What Sands Devour by Mouseyman99, Raziell
Summary:

Narreyel was an Orasha huntress and warrior of the Clan Ashultis. At 12 feet tall and nigh indestructible,  her people were treasured combatants, valuable in any fight presented. Often sought after to bolster any crew needing muscle and nerve to apply in any situation, and by those who had the coin to back it up, She was a towering giant, and all but unbeatable… save for the tale of the one who challenged everything she thought, everything she believed and everything she was deep down to her core, the most unlikely of adversaries that a huntress could be challenged by.

Her lunch.


Categories: Giantess, Adventure, Breasts, Body Exploration, Entrapment, Fantasy, Furry, Gentle, Giant, Insertion, Mouth Play, Violent, Vore Characters: None
Growth: Amazon (7 ft. to 15 ft.)
Shrink: Doll (12 in. to 6 in.)
Size Roles: F/m
Warnings: Following story may contain inappropriate material for certain audiences
Challenges: None
Series: None
Chapters: 2 Completed: No Word count: 16393 Read: 10479 Published: January 27 2018 Updated: December 23 2018
Story Notes:

This is an epic fantasy tale set in a savage desert realm where the ancient ways of predator and prey have only recently fallen afoul of the encroaching human society. Now those who devoured and those who were devoured find themselves in a new reality of law and order, political alliances, and strange partnerships.  But for some, old hungers die hard.



1. Chapter 1 by Mouseyman99

2. Chapter 2 by Mouseyman99

Chapter 1 by Mouseyman99
Author's Notes:

The perfect predator meets her ancient prey far from the protections of the laws of man...  but this prey has a few tricks up his sleeve.

 



 

The Bunuboi was hungry..  Three days now scavenging these ruins with not a shiney or scrappitt to show for it. He had just about decided to pack the whole thing in and wait for nightfall, so he could cross the dunes back to his hideaway under cover of darkness. It was a relatively safer choice than traveling in the daylight. Relatively, because Bunuboi were smaller than most things that hunted the wastes and would make a tempting meal for many-- if only they had the speed to catch one.  This particular Bunuboi, however was almost certain that nothing around here could match him in that regard. They were capable of short concentrated bursts of speed; bursts so fast that to most they would seem to blur away as they all but instantaneously moved from one spot to another some ways away. The problem was that blurring burned up energy, and to blur as fast as he could burnt up quite a bit.  He’d brought food with him of course but Bunuboi metabolism being what it is, he’d gone through all his stores by the second day, even without having to blur once, so leaving to go home, that HAD been the plan.

Then she showed up.

He’d almost let her walk right up on him, so silent and expert were her movements across the dunes. His long ears would have heard any other fool from half a mile away or more as they  tramped or shuffled through the drifting sands. But she was different, and that was bad. She moved smooth and quiet like a cat, a very big cat. She did not stalk or slink, her movements natural and even. Her footfalls were light, her feet leaving little to no prints in the sand behind her, despite her enormous size. What slight prints she had left were already being obscured by the eternal desert winds moving over the dunes.

He’d dodged out of sight just in time, hiding behind some stone columns and peering at her from the shadows.  Her leg was close-- very close, just out of reach.  It tipped forward, and he got a good view of the bottom.  She had paws, he could see the pads and the claws.  And she was such a strange purple color, what was this?  He leaned forward, looking up to try and better gauge this creature.

She wore very little for someone crossing the Wastes, her slate purple fur and titanic height that made him feel dizzy just to consider. His eyes hovered a moment on the broad hips, and farther upwards along her back.  He could see she wore a long loincloth and wrap about her chest, melon colored fabric as well. Her wide hips and generous bust only accentuated the slinkiness of her movements as she traversed the ruins, stepping away from where he watched her.  Her long and luxuriously furred tail twitching back and forth behind her constantly, but never quite touching the ground or dragging in the sand. Her full,  shoulder length hair, was a darker, midnight blue at the roots running to much lighter ends at the tips and it glistened almost translucent in the waning sunlight, like it was made of dark blue glass. A single strip of the same melon colored cloth ran across the top of her head between her rather striking pointed ears.  He was taking notes in his mind.  He had never seen anything like her before, he wanted to learn all he could even from just a glance.  He saw her hourglass frame, took in the curve of her corded and thick muscles… and frowned.

Any feminine beauty or shape she had was lost on the Bunuboi of course, who thought about females of ANY species as little as he possibly could.  To most men of any race she would have been a divine beauty, but he might as well have been trying to appreciate an incredibly well spoken speech in a completely unknown language. 

He did notice the long purple dust scarf that was loosely wrapped around her neck and shoulders to provide her some protection against the howling storms of the Wastes.  He also noticed but couldn’t quite figure out the myriad jagged ice blue spikes protruding from her shoulders and upper arms. They clearly weren’t armor as they seemed to protrude directly from underneath her skin!   But, the most important thing he noticed was the gigantic and exoticly curved two-handed sword she carried.  It resembled a hellish feather to him, with a wickedly notched blade  and gentle curves. She had the enormous weapon slung over her shoulder so casually, as if it weighed nothing--and perhaps to her, it didn’t.

She was big, such immense height, even the largest hardlander would barely come to her hip. To his diminutive frame, she was a svelte, purpleish-blue furred colossus nearly 10 times his size!

But, she was big… and big meant she had to provision herself as well as he did.  Only, what would feed her for two days would feed him… well... If he had to be honest, for at least 3 or 4 days easily if he didn’t have to run.  But, he only needed a days worth of food from her to make it back home. He could do it, he could take it. It should be easy to get into  her pack and find what he needed and get back out.  He just had to make sure he didn’t end up as the very thing he wanted to steal from her!


He waited for her to make camp. She seemed in no hurry to explore, instead consulting a large map she had unfurled on the ground and going back and forth between that and a small ancient book that was filled with scribblings.  Scribblings she was adding to as she made notes in the margins, circled words, and underlined sentences.  He watched her pattern like this for several hours and she showed no signs of varying her routine. 

Quickly and quietly he crept through the dark. Keeping to the shadows, his frame low, his bare little feet as silent as the crescent moon in the starlit sky. This was easy, too easy. She was getting sleepy. Her back was to the large sack-like satchel she had left several feet away from her on the ancient stone floor.  It was pup-play to slip into it unnoticed and begin the careful work of sorting through and separating her trash from what was soon to be his treasure.  He was well into doing that when she almost snuck up on him for the second time.

A single ear twitch was his only warning of danger as a huge lightly furred hand almost as big as him,  with long slender razor sharp claws, came down into the opening of the bag without even lifting the flap first. Why was she so dahm quiet? He froze in place as she began feeling around just inches from him..and perilously close to his treasure pile.  Without thinking he grabbed a few Galoa nuts from the trash pile and rolled them into her searching fingers.  The hand withdrew, seemingly satisfied with its prize and he drew a silent sigh of relief.  She had a ton of those things in here, and he had no idea why. Everyone knew they were so hard as to be useless. It took special tools and more muscle than an army of Bunuboi to open even one of them. Might as well eat rocks. 

“KRRUNCH”

His blood froze when he heard the loud sound from outside the just outside the confines of the bag. She couldn’t have!  Could she?  He slunk over to the opening to peer from the darkness.  She was sitting next to the bag now, keeping it within arms reach.  His jaw literally dropped as he watched her pop one of the large nuts into her mouth and it shattered instantly between her pearly sharp teeth.  The third quickly followed a similar fate and then he saw the hand reaching backward blindly toward the bag again.  He was able to leap to the back of it without blurring, but only just..The hand was reaching for his treasure pile again. He stuck out his foot and kicked several more of the useless nuts in her direction.  As soon as the hand withdrew, he gathered up every single Galoa nut in the bag and piled them toward the entrance. She wanted the dam things she could have them!

He finished his sorting, trying not to be too uneased by the happy crunching sounds outside the bag.  The crunching stopped and he steeled himself preparing for the hand to invade again.  Crouched on the side farthest from her, the hand came down this time right past the pile he had so carefully prepared and directly toward him. It  paused there in midair, palm open toward him. Long black claws shining wickedly in the fire light. 

“If you don’t start handing me the best nuts, you’re going to be next.” 

Her voice was sultry, deep, with just the hint of a growl. He might, had he cared of such things, have found it quite attractive and alluring. But her charms, like her beauty, were lost on him.  To the young Bunuboi she was just another smelly girl, and a giant one at that, with teeth that could eat rocks.  He was way more focused on those facts. That and the fact she knew he was in there, and definitely wanted the best nuts or maybe him.  There was just one tiny problem.  He had no clue what to look for in a good Galoa nut.

For a diminutive figure of his size, dealing with a woman so many times his, who wanted to snack on him, he showed a remarkable lack of fear. He was studying the pile earnestly..trying to puzzle out which ones were best.

 “Stupid rock eating girl..who eats these?” he thought to himself as he kicked the pile over to better sort through it.

“I haven’t got all night, Bunuboi. Hand me some nuts--or hand me yours--I’m not picky.”

For at least a full three seconds he seriously considered dropping his loose fitting light brown kh’vaki’s and walking over and plopping his own personal galoa directly in her hand, just to prove a point.  On the third second he heard the KRRRUNCH of another Galoa nut’s demise and came to his senses.

“You have till I chew this up and swallow..”

Arrgghhh!  Fine, for girls who eat rocks, it only made sense she would want a bigger rock right?

“KRRRUNCH”

Bigger ..bigger..which ones are the biggest?  He sorted as quickly as he could

“GULP”

He grabbed the 3 biggest he could find and slipped over to her impatient hand. He was about to thrust the whole cluster unceremoniously into her palm when her hand suddenly sprung toward him with frightening speed.

She was fast. He had to give her that. He should have been snatched up in an instant. But her hand and razor sharp claws closed on empty air. As fast as she had swiped at him, he simply wasn’t there when her fingers closed!  Somehow appearing on the opposite side of the bag, crouched like a coiled spring, his ears up and alert, his eyes wide and pupils dilated, his hands still clutching the largest three nuts, though he quickly hurled them at her offending hand one at a time in a rapid barrage almost as fast as he had moved. She didn't even flinch but swiped at him again. This time he was ready and sprung over her hand at normal speed before vanishing to the middle of the bag, directly under the now relocated opening.  He grabbed his own pack from the bottom of her bag and slung it over his shoulder in one fluid motion.

His eyes darted upward to see her crouched over the bag staring directly at him with her huge green eyes, slitted pupils like daggers into his mind; it made him flinch. Set in orbs of darkest ebony, he knew for a fact the creature had no soul. Her other hand, claws sharp and ready, hovering over the open bag entrance, waiting to snatch him out of the air if he emerged.. or to swoop down and trap him between both her clawed clutches at exactly the same time, which of course, is exactly what happened.

He vanished again to the far side of the bag only to find her right hand waiting for him. Her fingers closed over his leg..or rather where his leg was, right before he vanished again to the front of  the bag. Suddenly her huge knees were on either side of him. pinning down the sides of the bag and greatly decreasing the available space for him to maneuver. He had barely registered this by the time  her thighs began to snap shut on him like the jaws of a huge beast.

He was panting. His head was pounding, blood thundering in his ears. He had blurred too much, too many times in such a short period. Most Bunuboi would have been done after the second, let alone a third.. But even after four times he knew he still had at least one more in him. It would have to be a sustained blur though to get him far enough from her to hide and wait for his stamina to recover, but it was his only shot to avoid having his bones crushed by those rock eating jaws.

Just as he had four times before..he began to focus his energy.. coil his muscles..his heartbeat seemed to slow, along with the entire world around him. The air itself seemed to become thicker. He could see both her hands moving toward him, her thighs closing. He could hear everything around him in crystal clarity..and his entire body started to vibrate. Her hands and thighs were closing in a little more rapidly than he would have liked, but then something changed…  Just as he launched upward her hands moved out of the bag and straight for him!

He was in midair, no chance to change his trajectory and not prepared at all for her to lunge forward over him, the bottom side of her full bosom now a ceiling of thin cloth and blue fur above him . He collided into it head first at top speed, but the heavy orbs barely jiggled as they absorbed his headfirst impact and then returned the force his head had applied, and more or so it felt.  He bounced downward in a completely uncontrolled plummet back toward the opening of the bag and the tops of her thighs, now clamped shut. He was just about to crash into them when his energy ran out.  No longer hyper accelerated, her right hand easily clasped him by his long ears and snatched him up out the air.

She dangled him in front of her huge face.  His body had instinctively gone mostly limp,except for his face which grimaced in pain and his hands which were trying to reach up and get a grip on her fingers.  He hissed and chittered angrily under his breath as those two huge green eyes looked him over. He knew better than to struggle. Bunuboi ears were large and delicate, and not attached by any bones or major ligaments or tendons to their skulls.  It was one of their more glaring weakness physically speaking, and if you pulled very hard at all on a Bunuboi’s ears they could and often did rip very painfully and messily right off the top of their little skull; a fate this one was trying to avoid.  This did not stop him from cursing at her and all her dahm ancestors in his native tongue, however.  Bunuboi language was quite colorful if you understood it and contained an astonishing array of verbal but non-linguistic sounds and utterances.  Things like “Ffffffkkkk”, and hhahyEEEE” and “HIIISSSNNN” which conveyed raw emotions really more than thoughts. It was very clear, even to her, the natures of his current raw emotions.

Her face was lightly furred like the rest of her, vaguely canine in shape with just the hint of a muzzle and a black nose like his own, with bleached white tribal markings in the slate blue-purple fur.

It was turned down in a grimace, her lip curled just enough to show off those same pearly white teeth, and a terrifying set of canines. She held him only inches from her jaws as they opened slightly; and she proceeded to  lick her lips.  He felt her hot breath wafting over him. It smelled strangely sweet and smokey.

“You don’t like that do you?”  she said pointing with her free hand to his ears caught in the clutch of her other. “Does it hurt?  Good.  Maybe you will think  twice about trying to run this time.”

The Bunuboi simply glared at her, but stopped trying to reach his hands up to her fingers, letting his arms hang down at his sides, fists clenched defiantly.

“So what do we have here?”  she said in a sing-song style as she tugged his pack from his shoulder effortlessly and tossed it back into her own much larger bag.  Her accent was very odd, it made her words seem to almost linger, and on top of that she was purposely drawing out and exaggerating her pronunciation. Her voice was all the more dark and sultry, hinted by an ever present growl.  She was clearly enjoying this.

“A thieef?  A stowawaaay?  Or perhaps…”  she lifted him up over her head and opened her large jaws underneath him and licked her lips hungrily.  “A sssnaack?”

She opened her mouth wide and lowered his little feet down into her maw and lifted up her tongue to tickle at his tiny toes. The Bunuboi temporarily forgot about his ears and was doing his best to jerk his toes away from her inquisitive tongue.  He did not succeed, feeling a sticky muscle almost painfully hot tap at the bottom of his feet.

 “Mmm..  perhaps all threeeeee?” she said as she lifted him out of her mouth and lowered him so he could see her again, eyes to giant green eyes.  He hissed again at her and gave her a look of such contempt and disdain she was a little taken aback.. just a little.  “Look, It’s only logic. I’m not trying to be mean. You were in my pack.. And my pack is mostly food.. So you must be a snack!” She said pointedly snapping her jaws at him. “You’re certainly not large enough to be a meal..so snack it is!”

Then her big green on black eyes drifted down to his groin hungrily, in a way he did not like at all.  He hissed again.

“Hmmm  Maybe..  maybe I don’t have to eat ALL of you?  Perhaps I should savor a delicacy of my people?   

She poked at him playfully with her finger..first at his tummy and then at his groin. “Lets see what you have under here that might be worth eating, hmm?”

She brought him close to her mouth as her lips parted, exposing her sharp teeth half an inch from his belly. Opening her jaw just so, she leaned her mouth toward and grazed her sharp canines against his skin.. The same teeth that had obliterated the hard as rocks Galoa nuts. They gently closed on the rope belt around his waist. the two sharp points meeting and the rope.. simply fell in two.

She started tugging at his light brown trousers that came to just below his knees. There was nothing underneath them but naked Bunuboi. 

  “You won’t need these…” she purred, “ Not where you are going…”

She deftly gave two sharp tugs, one on each leg and tossed his trousers, belt and myriad attached pouches into her bag as well.  Her mouth curved into a wide grin as she held his groin up to her eye level for inspection.  The Bunuboi,  for all his tiny size, was apparently packing equipment equivalent to someone at least four  times his! Still miniscule compared to her or course, but impressive nonetheless for someone not even a foot and a half tall.  No wonder he wore such baggy pants.

“My, you are at least serviceable for a Bunuboi, aren’t you?  I can appreciate a delicacy when I see it!  Why should I settle for just nuts when I can have this plump little sausage as well?”  she flicked his oversize member and he flinched and hissed, blushing immediately from the pain.

The rest of him wasn’t bad either in her opinion.  Most Bunuboi she had seen had been chubby little things, with enough fat on them to make her mouth water as they scurried by her in the human markets trying to avoid her predatory gaze. But this one was making her mouth water for entirely different reasons.  He was full of fire,  his large golden eyes openly staring her defiantly in the face while cursing her under his breath. Bunuboi were normally timid, skittish, and polite to a fault, but he was a different breed entirely.   He was short of course,  but wiry.  He was covered in lean muscle mass, his narrow shoulders and chest just slightly wider than his narrow hips.  He was very lightly furred, his skin just barely covered with a sand colored fuzz except for his ears, a cute puff of a tail on his fuzzy backside and the tops of his rather large feet.

 “FFFKKKKK..DAHM grrrl.  KNOW you.. Grrl [RAwRRk] boy!”  He made a sound in the back of his throat and a biting motion with his teeth when he said it..

“Girl what?” she raised an eyebrow at him as if she couldn't decide if he said  “girl caught boy”, “girl bite boy” or “girl FUCK boy.”

“Grrl [RAwRRk] boy!”  he repeated himself with the same guttural throat noise like he was about bring up a large glob of spit and the same biting motion, baring his teeth and snapping his jaws.

“Girl EEAAAAT boy?  Is that what you are saying?” 

He nodded vigorously and spit on the sand to emphasize his point.. 

“Hmmmm.. is that an observation, a command, or a request?”  She looked at him closely again..but began lifting him once more, slowly as she spoke.  

“If its an observation, I’d say it’s.. Accurate.  Girls DO eat boys.  I eat boys all the time, especially little Bunubois that rummage through my stuff right in front of me. 

She lifted him higher again, till his feet were level with her mouth. “If it’s command, I don’t take commands.  Oh, I WILL eat you but IF,  when and WHERE I want, and only then.”

She tilted her head back slowly, licking her lips again. “And.. if its a request...well then ..I guess I could consider it.  After all, aren’t you always supposed to honor the requests of someone who is about to die?”

All the playfulness had left her voice; replaced by deadly seriousness.  Her face was stone. Her brows low and pressed together. Her eyes seem to pierce right through him.

She snaked a single slender but strong finger under his shirt, her long sharp black claw sliding up his skin leaving a thin trail of red as it scored his soft surface before turning sideways and effortlessly slicing through the thin light cloth of his tunic. She leaned forward and caught it between two of her canines and slipped it from him, turning her head briefly to spit it in to her bag, before her turning her full attention back to him.  He hung now before her sullen and naked, his clothing gone. He no longer looked so much like the fierce desert survivalist he was. He looked like a small animal, much lower on the food chain then the large blue furred female dangling him now over her head again.

“Any other last words, snack?”  she looked at him from below.  Her eyes seemed to be daring him to say something, but he held his silence.

“Well, you can always scream from inside me if you change your mind..at least for a few minutes. Tender little thing like you shouldn’t last too long...”

Her large mouth started to yawn open beneath him. Her muted purple throat glistening in the flickering firelight as she slowly lowered him into her jaws again.  This time her tongue laid flat in her mouth patiently waiting.  His eyes got wide as he watched her flex her throat several times just below his bare feet.  He could see down the slick tunnel of it, see it flex and dilate.  But he did not kick, or scream, or beg.  He just continued to glare at her silently. She lowered him further..his feet almost entering the threshold of her throat, her jaws opening wider and wider, even though they were already plenty wide to fit him. Her intense gaze locked on his own. He felt her hand start to loosen its grip on his ears.

He tensed.  He had been waiting for this moment, letting her talk her foolish girls-eat-boys talk, biding his time, building his energy. He just needed one split second, one fraction of a moment.  He knew she would release her hold on his ears to drop him into her throat, and he was sure that he was faster than her huge jaws. The world began to slow down around him again as he concentrated. Her words becoming low and drawn out into deep guttural clicks.  He watched her eyelids close and open in a span of 5 seconds while she blinked.  Watched her jaw yawn wider almost glacial in its movement. Saw her throat slowly dilate outward to welcome him as she anticipated his arrival.

“Ffffkkk dahm grlll” he thought.  Soon she would see just how fast he really was. Or maybe not? If she happened to blink at exactly the time he launched he just wouldn’t be there when her eyelids raised.

But then she paused again for some reason for what seemed like an eternity, lifting him up,  slowly closing her jaws, and lowering him back down eye to eye and staring at him for a bit. He cursed again and  let the build up go, relaxed his concentration.  This was not good.  He felt weak, shakey. It would be several seconds before he could try again.  Did she know?  Could she sense somehow what he was about to do?  Suddenly she lowered him all the way to her svelt midriff. She held his small naked form against her rippled stomach for a few seconds, flexing her taut muscles against him.

“What is your name, snack?” she purred, “ I’d like to know the name of the little boy who will be swimming around inside my stomach soon,  That way when you are melting in my belly I can pat it and tell you what a good boy you are by your name.”

She didn’t expect an answer. But she got one.

“Rahhhbbeeee” he  basically spat out. He needed to buy more time, just a little. And he also wanted her to know his name.. wanted to hear her screaming it out at the desert night, cursing him by name when he finally vanished from her clutches.

“Rahbee, is it?  Well then Rahbee, I am Narreyel.   I think you and I are going to be close.  Very close.  As close as we can, in fact.” She moved him up and down slowly,  rubbing his lightly fuzzed bare skin against her exposed belly.  “Would you like that little Rahbee?”  Her voice was dark and husky.  “Would you like to be close to Narreyel?  How close would you like to get? Hmm?”

She shifted her weight back so she was leaning against an ancient stone column, slowly spreading her bent knees apart, her bare feet pressed sole to sole in front of her. And with her free hand tugged lightly at the single knot over her hip that was was the only thing holding up her thin wraparound skirt. It fell to the side, exposing her from the waist down completely.   She lowered him further. Past her belly, her navel, to the space just above and between her wide hip bones and pressed him again against her lightly furred skin. 

“How about this close..hmmmm?” She was practically whispering but he heard her words vibrating through her body and in to his ears, pressed as they were against her soft furred belly.

“Or lower still?”  she dipped him down.  rubbing his face against the thicker patch of fur just above her mons, rolling her hips upward slightly to meet him, his little body lying now between her massive thighs and slipping back and forth across her generous sex. His member was taking a life of its own,  suddenly firming and rising and prodding into her just below her large fleshy nub.

She felt him poking her and looked down at his face to see his reaction and was not disappointed. His little face was beet red, flushed and confused. He was staring downward at her huge sex,  eyes as big as summer moons, as if he’d never seen anything like it before, and she figured that was probably true.

From even what little she knew about Bunuboi society, she was most likely the first female to even touch him since his Clan Mother shot him out into the world along with a dozen or two other brothers. He’d probably never even seen female anatomy before let alone Orasha female anatomy, a whole different subject entirely, and had no idea what it was even for.  This was a thought that gave her all sorts of wicked ideas.

Rabi, on the other hand, despite his turgid penis, had only one idea.  Get the FFffkkk out of there.  He didn’t know what the dahm girl was doing...didn't understand how or why his body was reacting the way it was.  He felt flushed, overheated and strangely sensitive..especially along his member. He knew one thing though.. he was finding it almost impossible to reach the state of concentration he needed to blur. His mind felt fuzzy..like he had been hit on the head or he had blurred too many times. Though admittedly he had little direct experience, he had always thought of girls as smelly, but right now he was thinking that he had never smelled anything so exotic as her skin..her breath.. the deep damp musky smell of her sex pressed against his small frame.  He wanted to shake his head..to clear his foggy mind, but if anything she had only tightened the grip on his ears. 

“Rahbeee...my little Rahbee.” she purred again, her voice like warm oily smoke from a tavern lantern as she mashed him into her soft thatch. “You’ve never been with a girl have you?  You know girls eat boys..but do you know how?”  

She was slowly lowering him even further down her enormous body now, tugging his ears so that  his little  face was just close enough to her that the bare tip of his nose was brushing through her fur. It trailed downward from just above her mons, through the thicket of thicker fur below  and then bounced off a warm little tendril protruding from just above her labia.

“We have a special mouth just for boys.. A second very special, much hungrier, much bigger mouth..”  She lowered him down even more slowly now. The tip of his nose sliding along the edge of and just between her thick swollen lips, as they  quivered and flexed slightly at his touch.  She stopped there with his face staring straight into her puffy outer folds each half again as long as his entire head, ears and all!  “It’s right here... between my legs.  In fact, It’s kissing you right now.”

Rabi’s little mind was reeling. So many strange scents, sensations and all of them unnervingly.. exciting... The dahm girl was talking.. ..said she had a second mouth?  He didn't believe her at first but then she had lowered him down till he was staring into it, huge fleshy purple lips protruding from her fine fur.. turned sideways like the mouth of a large desert spider or scorpion without the mandibles.. For the first time a modicum of fear ran down his spine. He had always heard that girls were bad..and that you shouldn't be around them alone..or they would eat you. And now here he was. Even worse, it didn’t look like she would drop him into this new mouth at all, given the angle and how low it was.. She would probably just shove him..and most likely head first.  And just like that, he would disappear down this new gullet along with any chance he had for freedom. If he was going to do anything..he had to do it soon...  as in sometime in the next 30 seconds.

“Oh, I think it likes you!” Narreyell continued, chuckling. Her outer lips had started to part, his face still so close that as her lips separated he found himself staring into a glistening dark purple abyss..deeper than his entire body. MUCH deeper. They continued to widen as if they were a living thing all their own..her soft sideways jaws yawning before him..he could see little shiny clear strings of mucus and fluid stretching out between the parting walls.  He could see it in crystal clear detail and slow motion. Because he was already starting to concentrate.  He closed his eyes so he could focus on the task at hand and not be distracted but the chasm opening before him, its walls shiny and rippling.  It was literally dripping with drool, which was starting to pool at the bottom. It didn’t stop the slick wet slurpy sounds though. His sensitive ears could hear her muscles pulling her open, hear the deep subterranean squishing of her walls pulling apart down into the squelchy shadows, hear the dripping in the darkness.  And it didn't stop her smell.. Sweet and wet and musky, a smell that made you wonder what it would be like to taste its hidden source.  It was calling him.

He did his best to shut it all out..to focus his energy...to build up a blur more powerful than any he had tried before, he was counting on her grip to loosen..just a tiny bit..to shift from clasping to pushing.. shoving.. He had an idea..a very dangerous idea.. If he timed it wrong he was going to be bleeding and earless and probably die here in this desert.  Part of him was saying it would be much better to die deep inside her, but Rabi had resigned himself to one fact,  if he was going to die today, it would not be as food for this dahm girl.  At the very least he could deny her that pleasure. He’d rather feed the myriad spiders and scorpions that would rise up out of the sand at the first scent of his dripping blood!

 


 



Narreyel was having her own inner turmoil.. She was always thinking, strategizing, planning ahead by three or four moves.  When she had first come over the dunes toward her destination, she had spied him immediately. Well not him exactly, but his heat. The space he had been occupying just before she came upon him was sizzling with it.  The trail he left behind him to his hiding place above her was also plainly visible even against the already hot desert air, though it faded quickly.  As she initially scouted the ruins he shadowed her, never allowing himself to be in direct view; he was clearly adept at stealth. If not for her ability to track the warmth of his body, she would have never even known he was there.  She had pretended not to take notice, going about her business to draw him in.

This was an unexpected but welcome surprise for her.  The week long journey across the wastes had been long and tedious. It had come to the point that even being the loner she was, she had found herself longing for someone to talk to besides the voices in her head. She’d seen Bunuboi countless times of course, they were a very prolific species, quite common.  She had never really conversed with one before, though. The were very skittish around females of any species for some reason, and tended to flee outright if you tried to approach one. Stories of her clan spoke about them being good prey, good for eating; though the human laws now forbid it. She wasn’t one to obey such ignorant and weak views. She’d had her hunts, she had her secrets. Bunuboi were rather tasty, judging from the two she had snatched up in the past. In fact, they were quite delicious, especially when swallowed whole… and conscious.

Again, she’d never before attempted to converse with her snacks. Huntresses didn’t so often reach out to their prey; but he was different. That and the endless entertainment he was providing for her as he skulked around her in the ancient shadows.  That had certainly been more amusing.  The only thing she hadn’t quite worked out at that time was what she was going to actually do with him when she caught him.  Now, she had him, and she needed to process.

There were many possibilities, some of which were not exclusive of one another if she was smart about her position with him.  She could of course talk to the little Bunuboi.  He’d been here before her and may know things about the site that would help her enter the ruin.  He might even be fun to enthrall and chat with, perhaps have interesting tales to spin about his people and his own adventures to while away the time.  Or she could eat him, she of course considered that. But of course, that would simply be a waste.

She could use him, either willingly or unwilling to scurry or burrow into any small tunnels in the ruins that might contain treasures or levers or switches that would impede her progress.  That thought lead her to the next surprisingly quickly, an idea that caused a sly grin to spread across her face. But of course, it made all too much sense to her now.

Orasha females, for all their mysterious lone warrior ways, were infamously promiscuous.  Orasha males were incredibly rare, so this promiscuity played out almost entirely with other races and species. They were always a hair trigger away from being in heat, and it was easily pulled.  Since mating opportunities were scarce and fraught with difficulty they had evolved to be ready for coupling in seconds if they were tempted; and it wasn’t always the presence of another Orasha male that triggered them.  Huntress Orasha tended to track down or steal away males and females alike, and that certainly sparked their animal lust. There were even stories of Orasha raping enemies on the battlefield and THEN killing them; not always by use of their weapon.

It was of very little surprise to Narreyel that the tiny shadow she was attempting to catch was awakening such instincts.  Most could sense the powerful instincts simply by being nearby.  An actual Orasha mating was called a HUNT after all, and the two concepts were inextricably intertwined within their society.  So when she had finally caught him, one of the possibilities very high on her list had been to see how good he was at burrowing into her tunnel.  She was not a pup, she was experienced with many races; but she had never had a  Bunuboi explore her depths and the thought alone had been enough to make her insides quiver in anticipation.

She returned to a previous thought.  She could, rather than debate other options, simply eat him as she had considered. It made sense to her. Orasha believed very strongly in survival of the fittest, that it was part of their duty to the world at large to cull and devour the weak wherever they found them. It improved the chances of the strong, and reduced squabbling over precious resources. This calling of faith, so it were, had calmed somewhat over the centuries.  It had once been a zealous calling, but no longer.  Man's laws had become the defacto law of all the land across all the races.  But of course, this was as far from civilization as she could get.  Man’s laws had no business here.  Here she was predator, and he was prey.  It was his destiny to eventually, when she had exhausted all other possibilities, find his way to her belly.  And if he wanted to change it, it was up to him figure out how. 

There was a fifth but distant possibility, but it was such a small chance she hadn’t given it any serious thought. She only turned to it now due to her mind racing through such options.  If she had even a hint there might be an Orasha male about, or even a clue where to find one, there was no question of what she would do. Such a survivor as this Bunuboi would be a perfect offering. But, she had no hints or clues of the sort; doubting also that she would find one here anyway.  This was quite away from all the territories of the clans, and males did not often stray.

She had needed to think, to plan. She’d laid out her map, located her four pillars, and consulted the text of the book her employer had given her. It was simply a matter of matching the clues in the ancient text to the barely decipherable markings on the actual stone columns.  She looked up, noting they stood like silent sentinels around her.  All the while he had been getting closer and closer; just as she’d hoped.

She had purposely left her large satchel on the ground partially open and over a dozen feet away from her to lure him in, and to his credit it had taken hours of her not straying from her routine to make him feel safe enough to take the bait. She purposely had turned herself away from his hiding place for several minutes, finally glancing over her shoulder to track the heat of his moving around, finding it had led him to the inside of her ration bag.

Once he was inside it had just been a matter of slinking over silently to the bag and sitting next to it and waiting.  When it had been clear he had no idea she was present she had decided to have a little fun with him, and solve a hint of peckishness as well.  He had turned out to be faster then she had anticipated, and might have even escaped if not for her quick thinking to use her considerable bust to intercept his path.

And now, here they were. She had him! His ears were safely gripped in her right hand, his delicious little body between her thighs.  Her hunger for him was already strong and growing stronger. She felt herself clenching in her deepest muscles..the passage to her womb awakening--yawning open--yearning for him. This was no simple instinct to just ignore.  It was a hunger born of the depth of her whole being.

She hadn’t planned to actually eat him now, of course.  She had only wanted to play with him in her mouth, taste him, feel him on her tongue to wet her appetite for later.  But then he had suddenly gotten so warm, heat rolling off of him in waves; his little body just beginning to vibrate.  Suddenly her mouth was being outvoted for best place for little Rabi to visit.

She wanted him now; wanted him deep inside her.  All her plans of grilling him for info and using him for the mission were melting under a flood of arousal and instinct. Powerful forces were working within her, demanding his offering to her needs. Deep down she knew she should hold back, be wise, patient--bide her time. But her immediate overwhelming desire, right this very moment, was to bury him in her sex and feel him squirm warm and alive inside her. Her lust was to bear down on him till she felt his bones crack, to feed him as a log into the fiery furnace of her cravings until he was consumed… until there was nothing left of him at all.

Her head lolled back as she felt her the muscles all through her body ripple; relaxing in some places and tightening in others. She felt the first peristaltic surge roll through her from her quivering labia all the way down to her slowly dilating cervix. All she had to do was press him in.  Her strong muscles would do everything after that. Her yaz’rak gripping him, and feeding him to her depths where he would never escape. But just as she was about to throw caution to the wind--and him to her hungry loins, she was interrupted.  Something unexpected rocked her hazy, lusty mind.

Narreyel felt a sudden increase of heat; the one that had preceded his bursts of incredible speed. She could feel it in her hand and against her loins, radiating outward from him into her.  The sudden heat inflamed her need. She brought  up her other hand, cupping the back of his tiny head--slowly easing him forward into her--his little face disappearing into her folds.  She had him right up to the base of his ears.  She knew he was fast, but suddenly she felt the need to gamble she was faster and turn his powers to her advantage.  She knew he would never try to escape as long as she had him by his delicate ears.  Every Orasha was trained from a very young age how to hunt and what the various weaknesses of the various prey species were.  For Bunuboi, a much favored ancestral prey race for the Orasha, holding them by the ears was all but immobilizing.

She would have to release his ears for him to feel safe enough to launch. But she didn’t need to hold him fast; that was not what she wanted.  She’d already learned his path, during high speed bursts, could be deflected. But what if it could be redirected? Perhaps even at launch? What if she could change his direction so that when he launched instead of escaping to freedom--he went a different path entirely?  A path he had not intended; but into the depths of her womb perhaps? What would that feel like, she wondered. She imagined having him barrel through her at such high speed, generating so much heat, passing through her cervix in the blink of an eye only to collide into the soft cushiony surface of her womb. She imagined it would be unlike anything she had ever experienced.  Her need only grew as her mind worked as fast as her lust would push it.

She felt the heat increasing, felt him begin to vibrate. She quickly shifted her spare hand to his feet and began lifting them upward, moving his whole body horizontal to her. She shifted his weight forward, forcing his face to rotate downward into her.  She was aiming him like a dart. His ears folding backwards against her labia, and then… she saw his eye gleam at her. He stared right at her and it made her stop; freeze just long enough, half of a second--and she felt him blur.

 





 

Rabi was still concentrating: trying to shut out of his mind all the sights, sounds, smells, and sensations he was experiencing.  He could feel the dahm girl slowly feeding him to her second mouth, but he didn't stop building up his energy. He wasn’t rushing it--he let it grow naturally from the bottom up till he could feel it suffusing his entire being. Felt it vibrating inside him. He’d never felt it so strong.  Most of the time Bunuboi had to be able to blur with little to no warning, in an instant, sometimes several times in a row.  But this--he was preparing, biding his time; waiting for exactly the right moment! 

And then the moment came! Her hand released his ears, but just as he began to coil his muscles to spring, with surprising swiftness her other hand flashed from the back of his head to his feet.  She was tilting him!  If he sprung now he would shoot straight into her cavernous depths and that would be the end of him. But--if he didnt spring she would just shove him in completely. The destination would be the same either way, one way just just took much longer than the other. But, he was coiled already and her grip was loose. There had to be something he could do.  His body could move in any direction his muscles could propel him. He didn't have to move in a straight line. It would be tricky, but he had one last thing he could try.

He twisted--hard.  Curling his body toward himself, he attempted to somersault flip and spin all at the same time. And, just as he did, he released all the built up energy into his rotation. He accelerated to incredible speeds, and went twirling off.  Such a maneuver was reckless, risky. He had no ability to control his direction, only his speed, and he could just as easily roll right down her yawning second throat to the bottom of whatever stomach this second mouth was attached to. But, he was counting on something else, and he was a gambler.  He shot a quick glance up, and met her eyes.  Just for a moment, a fleeting quarter second… and he unleashed.

 


 


She felt him jerk suddenly, sideways and down and end over end all at the same time. It happened so fast he slipped from her grip before she could react. That was unexpected. She didn’t know that was even possible for them.

The little Bunuboi didn’t vanish, didn’t even bounce off her--or into her.  He started spinning somehow... become a blur of rotating energy right there at the entrance to her depths. A blur that was starting to flicker from the friction, little flames puffing off. The air crackled with electricity from static, and little pops filled her ears. She thought for a moment to clamp down on him, or continue pushing; but in that moment she didn’t react like an Orasha should. Feared warrior amazons of the desert, nigh impervious to anything or anyone… and she froze. She reacted as any female would if the object of her arousal between her legs suddenly turned into a rotating-vibrating-flaming-sparking-ball of glowing energy.

She swatted it. 

Chapter 2 by Mouseyman99
Author's Notes:

Distracted by her own lewd thoughts of what to do with her prey..Narryel is caught off guard by last second bid for freedom!

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Rabi hadn’t thought very far ahead before he turned himself into a flaming sparking gyroscope; hoping really just for two things.  The first was that it would take her by surprise; the second being that she really wouldn't like it.  The Bunuboi hadn’t actually counted on being swatted away.  He had been expecting more of a passive recoil, just enough to let him get loose and a few steps out before he could blur away from her again... this time unfettered by the amazonian terror trying to subvert his trajectory to her own devious needs.  But Narreyel, as it turned out, was anything but passive.


The act of blurring didn’t just speed him up.  If that was all it could do, every Bunuboi who blurred would be dropping and rolling to put out the fires on their fur from air friction. Even worse, their little bones would snap: their joints would shred, eyes rupture, and they would suffer a whole host of other gruesome after-effects from the sheer momentum of coming to a dead stop so abruptly.  


No, it was obvious to Rabi that something else was happening too. He felt from the tingling in his fur that he had begun to generate some kind of field. From the first few times he’d ever used this gift, he’d felt that tingle. A protective bubble enshrouding and protecting him from the negative effects of his power; keeping him from what could very easily be instant death.  Those forces were still there and they could even strike or cause injury to him, but they were buffered. They were tempered just enough that if he only experienced them briefly, just a few seconds, he wouldn't even feel it while he was blurred.


But now, he had to rethink that theory; either that or she was strong enough to hit really, really hard.  He was in considerable pain, to say the very least. His shoulder was possibly broken and he was sailing high through the air at great speed with no idea where he was going to land.  It was everything he could do to hold on to his concentration and keep the blur active. He felt the crash, slamming hard into one of the many ancient stone columns that dotted the ruins before bouncing off and dropping to the ground like a rock.


He was dazed, hurting, but had his wits to wait until he came to almost a complete stop before dropping out of the blur. His head throbbed, his body ached, but he pushed up to try and get his bearings.  As all the sounds and colors and sensations were rotating around him in a hurricane of chaos, one sound was abundantly clear. One he knew he had to flee, bearings or no.


It was a deep throaty growl that chilled him to the bone, followed by a blood curdling roar so cacophonous it seemed to rattle the air itself.  Heavy pounding of footsteps followed next, the announcement of something big coming at him; big and certainly fast. He saw something glint far above him in the moonlight and instinctively vanished and reappeared a few feet to the right.  The very spot where he had been standing exploded in shards of rocks and dirt as the enormous curved blade swung down and crashed into the ground; tearing into the exact place he had been standing less than half a second ago.



His gigantic assailant, soulless black eyes alight with green flame raging from her shadowed visage, was already hefting the huge sword back up before he could blink twice. How could she swing something so big so easily? He decided not to stick around to learn, this time blurring to the top of nearby pillar, a leap of over six feet. He felt his inside burn; he was pushing too hard, but it was that or die. He leapt again from his perch to the next pillar, and up to the next.  Each new landing about three feet higher than the previous.


He was about to leap to the top of the very next column, another maybe four feet up he judged, when he turned and saw her bounding after him. She was taking each column in single leaps; her movements an incredible display of perfect balance, even grace.  It would have been quite a thing to watch and appreciate if her eyes had not been filled with murder, specifically his. He blurred from that column to the top of an ancient ruin just as the air where he had been standing was cleaved in two. The great blade carving through the air behind him, cutting into the wall as if the stone weren’t even there.  He couldn’t stop now, he had to push on. Fear was the only thing he had to drive him.


It was too much again--too soon. His entire body was on fire with pain. He was panting, out of breath. He could swear he’d blurred more today than almost this entire last year living in the desert. That was no small number; the desert was a dangerous place!  But something had gone wrong inside of him, he could feel it. As he slipped out of the last blur he hadn’t even stopped moving when the field collapsed. It was like being shot out of a cannon. He felt the heat of the air friction around him as it faded, and he hurled through the air tumbling end over end for several dozen feet.


Rabi bounced several times off the roof of the huge structure before finally skidding to a stop in a crumpled heap.  He dared to glance behind him in time to see her leap almost effortlessly up onto the building and land with a resounding thud.  The impact of her landing vibrated the stone underneath him even from such a distance. She continued sprinting toward him without breaking a single stride.  It was as if she simply didn’t tire.


He was running out of options. At her speed she would be on him in seconds.  She was fast too, and unlike him, with her long and powerful lycan legs, she was built for distance.  He desperately scanned the stone roof for anything that he could hide behind or crawl into. He’d never outrun her without blurring, and he might have one more in him without time to rest if he pushed.  Thirty feet away from him he saw a large dust covered dome rising just above the surface of the roof.


To most it would have been indistinguishable from the stone he was lying on, blending with everything around it.  Rabi though had a keen eye. Even at night he could see there was something different about it. In the few places where the dust was thinnest he could see the glinting of a shinier surface underneath, something very unlike the hard stone most of the building was made out of.  Something, against all hope, that might even provide a way inside. This was either going to be his only chance to escape or his quick but painful death. Either way he would deprive her of her meal! He had no wish to enter whatever “mouth” she put him in front of!


He tried to stagger to his feet to move toward the dome but his legs were wobbly.  He could barely limp. He could hear her heavy footsteps thundering closer as she closed the distance behind him with terrifying speed.  He would never make it at his normal speed. He had no choice but to see what he had left in him. He closed his eyes and concentrated and felt the world slow down once more… her footsteps became low peals of thunder several seconds apart and rolling through the air around him.  He felt the field starting to form around him..lifting him a bit, allowing him to weakly stand..but it never fully formed. It was flickering..unstable. He should have stopped and let it go.


Blurring like this was not a good idea. Without protection from his own momentum and the friction of the air he would likely burst into flame and then slam into the ground face first at several hundred feet per second.  Then he opened his eyes and saw the huge blade in her hand arcing toward him. Death is death. He took the chance. He tensed his muscles, aimed at a spot in midair halfway between himself and the center of the dome and released.  


He regretted his choice instantly; with the field barely formed around him he definitely felt a good deal of the forces from his instant acceleration the moment he let it go.  But just as he thought his his skin was going to peel off and spontaneously combust, he cut the field entirely. He had only blurred for a flicker of an instant and was now sailing through the air at a very high rate of speed, but not even a fraction of how fast he usually went. As he sailed toward the center of the dome he smiled grimly to himself that he had gotten the aim correctly.  For better or worse he was headed for exactly where he had aimed. He just needed her aim to be just as good.




Narreyel was furious with herself.  She was cursing herself, the moon, the Wastes, her clan-mother, and most of all him.  No prey had ever gotten away from her once she had caught them. No prey she had stalked had ever failed to be caught!  And she would be thrice damned for a fool before she would let that cocky little Bunuboi be the first!  Before he even bounced off the stone column she had sent him sailing towards she was after him. She had grabbed her Vaya’aashar, her heartsword, and was on her feet to chase.  Her blood thundered loud in her ears and her vision was narrow and focused as she bore down on her quarry. She no longer wanted to eat him or use him or interact with him in any other way except to lick his warm sticky blood and steaming entrails from her ancestral blade.  


She saw him hit the ground in a crumpled heap over forty  feet from her and and it spurred her forward even faster. He was slowly staggering to his feet.  She couldn’t give him a millisecond to rebuild his strength. She let out a growl and then bellowed her rage as she leapt forward,  swinging her blade in a high vertical arc aiming precisely at the spot he was standing. In flash of heat he was gone again..the titanic blade colliding with the hard stone with a resounding clang. She knew he was gone before it even hit.  She swept her eyes left and right scanning for his new position, saw him leaping from the top of a pillar to another one higher up and then another.


She was no longer thinking at all.  Her mind was white with rage. How dare he!.  SHE was the mighty predator, proud Orasha warrior, scourge of the Wastes.. He was just.. a prey..a lowly Bunuboi..her lunch, by the Huntress!  It was his destiny to boil in her belly and whether he did it alive and whole or diced into chunks, he was NOT going to escape it! She leapt the columns behind him easily..closing the space between them in seconds, swinging her sword wildy each time she got within striking distance.  She would not stop, she would not relent. He would slip up eventually, and when he did he would be hers.. once and for all!


He vanished away from her again..this time onto the top of the large ruin she had been paid to discover the entrance to.  Now what was he up to? Did the little sikara know a secret way inside..was he holding out on her? She launched herself into the air behind him and landed without breaking a stride. She spied him in the distance, shaky and staggering to his feet.  By some miracle he had put so much distance between them! Was he blurring so far now that he could put half of the roof between them? But it didn't matter. Forty feet or so was only a few seconds to her, less even. Her long, powerful legs pounding into the stone roof; all of her body’s efforts focused on speed.  She closed the distance in no time. He was clearly weakened, spent, and making no effort to run away. She knew what he was trying to do, his eyes closed as he concentrated.. He was trying to vanish one more time, but there was nowhere to run to anymore. She spurred herself forward and swung the blade, not even expecting him to be there, just to force his hand too soon before he was ready. No matter where he went it wouldn’t be far and that would surely be his last.  She had him!


As she had expected his form began to blur, but even she could tell something was wrong.. He didn’t vanish..He shot through the air..in a low arc ahead of her.. She heard the woosh and felt the rush of air as he rocketed off.  Her blade missed of course, but her quick eyes were able to follow him the entire time, and so did the rest of her..She bounded after him without losing even a fraction of her speed. She watched the tiny Bunuboi missile reach the apex of his arc about even with her eye level,  then start to curve back down toward the center of a large low dome, maybe half her height at the center. She took three large bounding strides and then launched herself high in the air behind him as he collided with the surface of the dome in a motionless heap. It was clear he was done. He was hers. She didn’t even need her sword, she adjusted her stance midair.  She would simply land on him, just let her titanic weight crush him instantly.


His body had made a low, hollow, resounding  “thunk” noise when it hit and bounced once, a sound that was not at all like stone...and it was too melodic and not clangy enough  to be metal. As she swooped down on his crumpled form, sword poised just in case, like some enormous blue furred lupine bird of prey..just as her feet were about to land on him, she finally placed the sound.  


The half second before she landed, she cursed herself again.  She was thrice damned for a fool.  She had let her pride, her anger get the better of her--had let him get under her skin somehow. She hadn’t been thinking clearly, had run headlong blinded by bloodlust… blinded by a singular goal , following instinctively to take him without a thought to the dangers.  She had forsaken the Precepts of the Huntress... and now she was watching the consequences unfold before her. Her rage had lead her right into his trap. The sound he had made as his little body had bounced off the dome--It was exactly the sound you would expect to hear-


if you bounced a  Bunuboi off a large pane of glass.





The dome literally exploded, sending golden shards of thick leaded glass out across the roof in all directions. He had blurred.. one final time,  just as she came down..only inches..to a spot safely between her feet. Relatively safe, because she had not landed on him, crushing him immediately, but not literally safe, because his now unconscious tiny form was just below hers as they both plummeted downward into the darkness below.


Plummeting of any distance is not a natural state for an Orasha.  To be doing it suddenly, without warning, into unknown darkness was more than just a little disconcerting for Narreyel, but she steeled herself for the landing she knew was coming.  The glass was shattered instantly into millions of pieces that were raining down around her like sparkling gold. The building was just under three times her height. Even as heavy as she was she could take a drop that far with little difficulty.


She braced herself for the impact, but instead of landing on a stone floor as she expected or crashing through something less substantial and then hitting the stone floor,  she went THROUGH the floor entirely. And then past another, and another..picking up speed as she fell. The floors were very dimly with a ghostly blue-green light. She had a sense she was plummeting through large concentric openings in the middle of each floor, and as she passed the 4th one, over a 100 feet down, she saw something below the hole in the 5th that caused her blood to freeze.  It was the reflective surface of a large pool of water.


Her eyes went wide, muscles tensing.  Water, a massive pool of water, was flying up to meet her.  No… she was falling to hit it. It was coming too quickly, she reached for a handhold, a line, anything to halt or even slow her fall.  It was too late. She couldn’t grab even a ledge, and fell through the final floor into a huge chamber before slamming right into the surface of the dark water.  The shock snapped her head back, her vision going white as she sank beneath the massive splash. She panicked, scrambling to try and push back to the surface, blindly thrashing to reach safety… but she only sank.  Quickly dropping under the surface and sinking into the murk, vanishing into darkness.


She couldn’t breath, couldn’t see, her whole body numb.  Orasha couldn’t swim. Their mineral heavy bodies were far too dense, they sank like stones if stones were weighted with lead.  She clawed at the water, kicked, thrashed, but she sank so quickly that any attempt to swim was fruitless.  Her lungs were already burning. She felt the bottom slam into her back and found for a split second a sort of emptiness inside of her. There was no air, only water pushing on her from every direction.


And then, she felt the burn.  Her lungs ached, her skin hurt, her fur compressed into her.  She pushed off the bottom, scrambling to try and gain any traction, but was pulled back down again as if she was in chains..  She gritted her teeth, bubbles floating up from her mouth as she struggled, a panic welling in her like a growing storm. She slammed her fist into the silt at the bottom, and pushed again, but immediately sank right back to the bottom.  She just stared up, the burn becoming an empty numbness. It was so far away, everything. She reached up with a hand, feeling her eyesight begin to blur. This couldn’t be it, like this? To fall into an underground pool, sink, and never be found?  Doomed to be part of the silt and slime of the bottom?


It was one of the worst deaths an Orasha could ever suffer.  She wouldn’t even leave bones behind..her mineral form would dissolve away completely over time. That was no end for an Orashan huntress… but here she was.  She was on her knees, reaching up, feeling the darkness closing in. She thought about her companion, Keliana. Young, too young to be on her own. She thought about her clan, how she had failed them when she did not conceive after her hunt.  She remembered her mother, her sisters as they grew, and trained. This was her fate… Narreyel, the huntress that drowned. This was to be her doom, not in battle or in the hunt, but with her life drained like the air that was slowly running out.


She should be angry, enraged, cry out to the sky that this was not her destiny, but she just collapsed back, her arms falling down, sinking quickly to hit at her sides.  This was it. The water had her. She could barely move now. Just waiting, letting the darkness take her. She gritted her teeth, but cold was beginning to reach her bones.  This was it, she had failed yet again. Failed her people, her clan… herself. Even mercenary work left her in the depths… left her cold, alone, and in the dark. She opened her mouth, and a rush of air floated from it, all she had left.  Her eyes began to roll up, and she tipped backward into the murk on her back.


“Narreyel”


A voice.  Narreyel’s eyes burst open, but there was no one there, just her and the remains of the dome and the black moss. But then she heard it again..inside her..as if the water or the shadows themselves were speaking to her..



“This is not your grave.”


Her vision was fading. Her strength was ebbing.  She didn’t understand. Nothing about her situation had changed.


“You are the Huntress.”  the voice continued. “Hunt your life..”


“I am the huntress?”  she thought to herself.  Her mind turned to The Huntress..the Spirit all Orasha revered, their creator and protector.  She remembered the sacred teachings.. the Precepts..the ones she had ignored in her blind rage and wild chase, much to her obvious detriment.


“No blade is sharper than the calmest of minds.”


She centered herself in the calmness of the deep, let her mind be still..and felt the hard stone beneath the moss under her. She looked around her. Bluish green light was filtering down through the water.  She could just make out the sheer mossy side of the pool, possibly fifteen feet from where she lay. Her eyes followed it up to the water’s surface. She wasn’t as deep as she had first thought..it was maybe twice her own height?


“You body is your arrow and your will is your bow”


Yes. Of course..she always liked that Precept. It was your will that drove you.. moved you forward. Her people were known as much for their unstoppable will as they were for their physical size and strength. And right now it was her will that she not be on the bottom of this pool anymore. She rolled forward on to her hind paws, crouching, eying the edge of the pool.


“A wise huntress knows when to crouch, and when to spring, but when you spring, it must be with your whole being.”


She snarled, pushing her paws into the silt and muck.  She gathered herself, gathered her very soul it felt like, and drove her legs down with force that would sunder a mountain.  The water burst away from her, muck and slime exploding beneath her as she roared up, like an arrow fired at the sun she flew up, bursting from the surface of the water and arcing into the air.  She hit the stone, rolling and tumbling to a haphazard halt on the damp stone surface. She punched her fist down into the rocks, crumbling the stone under it as she spasmed, heaving, and finally opened her mouth as water poured from her gullet.  It splashed on the stone below her as she threw it up, coughing and sputtering until it finally went from a stream to drips. Her longs finally clear and emptied, her strength gave, and she collapsed to her chest, breathing gulps of stale, but beautiful air.  


She felt the darkness trying to close in again, but she refused.  She snarled and pushed her leg up and forced her paw to the ground under her, and with that she rose.  She stood tall, and dripping, and triumphant as she looked over the surface of the huge pool. Water… one of the few things any Orasha feared.  It was their bane, and she had overcome it. More, she’d done what most of her teachers had warned her to never do, sink. She had sunk, and now she was on dry rock, wet but alive.


Her gaze moved down, and she saw the Bunuboi lying wet and limp on the edge of the pool.  She raised an eyebrow and took a shaky step forward toward her prey and then, without warning,  her eyes rolled up, and she collapsed unconscious only an arm’s length away from him. The force of her impact sent shocks through the huge chamber, ripples through the pool, and bounced little Rabi up and back down right where he lay.




The ground moved and Rabi awoke slowly.  His fur was soaking and he felt like somebody had been chewing on him .with intent.  He took a quick physical inventory, moving his limbs one by one. Everything hurt, but also seemed to be intact and not broken.  He remembered waking up falling..seeing the water rising up at him. Looking up to see her over him and deciding that he did not want to be between her legs when she hit that water.


His final blur had helped him time it.  Within the field it seemed to take ages for them to fall..still surrounded by jagged shards of heavy golden glass seemingly suspended in midair.  He wanted the field to be up when he hit the water, to help cushion the blow, and he didn’t need to go far, just few feet to anywhere but where he was, plus up diagonally didn't hurt, so she would hit first. He remembered releasing inches above the water. There was a thunderous boom as the Orasha split the glassy surface,  which erupted in a massive wave that picked him up and threw him right onto the edge of the pool. He remembered landing face first on the stone under under the deluge and then everything had gone black.

 

He smelled a familiar scent in his nose.. A sort of acrid metallic, but also strangely sweet and musky smell.  His eyes flew open to see he was staring in to the huge Orasha’s open maw, not a foot away from him. Panicked, he tried to backpedal on his side and almost scooted himself off the ledge and back into the pool before realized there was something odd.  Her lips were slack. Her tongue lolled downward. unmoving to the left side of her mouth near the cold stone floor they both lay on. He froze in place. But she didn’t stir.


Moving had been a mistake.  Now his muscles were on fire.  He looked to her chest as she lay on her side facing him and saw the steady rise and fall of of her rather considerable heaving breasts beneath the soaked melon colored upper wrap. One side had been forced down and a  fat puffy purplish nipple bigger than his entire eyeball was poking out over the cloth. He felt his face burn as he suddenly became hyper aware of her strange female anatomy, of the fact she was wearing nothing to cover her bottom part and.. her second mouth.


He thanked whatever spirits governed this abandoned place that her legs were together for the most part and her other maw just barely peeking out from between them.  He was sure he’d seen enough of that for several lifetimes! Then he looked down and cursed himself for the runt of the litter. His member apparently disagreed. He sighed, exasperated as he realized was still completely naked and all his clothes were in her bag somewhere who knows how many feet above them in the ruins.


Well, if he didn’t want to see her alien anatomy again..up close.. and from the inside, he had to get out of here.  Knowing what little he did about her, he guessed she would be up herself sooner, rather than later. So he had no time to waste.  He first rolled from his side to his bottom and looked around to see where he was, take stock of the situation. . He was on the edge of an enormous hexagonal stone pool in some kind of huge chamber.  The entire thing was strangely well lit for a place that was as ancient and presumably abandoned as this. Weird tongues of bluish green flame were flickering all over the place from various sources, wall sconces, hanging braziers, tall torch poles, even fire pits, bathing everything in an eerie light while somehow increasing the shadows that obscured much of the details.  


There were six straight  canals, one for each side of the vast chamber that were feeding into  the central pool. The water in both the canals and the pool appeared black and impenetrable, but Rabi figured that was more to do with the slimy black moss that covered everything below the waterline than the clearness of the water. He picked up a piece of rock and dropped it over the side into the pool.  Sure enough he could see it sink quite a ways before it disappeared into the shadows near the bottom of the pool. He could hear the water flowing all around him, echoing off the ancient walls. It was such a strange sound to be hearing in the desert, but not strange to him. Bunuboi had perfected the art of long distance irrigation as part of the endless quest to increase production and yields from the various crops and produce they grew on their enormous colony farms.


He grimaced at the thought. Rabi hated those farms.  The endless drudgery and routine..of doing the same thing every day.. only varying with the cycles of the crops themselves. Plow..seed, water, hoe, harvest, repeat. No, even being stuck down here, far below the surface of an ancient ruin in the desert with a murderous amazon who wanted to eat him with either of her TWO mouths was preferable to hoeing another row of sweet orab beans.


Speaking of amazons.. she shifted slightly next to him, and a low growl emanated from somewhere deep within her. Rabi wouldn’t have been surprised at all if it had come from her second mouth. It was definitely time to go, but where? Water was always a good pathfinder, especially when it was moving in a continuous stream.  It didn’t just exist..it flowed. It came from somewhere and went somewhere. All you had to do was follow the flow, one way or the other. Downstream lead to the big pool, and presumably some underwater drain or submerged tunnel, seeing as how the water level never changed, but upstream had promise, so off he went, still naked, following the channel cut into the stone through the eerie bluish green mix of light and shadows.




Consciousness came quickly to Narreyel, it was as if one second she felt herself toppling and the next she woke up on her side, lying on the hard stone, still dripping, but starting to dry. She opened her eyes with a snarl and before her blurry vision had even resolved she reached out to where her elusive prey had been when all had gone dark,  but there was nothing there. She snarled again and sat up straight. Then her belly snarled. She patted it as if to assure it that it would be full soon. The bunuboi had woken before her, but he couldn’t be far. She could just see the faint heat signature he’d left where he had been laying. his higher temp bunuboi body had warmed the stone under him, but she couldn't see where he had gone.  


She looked around.  The giant chamber was lit from multiple and varied sources flickering with a ghostly bluish green flame, a flame she noticed was not giving off any heat whatsoever itself.  That had to be either supernatural or magical in nature. The flames reflected off the glassy surface of the huge six-sided pool to her right. So much water close by was making her nervous, though a little less now that she knew she could overcome it. That is, as long as the bottom was hard and it wasn’t too deep. She’d heard stories of  incredibly deep bodies of water as vast as the Wastes themselves. She doubted those came with hard bottoms or sheer walls at the edges and made a resolution not to go anywhere near one of those if she could help it!


She put forth a knee and rose first on to one foot,  and then the other, taking a brief second to fix her top, which had apparently gotten twisted during her battle with water..  Standing upright felt good but strange. She felt heavy, a fact she logically understood and acknowledged to be true, but had never PERSONALLY experienced before.  Normally Narreyel (despite the fact that she weighed as much as a fully armored warhorse) felt light on her feet, exceedingly nimble, able to crouch and spring, or leap high through the air with little difficulty.  But now she felt slow, sluggish, like her body was delaying its responses to all her commands by least a quarter of a second or more.


She also felt..for lack of a better word.. Soft?  Was it something to do with water? She had very little experience with the stuff.  It was almost non existent in the Wastes, and most Orasha could go days and days on a single sip.  She had never been immersed in it before. Orasha didn’t follow the bizarre human habit of cleaning themselves by covering themselves with water. Closest she had ever come were freak rainstorms that she encountered on occasion  when missions took her to the border lands that rimmed the wastes.


She needed to focus.  Once again she had multiple goals to reach.  Her stomach rumbled again to remind her. Catch and consume her little Bunuboi snack, find a way back to the first floor of this ruin, and fulfill her contract by finding and opening the surface entrance so her fellow mercenaries could enter and find whatever secret thing they were looking for that they had decided she didn’t need to know about. Narreyel knew when not to ask questions.  That happened often as a merc, and frankly she had no problem with it. She had bigger prey to pounce after all...or.. smaller. Smaller worked too. Was that him? The tiny speck of heat not thirty feet or more from her.. busily fussing with something at the top of a large gate? She crouched low and carefully and quietly made her way toward him, trying to keep to the shadows as much as possible.


Her padded feet made no sound at all as she slunk quickly from shadow to shadow. Staying close to the many large hexagonal columns that ran from the floor to the 40 foot ceiling overhead.  She knew his sensitive ears would pick up ANY sound at all, even her breathing, which she was purposely controlling. She could see them now atop his tiny head, up, alert, and swishing back and forth as he worked, obviously scanning and identifying all sounds in his environment. They suddenly swiveled in her direction as she slipped behind a column not  twenty feet from the gate and she froze in place..peering straight at him from the shadows where she was pressed against the column on its dark side. He never turned or looked or in anyway signaled that he was aware of her presence. Though from this close she could see why. Perhaps he felt pretty secure from threats in his perch at the very top of the large metal gate, nearly 25 ft in the air with 5 ft wide stream of water of undetermined depth directly underneath him.


“Know where your prey will run, and let them come to you.”


The Precept came to her mind unbidden. She knew it of course. It was one of her favorites. Narreyel loved outsmarting both her opponents and her prey..and when she did, the former often became the latter. But where exactly would a tiny Bunuboi clinging to a metal gate 25 feet off the ground “run” to? She studied the gate for a few seconds, and then she knew the answer. She carefully searched the ground for what she was looking for. Searching for just the perfect size, not too big, but not too small either. It didn’t take her long.  




Rabi was still wrestling with the mechanism inside the box. It was incredibly complicated, full of tiny gears and levers and cantilevers. He was disadvantaged without his tools, which were hopefully still waiting for him on the surface, but he was making do with tiny bits of metal he had managed to collect from various sources along the way as he followed the water to this large gate.  His advantage was his small size. His hands could reach into the smallest spaces, feel the workings, let him build a mental picture in his mind of how it all fit together. He had quickly determined that this was not a lock as he had first thought. It was more akin to a trigger mechanism, a fairly complicated one, that if not disarmed before opening the gate, set off multiple other devices (6 so far) of unknown origin, most likely traps and probably all deadly.


He had managed to disconnect the main trigger, so the door could now be opened, but he had used up all his metal bits jamming the secondary fallback levers and the only thing right now holding the main mechanism from slamming closed and setting off all the connected devices was his left hand. His finger were tightly gripping the lever inside and holding it back in the safe position, but his hand was starting to hurt.  


He had been working for the last several minutes with his free hand to remove a spring catch that he had previously rendered useless.  It was the perfect size to block the lever from closing but he couldn’t seem to get it to come loose on the backside. Something was blocking it from sliding up over the pin and the angle was awkward to reach even for him.  If he had his tools it would have been a cinch, but as it was he was stuck. He had just about decided to give up on one of the fall backs and just let whatever device it triggered trigger when he heard a deep rumbling gurgling sound behind and below him. He froze.  He recognized the sound instantly. The amazon that wanted to eat him.. and gods knew what else.. was behind him.


“FFFKKKKK.. FFFKKKKK..FFFFFFFFKKKKK”  he cursed to himself. Now was not a good time.  He was perched precariously at the top of the gate completely exposed, with his hand being the only thing that was preventing all hell from breaking loose presumably.  He could drop and blur before he hit the ground, just long enough to stop all his momentum, but then it would be off to the races against her again in a dark closed in unknown space, and one wrong turn would lead him straight into that second mouth again. There was also the matter of EVERYTHING going off at once the second he let go, and he was pretty sure at least one of those traps HAD to be aimed at whoever was tampering with the mechanism.


Any further deliberation on his part was cut short when he looked behind himself and  saw her step out of the shadow of the column she was hiding behind less than twenty feet away and hurl something at him, hard.  The roughly round but jagged rock was bigger than his entire head and she had hurled it with pinpoint accuracy straight AT his head.  His blur was instinctive and reflexive. He didn’t even think, which was good because he would have been dead otherwise.


One second he was clinging to the large metal box he was tinkering with and a quarter of second later he was suddenly 5ft straight out in midair and.. falling.  As he fell he heard the low peal of loud resounding gong that seemed to come from everywhere. His ears could hear mechanisms moving and clicking throughout the chamber.  Wires being released, levers switching, gears turning. Things shifting and sliding into place. Smaller mechanisms activating larger ones, several loud clanks in close succession from near the ceiling in all 6 corners of the room..and then..he looked down and saw her.



When Narreyel threw the rock she knew it wouldn’t hit him. She knew no matter how hard she threw it, no matter how fast it went, he simply wouldn’t be there when it struck. But she didn’t need it to hit him.


The Bunuboi blur instinct was exactly that, an instinct. Millions of years of evolution had honed it to be the ultimate escape mechanism, and for most Bunuboi that's all it was. An instinctive ability to just not be there when you tried to grab one or strike one. Clearly Rabi had pushed it beyond this, being somehow able to blur on command, with full control of how and where, and even use it to launch himself recklessly for long distances, but for all his ability, he was still controlling a primal instinct. And instincts could be triggered. Given any time at all, even just a second to prepare, the gods only knew what the cunning little Bunuboi might have done. But with no warning whatsoever, his reflexes took over and chose the route she expected him take, blindly backward, for the normal 4 to 5 ft distance they usually covered. All she had to do was take a single step forward, straddle the stream, look up, and open her mouth.


She watched his eyes go wide as he stared into her open  jaws. Watched him try in vain to blur again and then just like that, her mouth was overflowing with warm delicious naked bunuboi. She snapped her jaws shut quickly but carefully, just enough to hold him in place. Her razor sharp teeth were grazing his collarbones and neck uncomfortably from in front and behind. She could have bitten his head off easily without even trying and swallowed the rest of him in a single gulp, but instead she held him, uncomfortable and immobilized but unharmed.


To break the body is Conzaad, to “shatter the soul”.


She had forgotten this teaching in her blind Blood Rage earlier.  Prey was to be swallowed whole and intact and ALIVE if possible to assure the  proper elevation of the prey’s soul. Narreyel was sure the Huntress had punished her for forgetting her sacred duty by sending her into that pool. And she was just as sure that she had been spared her watery grave so she could properly devour little Rabi whole and alive and bring his soul with hers into the afterlife when she Returned to the Sands.  She was his destiny, whether he liked it or not, a duty she would not take lightly again.


But, if she had had time to think about it fully and be completely honest with herself, she might also have admitted that she simply didn’t want to end him just yet.  Maybe it was because it felt too easy? Or because whatever he had done had caused all sorts of mayhem to erupt around her. Keeping him close and alive so he would suffer any fate he meant for her was the best way to get him to give up any information he had that might save her life!  Or maybe she just liked the way he tasted and wanted to prolong his swallowing as long as possible.  If she had time, she might have admitted to all these things, but in fact she did not, because whatever had started happening when he blurred away from the big box in the gate was very bent on continuing to happen, even now that he was in her mouth.  


There was a loud roar from above and she looked up as six huge jets of flame converged on the very spot where he had been. She had to shield her face and eyes from the intense heat as they bathed the metal box above her in white hot flame for several seconds.  When they finally sputtered out, their mystery sources exhausted, the metal box and the closely spaced bars of the gate were glowing red hot. Then the ground shook as loud rumbling noises thundered from every corner of the huge room, far away in the darkness. Dust and small rocks fell from the ceiling as everything tembled. Six massive booms shook the room as six huge stone columns slightly shorter but nearly identical to the ones supporting the ceiling came crashing down hanging from large chains.


Narreyel leapt the rest of the way across the channel and jerked her head around, back toward the center of the room. There was an ear splitting noise as the six columns on each corner of the large hexagonal pool suddenly shattered  and splintered revealing the huge chains that had apparently been concealed inside them identical to the chains in the corners of the room. The chains flew upward into the ceiling and a large dome of water rose upward out of the pool as a massive section of marble , some 20 feet or more across and at least 2 feet thick, was heaved by the chains up out of the pool and suspended in mid air, water cascading and streaming  from its mossy surface into the pool below. And then.. finally, aside from the sound of water steadily dripping from the huge hexagonal slab, everything was eerily silent.


Narreyel  crept carefully to the edge of the pool to get a better look at what was happening. She still held Rabi firmly in her jaws.  So far he had not struggled at all or tried to escape, though she could feel his feet planted firmly just inside her teeth on either side of her tongue in a desperate attempt to prevent any further progress into her throat.  Suddenly he tensed and his ears stood straight up, straining toward the pool. He was picking up something. Something even her sensitive ears couldn’t hear.


Deep below the surface, near the bottom she could just make out the edges of a newly revealed shaft leading down into darkness. The ground started to vibrate.  The water in the center of the pool started to swirl and eddy at first, then to boil and churn above the hole. Something was coming up the shaft, something big, and it was moving fast. She could see just make out shadowy movement in the depths.  


Narreyel  reached for her Heartsword on her back reflexively,  but grasped only air. Her mind flashed back to when she had first plummeted from above, her sword still in her hand.  She must have dropped it when she hit the water. She stared hard at the bottom and then she saw it, glinting in the strange blue-green light,  lying there on the bottom in the moss, just as hundreds of long oily black tendrils, like liquid midnight, snaked upward out of the hole and began to  reach out into the open water..


Narreyel turned to one side and spit the saliva soaked, very alarmed and now surprised  Bunuboi out on the ground with a wet plop. He quickly rolled to his feet, shaking his little frame rapidly  to clear her excess drool from his fur.


“We can discuss dinner later.” Narreyel snarled looking down into the water,  a low growl emanated from her throat. ”Get it’s attention while I go for my sword!”  


And then, before the now even more confused bunuboi could do anything or even protest the fact that the amazon who only moments ago was trying to eat him was now issuing him orders,  she did something no Orasha had ever done or would ever even think of doing.


She dove in.  


 

 

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