*This is my first ever contest story, and it's a Halloween one! It's also my second story ever submitted, and my first dark/ horror erotica story. Hope you all enjoy!
10/31/16
My life is a nightmare. I don't mean a nightmare in that my grades are a mess, or that I was rejected from the university basketball team, or that I was fired from my job and had to move out of my apartment. No, my life is a literal, physical nightmare that I'm forced to survive every day. I'm writing this while sitting on the floor of a crowded storage room in the church I'm currently holed up in, though I don't expect my sanctuary to hold out. I'm never safe for long. I've been on the run for the past year, finding brief moments of safety in churches and other religious buildings, but I'm always found. I'm tired of running. I'm making my last stand here, in the city where it all began.
I want, no, NEED to tell my story, so when (or if) someone finds my body, at least someone will know what happened to me. Even if nobody believes it. This shit is real, people. Believe it.
I guess the best place to start is the beginning. October 31st, 2015. Yeah, I know. You're thinking this is some typical Halloween "scary story" that wouldn't even frighten a little kid. That's where you're wrong. The day started off innocently enough all right, but shit got, to put it bluntly, FUBAR. And fast.
Anyway, let's get down to it: I was a popular college junior; Student Body President, Homecoming Queen, star basketball player. I guess you could say I was the "big woman on campus". I wasn't dating anyone at the time, though I could've had any guy I wanted. Being popular had its perks, but trying to balance a love life with classes, Student Council meetings, sorority volunteer work, and a sports schedule was almost impossible. I did have my eye on a smoking hot lacrosse player, though unfortunately, that was as far as it got. In a way, that lacrosse player was lucky; I lost the people closest to me first.
Back at the beginning of the school year, I had volunteered to chair the committee for my sorority's annual Halloween party/ haunted house. It was always a big hit, so I had big shoes to fill. By the time October rolled around, I had everything lined up: booze, a killer dj, and I think I cleaned out every store in town that sold Halloween stuff. I even had my costume ready: I was going to be a svelte, seductive steampunk zombie. Don't ask me how, but if anyone could pull off that look, I could. I even found some amazing earrings at an antique store. They were the perfect finishing touch for my costume: three sterling silver gears set with a variety of gems, dangling from tiny chains on each earring. I didn't think anything of it at the time, but I really should have questioned why they were so cheap. That was my first warning.
My second (and most violent) warning came about a week before Halloween. Some friends and I decided to take advantage of one final weekend of good weather and go camping by Palisades Falls. It used to be one of my favorite places, but now just thinking about it makes me physically ill. Anyway, I decided to hike around to the top of the falls after we set up camp. Being alone in the forest never bothered me, but I always carried bear spray and an emergency whistle, just in case.
As I moved through the trees, I couldn't help feeling uneasy. Everything was too quiet, and while I didn't have the sensation of being watched, I knew something was out there. Against my instincts, I kept hiking. I was almost at the top, and I didn't like quitting halfway through anything. It felt surreal though. No bird song, not even a hint of a breeze, despite it being quite windy when I'd left camp. Every time I stepped on a twig I expected a sharp crack, but even that sound was dulled. I recall thinking then that it sounded like someone was throwing a shovel-full of dirt into a grave.
I didn't feel any more comfortable when I reached the top of the falls. I stood at the edge for a moment and waved down to my friends before turning to hike back down. I'd taken maybe four or five steps when I realized something was standing at the edge of the treeline. My first thought was, "Oh fuck, it's a bear," and I was fumbling in my pack for my bear spray when the thing stepped out of the shadows.
"Those earrings are mine."
I froze, stupidly thinking, "Shit! A talking bear?!?!", before my brain caught up with what my eyes were seeing. The thing wasn't a bear but a woman, maybe 50ish, wearing a long fur cloak and old fashioned shoes with buckles. That was odd in and of itself, but the strangest thing about her was the fact that it looked like one of her breasts was the size of a watermelon and was squirming around under her cloak.
"Um, what did you say?", I asked her, hoping I'd just come across some strange yet harmless lady with a fetish for wearing antique clothes and living in the woods. That thought quickly fled my mind as she took another step and I realized the buckled shoes weren't on her feet, but rather on something else's. She grinned at me with an almost demonic look on her face and unhooked the clasp on her cloak. She slid the cloak off her shoulders, and it suddenly occurred to me that she wasn't the one walking. She was cradled in the arms of a creature I can't even begin to describe properly, but it was definitely not human. It had dark skin (I think it was skin) and appeared to have swirling Celtic tattoos inscribed everywhere. The tattoos were a fierce scarlet color, and I'd swear they were glowing. I couldn't see its head, as that was now hidden behind the woman, but what I could see was the longest tongue I've ever seen curling and flicking around the woman's nipple.
"I said, 'Those earrings are mine'."
I stood there open mouthed, not even thinking about giving her an answer, because at that moment, the creature shifted the woman in his arms, and I realized what I'd seen moving under the cloak. The creature's head was bald, the glowing crimson swirls etched upon it surging brighter as the creature lowered its mouth to to woman's breast, engulfing it entirely. The woman moaned as the creature sucked fiercely on her breast, it's motions identical to what I'd seen when the woman was cloaked.
I watched with horrified fascination. There was something almost hypnotic about the fucked up scene in front of me, and I briefly wondered if I'd fallen from the waterfall and ended up in hell. The pleasure on the woman's face while that thing was latched onto her was both sickening and erotic at the same time. I'd even started wondering what it would be like if I was the recipient of that voracious mouth, when the situation went beyond fucked up. The woman suddenly screamed, a glass shattering banshee wail, and I saw that the creature had violently thrust one of its massive tattooed fists inside the woman's pussy and was viciously fist fucking her.
"This is my chance," I thought, and began sprinting towards the trail back down to camp. I'd almost made it when a heavy hand clamped down on my shoulder and flung me back towards the clearing. Apparently, my swift departure didn't go unnoticed, and the creature had set the woman down so it could come after me. As I lay on the ground stunned and disoriented, the creature crouched next to me and placed one of its huge hands on my chest, holding me down. I was so focused on it that I didn't notice the woman standing next to me until she ripped the earrings from my earlobes, making me scream from both the pain and from terror.
"You should have given my earrings back," the woman whispered in my ruined ear. She leaned closer, shuddering with ecstasy as she licked the blood dripping from my torn earlobe. "Now watch as everything you hold dear is taken from you."
The monster holding me wrenched my head to the side, where I saw similar beasts holding each of my friends next to the edge of the waterfall. I watched in horror as, at the woman's nod, the creatures picked up my friends and tossed them, one by one, over the waterfall to their deaths. The woman laughed as my friends died, my screams dying on my lips as the monsters joined in her merriment, their laughter grating and harsh and wholly unsettling. I was reduced to heart wrenching sobs, my entire body aching with grief, eyes swollen and puffy from my tears.
Suddenly I found myself dangling in midair, a crushing weight wrapped around my neck. I opened my eyes to find myself in the grip of the monster that had been holding me down, and it was holding me over open space, only rocks and the broken bodies of my friends below me. I frantically clawed at the hand around my throat, selfishly not wanting to die as horribly as my friends had. The creature laughed at my futile attempts, squeezing my neck more tightly as I toremy fingernails to shreds against its thick skin. When I was mere seconds from losing consciousness, the beast dropped me on the ground. The woman approached again as I lay gasping and wheezing, and she knelt beside me, tucking my hair behind my ears almost tenderly as she cupped my face in her hands.