a coughing fit with how much of her sweat he just consumed. Before Ares could get any ideas as to what was happening, Simone had already removed her nylons and returned her bare feet to the top of her desk. “Alright Ares, time for the real experimentation. Get to sniffing, doctor’s orders. “ Simon cooed smuggly while folding her arms.

Compelled by her words, Ares once again returned to smelling Simone’s feet. He grabbed both her feet and his nose made direct contact with the soles of her feet, getting her foot sweat all over his face and in his hair. The smell was unbearable, the stench of sweat, old leather and vinegar continued to assault his smell. But he had a bit of a saving grace, a hint of lavender. This caused Ares to begin to smell her feet even deeper in hopes of just trying to single out the flowery smell. This sadly did not work and only increased the heavy dosage of her feet he would be consuming. “Such a good obedient boy.” Simone grinned. “Keep smelling my feet, and don’t forget to sniff between each of my toes too.” She said cuffing her toes over Ares’ nose, giving him a pure shot of her foot funk. This treatment of foot smelling continued on for some time, with Simone using Ares’ face to explore every inch of her soles and toes. She was so into this “research” that she failed to hear noise coming from upstairs.

“Hey mom, ugh, what’s that smell, I hope you didn’t take your shoes off again–” A silver haired girl began while coming down the stairs. She stopped mid sentence when she saw an insane sight. Her mom with her feet propped up on her desk, and her best friend and rival smelling away at her feet. She ducked down behind the railing of the stairs to continue to observe what was happening in pure disbelief that either of them were doing this. “Ares…what in the world are you–” But before Lucy could finish that thought, Simone began to speak again.

“Alright, I can feel some of the side effects beginning to wear off, but it seems like sniffing my feet alone won’t be enough.” Simone said writing more notes.

“Then what do you want me to–” Ares was cut off with Simone shoving all of her bare toes directly into Ares’ mouth.

“Suck.” Simone commanded. Lucy could only watch Ares began sucking her toes, while seemingly crying due to the horrendous taste. And horrendous it was. We often joke about how feet can smell of rotting cheese, never once did Ares imagine that someone’s feet could taste just like rotting cheese soaking for days in vinegar in the hot sun. He wanted to spit her toes out right away, but the force in which Simone was applying prevented any such ideas. Ares began to dig out every piece of gunk stuck between Simone’s toes with his tongue, individually wrapping each toe in hopes of getting it perfectly clean. While this was happening he was still enduring the smell of the other foot, completely engrossed in a barrage of Simone’s feet on all fronts. While watching, Lucy only began to blush at the sight she saw. She then looked down at her feet and began to wonder, she grumbled something to herself and retreated back to her room, never mentioning to her mom what she saw, but began to plan her own things to try out on Ares.

“Wow…I can’t believe this is working…” Simone said, astonished. “I really should listen to Ludmilla more often about medical tips, she knows her stuff.” Simone continued as she was keeping up with her notes. Ares thought it was odd that Ludmilla came up again in this type of situation, but his mind didn’t have much time to process anything as Simone removed her foot to replace it with her other one ready to be sucked. At this point Ares had stopped crying, the smell and taste and caused all of them to dry. At this point he just instinctively  began sucking on her feet praying this torment would soon be over. 

“Wow you’re really getting into this Ares, if I didn’t know any better I would say Elsje has given you a foot fetish!” Simone chuckled. If only she knew the amount of foot torment he has gone through in the last month. After some time of alternating back and forth of sucking on her toes, and thoroughly licking her soles like some sort of dog Simone began to inspect her feet.

“I see…my feet are pretty much back to how they usually are.” Simone smiled.

“R-really?” Ares asked, clearly exhausted. Before Ares could stand up she shoved her feet back into his face. The smell was nowhere near as bad as it was three hours ago, but they smelled almost as bad as Scarlett’s after a long day out. “Y-you said they were better!”

“And they are! This is how my feet usually smell. What did you really think after working all day in those heels my feet would smell like roses? You're better off trying to smell Priscilla or Beatrice’s feet if you want that.” Simone chuckled. Ares on the other hand found no humor in this, and was so tired he fell backwards, unable to really move. “I see…so there was a side effect of you smelling and licking my feet in that state.” 

“W-what?”

“It seems it sapped all of your energy, and given me much more, in fact I feel like I can finish all these reports tonight!”

“G-great…c-can someone carry me to one of those beds then.”

“No…you’re too much of a good test subject for that.” Simone smiled while pulling Ares under her desk. “Why don’t you spend some more time with my feet, they won’t sap your energy anymore, but it will make sure any lasting residual effects are gone!” Before Ares could even protest, Simone had planted her reeking feet directly into Ares’ face. She wiggled her toes in a bit of delight, showing a playful side to Simone probably not many have seen. Ares was tired and wanted to cry, but he was too tired to do so. Ares closed his eyes drifting off to sleep, taking deep whiffs of Simone’s vinegary and cheesy soles. Ares would dream he was shrunk and trapped in her shoes being massaged deeply into her soles while the smell continued to assault him even in his sleep. Simone would keep Ares at her feet until he was able to fully move again, which probably wouldn’t happen until sometime later the next day. But it wasn’t like she minded this situation at all.

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For once it was a slow day at the SEED outpost, most of the requests for the day had been finished early, and the harvest of crops had been brought in the day before. Ares decided he was going to give himself a small break before having to go out and get things ready for the next batch of crops to be grown. Despite the odd happenings that were going on around Rigbarth, Ares oddly took it in stride, albeit annoyed at the constant bombardment of feet he has been subjected to over the last month. He simply shrugged it off as something that would pass in time. However…things were not always what they appeared to be. 

It was still the middle of summer, and a scorcher of a day at that. But this didn’t stop Ares' plan for a little vacation. Lucy had invited Ares out fishing, and he thought this would be a great way to spend his day off. When Ares arrived at the pond where he would be fishing with Lucy, he had already seen the silver haired girl warming up with stretches. 

“Wow Lucy, getting warmed up already?” Ares said with a chuckle. 

“Yup! No fish is going to get the best of me! Just you wait, I am going to catch the biggest one you’ve ever seen!” Lucy said confidently, stretching down to touch her tattered shoes. Ares smiled at her, he was happy to finally spend time with someone and not have to worry about being subjected to another woman’s feet. The two cast their lines and enjoyed the day fishing. After a few minutes both Ares and Lucy got a bite. Both of them reeled in at the same time. 

“Whoa, look at the size of this thing! Bet you haven’t seen one this big huh?” Lucy said confidently, showing off her catch. 

“Wow Lucy, that's incredible! Unfortunately–” Ares paused while showing his catch being a few inches larger than hers. “Better luck next time!” Ares said with a smug grin. 

“Oooo! Just you watch, I am going to make you eat those words!” She said turning a tad bit red. “How about this! Let's have a bit of a contest, lets see who can catch the most fish in the next hour.” Lucy challenged.

“Oh that sounds like fun! I know I can catch plenty of fish in that time!”  Ares said confidently.

“Hold on, I'm not done yet, let's spice this challenge up!” Lucy said with a smile.

“What do you mean?”

“Loser of this challenge…has to do whatever the winner wants for a whole day!”

“That…seems a bit extreme…” Ares said his confidence fading a bit. 

“What’s the matter? Afraid that I’ll win? Because I will. Not too late to back out now!”

“Not in the slightest! You’re on Lucy! I just hope you’re ready to help out with a day's worth of farmwork.” Ares said, rolling up his sleeves getting himself in gear. 

“Oh you’re on, soon you’ll know the taste of defeat served by me!” Lucy said with a huge grin. For a brief moment Ares was taken aback by her wording, but shrugged it off as paranoia over his escapades of the last month. 

Needless to say, things did not go too well for Ares. Not only did he lose, but he lost horribly, failing to catch a single fish within the time frame, while Lucy had managed to catch twenty. 

“Haha! Lucy 20, Ares, zero!” She said sticking her tongue out at Ares. 

“I’m impressed Lucy! You were catching fish left and right, you really are a pro.”

“Flattery won’t get you anywhere mister.” Lucy said completely red at Ares’ compliment. “But come on! You’re supposed to be my rival! And you couldn’t catch a single fish? I’m disappointed in you!” Lucy said, crossing her arm and tapping her foot. “Honestly, I think your punishment should be two days of serving me thanks to that poor performance. In fact, it is.” She said pouting. 

“Oh yeah…our bet…can’t I just treat you to a meal or something?” Ares said slowly backing away trying to get out of whatever she had in store.

“Nope! You agreed to this deal, and you’re going to see it through!” Lucy said triumphantly while grabbing Ares by the wrists and dragging him back to the clinic. 

“W-wait Lucy s-slow down we can talk about this!” Ares pleaded, but Lucy had him in a near death grip she had no plans of loosening up from.

Lucy dragged Ares all the way back to the clinic and upstairs to the living area of the place. “Alright mom and little bro are not going to be home for a few days, so you are going to be helping out around here.” Lucy said, pulling Ares into her room.

“Oh, helping run the clinic? Well that's not too bad, you could have just put in a seed request–” 

“Who said anything about running the clinic? I don’t need your help for that.” Lucy said while a devilish smirk crawled across her face.

“Then what do you–” and before Ares could finish his thought, Lucy had jumped on top of him, pinning him to the floor. With Ares fully secured she sat on his chest, placing her feet on both sides of his head.

“W-what a-are you doing Lucy?” Ares panicked while failing to push her off of him.

“It’s time for you to suffer defeat.” Lucy said with a smile. “I saw what you did for my mom to help ‘treat’ her…and…” Lucy began to trail off on her words turning red herself. “Grrrr, you’re the worst! You’re going to spend the day smelling my feet like you did for mom!” Lucy huffed while peeling off her disgusting shoes. Out of her shoes came Lucy’s sockless feet. While her soles looked fair and creamy, they were anything but silky. Instantly the smell of her rotting shoes filled the room, causing both Lucy and Ares to cough a bit. “Man, do they reek… “ Lucy muttered to herself. “But you are going to help with that.” Lucy had been preparing to move her feet. While her feet were slender, her nails were definitely not kept up with like her mom's feet, her feet really looked like they saw almost no love and care whatsoever. As her soles loomed over Ares’ poor face, he noticed several calluses on her heels, and an insane amount of toe jam stuck between her toes. The sweat on her feet could be seen running down her soles, making them glisten a bit in the dimly lit room. Before Ares could even protest, her soles came crashing down onto Ares’ poor face. Ares tried to open his mouth, but was assaulted by her heel being placed firmly in it. While trying to talk, he got a few good licks in it, this caused Lucy to turn even redder as she let out a slight squeal. Ares would find this cute if not for his impending one on one session with her feet.

“I-I don’t hear you sniffing my feet Ares!” Lucy demanded trying to sound in control, but was completely beside herself. She pressed her soles firmly into Ares’ giving him no option but to breathe through the filters that were her feet. The smell of her feet somehow were on par with her mom’s, but nearly as bad as they were with that medical side effect. However the smell was only second to how unbearably unkempt her feet were. If Ares wasn’t screaming internally he would almost be impressed. The smell of her feet were comparable to that of corn chips soaked in malt vinegar, with a strange lingering sweet scent of perfume. It seems like Lucy does embrace her femine side from time to time, but it wasn’t enough to counter the smell. The taste of sweat filled Ares’ mouth as well as he was forced to lap away at her heel pressed into his mouth. With any luck, him licking her feet would soften the calluses that were formed on it. Next Lucy began to move her feet up, cuffing all ten of her toes over Ares’ poor nose. The intenseness of the foot funk coming off of her was borderline intoxicating and his head began to spin. Noticing this, Lucy grabbed Ares by his arms, and pushed her feet even deeper into Ares’ face. 

“Hey! No one said you could slack off and start falling asleep here! We j-just started!” Lucy stammered, still completely red in the face. Ares would only hope she would have her fill soon, and release him from this stupid bet, but he would have no such luck. While Lucy may have been completely red, she was pretty much on cloud nine. She enjoyed the desperate sniffs for fresh air Ares was giving between her toes, and enjoyed the feeling of his tongue lapping away at her heel. Lucy was unsure what to do with these feelings, but what was for certain, she was serious on keeping him here for two whole days at her feet.

“Haha, no way you’re able to keep up with my feet like this. Like totally this is g-gross!” Lucy said lying to herself. “But…this does feel good, so I feel like this will be what you will be doing for me for the next two days!” Lucy said smiling, her face still pretty red. Ares could only attempt to squirm and thrash at this revelation, but Lucy still had his arms locked in her grasp with her feet pressing deeper into his face. Her sweat soaking his face in a layer of it and gunk, getting all into his fair as well. Lucy then began to rub her feet up and down in his face, smiling the entire time. She was really starting to get into it. “I can see why mom kept you over for so long, this feels amazing!” Lucy cheered. All hope of getting out of this early had completely fled from Ares. Lucy then released him from her grasp, and all Ares could do was lay there with his arms spread out. Almost resigning to this fate, as her feet returned to their “proper” place of resting on his face. For the next hour Lucy would sit on his chest reading, occasionally switching heels for him to suck on while she rubbed her sweaty smelly feet in his face. Soon the worst possible sound was heard. Ares’ stomach began to rumble. 

“Oh someones hungry!” Lucy perked up. “Don’t worry I have the right snack for you!” She said while removing the heel of her foot from his mouth. Ares, having experienced this before, knew where this was headed. He tried to keep his mouth shut as Lucy used her toes to dance around his mouth. “Come on, don’t be a sore loser! Open up and taste defeet!” Lucy said, trying to no avail. “Fine, don’t say I didn’t try this the easy way.” She said while placing her other foot directly over his nose. Lucy then proceeded to start tickling Ares, this caused his breaths to be more intense, breathing in her foot funk at an increased rate, all in an attempt to not laugh. But after a solid minute of nonstop tickling of his sides, Ares let out a loud laughter that was quickly snuffed out by all of her toes entering his mouth. “See I tried to warn you. But wow Ares! Your mouth just feels like the proper home for my feet. Honestly this is where you belong, at the feet of your rival!” Lucy said with a bit of triumphant laughter. “So go on, dig in, enjoy your meal, my toes have been cooking that stuff up for weeks!” Ares couldn’t tell if that was a joke or not, but it’s not like it really mattered. What really concerned Ares was just how hungry he was, almost like a repeat of what happened before, he nearly lost himself in trying to fish between Lucy’s toes for any foot gunk he could find. The taste was awful, it was like eating mushed stale chips that absorbed a bucket of sweat and vinegar. The texture of the gunk was also incredibly chewy and found it difficult to eat, but he continued trying his best to remove every piece of it from between her toes. While he sucked on one foot, his nose continued to be bombarded with the scent of her other rank foot. Lucy would occasionally squeal or moan with pleasure at Ares’ sucking on her toes. Ares spent a solid half hour on trying his best to clean out between Lucy’s toes with his tongue, afterwhich Lucy removed her foot to inspect it. It was mostly cleaned, but there were still some bits of toe gunk stubbornly stuck to her foot. Lucy could only sigh at the results. “Well I guess this means I need to train you more in how to deal with my feet.” Lucy sighed while getting up from Ares’ chest and walking to her bed. She proceeded to stack her pillows up to support her back while she leaned against the wall. “Alright Ares, don’t bother to try running, you lost our bet fair and square. I want you to put your head through the hole in the decorative part of my bed. I had Palmo make me a new bed for this very special occasion.” Lucy said with a shy, yet devilish grin. Ares reluctantly put his head thread the board at the foot of her bed, it felt like he was being put into some form of medivail stock torture. “Atta boy! What a good sport!” Lucy said as she returned her rank, yet slightly cleaner, feet to infront of Ares’ head. “I want you to lick my feet from top to bottom, and I don’t want you to stop until I tell you to.” 

Lucy said while returning to her book. Ares was hesitant and began to open his mouth to protest only for Lucy to stick her toes in it once again. “No talking, only licking.” She commanded while returning to ignore him. Ares did as he was told and began to lap away at the bottoms of her feet, loosening up all the rough and hardened skin that was there. “I may have to ask you to do this for me more often, this is waaay better than washing my feet normally.” Lucy said playfully. Ares was surprised Lucy even knew how to wash her feet given everything he has been through. He continued licking her feet for what felt like hours, picking up every new droplet of sweat, fishing out each piece of toe jam and loosening up as much of her skin as possible. He kept doing this until he heard Lucy give off a great yawn. “Wow it’s getting pretty late, and I have a lot to do tomorrow.” Lucy said, grabbing a blanket and putting it over Ares’ head, putting them in a confined quarters with her feet. “I have to help at the general store tomorrow, so the clinic is all yours. But when I get back I am expecting even more love and care for my tired feet. After all, its only been half a day so far, and you still have a day and a half left!” Lucy proceeded to rub her feet in Ares’ face wiping off the new formed sweat from being in this warm environment. Ares tried to remove his head from its prison, but sadly it was stuck. “Oh yeah I forgot to mention, I have to open the foot of the bed stock for you to get out. I’ll do that in the morning, until then, I feel like you’re going to have some quality time with my feet!” Lucy said, smiling while turning off the light. Her feet soon returned to their “proper” place of Ares’ face, rubbing themselves and scratching themselves on his face like it was the most natural thing in the world. The horrible smell of her feet soon returned, and being in this oven situation, it only got more potent as her feet began to get even sweatier. Ares was forced to lick her feet in order to keep it in check, lest his prison become far too much to bear. Eventually her feet rested firmly on his face, occasionally her toes would wiggle or scratch him, but all could be heard was the soft snoring of Lucy and the occasional giggling in her sleep as Ares was forced to lick her toes to keep her sweat in check. Ares would eventually drift off to sleep, but would occasionally be awoken by Lucy’s toes making their way into his open mouth. Needless to say this would not be the most quality night sleep he would have, nor would it be the last one like this.

Chapter Text

I refuse to actually type the gibberish of the animal speak that Fuuka does, so just pretend there is some gibberish noises when I put her lines (like this.)

It was a hot summer’s day in Rigbarth, one of those days where the best thing to do is nothing but get a good fishing session in or spend the day at the beach. However, if you are a hard working member of SEED, this can turn out to be one of your busiest days making sure the town is clean, no one is getting attacked by animals seeking the shadier areas where people are relaxing, and as we will soon see, taking part in cultural exchanges. On this day Ares got a request from the were-animal Fuuka. It seems like while exploring the forests outside of Rigbarth, a monster had stolen a new ‘shiny’ she had discovered. This seemed like a simple enough request to take. Considering the last several weeks of non stop feet torture from Elsje and Scarlet along with the odd happenings with Simone, Lucy and Pricislla, Ares was ready for a normal day out. He grabbed his best gear and headed out into the summer heat to meet with Fuuka at the lake. 

    When Ares arrived at the lake, he saw a crying Fuuka sitting under the tree, she had a few scratches on her, and a decent amount of sand in her fur, along with it caking her sandals. Her toes looked like gems peeking out through the sand thanks to her nail polish. Ares shook his head at that being the first thing he had noticed. “What happened Fuuka? Your request said some monsters came by and took something from you.” Ares inquired as he kneeled down next to her. Fuuka did her best to explain what had happened between sobs.

    (I found a really nice shiny! But fairies attacked Fuuka and made off with it.) Fuuka said, trying her best not to choke on her tears. Ares sighed, he was aware of the mischievous elemental fairies that would terrorize travelers. This was probably the right day to put an end to their reign of terror, along with cheering Fuuka up. While not explored here, Ares would one day learn how vindictive these fairies could be. Fuuka informed Ares where she was at when she was attacked by the fairies and made his way in that general direction. He decided he would make sure to send them a message for making one of his friends cry in such a way. 

    When Ares arrived at the clearing where Fuuka found her treasure, he saw five fairies dancing around the center of the field, and appeared to be playing catch with something, when Ares approached them, one of the fairies intended on catching the item dropped it and a distinct cracking sound. Ares didn’t have much time to think about this as the fairies were all charging him ready to fight, however they were no match for him, and he made easy work of them, odds are the summer heat was keeping the fairies off their game and they retreated into the caves for now. Sadly when Ares arrived to collect the treasure, he noticed it was cracked and broken from it being thrown around so much. Ares knew Fuuka wouldn’t take this well, but maybe he could do something to help cheer her up like fixing it. 

    When Ares returned back to the pond, he saw Fuuka was still sitting under a tree, still looking deflated from losing the trinket. Her eyes lit up once she saw Ares returning back from his bout with the fairies. However the light in her eyes faded a bit when she noticed the somber expression on his face. (What’s wrong? Were you not able to get it back?) Fuuka asked while tilting her head.

    “I don’t know how to put this but..” Ares produced the cracked silver trinket, it was cleanly broken into several pieces. Really it was just junk, but to Fuuka it seemed like the best find of her life. The look on Fuuka’s face was almost disheartening as she began to tear up again. “But it isn’t completely broken! We should be able to fix it!” Fuuka’s eyes began to light up at the idea of being able to put it back together. But as Ares was turning around to head back to town to get some tape and glue, he tripped over an exposed root in the ground, as he went tumbling down to the ground, he lost his grip on the trinket and it went flying from his hand, and the most dreadful sound could be heard, a distinct *plunk* into the lake, the trinket had sunk in the water with ho real way of retrieving it save for trying to dive in and get it himself. Ares got up and ran to the shore, but no luck. The trinket pieces were long sunk. Ares felt a sense of dread coming over him as he turned around and saw Fuuka beginning to cry again. She was clearly upset, and maybe even a little angry, as Ares turned around to comfort her, the same root seemed to become the root of an issue here, he was again got his foot caught and came tumbling down again right at Fuuka, and for some reason, where Fuuka was sitting she had taken off her sandals, and her feet were already propped up on the ground, Ares could not believe that he was on a one way collision course with her feet. As Ares landed, he somehow managed to land mouth first on her left foot, all five of her toes finding their way into his mouth. A mix of salty foot sweat, and mounds of toe gunk filled Ares mouth, Ares tried to remove his mouth from her toes, but to his horror, Fuuka had quickly placed her other foot on top of his head.

(My feet are so dusty! Are you sure you want to be doing this?) Fuuka asked with a much happier tone in her voice. Ares was understandably confused. (Among Fuuka’s friends and family, licking and smelling someone's feet as a sign of forgiveness is the highest honor you can give!) Ares could not believe what he was hearing. He once again tried to remove her foot from this mouth, but she was having none of it. (Fuuka’s treasure was very important to me! You lost it, and now you wish to pamper my feet for forgiveness!) Fuuka said with the largest and most innocent smile on her face. (Ares really is Fuuka’s bestest friend!) With those words, Ares couldn’t really bring himself to keep trying to resist her feet. He just hoped if he sucked her toes enough she would forgive him and let him move on. Fuuka wiggled her toes in Ares’ mouth making sure his tongue got between each and every one of her toes picking up every piece of gunk that had formed there. How were her feet this bad if all she did was wear sandals? Thankfully the odor wasn’t too bad, there was clearly a perfumey scent that has since faded to be overtaken by a faint cheesy odor. But it was the taste that offended him the most. Ares lost track of the time he was sitting under this tree sucking Fuuka’s toes, it wasn’t until she removed her foot from his mouth that he was able to catch a break. But the faint taste of her feet were not going to be leaving his mouth any time soon. (You washed Fuuka’s toes well!) Fuuka growled with glee. 

Ares, thinking his torment was over, started to get up but before he could, Fuuka shoved her right foot into his mouth, a fresh new set of grimy toes for him to wash. Ares’ eyes felt like they were going to roll right into the back of his head continued the toe cleaning process again. The rough grimy texture of the wolf girl's toes really showed how little she cared about foot hygiene. Ares diligently flossed between each of her toes with his tongue praying this torment would end soon, he probably spent a solid ten minutes washing each toe in his mouth, removing all sorts of sweat gunk and calliouses in his mouth. Tears started to form in Ares’ eyes the longer this went on until Fuuka finally removed her foot from his mouth. Ares finally thought his torment was over, but Fuuka did something unexpected, she started looking at Ares expectantly. (Hmm, I thought you wanted Fuuka’s forgiveness. You still have much to do!) with those word’s Ares’ heart sank. (Don’t worry you’re almost done!) Fuuka said with the biggest grin ever. (All you have to do now is lick Fuuka’s feet until Fuuka feels like you are truly sorry!) With that Ares actually began to cry, but sadly, Fuuka seemed to interpret these as tears of joy. (I am glad you are enjoying earning my forgiveness! You are truly Fuuka’s best friend!) Ares then began licking Fuuka’s dusty and dirty soles as she leaned back against the tree to relax. Surely this couldn’t be part of the request at this rate? Ares thought to himself, but he was more afraid of what Livi would do if Fuuka complained, so he began to lick her feet from heel to toe, over and over again. Her feet were so rough that each lick felt like he was licking sandpaper, and that the previous lick never even happened. But each time he licked he would get a mouthful of foot grime and sweat, a diet he wished he could forget. As Fuuka wiggled her toes the scent of old cheese and perfume returned to taunt Ares’ sense of smell. Ares would continue licking her feet for the rest of the day and until the sun began to go down, but even then she was not satisfied, in fact, she eventually had fallen asleep, and would only wake up when he stopped licking, somehow she knew when he would stop, so there he was as the sun began to set, licking this wolf girl’s feet in hopes for forgiveness, sadly this would not be something he would see until the next day. After this he would no longer complain about how often Elsje wants her feet licked.