It was still late on Thursday night and Ryan had found himself in an odd position, too drunk to care. He was in one of the hotel's restaurants in the middle of the floor with another cockroach. He had carried out the mating ritual perfectly, first he had touched her antennae to make sure she was a female, then he slathered an enticing treat on his ass. When she came along to eat it, he caught her as they got stuck together for a while and she began to drag him around. Finally she accepted him and now their asses touched.

The clock then struck midnight and Ryan was human again, fortunately so too was the other cockroach. The change back was more painful and awkward for Ryan than it was for the woman and as he quickly scurried forward and laid naked on the kitchen floor.

"Man that was wild!" The woman exclaimed as she walked over to Ryan. "Are you okay? First time drinking the wine? You should try the one that turns you into a mouse, now that one is fun."

Ryan turned around and saw a young woman around his age, with short black hair, green eyes and tiny boobs standing over him. He quickly turned away as he covered his bent and sore penis.

"Aren't you a gentleman, I don't mind if you look. I've done this heaps of times. I'm basically a nudist. Here let me help you up," the mystery woman held her hand out to Ryan.

"I have a girlfriend..." Ryan sobbed as he took her hand but still covered his penis with the other hand. He put his other hand over it again, when he was standing up, and tried not to look at the other woman.

"Oh come on, stop being such a prude, we were just following instincts. I'm sure your girlfriend will understand. I'm Rey by the way." Rey walked over to the exit of the kitchen. "The good thing is CCTV is off this time of night, to respect people's privacy, you'd be surprised how often this happens at the hotel. I come here all the time, it's kinda my thing..."

"Drunken one night stands or the other thing?" Ryan asked a question he wasn't sure he was ready to hear the answer to.

"Judgemental much? And here I thought we could be friends. That's okay too though, as there's something else I enjoy doing after sex." Ryan recoiled as she said those words. "S, E, X... Sex it's what we had, unfortunately for you. I'm a predator and I know Prey Mantis don't really do this unless they're really hungry but I haven't eaten all day and I still like it doing it. Now which head do you want to say bye to?" Ryan froze unable to answer. "Both it is!" Rey lunged at Ryan as she removed his head and genitals.


"Wake up, heads" Ryan heard Rey say as she undid the zipper for the suitcase he was in. The light blinded him for a second and when he blinked he saw that he wasn't the only head Rey had collected. "The hotel is still in lock-down, so we're stuck here for one more day and I'm out of drinks I can buy, so I figured I'll take one of you out for one last stroll before you join my collection at home." Rey towered over them and Ryan tried to say something but he currently didn't have a voice box. "Hmm, maybe you. I never got your name last night and you mentioned a girlfriend, I'd love to meet her."

Rey grabbed Ryan and pulled him out of her headcase. Ryan was able to get a good look at the other heads now. There were five heads in total, all men. Two of the looked to be about his age, while the last three were well into their forties, their heads looked like they could easily fit on some powerful bodies. All five heads had the same look of fear in their eyes.

"I'm not sure if you noticed those kabuki theater look-a-likes running around yesterday. You know the ones that move around the props. Well I did, though I wasn't drunk like you were, they killed a bunch of people and stole their heads. Anyway apparently those heads are alive again today and are up on display, which is why the hotel is still in lock-down, can't have regular guests notice the magic going on and telling people." Rey would stop talking as she carried Ryan under hear arm and opened the door to the hallway. She put up a do not disturb sign and walked towards the elevator. "As you know I have a thing for detached heads. So I'd like to check this display out, then we'll go up to your room and meet your girlfriend." She walked to the elevator and spotted a couple of maids. "I swear all the employees are so old now."

Ryan remained under Rey's arm as she took the Elevator to the ground floor. A few people gave Ryan some weird looks but others accepted it as reasonably normal. On the ground floor people walked around the lobby as if things were normal. A few people went to leave the hotel but something came over them and they turned around to check-in again. Rey went to the conference rooms and found exactly what she was looking for.

The conference room had makeshift walls through the main floor and each wall had about nine heads, mounted to plaques, on either side. Given the size of the room, Rey surmised there were at least a hundred heads in here. Along the actual wall of the room there was also folklore discussing the headhunters. They were invisible beings that moved with extreme speed, they would slice their victim's head off and claim it as their own. Once they had a head their body would appear. They were genderless and wore a skin tight black suite that covered them from neck to toe. They could not remove the head they attached and it had to be removed by someone else, though this was possible with the lightest tap. Once they lost a head, the cycle would repeat.

"Fascinating... truly fascinating," Rey commented as she read through the headhunters, there was even a suit representing one trapped in glass. "I wish I wasn't a cockroach yesterday, this could've been fun to experience first hand." Rey looked at Ryan. "But then I wouldn't have met you... boop," Rey touched Ryan's nose. She then started walking through the collection of heads. Not all these heads were from Samantha's game and had just been caught in the crossfire. They cried for help as Rey went by but went silent as she ignored them. Rey did pat a few of the heads, as well as ruffled their hair up.

"Ryan, where have you been? How come you aren't mounted like us?" Rey heard a blonde head call out as she walked past. She stopped and walked back towards her. "Who is this?"

"Hi, I'm Rey." Rey bent down to Ester's level, still keeping Ryan secure. "I assume you're the girlfriend?" Rey asked and Ester nodded with the limited movement she had. "Ryan can't talk at the moment, or ever again. He has no voice box. I'm also the one who did this, not those kabuki monsters."

"What...?" Ester tilted her head. Ester looked at Ryan but he tried to avoid eye contact. Last time he did this was when the swap gremlins gave him her sister's parts. "What happened?"

"I'm a magical predator, I remove the heads of men I have intercourse with," Rey started to play with Ester's long hair. Ester looked up Rey as best she could. "Yep, your boyfriend and I had sex and now he's mine forever." Ester was speechless. Rey scruffed up her hair a bit and walked off. As Rey left this row of heads she saw Samantha standing in front of her.

"I wouldn't keep that one Rey," Samantha warned.

"You said I could keep anyone who had sex with me," Rey stamped her foot. "Even if they were a part of your game."

"And normally I would, but not that one. This is mostly for your own good," Samantha held out her hand. "Now hand him over."

"Or what? You know your word is binding and my magic is pretty potent. You couldn't harm me even if you tried. So the only way you're getting him back is if I hand him over and I'm not doing that..." Rey went to leave when another young woman got in her way, this one look related to her pet head and had lovely long brown hair that was as long as her torso.

"Samantha did try to warn you," Pandora stood there with her arms crossed. "So clearly you're a dear friend of hers, though even if you did willingly give my dad back, I probably still would've turned you into a Prey Mantis or something. But your unwillingness to hand him over is going to cost you even more."

"Who the fuck are you?!" Rey snapped at Pandora before turning back to face Samantha. "What I don't do as you say and you think this other witch can intimidate me? You know I'm immune to magic I don't want inflicted on me."

"My understanding is you like having bug sex. Tell me do you know how bedbugs do it?" Pandora asked but before Rey could even answer she fell apart in a black cloud that floated up to the vents and distributed itself across the hotel.

"Did you just infect my hotel with bedbugs?" Samantha did not look impressed. Pandora gave her a wicked smile before vanishing.