Author's note:
Mind altering substances. Monster sex.
These are fictitious events, by fictitious characters, in a very fictitious universe.
All events depicted are by characters at least 18 years of age.
Please consider that fair warning.
***
"Why you cry, little girl?"
Althea tried to control her sobbing as she looked around from the flat rock on the edge of the pond where she had been sitting cross legged. She didn't like being condescended to. Yes, being on the short size technically made her little. And crying by yourself outdoors was perhaps a bit childish. But she would start college in the fall, she wasn't a 'little girl'. Although she was too polite and well behaved to ever complain.
"It's okay, me lonely too."
The voice had a mechanical squawk that reminded her of how a talking parrot sounded.
It must be coming from behind that rock
. Althea decided.
"I'm not really lonely. I just wanted to get away." Althea was overcome as she thought about her granddad's coffin being lowered into the ground. "Why are you hidden?" She asked as she wiped her nose.
When she got no response, she stood up and started to walk over to where the voice had come from.
"I'm not pretty like you. I'm hideous, I don't want to scare you." The voice had gotten further away.
"You won't scare me." Althea answered. "Honestly."
She walked toward where the voice had gone but heard nothing more.
She went back to her flat rock and sat down.
Did I imagine that?
Althea wondered.
Everyone said an evil monster lived in the pond, and you shouldn't go there. The last boy who had gone there had been drowned by the monster, and the boy's ghost still wandered around at night.
Althea didn't believe it. The boy had dived into the pond and died from a broken neck when he hit a rock. The pond had a slight sulphur smell. As hot springs went, it wasn't a particularly steamy one. But even in winter, it stayed warm.
Nevertheless, Althea, like everyone else, had avoided the place. She had only gone there to get away from people. Although they were completely well meaning, she didn't want to be around family and friends that would ask her every two minutes if she was doing okay.
***
Althea kept coming by the pond. With only a little detour, she could stop by on her way home from her prep school. It took several trips but eventually the voice did come back. Always hidden behind the rocks.
"Why you keep coming back, little girl?"
"I want to talk to you." She answered. "I'm Althea, by the way."
"Nice meet you, Althea."
"And you are?" Althea prompted.
"No one."
"You must have a name."
"No, not even name."
"That's strange, everyone has a name."
"I'm not everyone."
"No, I suppose you aren't." Althea giggled. "Will you come out from behind the rocks?"
"No."
She had scared the voice off again.
***
Each time Althea came back, the conversations got slightly longer.
"I'm going to make up a name and call you that until or unless you give me a name." Althea announced.
"Oh please, I like to have name."
That was not the response Althea was expecting, and she suddenly had doubts. "Er, I wasn't intending it as a real name, more of a silly name in the hopes that you would then tell me your actual name." Althea stalled. "Promise me you won't get mad."
"I promise."
"Okay. I'm going to call you Polly."
"Polly... That's nice. Why Polly?"
"Uh..., your voice reminds me of a parrot."
Althea was a bit frightened by the response she got until she realized the voice was squawking like an angry parrot.
"That's really convincing." Althea smiled.
"Polly wanna' cracker." It responded.
***
The voice eventually told Althea it really was a monster. Not a human that was so deformed as to be a monster, but a real live monster like from a manga graphic novel.
Althea's first thought was a pornographic monster. She knew that manga really just meant comic, and just like most comic monsters have nothing to do with pornography, neither do most manga monsters. But Althea had read a lot of manga, and it had almost all been pornographic - pornographic and weird, in the way that Japanese porn could get really weird.
Furthermore, the voice said it wasn't just a normal monster, but it was a deformed monster so hideous as to be shunned by other monsters!
Althea didn't know what to make of that.
***
Everytime Althea talked to it, she asked it to come out from behind the rocks. The voice finally confessed its fear.
"If you see me, you won't come back."
"I'll come back." Althea responded.
"I don't know..."
"I promise, I'll come back."
Althea finally convinced it to come out, but it had insisted she stand on the far side of the pond. Althea walked over and turned around. For a long time nothing happened, and she wondered if it had changed its mind. But then she saw a ripple in the pond.
It stuck up slightly out of the water. Althea stared and two giant eyes stared back. It looked a bit like an octopus with a bulbous body. As it rose a bit further out of the water, she could tell it was misshapen. Instead of being symmetric, it had a large bulge on the left side, and the entire left side had weird lumps and splotches whereas the right side was smooth and uniform.
A tentacle rose several feet up out of the water next to the body. It was thicker than Althea's leg, but then the last couple feet split into three tentacles each about the size of her arm. The tip of one of the tentacles split again into tiny fingers that fluttered.
"You promised."
Althea focused back on the body. It had lifted up out of the water high enough to reveal a giant bird beak that would not look out of place on a sufficiently large parrot. But then it suddenly disappeared beneath the surface of the pond. Althea watched as the ripples faded away and the smooth, mirror surface of the pond came back.
As she trudged back home, Althea thought about her new friend.
I was right. It's not just a manga monster, it is a hentai, pornographic monster - a hentai, pornographic, tentacle monster
. She shivered at the thought.
***
"I'm outcast, exiled to this pond."
Polly was completely out of the water, sprawled on a rock next to Althea. It had six tentacles coming from the right side of its body that were eight to ten feet long. On the left side were a half dozen stubs that were only two or three feet long. Althea had also noticed that its left eye had a milky color whereas the right eye was clear and bright.
"It's shameful living in small, shallow pond stinks of sulfur."
"Why don't you go somewhere else?" Althea asked.
"I can't. I can't stay out of the water very long. But even if I made it to another stream, it wouldn't work. I'm magically bound to this place. If I leave before they come get me, I'll slowly disintegrate into slime."
***
Althea sat perfectly still, cross legged, with her eyes closed and her mouth halfway open. It felt like her bottom lip was being gently touched by a soft, wet brush. When she finally opened her eyes back up, Polly had gone.
Althea ran her tongue over her lower lip. It was slimy and salty but had a rich buttery texture. It reminded her of oysters straight out of the shell. Althea loved shellfish, sushi, and really almost any type of fish.
The only thing wrong with it was the off taste of sulphur. But the sulphur taste wasn't because of Polly.
As she walked home, her bottom lip slightly tingled. The sensation was faint, but it was also warm and pleasant.
I hope that isn't a neurotoxin like you get with a poisoned shellfish
. She shivered.
***
Tiny, little fingers wrapped themselves gently around Althea's tongue. She felt like her tongue was getting a massage. One side of the fingers were smooth, but surprisingly strong for being so small. The other side was rough - rough like a cat's tongue. But a cat's tongue didn't have tiny cups that could suddenly suck down hard and glue itself onto any surface. Althea could feel the surface of her tongue being sucked into the tiny fingers.
Even an hour after getting home, Althea's mouth and tongue still had a pleasant tingling.
***