The Wild Wood
Ellie tripped on another tree root and cursed at their silly decision to walk home through the wood. It was good to have a weekend away in the countryside, the cottage they were staying in was beautiful and the local pub had been charming. She had tried a local cider called "Wild Man", that had been potent and far too drinkable. The landlord had laughingly told her to be careful, he had claimed that the cider was strong enough to give people wild hallucinations, especially those that were not country folk. She had thought that the jolly old man was teasing, but now, in the summer darkness of an ancient woodland, she began to wonder if he had been right. The trees here were all too large and too twisted to be real, surely?
"Are we still even on the path?" she asked her boyfriend, giggling at their predicament. For now it felt better to joke about it. They were not really lost. There was plenty of light from the full moon, though the silvery luminescence only added to the strangeness of the dark woods.
"Of course we are," he replied, though he sounded far from confident.
"At least I've got you to keep me safe," she said, teasingly punching his muscular bicep. He did make her feel protected, it was true. He was tall, muscular and not afraid to get rough. He was especially good at getting rough in the bedroom, as she had been finding out to her delight. This cottage weekend had given them both plenty of time and space to show their real selves. Ellie was shamelessly submissive and her boyfriend was really getting the hang of dominating her. They were both aching to get back to the cottage and enjoy another round of daring carnality. Ellie hoped that the cider would make them both even more uninhibited.
"Don't worry, baby, nothing in these woods is scarier than me," he said, pretending to growl.
"You sound like a werewolf," she joked, squeezing his arm as they walked along, doing their best not to stumble on the meandering path.
"There probably are werewolves around here," he said, grinning in the moonlight. "Remember what the landlord said? There used to be a wild man living in these woods."
"I thought he said that was the ghost of a wild man?" she asked. She could not remember all of the silly conversations they had enjoyed. The landlord had kept them amused with tall tales and ridiculous jokes.
"Did he say ghost or spirit? I don't know. He said it was big and hairy. Like the English bigfoot. Still, you like big hairy guys, right?" he said, wrapping an arm around her shoulders and kissing her neck, his beard tickling her.
"Save that for the cottage!" she giggled. "I'm not fucking out here, we'd get bitten by a fox or something."
"More likely we'd be stung by nettles. I don't fancy taking my kit off in a nettle patch. You're the masochist, not me," he joked.
Suddenly they both froze. There had been an odd noise, a loud rustling, as though something large was breaking through branches, pushing through the bracken.
"What's that?!" Ellie gasped, suddenly letting genuine fear surface through the jokes.
"Maybe a deer?" he whispered back to her, wrapping her in his arms protectively. "We should be careful, if it's spooked, it might be dangerous. Just stay still and let it go by."
Ellie peered desperately at the shadowy woods, trying to make sense of the tangled shapes of trees. There was something large, a deeper patch of shadow, that was moving out of the woods and onto the path. It was certainly tall. It was taller than Ellie and taller than her boyfriend. At first she told herself it had to be a deer, she could see its antlers rising up against the full moon. It was the wrong shape, though. No deer was so tall and so broad. No deer had massive shoulders. No deer walked on two legs. The ominous shadow stared down at them.
"What the fuck? What the fuck?!" Ellie's boyfriend said, his voice hollow.
The huge shadow stepped towards them, one massive hand outstretched, the palm facing them. It might have been a greeting, but Ellie thought it looked like a command. The creature was telling them to stop.
"It can't be... must be a dream... it can't...!" Ellie's boyfriend slurred. His voice was weak and faltering. Perhaps the fear of this ancient, otherworldly presence was too much for him. Perhaps the pub's strange cider really did have hallucinogenic properties. Whatever the truth might be, it was certain that he was losing consciousness.
"No! No, don't faint! Stay with me! Help me!" Ellie cried desperately, clinging to her boyfriend as the antlered giant stood watching them, its hand still outstretched.
It was no good. Her boyfriend had slumped to the ground, breathing heavily, collapsing into the rustling bracken.
"Oh my god no!" screamed Ellie. "Help! Someone help!" She had never felt such terror. She had experienced nightmares and she had known fear in real life, but this was something new. She was encountering something beyond her understanding, beyond her world. There was no point in denying what she saw. Some old forest god, a spirit out of folk tales, had found her. She turned and ran. She felt a stab of shame for leaving her boyfriend in the woods, but she had to escape the shaggy monster that had towered over them.
She heard its footfalls immediately. She thought that the ground might even be shaking, though that might be her pounding heart. The monster made a terrible sound, a roaring growl. It was demanding something. It sounded as though it might be hungry. It sounded as though it wanted her. Ellie screamed again, wordlessly, a shriek of true terror.
In a sudden, sickening jerk, the world spun around her. She thought that she had tripped and fallen spectacularly, but the grip on her ankles told her otherwise. The creature had grasp her and lifted her from the ground, turning her upside down with ease. The strength of it horrified her. There was nothing she could do against such power.
It was hard to make sense of the monster. Being lifted into the air had dizzied her, but she tried to see what the beast looked like. She had an impression of a huge, powerful body that was covered in shaggy hair. The head was perhaps like a man's, but the long hair and beard made it impossible to identify features other than black eyes and a wide mouth of strong white teeth. Then there were the antlers. If she had seen a picture of such a monster, she might have found it absurd. Seeing the beast face to face, she felt nothing but terror. She screamed in horror as the creature drew her easily towards it's mouth. She shut her eyes and waited for it to bite her with that huge, powerful mouth.
The monster's muzzle thrust between her legs, her legs spread wide as the thing's huge hands grips her by the ankles. A tongue, longer and thicker than any human tongue, began to lick powerfully at her thong, tasting her and soaking her with eager, hungry movements.
Ellie realized, in a moment of total clarity, that the creature was not going to eat her. It wanted something quite different. The roar had not been hunger, it had been a noise of utter lust.
This thought horrified Ellie even more and she shrieked desperately, writhing her body uselessly. She screamed out to her boyfriend, "Help me! Stop it! It's licking me! Help me!"
The creature was breathing hard and heavy, its hot breath billowing up between her thighs as she writhed helplessly, her hair and her dress swaying. The long tongue was skilled, pulling aside her thong to taste her more directly. The tongue slid up and down her lips, from clitoris to anus, lapping and probing. Then, with a forceful movement, the tongue pushed deep into her and she squirmed, groaning in disgust as the monster tasted inside her, the tongue almost as thick and stiff as a man's cock.