When Niles is invited out on a "hunting" expedition by his uncle, he has no idea that he's about to be introduced to a secret tradition long kept by the men of his family: the doe-hunt. To his amazement, the deer they capture is not a deer at all, but a mythical creature that is half deer and half woman - and she's in heat. Dark content rating, 9k words.
Content Warnings/Tags: dubious consent; language barrier/cultural differences; monsterfucking (human men with deer centaur woman); pseudo-incest (protagonist participating in a gangbang with his uncle and cousin); use of an empty beer bottle as an improvised sex toy
"Keep your eyes peeled, there, Niles," said Uncle Remy. "You won't wanna miss the doe."
"Look, I just don't know that I'm super into this kind of stuff," Niles muttered.
He was trying to be diplomatic. He knew he wasn't into hunting. He had nothing against spending time out in the woods, but the idea of shooting something--especially something as big as a deer--made him queasy.
When Uncle Remy had invited him on a hunting trip for his eighteenth birthday, Niles had given serious thought to playing sick to get out of it, but he knew his uncle would probably just re-schedule. Uncle Remy had been very invested in spending time together ever since Niles' father had passed.
And Niles did appreciate it--it was nice, having a close relationship with another guy in the family--but...why did it have to be hunting?
"Nahh," Uncle Remy said. "You just wait and see. You'll love it."
"I don't think I'm really into, like, the idea of killing an animal?"
He also wasn't super into anything else they'd done on the trip, which so far had consisted of: several hours crammed in the truck with Uncle Remy and Remy's son, Chad; sleeping on the cold, hard ground barely cushioned by a sleeping bag overnight; and now getting up at the crack of dawn to sit in a deer blind, which was apparently a fancy name for a treehouse.
"You won't have to kill anything," his uncle assured him. "This is doe-hunting, Niles. You'll see."
"Alright," Niles muttered, relieved that he at least wouldn't be expected to shoot the deer.
He put his binoculars back to his face at his uncle's urging and continued scanning the forest in the dim early morning light, looking for movement.
"Oh, there--wait..." he stopped, adjusting his binoculars and trying to get a better look as his uncle rushed to his side to look, too.
"Yeah-hah! There she is! Thatta boy!" Uncle Remy said, clapping him hard on the shoulder.
"No, Uncle Remy, I don't think that's a...deer..." Niles trailed off, peering through his binoculars in confusion.
The creature picking her way through the forest did, indeed, walk on four hooves, and her dappled, furred hide was unmistakably deer-like. But at the shoulders, where a deer's neck should be, the fur instead gave way to creamy skin and a lithe torso, topped with the undeniable curves of human shoulders and a cascade of chestnut-colored hair.
As she twisted in their direction, Niles got a glimpse of her human face--round cheeks flushed pink, lips red as if she'd been chewing them--and the welcoming curves of her exposed breasts.
"What the fuck is that?" Niles demanded.
"That's our doe," Uncle Remy said. "She's just about to trip the wire."
Niles watched in shock as the half-animal woman took a few more cautious steps forward along the game trail they'd identified earlier--and then her hoof caught on the trip-wire they'd set, triggering a weighted chain that tangled around her two front legs, yanking them together and then binding them.
She let out a very human-sounding scream of surprise and fear as she went down.
Uncle Remy immediately dropped down out of the blind, calling back, "C'mon, Niles! Get a move on!"
Niles followed, scrabbling down the ladder gracelessly and then hurtling through the trees after his uncle.
By the time he reached the trap, Uncle Remy was already there, crouching over the woman-creature and patting her furred flank as she stared up at him in wide-eyed trepidation. Her front legs shifted restlessly, dragging the chain and her hooves loudly across the dried leaves that littered the forest floor, and the deer-like ears peeking out from her long hair rotated in alarm.
"Settle down, girl," Uncle Remy said to her soothingly. To Niles, he said, "We have to make sure to keep her calm. If she panics and struggles, she might hurt herself."
"Um...okay," Niles said, stopping a short distance away when the deer-girl's wide, brown eyes turned on him. "What should I do?"
"You can come on over and touch her," Uncle Remy said, gesturing.
Niles took a couple of steps closer, then hesitated as her ears rotated again in response to the sound of his boots kicking through the leaves, her eyes round and nervous. "I think I'm scaring her?"
"That's because you're standing over her like that. She doesn't know what you're gonna do," Uncle Remy said. "They have their own language, they don't speak any English. Come on over and touch her, so she knows you're gentle."
Niles slowly walked closer, then crouched down, following his uncle's example, and started to pet her further up, on her shoulder. "Oh. She's...really soft."
"Mm. Softer'n a real deer, and cleaner," his uncle assured him.