Analiah was sitting on the short beach in the harbor. The sun was bright and warm, and the waves were gently lapping about her. She was also chained to a large, thick post driven into the sand so deep it was anchored in the bedrock. The chains came from the top of the post, pulling her arms high above her nude body. The young woman squirmed in the water, but her ankles were also chained to boulders in the sand, forcing them open, facing the sea. Her heart raced, her eyes darted about, searching the ripples on the water in fear.
She was to please the Great Kulthu.
The village or town, depending on your preference for size, nestled beneath a large bluff that tapered down to the ocean, creating an arm that reached into the sea. It offered a natural harbor in an ocean teeming with fish. Farmland flourished behind the village with its port and fishing boats, giving the villagers an almost privileged spot. A road ran from the port, through the houses and farms and into the forest to reach the City, where traders took dried fish and brought back fancy wares.
But the village had a problem. Each year, when the moons aligned in summer and brought the highest tide, the Great Kulthu would rise from the depths. Huge arms like those of octopi would lash out from the waves, and lay waste to anything made by Man in the harbor or within reach on the shore. The Elden god was not pleased.
Ancient villagers, however, discovered that Kulthu wanted a sacrifice. A young, beautiful woman, to have his way with. And then he'd leave the village be. Even more than that, the seas would be plentiful, the weather balm, and the winds kind for the catch. Other towns, even cities with their mighty galleys, their priests and shamans, did not dare encroach on the village. Their ships would be turned away by foul tides. The village of a few thousand people had found an idyllic place in a twisted and tortured world. But, it came at a price.
Analiah was just a farm girl; The Great Kulthu did not care about social rank. No. Each year, all the women who had not yet born children were taken to the temple. It was a stone structure at the top of the bluff, where villagers rendered their cult to the Elden god who protected them. There, the most fertile, whether the daughter of the Lord Mayor or one of the scullery slaves, was selected. Even women traveling through the village could be selected.
The priestesses and all the villagers cheered and praised Analiah, telling her what an honor it was, and how grateful they were. It wasn't terrible, she was told. Most of the girls were left behind by the Great Kulthu; and they became priestesses in his temple. She would never have to work on the farm again. But she would also never be with a boy. And there was a boy she fancied, as would be expected. She hoped he wouldn't see.
Chained in the soft surf, Analiah only had a vague idea what to expect. Most villagers fled on the day, since there was always the chance Kulthu would not be pleased with the offering. Some lingered to watch, but no one in her family had ever been stupid enough to do that. She'd heard descriptions, but they often varied and contradicted each other. She really did not know what would happen, and it got her heart racing like never before.
The lapping of the small waves as the warm water surrounded her legs and hips would have been relaxing, but it only made her more anxious. Just before the Wardens chained her, the High Priestess had offered her a small, wooden cup with a shimmering pinkish liquid.
"Trust me, it helps," the older woman said softly in a confident tone. Analiah gulped it down, and let herself be chained. It wasn't any use to protest, or to cry. Though initially a few tears had escaped. But it took the water more than an hour to rise from her feet, to surround her, to eventually almost entirely cover her legs. There had been some time to come to grips with her situation,
She was flushed, and despite the water and the soft breeze, felt hot. She was incredibly aroused, and realized what the priestess had given her. The feeling conflicted in her head, as she felt light, and a little hazy. She couldn't help imagine what the Great Kuthlu looked like, how his appendages would move, and her mind reeled as she felt waves of arousal at the thought.
The water had risen enough so that the small waves ran up between her opened legs and bobbed against her clit, sending sparks radiating up her spine. She sighed, and twisted, her body squirmed with intense arousal and even more intense fear. She looked desperately into the water to see what might happen, what was coming.
Several times she'd felt things brush against her legs, or toes, and jumped as much as the chains allowed. But they were bits of seaweed, or a fish that was perhaps a little too curious for its own good bumping into her and scurrying off. She was chained, unable to escape, her legs open and her sex completely exposed to the monsters of the sea.
The waves were sometimes smaller and sometimes a little larger. One of the larger ones washed over her quivering thighs, and she could feel the sand move beneath her buttocks and legs. When the water receded, she saw a wide, stone gray but shimmering thing laying across just above her left knee. It was just as warm as the water, so she hadn't felt it. Her hair raised up on the back of neck and head as she realized she could no longer see the sand between her legs; the water looked much darker.
There was something there!
What looked like a fat arm of a starfish, but smooth and shiny flipped wetly across her other leg, also above her knee. This time she felt it. Little suckers on the underside latched onto her skin, even as she panicked, tugging at the chains, but unable to move more than an inch.
The water was now high enough to cover almost all of her pelvis, but the waves had stopped. Instead, she felt something brush against her inner thigh, soft and fleshy. First about half-way up her knee and crotch, then suddenly it bumped both sides of her legs just inches from her entrance. It was there!
Analiah tried to make out what it looked like, but it was just dark in the water. What would it do? Would it just enter her, now, like that? She hadn't even had a man in there. She was breathing raggedly, tensing for the inevitable. Something soft, smooth but hard touched the junction between her leg and publis, on both sides. Before she could make out what was going on, two dark green, thick, tentacles came out of the water, sliding over her hips and wrapping around her waist.
The tentacles were smooth, and held her firm but not too tight. That's when she noticed that her ankles and knees had already been wrapped up. But she was more worried about what might be between her legs. What felt like soft hairs were brushing all over her pubic mound, going into every crevice, teasing between her lips and going down so far as to tickle the bottom of her buttocks where they met the sand.
The young woman's mouth was open, but it wasn't a scream. Her mind reeled when she heard herself moaning. How could she be so aroused at a time like this? As her brain tried to run away in horror, her hips actually pushed forward, lifting and offering her hole to the monster. Was- was it just that she wanted to be over quickly? She still had some of her mind left to rationalize her behavior, but she was feeling hazy and really, really just wanted to give in to the warm, wet sexual pleasure.
Then there was a large splash, sea water being thrown on her upper body that was out of the water. A couple of quick successions of splashes brought her attention up from between her legs, as she was now completely wet. Analiah looked out into the little bay that was the harbor, and saw that the water was thrashing about. There were great big coils pushing the water round, thick as tree logs but moving through the water with an ease of the smallish fish. They were all around her, it seemed. The huge tentacles surged in the water on each side, and she could see them pushing out beyond the water, as if searching for something.
But it was only a second, because her attention was immediately brought back to just in front of her, as the dark creature between her legs started to slither out of the water and up her body. It was flat-ish, almost black, smooth and wet on the top. About maybe the thickness of a hand. It had legs or arms or something like that that were like starfish, with little suckers on the underside that it slapped onto her sides as it crawled up over her tummy. The sensation of little hairs scurrying over her skin went with it.
As the creature - or maybe it was just the end of one of the other tentacles, she couldn't tell - came out of the water, she noticed that it had what appeared to be two large, purplish bulbs on its back. Or top. As it moved up her body, the bulbs rose up its back. There were what looked like little antennae wiggling across her skin. Water was now poured over her, instead of splashed, keeping her and the creature/appendage wet and warm.