Chapter 2 – More Pain than Pleasure
After walking through the forest for a long time, Kyrie gets thirsty. She can hear the sound of running water and she goes to find a small stream.
As she puts the water in her mouth, her light says, “Don’t put that in-”
But it’s too late. Her need for water made her drink it without thinking nor did it allow her to react quick enough to her light’s warning.
“What’s wrong with it?” she asks while starting to feel the effects of the water.
“The corrupted of this world have polluted the waters.”
The poisoned water then begins to take its effect. Kyrie’s skin begins to melt and painfully fall off her face. First, her left eye falls out then all of her teeth on the left side of her face, which drank the water. Her light quickly heals her wounds and eliminates the poison in her body though the affected areas on her body have turned white. Her left eye is gone and so is the left side of her mouth. Now there is only a hole there in both areas that she can stick her arm through.
“Am I…am I okay?” she asks with fear in her heart.
“You are. At least you will never get hungry or thirsty again for the rest of this trip.”
“I can still see out of left eye even though it’s gone. Thank you for saving me.”
“The grace of God saved you thanks to your restraint. If you didn’t restrain yourself, then you would’ve melted into sludge.”
Kyrie’s skin now feels waxy and rubbery. Her left eye can see farther and clearer than her right and her jaw could break the branches of the tree if she wanted to.
“Do I really deserve this blessing?”
“You do. I’ve already said why. Shall we continue?”
“Yes, let’s go.”
Going further into the forest, Kyrie begins to notice the weird look of the forest trees. The holes and branches that stick out seem to have the appearance of male and female genital. This makes her feel hot and bothered for some reason. She remembers the time when people with bags on their heads and masks on their face would have their way with her. Even though she always resisted, she was drugged to go through it. She only remembers pain, forced pleasures, and the weirdest perverted things done to her just so her mother could feel loved and make money while doing so.
Some of the barren trees come to life and reveal themselves to be creatures. It appears that two people make up their body with one female figure forced to be on top of the male figure with a bed-like object on them. A tongue sticks out of their mouth where the two heads meet, and another tongue is at the bottom of the creature. One appears to be smelling for something while the other is sucking up the air in that general direction.
“They’re attracted to the pheromones that you give off. They want to suck all of it out of you, so it’s best to avoid them.”
The bottom of the creature then starts excreting similar pheromones to Kyrie to attract her to it. It numbs her brain and takes control of her body. The blessing on her head helps her consciousness wake her up and snap her out of the trance. Kyrie covers her mouth and holds her hip as she makes her way around the creature as it continues to secrete its pheromones. The smell becomes stronger and harder to resist over time especially since it keeps going in Kyrie’s general direction. It gets to a point where she loses control of most of her body. She starts walking to it. Her blessing tries to wake her up to no avail. It isn’t until she is near the creature does she commit an act of desperation as she cuts her side to wake herself up.
This act is done too late, however, as the creature is now confident enough to know where she is. It inserts its one tongue into Kyrie’s mouth and begins to suck the pheromones out her. This gives her a sort of painful ecstasy that tries to captivate her mind, but she doesn’t allow it. She cuts off both of the creature’s tongues and runs away from it. It blindly chases her and eventually tires itself out. Kyrie looks back at it and wants to kill it. Both parts of the creature trigger hatred in her mind even the female part of it, but she decides to keep moving.
“Because of your ability to wrestle control of yourself, here is another blessing to help you.”
A white arm with a mouth on it grows out of Kyrie’s left side. Controlling it with her mind, it can manifest her pheromones and other emotions and throw them far away from her. Several other creatures like the last start waking up along with the ones from before, which allows her to put these abilities to the test. Her blessing on her head tells her which direction is best to go in while her new arm allows her to distract the creatures. She even throws some of her emotions onto the armless creatures, which the combined ones confuse for her. The two monsters blindly fight each other and attract the attention of nearby monsters to give Kyrie a big enough exit out of the area.
Continuing through the forest, Kyrie comes across a large mountain with a cave that leads through it. Her light hovers over it so she consults her blessing and it says to go through the cave. What she finds in the cave is a tight series of tunnels. Since she can barely see, the blessing on her head guides her. While going through the tunnels, the jagged rocks allow her to feel where she’s going so she doesn’t hurt herself on them. As she gets closer and closer to the exit, she can hear something following her from behind. The source of the noise eventually comes into view and it appears to be a different version of the tongued creature with hands and a tendril-like tongue that tries sucking at different parts of her body. She defends herself with her bladed arm but the tongue and arms keeping growing back.
Various arms and tongues then begin growing out of the rocks to assault her. It’s a struggle to cut them all especially since there’s no way to expel the pheromones that keep building up within her. Kyrie then comes to a dead end where the walls of the cave start to close in on her. Her blessing instructs her to cut her way out and she does before the tongues and hands strength their grip on her.
Finally out of that cramped cave, Kyrie catches her breath and starts expelling the built up feelings away from her.
“That was the best way to go?” she asks her light.
“It was the best because the rest of the area was covered in creatures. Are you rested up? Those feelings you’re expelling are attracting them to this area.”
Kyrie heavily sighs.
“Ready.”
Her light quickly guides her away from the mountain as dozens upon dozens of creatures converge on the area.
A song that I think is a good theme song for this story. Dear Agony by Breaking Benjamin.
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