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Disgraced Warrior Leo - Part 1
🕑 Added 2023-06-08 02:00:08 +0000 UTCLeo is a young, dwarf fighter who leads his people into many victories in battle and has earned the gracious title of “warrior” for his efforts. However, when a new recruit joins the ranks, a quarrel of masculinity gets pushed upon Leo against his will that eventually leads to a series of embarrassments and eventual role reversal.
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The dwarfs were a fairly peaceful race when all was said and done. At least, it was well within their nature to be peaceful. They sought the path that led to the least amount of conflict often to the point of being sheepishly gullible at times. However, peaceful or not, they were indeed strong. They had to be in order to protect themselves.
They moved so fast that people not of their race would confuse them for mystical fairies if they ever thought they caught a hint of them moving by. One wrong move and they’d have you stripped to your underwear and have all of your stuff stolen in an instant.
They were fierce warriors with powerful brush-like tails that stomped their enemies through concrete with the flick of their entire being. Their strength was magnificent and often shocking to behold for one outside of their flock.
These dwarfs, otherwise known as Tontatta, lived their everyday lives the same as most other races did when not in battle. Of course, they had the luxury of being able to do so because they were good at protecting themselves. In order to successfully do so, one needed a powerful, steadfast and gallant hero leading the charge.
This was where Leo came in. He was the leader of the Tonta Corps, a group of dwarves that fought for their homeland every day against huge, monstrous insects and even rivals dwarf communities that threatened their peace and civility.
The battle would continue for them as in the upcoming days, a fight would break out between the Tonta Corps and a rival nation of Dwarfs called the Moon Stalkers. Their leader was said to be a bit ruthless and wore leather pants of all things. Who wore that into battle except a big jerk?
Leo had tangled with him before. He was a jerk who went by the name of Viper. He was sort of a rival of his and while they’d never settled any of their fights properly, they likely were on their way towards doing so now.
Leo was getting ready to meet the platoon that was to head out into battle with him in the upcoming days. He often got so excited that he got dressed too quickly and found he put on his underwear inside out. Luckily, the stuff that went on in the privacy of his own home was often left to his own devices. Well, that and to his grandma who lived with him but she hardly ever intruded on his exploits. She knew he was a busy boy.
Leo snapped on his overalls and put on his red tie before grabbing his weapon, a sharp sewing needle, and marched his way out of his humble abode. He wanted to look as mature and as proper as he could today because he heard that there were going to be some new recruits amongst the warriors he was to lead. That was good. Some fresh faces might even take Viper by surprise.
When Leo arrived at the training field where a large stage was set up and a gaggle of Tonta Corps fighters were strung about, he was greeted heartedly by the illustrious and, in his opinion, exhausting and bratty Princess Mansherry.
“Leo! There you are!” The princess put out her hands, eyes sparkling with excitement. “Come! Give me a hug you doofus!”
Leo rolled his eyes. Here he was, trying to be mature and serious and yet there she went, acting like a child and demanding he do childish things for her amusement. Hugs were fine enough but now was not the time.
“Hug yourself princess,” Leo said, side-eyeing her with a wonderful look of disdain spread across his face. “We’re trying to do something serious here so could you please do me the honor of treating it that way?”
Princess Mansherry didn’t like that response. Her face shifted from being delighted to see him to angry and huffy. She puffed out her cheeks like a puffer fish and clenched her fists.
Leo couldn’t stand when she got like this. He didn’t understand why she insisted on treating him like this. He couldn’t see that he was the only one she talked to this way though as, unbeknownst to him, the princess was smitten with him.
It was likely the only reason he got away with telling her off as often as he did.
Still, the fact that he was right couldn’t be ignored. The princess let out a huff of air and stepped aside to gesture towards the group behind her.
“Here,” She said, a loud groan in her voice. “We have about fifteen newbies who are out of their training regime and ready to stand beside the great warrior Leo in the upcoming battle against the Moon Stalkers.”
“Excellent,” Leo poked his head up, rather proud to see this. He walked forward to examine them all post haste. He didn’t usually do this like a military commander would though. His intention was to just mingle with them and get to know them a bit with a bright, cherry smile on his face.
To him, that’s what taking this seriously and being mature about this situation entailed. Within reason of course. He wasn’t going to stop and demand they all give him hugs.
“Alright! You all look healthy and strong,” Leo said, walking across them all and looking them up and down before stopping to press his needle into the grass, hands resting on the dull bottom of it. “I can’t wait to see you in action once we go into battle. Are there any of you who have any questions for me before we train together?”
“Yeah! What underwear do you wear?” A voice came from the back.
“Ah! I’m a proud wearer of some very elastic br–huh?!” Leo blushed and trailed off. Mansherry blushed as well, hating that Leo stopped right before he was about to go into his underwear details. She wasn’t the one who said that though. It sounded like the rough voice of another male.
Pushing through the group and eventually standing before Leo with his arms crossed and a righteous grin on his face was a dwarf with a blue bandana around his ocean wave styled blonde like hair. He smirked and stood before Leo in a pair of what looked like regular jeans and a navy blue vest with a red shirt underneath it.
Leaning forward and getting uncomfortably close to Leo’s face, the boy grinned and said, “So you’re Leo the Warrior are you?”
Leo was a bit caught off guard by this newbie's demeanor. He seemed a bit strange, especially considering the question that was just asked of him.
“Yes, I am,” Leo answered, trying to keep his cool.
“Fight me!” The guy said.
“What?!” Leo gasped. “Fight you? That’s not a part of the training regime.”
“Make it a part of it then!” The man insisted, leaning a bit closer.
Leo scrunched up his face, annoyed. “Don’t tell me what to do. I’M your leader. The training doesn’t call for one on one fights against one another so stand back.”
The recruit made a face with a low raise of his brow. With his hands in his pockets he looked Leo up and down before scoffing and turning away.
It would have been left at that but history was changed between the two of them when the man muttered the word “Coward.”
Leo should have let it go.
He really should have but he couldn’t. His choice not to would lead him down a path he wasn’t prepared for but at the time, how could he have known?
“What did you just call me?” Leo asked, tilting his head down to face him.
The guy smiled and faced him again. “I called you a coward,”
The rest of the newbies looked shocked. Nay, they looked a little scared. Their sweating faces said it all, really. This was something unprecedented and there was no way they could have foreseen such a thing happening.
Leo, for his part, just looked confused.
“What’s your name?” He asked, eyes narrowing on his adorable dwarf face.
“Taurus,” The guy said back.
“Taurus huh?” Leo nodded. “I’ve already got it memorized. Now Taurus, since I’m the leader of the Tonta Corps, it’s my duty to keep things in line. We have a battle we’re going to head into against a rival nation and in order to achieve victory, we need to stand together and face the opposition in a way that doesn’t lower morale or make us look uncoordinated and stupid. Do you understand?”
Leo was impressed by his own speech, honestly. He didn’t expect that to come out of his mouth, nor did he expect he’d need to say such a thing today but here he was.
The response was less than appreciated.
“Pretty words from a so-called hero who’s too busy basking in the afterglow of the position he’s in to realize he’s just afraid to fight me,” Taurus said back.
“What?!” Leo huffed, red in the face from a sudden stint of anger. Taurus seemed delighted by how clenched his fist was. “Listen you, I’m not going to embarrass these troops by getting into a dick measuring contest with you for no reason!”
“Why? Afraid your dick is the size of a crumb compared to mine?” Taurus said.
That caused the newbies behind him to gasp. One of them chuckled but tried to force it down.
Leo noticed though and sucked in a breath. He needed to still his now rapidly beating heart and calm down. This trouble maker was just trying to goad him into a fight for the sake of making himself look better, not for the good of the team. If he just ignored it–!
“I think the fight is a wonderful idea!” Princess Mansherry blurted out.
“PISS!” Leo snapped, face red again and teeth sharp. A few people snorted with amusement at Leo’s reaction. He didn’t immediately notice, instead, facing Mansherry and now screaming at her. “Don’t encourage this kind of behavior, princess! We’re fighting to protect you and this nation! Be serious for once in your life, please!”
Mansherry sneered at Leo, leaning forward with just as growly a look on her face now.
Sparks flew a bit. Leo was so frustrated that he felt like he was gonna pee out of sheer frustration. Sometimes it felt like that, oddly enough.
“He’s set on using that lame excuse, princess,” Taurus said with a shrug. “Forgive him.”
Princess Mansherry turned to look at Taurus and blinked. She seemed oddly okay with listening to him. His voice was rather silky smooth after all. Even Leo had to admit that.
He didn’t want to though. He decided he hated this guy.
Whatever.
With a deep breath he magnanimously willed himself to calm down again and put his serious face back on. He then turned on his heel and marched forward. “We’re going off to train properly. No more of this nonsense. I’m not fighting you.”
It was the warrior leader’s decision so they all followed him to go train the way he proposed they did. Even Taurus didn’t say anything against it this time, though, there was a noticeable difference in the air amongst the men after that scene played out.
The common ground and the air of respect for Leo had been infected by a tiny little parasite. It wasn’t anything to worry about, according to Leo’s brain.
However, the seed had been planted and it was going to grow into something ugly sooner than he thought.
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With the refusal to fight against the newbie still lingering amongst the troops, the eagerness people had to see Leo take action against the invading nation of other dwarves was heightened considerably.
They had seen Leo fight before but him refusing to do battle against a newbie right before a big fight wasn’t taken well by the others due to Taurus mouthing off to them about how lame it looked. Normally, it wouldn’t have been considered but he was good at getting under people’s skin, as was demonstrated by how fast Leo was led into snapping the other day.
Leo, for his part, continued to look unamused by his shenanigans. He wasn’t here to get into scuffles with his own men or go against the training regime as it was outlined before the battle. He’d train with his troops when the plan of action dictated he would. It was his call, not anyone else’s.
As he stood at the cliff-side, overlooking a large empty plain where the oncoming fight was to take place, he couldn’t help but think back to that other day and how his determination to stay strong before the newbies was so easily rocked. It was an embarrassment that he stewed in for a good while and was ready to unleash upon the warring faction in a tenfold rage.
He was going to find this battle cathartic.
Before Leo could tell the troops behind him to stop murmuring, he saw the enemy platoon coming in from over the horizon.
They marched forward, carrying sharpened twigs and what looked like a large cannon that fired cashews at high speeds. They were small so something like that had the power to do incredible damage if it was a good enough device. Fortunately, he had no intention of finding out how good it was. This battle was going to be over before it began if he had his way.
Looking down and focusing, he squinted his eyes and saw the leather pants wearing dwarf Viper leading the pack with his sharpened twig in hand. It would be no match for his golden needle. Leo was certain of it.
“CHARGE!” Leo shouted suddenly. They were close enough and it was time to show them all whose boss.
Yes, ALL of them. Even his own men.
They rushed down and charged on his command, sharp spears and weapons at the ready. Viper’s group saw them and with a wicked grin on his face, he pointed ahead and led the pact behind him to intercept the oncoming Tonta Corps.
They clashed.
Spears, javelins, needles, and twigs were hurdled into one another as the warriors let out battle cries of glory.
Leo, for his part, made a beeline straight for Viper and crossed weapons with him on the spot.
“We gotta stop meeting like this, Leo!” Viper said, licking his lips.
“We will when you stop trying to invade our land!” Leo shouted back, going for a bunch of furious swipes at the rival nation’s leader. They were all dodged but the retaliating attacks from him were dodged by Leo in turn.
When they both saw an opening, they spun to strike at each other and ended up clashing again. Viper’s twig was sharp and rough. It wasn’t overpowering Leo’s needle but it was seemingly a match for it. It had to be considering how often they ended their skirmishes in a stalemate.
“I’m going to make sure you don’t get out of this battle with a slap on the wrist. You’ve come too close to invading our home this time!” Leo shouted, making sharp slashes and jabs at Viper, who side-stepped and blocked them all.
“And who’s fault is that?” Viper said. “If you were a better leader, we wouldn’t have advanced as far as we have, right?”
“You–!” Leo began but was interrupted by a familiar, cocky voice from behind him.
“He’s right,” Taurus said, sliding into the battle by diving on his knees underneath Leo and shooting up to knock Viper back. They were both taken by surprise by this action.
“What on Earth are you doing?!” Leo asked, feeling insulted by the intrusion.
“Taking action,” Taurus said, charging with his javelin to stab at Viper, who was now clashing with him instead. “Like you said we should, boss.”
Leo scrunched up his face, now really upset. “This isn’t a game newbie! He’s out of your league! Get back!” Leo snapped and tried to rush back in.
Viper, however, was smiling. “Not bad.”
Leo perked up. Did he hear that right?
Did Viper just compliment the newbie? He’d never complimented him before. Why the newbie?
“Thanks!” Taurus said as he kept his onslaught going. He wasn’t making much headway though and Leo recognized it.
Growing even more annoyed, Leo jumped back into the fray and landed in front of Taurus to take a strike from Viper with his needle. As the two stood there with weapons locked, Leo growled as he stared at Viper but addressed his unruly companion.
“I’m warning you Taurus. Fall back and face his goons. This one is mine,” Leo said, pushing against Viper’s weapon and scuffing up the dirt a bit as he did so.
Unknown to them, however, the large cashew cannon was being pointed directly at them. It was behind Viper so it likely would be expected that he wouldn’t be fired at.
This was a ploy though. Viper told his men to fire at him so that he could dodge and let it hit whoever he was fighting. Most likely, that person would be Leo. This newbie wasn’t supposed to be here.
Still, Viper put his hand behind his back and gave the signal for his man to take the shot. With a nod, the enemy fighter did so and fired off a smoking cashew that had the full force of a cannon to these tiny little dwarves.
Viper took his opportunity here and jumped out of the way so that it would fire at Leo.
Leo growled and attempted to jump away too. “That’s not going to work on me-guh!”
In any other battle on any other day, Leo would have successfully dodged this blast.
Today, however, Taurus was here.
Instead of Leo successfully leaping after Viper so that the blast missed him, Taurus jumped on Leo’s head to go after Viper himself. This had the unfortunate effect of pushing Leo back down and directly in the path of the ammo that was just blasted towards him.
Leo hit the ground a mere half-second after attempting to jump after Viper and spun his face forward to see the flaming cashew hurling at him.
With no time to dodge and no time to brace himself, Leo’s eyes merely widened right as it blasted directly into his gut!
A large booming noise went off and smoke bellowed into the air.
A loud scream happened that exited the mouth of the Tonta Corps’ valiant hero. He was sent hurtling into the sky with smoke spewing off his body and out of his mouth. He coughed and his eyes rolled back, going white as he was seen flying through the air by people on both sides.
It was a glorious sight, helped to be made even more special by the fact that the answer to what kind of underwear Leo wore had been provided.
His overalls had been left behind, blown off of him and slumped to the ground upon impact. He was sent spiraling through the air in his Blues Clues briefs, spewing a torrent of drool from his mouth and looking positively, unequivocally, goofy as hell.
It didn’t help that Taurus’ little stunt made him look the opposite. When he jumped after Viper and took a swipe at him with his javelin, he was caught off guard and knocked into the dirt.
Viper grunted in pain a bit and scrambled to his feet, looking a little stunned by that. Taurus landed and grinned. There was a shine to his smile so bright that a sparkle was seen in his teeth.
“Well? You sure you were as ready to tango with us as you thought?” Taurus asked.
Viper narrowed his eyes and hopped backwards, landing in the tank that they rode in on.
“RETREAT!”
With that simple command, the enemy fell back and left. Viper hadn’t expected to face off against someone so brash and surprising. He would need to recalculate and try again in a way that didn’t see that surprise hit landing once more.
With the enemy troops doubling back, the Tonta Corps stared in awe at first. Then when they disappeared over the horizon they belted out shouts of excitement and victory.
They hollered rather loudly amongst themselves. They had won fights like that before but that was the cleanest, fastest victory in a long while.
A good number of them circled around Taurus and congratulated him, gushing about how awesome they all were and how great that fight was.
In the background, they had failed to notice that Leo was on his back with his arms and legs spread in the dirt.
He fidgeted and twitched before sitting up and groaning. There was a small nub poking out in his briefs that he noticed and blushed heavily in response to. Quickly, he covered himself with his hands so that his men wouldn’t see.
He did let out a tiny “EEP!” though which, horrendously, caught their attention.
The soldiers turned to look where it came from and saw Leo sitting on the ground in his underwear.
Leo stared at them, red faced and cheeks puffed out.
He then scrambled forward and grabbed his overalls, stumbling and jumping about erratically to get his legs back into them. He hoped they didn’t notice the nub in his briefs as he did it. God, there was so much he didn’t want them to see right now but they were silently staring at him.
He was almost grateful when the silence turned into murmurs amidst a few bursts of giggles. Almost.
Leo got his overalls on but they were still slumping to reveal the waistband of his underoos. He snarled, hating that he wasn’t getting them on right. It took a bit but he did eventually notice that the straps on them were broken.
That meant he wasn’t heading back with them on correctly. He’d need to hold his pants up the entire way…!
“Dammit…!” Leo grumbled before looking at his men. “Uh… uhm… g-good work men! W-We won th-the battle! As per my leadership we saw victory and you all did wonderfully! H-Hurray!”
The others looked between themselves momentarily. Then they shrugged and returned to cheering.
Leo sighed, hopping a bit to keep himself steady. At least they were more focused on their win than his humiliation.
Well, all of them except Taurus.
“Thanks to your leadership eh?” Taurus was on him rather fast. He was already patting his shoulder and Leo reacted by growling intensely at him.
“Yes, newbie..!” Leo snapped. “It was my plan! YOU almost ruined it with your insubordination!”
“Didn’t look that way from where I’m standing,” Taurus said. “The others would agree with me.”
Leo sputtered his lips. “I doubt that.”
“Oh really?” Taurus got excited and leaned in a bit. “Wanna go ask them?”
Leo froze.
His heart beat rather fast too.
He then swallowed a lump in his throat before perking up as maturely as he could and said, “No… I don’t think I will.”
He then proceeded to walk away as best he could, shuffling with his overalls threatening to slip and fall with each step he took.
He was now left wrestling with the fact that he just refused to make good on his assertion for fear that he might be wrong.
Even worse was knowing that Taurus knew that’s exactly what happened too.
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The philosophy on display here is clear as day to me. What about you?
