Dear Readers: Hello and thank you again for your positive comments! Chapters 4 & 5 should probably go under the Erotic Horror category, however, it would split the story and cause confusion. The final chapters of Sidney's story are not for the squeamish. Prepare yourself for some creepy-crawly sex that pushes the "squick-limit" in most.
Phase 4 – Procreation
I was getting tired of being told to go to sleep only to wake up in strange circumstances. Annoyed, my distended stomach and I sat up slowly and were met with a sharp pain.
Before I could move, the gigantic flower bloom was back and, of course, between my legs. I was pretty sure the bulb didn't have eyes, but what the hell did I know? It had fucked me earlier, and I had no idea it could do that either.
The pain would have doubled me over, but vines encircled my wrists and ankles as quickly as lightning to hold me in place. Slimy fluid poured from my pussy and onto the ground, coating the vines in a viscous mess.
Where the hell were the plants and their drug-inducing pollen now? Of all the times I could use an upper to take away the pain, it would be now, dammit!
Cramping like I'd never felt before took over, and I screamed as loud as I could. All of the surrounding flowers began to shake and shiver, but I had no idea – and I didn't care – whether it was in response to my yelling or their excitement at welcoming their offspring into the world.
A disgusting popping noise sounded as the first golfball-sized pod exited my body. The nearest flower bent down to inspect the little seed with its petals, caressing and touching it.
Seemingly satisfied, the petals closed around its offspring and carried it upward toward the waiting blooms.
After expelling the first pod, the rest of the seeds came out in a river of fluid. My body alternated between horrible pain as the little pods expelled from within me and relief as my abdomen deflated.
The flowers couldn't move fast enough to collect the numerous amounts of offspring as they gathered between my outstretched legs. Each new little bundle of joy was carefully gathered by one of its parents and transported away. The entire process was soundless, only disturbed by the rustling of leaves and the vines and petals swishing.
After the last little pod exited from within me, the vines released my arms, gently supporting my back and laying me against them. Exhausted, I rested against the cushion of greenery and closed my eyes.
A few minutes later, the plants had parted, and a pathway appeared. If the grays thought I was just going to get up and waltz out of here right after popping out a bunch of seeds, they were in for a surprise.
Instead, the grays surprised me as a table floated toward me and landed next to my tired body. I literally rolled onto the table, and then it rose and carried me into the opening through which I'd walked only a couple days prior.
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I was allowed to rest for a time, and the days ran together. Every eight hours I was examined, tests were run, and afterwards I was always pissed at myself for letting them dictate my actions by only reacting passively. No matter how hard I tried to resist their calming mental persuasion, I simply could not.
Every once in a while I would yell at the nothingness in my cell, knowing full well they could hear every word I was saying. Assholes. Couldn't they at least give me a book to read?
Finally, my wish was granted, and I was given some trashy magazine with articles twenty years old. By the end of the day, I'd read that thing so many times, I had it memorized by the time a small opening appeared in my cell.
The professor's voice sounded, and I was glad to have someone to talk with, even if he wasn't my first choice. At this point, I would welcome pretty much any person's voice; I was getting lonely.
"Sidney, would you care to be informed as to the race you birthed?" asked the gray.
"Uh, sure. Yes." I figured it wouldn't hurt to know, and if the news was good, maybe it would make me feel better. I shuddered in pleasure as I recalled my intimate encounter with the flowers.
Pictures of the jungle world I'd been to appeared on the walls of my cell. The gap between the flowers had been bridged by thousands of tiny seedlings in a rainbow of colors.
"There are no wind and no living beings to carry the plants' pollen so they may procreate," explained the professor. "You have ensured their race will continue for hundreds of your life-spans."
I didn't know what to say, so I remained silent. I was torn between feeling terribly used and trapped and feeling useful and a little proud. I really didn't know how to feel at all. I nodded my head, and the images disappeared, leaving me alone in the quiet with my one magazine.
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Phase 5 – Rinse & Repeat
This time when the small arch appeared in the wall, I was prepared to fight the grays – I did not want to be a breeding cow again. I sat on the floor and planned to make them either take me outside my cell or force whatever was out there to come into the grays' territory.
Unfortunately, I didn't understand the flexibility of the room I was in until the door was suddenly moving closer to me. I angrily pounded on the walls, screamed, cried, and threw a tantrum of which a 3-year-old would be jealous.
Once, when I opened my eyes in mid-outburst, I noticed the walls rippled each time they pushed me a little closer to the opening in the wall. Again, I saw face after face lined up on the walls, passively watching me fight for my life.
The wall punched outward, and I was sent sprawling outside my cell and onto a dusty, dirt-covered surface. I rolled several times, creating a cloud of dust before crashing to a stop and smacking my head against the ground.
Angry and frustrated, I sat there covered in dust with tears streaking down my face. Damn the grays for throwing me out like trash to be devoured by whatever was in this world.
The terrain of this land was dry and dead. Piles of dirt six to eight feet tall dotted the surface everywhere. Small paths wound between the small mountains of grime, though there were no footprints to be seen.
This world was eerily quiet, lacking in sound as well as movement. Absolutely nothing green lived in this place; it was as though the grays dropped me off in the middle of an empty, barren land.
Above me, the sky was gray with little light showing. A short distance ahead, there appeared to be snow on the ground, which I thought was strange, since it wasn't cold.
Even though there was no breeze, I shivered and crossed my arms over my naked breasts, suddenly chilled. I did not like this place, and it gave me the creeps.
I heard a rustling noise from behind me, and I turned around quickly but saw nothing. The hair on the back of my neck stood up, and I was certain I was being watched.
Goosepimples broke out all over my skin, and I knew whatever was coming for me was not going to be a pretty flower disguised as a mating machine; whatever was on this world was going to be frightening.
Again, I heard the rustling noise ahead of me, but it sounded louder this time. The species coming for me was getting closer. I walked forward carefully, making sure to tiptoe so I wouldn't make any noise.
It became darker as I crept onward, and I decided it was better to keep to the lighted areas rather than going somewhere I wouldn't be able to see. Before I could turn around, a small avalanche of dirt, along with a cloud of dust, fell from one of the mounds in front of me.
At least I knew where the being was hiding. Smiling a little at its clumsiness, I silently made my way to the pile of dirt. As I peeked around the corner, I heard a loud hiss but saw nothing.
I looked up again and realized the sky was not cloudy in the least; in fact, the sky wasn't there at all. The entire "ceiling" of this world was made up of thousands and thousands of strands of glossy webbing. I glanced again at what I'd previously thought to be snow only to realize the ground fifty feet in front of me was also a mass of spider silk.
Scared and confused, I backed away from the pile of dirt only to run directly into countless strands of sticky threads on my left that had not been there mere seconds ago. I screamed as the feather-light touch of the silk adhered firmly to my left arm and to my hair.
I immediately raised my left hand to try to brush the strands off of my hair, and a few tore away easily. Relieved, I yanked my head and body backwards only to have more strands attach themselves from behind me. A trap had been set, and I was falling right into it.
I felt a tickling on my ankles and looked down to see if my feet were becoming entangled as well; what I saw caused my heart to leap into my throat. Thousands upon thousands of spiders with bodies the size of a quarter were wrapping my feet in strands of silky, sticky threads.