Larya spun in time to see the creature emerge from beneath the sands. Her stomach dropped at the sight.
The woman had pale gray skin, breasts almost the size of a holstaur's, and long, red hair. Her eyes were large and solid, pale pink. Her lips were a deep turquoise. She had a large, statuesque build—if she'd had legs, she would surely stand close to seven feet tall.
Her lower body, though, was a mass of tentacles. Long, thick tentacles, with two extra-long arms. Her lower body was that of a giant squid.
The mermaid glared at them, hellfire dancing in her eyes. "Do you think me a fool?" she hissed, and it was the voice of the Goo Queen. "Did you think I wouldn't
save
her? My first conquest?"
"What the fuck?" Snatch said, his voice weak. "We killed you."
"You annoyed me." The giant squid maid's eyes narrowed to slits. "I will deal with
you
later. Perhaps we will have time to make you beg after all."
Larya barely had time to process this before the Goo Queen's two tentacle arms shot out. She yelped as they snaked around her torso, yanking her off her feet and away from the ground.
"And
you
," the Goo Queen said, grinning sadistically, "are
mine
!"
Larya felt the water suddenly rush around her, faster than she could think, and Snatch vanished from sight. The water roared against her face, sending her hair streaking back behind her head as she looked ahead. They were moving, she realized. Jetting. Not since the encounter with the sirens had she been moved with such blinding speed, and it made her eyes hurt to try to recognize the streaks of color they were swimming past as real three-dimensional objects.
She tested her constraints as they swam. No good. The tentacle arms were thick and tough. She might as well be trying to break steel cables.
She wondered if the smaller tentacles were softer.
When the world slowed back down, Larya found that they were no longer in the open. It was some kind of cave. The walls sparkled with glittering gemstones, and the ground was made of the same strange slick sand as the floors of the garden.
We must still be in the garden,
Larya thought.
She looked up, uncomprehending, at the Goo Queen's smug face.
"You like?" she said silkily. "I hope so. You're going to be spending a few nights here, at least."
Larya glared at the squid maid. "Why? Why do you want
me
?" As she spoke, she tried to concentrate. She had to slip into the World Base, and quick, but what could she do? This woman was too nimble. Maybe if she was closer, she could fire off a blast of boiling water again. She needed to be close, though. Too close to dodge.
"Oh." The Goo Queen tapped her lips with a finger. "Oh, that's too delicious. You still haven't guessed? What a little
bimbo
you are!"
"So tell me," Larya said. She tried to make her tone less confrontational.
I have to make her want to talk to me,
she thought desperately. She tried to put a little naiveté into her voice.
She wants a bimbo? Give her a bimbo.
"What do you want with me?" She pouted. "I'm not that sexy, am I?"
"Oh. Oh, my darling." The Goo Queen beamed. "You are that, and more. But that's not why." She pulled Larya a little closer. Now Larya was only about two meters away from the Goo Queen's perfect face. She really was beautiful, Larya thought.
Thank goodness she hasn't got hypnosis anymore, or I'd really be screwed.
"I need a vessel, you see. A druidess. One who can work magic, who can bring me to the world above."
"S-so that's it?" Larya said. "I don't understand. Why a druidess?" She wriggled slightly in her constraints, more for the effect. "If you just want my help getting to the surface, I-I could cast some spells for you! Pretty please?"
"Oh, no." The Goo Queen pulled her closer still.
So close. Just a bit nearer ...
"My dear little ditz, I want
you
." Her eyes glimmered with demonic light. "I want your hot little body. I want those plush lips, that shining hair. I want to be inside you. I want to wear you and ... and ... oh, fuck." The tentacles started to pull Larya closer. Larya squirmed slightly.
Here it comes ...
"You will be my vessel as we conquer the earth."
"O-oh yeah?" Larya gave a little vapid giggle. "You and what army?"
I'm so close. So close!
The Goo Queen pulled Larya up until Larya was just a foot away. "When I possess you," she whispered, "we'll breed one."
Larya closed her eyes and entered the World Base. That was it. It was time to tell the water to heat up and...
... and...
She wriggled slightly and frowned. Something was distracting her. Her legs were held tightly closed by the tentacle arms, but something soft and slippery was tickling around her groin. Distracting her. Teasing her, almost.
She wriggled more fiercely. It wouldn't be distracting her so much if it would just get inside her, she was sure, but it was driving her
mad
on the outside. She groaned and tried to spread her legs, but the tentacle arms were holding them shut. "F-fuck!"
It didn't matter. None of it mattered. She was in the World Base. She could feel the presence of fey, could taste the overwhelming weight of millions of tons of seawa—
"Aah!" Her eyes flew open as the tentacle slipped into her. They widened. "F-fuck!"
"Is there a problem, my little harlot?" the Goo Queen asked sweetly.
Larya's eyes hummed with the intensity as she felt her connection to the World Base ... shift. Wriggle. Tickle. Writhe. "Oh!" she cried, feeling the tentacle squirm inside her. "Oh, f-fuck! S-stop!"
The World Base—the mass of grays and blues and greens that showed her this place's true connection to nature, that captured utterly her every physical sense—was changing before her eyes. Its music began to take a different tempo. The smell turned harsh and saccharine. Something felt wrong.
She tried to close her legs, but they had opened, and now the tentacle arms were holding them open, just a bit. The Goo Queen's tentacles were sliding up around her, now, immersing her lower body in their soft touches.
Larya shuddered. The worst part was,
she was in the World Base.
Every sensation—every touch of the tentacles along her clit, every tickle along her thigh—was magnified. The presence of this fey woman intoxicated her, as the fey always did, and the richness of the nature around her held her spirit in longing. But there was more. Something ... foul, something
wonderful
. Her spirit quailed at it. Her spirit begged for it.
The World Base was changing, morphing, as some new presence started to seep into it. She hadn't noticed at first—it must have started the moment she'd entered—but now it was rising up to her ankles. The World Base seemed to be filling with poisonous honey. Sweet and acrid, sunset-orange, a lilting and disturbing song. Spiders danced on her treacherous skin.
More tentacles were slipping into her pussy now, and Larya jumped as she felt more snaking around her backside, trying to slip into her rear. She moaned in fear, but the World Base would not allow her to tighten. Indeed, it urged her to spread further. The sensuous invasion spread higher, and she could taste the sweet, spicy essence on her tongue. It was the taste of a
will
. And even from that little taste, she could sense just how much greater that will was than her own.
She bucked slightly as a slender little tentacle slipped inside her ass.
"Little bimbo ... what have you gotten yourself into?"
Now the stimulation was becoming dangerous. She started to buck and moan as the tentacles worked their will within her from both ends, stimulating her labia, her clit, making her cry out and ... and ...
"OH!"
Larya screamed. She bucked into the tentacles' attention, spreading her legs wider. "Oh,
fuck!
"
Her mind was in ecstasy. Her spirit was in heaven. And her entire body was immersed in the sticky, spidery touches of the World Base. Something about it was so
perverse
, and yet she felt a smile spreading across her face. Some part of her simply
didn't care.
And it terrified her beyond all reasonable thought. She leaned into the tentacles, finding her arms free, allowing them to run over her breasts with their wet, slippery embrace.
"I will make you beg for this," the Goo Queen cooed. "Would you like that, bimbo?"
Larya was caught by the World Base's two forms—the strange new will, and her old, dwindling supply of whatever it had been before. One guided her towards lust and submission, the other towards pure, irrational terror, a panicked rabbit fleeing without any reason in its miniscule head. She stared up at the Goo Queen, her eyes full of equal parts fear and desire, and forced out a defiant cry. Or what was intended as one.
"
... naaaaghfuckfuckFUCK ...
"
"Such spirit," her lover enthused. "And such
lust
. I will teach you to
always say yes
." The tentacles surged upwards into Larya, making her vision turn spotty. "I will teach you to
always want more
." They surged in again, and Larya's eyelids fluttered. They were so gentle, and yet so
much
.