Author's note: Sorry for going MIA again. I'm currently in the process of being approved for a psychiatric evaluation of my mental health issues. I still plan on making a comeback before long, but hopefully I can do so with medication or whatever it is that I need, so that I can actually stick to writing this time around.
Anyway, this chapter contains non-con (specifically consensual non-con, as it's sometimes called), as well as other kinks like long tongue and barbed cock.
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There Adrius stood, his eyes lingering on the carriage leaving him behind. The coachman was a young elf of gray skin and white hair, who had risked his own safety to bring Adrius to his destination, and was now whipping away at the white elk pulling the carriage along. Neither of the two forest-dwellers were made for this kind of landscape and climate, and neither was Adrius. Humans weren't even native to the continent he was currently on, and his only knowledge about these barren lands stemmed from unflattering rumors. Here, in the Vasmalian desert that made up most of the eastern half of the continent, gorgons were said to lurk behind every rock, cactus and palm tree, waiting for any unfortunate prey that entered their territory.
This was the first time Adrius had ended up being teleported a rather significant distance away from his destination. He still wasn't sure how the Traveler's Mark worked exactly, but it was likely that only areas previously visited by Chiyo were available for travel. Perhaps even she had been afraid to venture into the gorgons' reach.
Adrius turned around to face the desert that was his destination, but there was still one last obstacle that hindered the view. Serving as a natural wall that protected the western front of the gorgons' territory was a huge cliff of reddish rock that spanned a good 200 feet into the air. It stretched as far as the eye could see to the north and south, but was not impenetrable. On the contrary it was quite easy to get through, if one dared. The very location Adrius had been brought to was one that allowed anyone to simply walk in, seeing as how the path he was standing on led straight through a narrow ravine in the cliffside.
He clenched his fists, and though visibly trembling, his legs finally began carrying him towards the ominous rift in the big, red wall. His bottom lip quivered, his eyes darted in every direction, and sweat coated every inch of his skin, as one would expect from someone in his position. But it was not due to fear. He was certainly afraid, but other emotions outweighed the fear. After all, he was here on a mission. A mission that would quell his burning curiosity and lust...
Once past all the countless warning signs, Adrius found himself shielded from the wind when he entered the maw-like crevice. The few gusts that managed to follow along turned into eerie whistles as they passed between the rocky walls, and the faint echoes of Adrius' increasingly excited footsteps made it all the creepier. It would come as no surprise if such a measly noise was enough to alert any nearby gorgon sentinels, but at this point trying to hide his presence was futile. His racing heart would not allow him to be careful any longer.
Surrounded by stone, Adrius continued to navigate through the ravine as it twisted and turned. He never stopped scanning every little nook and cranny of the rough walls ahead, hoping to be able to catch any spying eyes before they caught him. Soon enough he was relieved to see the sun illuminating his path once more, its rays cutting into the last few feet of the otherwise shady ravine. Excited, he ran up to where the wall abruptly ended, the eastern cliffside as steep and tall as the western.
Adrius gazed out across the landscape ahead, a glimmer of awe in his green eyes. Small dunes of sand seemed to flow like waves as far as the eye could see, beneath a sky unblemished by a single cloud. The heat radiating off the scorching surface of the desert distorted the air above, causing what few plants there were to seemingly dance hypnotically. It was almost as if the branches of the cacti were seducing him, beckoning him further into the wasteland to make him lose his way. But Adrius would not lose his way.
Filled with motivation that cast his fear aside, he trod on. The path that cut through the cliff continued across the dunes, hardened under the feet of traveling gorgons. It led to one of their settlements according to Chiyo, and was easily reached on foot in less than a half hour. What exactly awaited him there -- other than gorgons -- was unknown to him. But with a large waterskin at his hip and a body temporarily protected from the sun with one of Chiyo's ointments, he was more than ready to find out what was in store for him.
However, the time during which his fear was quelled didn't last long. Barely even having made it past the red wall, he glanced at a cactus next to the path ahead, and what he suddenly locked on to almost stopped his heart. Piercing into Adrius' mind like knives, a pair of wide-open eyes peered over one of the cactus' branches. The dark pupils within the violet irises felt like vortexes, sucking the very world into them. Adrius froze in place. What lurked in the shade had caught him like a fly in a spider's web.
"A human?" a raspy voice said. "Interesting. Perhaps standing guard isn't that tedious a task after all."
Unable to move as much as a finger, Adrius merely trembled where he stood as a tall, dark figure stepped out from behind the cactus. If it hadn't been obvious that it was a gorgon he was dealing with, it certainly was now, the sun lighting up her previously shrouded body. Though not under the greatest of circumstances, Adrius' curiosity was certainly being sated.
While alien in appearance, the stranger's physical features did not elicit any feeling of disgust. Her emerald-green skin looked smooth and supple, despite how its net-like pattern reminded of the scales of a dragon; a related species. And as was often described in the stories meant to scare off those curious about the gorgons, her head sprawled not with hair, but with thick, serpentine protrusions. Although unlike in said stories they were tapered off near their tips, looking more like snakes' tails rather than heads with snapping jaws and fangs at the ready.
The creature began walking towards Adrius. "Now what could someone like you possibly be doing out here?" she said, her tone playful yet sinister, and her grin growing wider. "Spying, perhaps? Surely you must know what my kind does to things like you."
Even as she got closer and closer, Adrius' every limb was practically anchored in place. He knew about the strange power her species possessed; how they with a mere glance could render someone unable to move. And just like she had suggested, he knew very well what the gorgons did to their victims. People often spoke of pain and death by their hands, but the reality was far milder, though also far more humiliating. Other species weren't seen as something to discard or inflict suffering upon in the eyes of the gorgons, but rather as toys for their pleasure. And seeing as how they were all hermaphrodites with the ability to breed with one another, there truly was no justifiable reason for such behavior. One was wise to fear an encounter with them, but at the end of the day, only one's pride and holes would be hurt.
"Hmph, a frail thing like you never stood a chance against me. To think you'd find my eyes so enchanting." Now standing within a foot of the trembling intruder, the gorgon stretched her arm out and lifted his chin with her long fingers. "Speak your name, human."
Both due to the sweat that poured down his body and the shadow cast by the near eight foot creature in front of him, Adrius was overcome by a powerful shudder that calmed his nerves slightly. Despite staring right into her terrifying but gorgeous eyes, the rest of what comprised her beauty was not lost upon Adrius. In particular her smiling, pillowy lips and her large chest hidden within a veil of white cloth. There was a limber gracefulness to her, yet she appeared a bit on the heavy side, but not in the form of bulging muscles. Rather, it was as though her entire body was densely packed with fat that made her look nice and thick without rolls, flab or any rounding of her midsection.
"I... I... " Adrius stammered, his rapid breaths stealing away his words. "I'm Adrius... F-forgive me, I--" His struggle to speak was interrupted as the gorgon dove down to push her lips against his. Her arms immediately wormed their way around Adrius' back, holding him in place as his mouth was enveloped in an aggressive, yet somehow gentle kiss.
She ended the kiss as abruptly as she had initiated it, before lifting the boy off the ground with ease. "Hush, Adrius," she said with her tits pressed against his flat chest, and her eyes mere inches away from his. "Your words do not matter. Your history does not matter. Your business here does not matter. The only thing that matters is that, until the sun sets, you are
