Melia - Chapter 8
By Darkage
(c) July, 2001


Chapter 8

Alara eventually rose and trudged up the muddy shore, 
into the forest alone. She was lost and terribly 
afraid. Tears ran down her cheeks again as she thought 
of her beloved Melia. At some point, she lay down upon 
the forest floor and fell into a troubled sleep.

The next day, she rose and continued walking away from 
the river. As she stumbled on, the forest grew thinner 
and the air hotter. Patches of sunlight penetrated the 
canopy overhead, lighting up the forest with a golden 
glow. 

Hours later, as the sun climbed high in the sky, the 
tree cover broke and Alara stepped out of the forest. 
She stood at the edge of a cliff. Before her lay a 
deep valley, cut into the stony ground. The drop was 
sheer where she stood, but on either side the cliffs 
had long since eroded and piles of fallen boulders led 
gradually down to the valley floor. Curiously enough, 
there was a small hut of hardened clay in the center 
of the valley. Her first thought was to simply walk 
around the valley and continue on her way. On her way 
to where, however? Alara thought about it and decided 
that, dangerous as it may be, she'd better seek help 
in this remote valley, for it could be days or weeks 
until she next came to some vestige of civilization. 
She along the edge of the cliff for a long time until 
she came at last to a climbable rockslide. Cautiously, 
she began to make her way down the rocks.

As she climbed, the sun climbed higher and the air 
grew hot. The sun burned brightly down upon the pale 
rocks around her, which radiated heat and caused her 
to perspire, soaking through her tattered clothing. 
Finally, after nearly a half an hour, Alara reached 
the sandy valley floor. It was enormous, far larger 
than it had appeared from the cliff, stretching at 
least a mile wide and perhaps two long. The floor of 
the valley was hard clay and rock, all a pale 
brownish-yellow color, and pebbles were strewn about, 
making walking slightly painful on Alara's tender bare 
feet. Looking around cautiously, she decided the place 
looked to be abandoned, but was unsure whether this 
was good or bad. Slowly, she crept toward the clay 
hut, which lay a couple hundred feet from her.

Alara's heart beat fast within her chest at the sight 
of bones upon the rock floor. She was only about fifty 
feet from the hut now and, looking around quickly, she 
noticed that much of what she had taken to be pebbles 
lying upon the valley floor was in fact small bits of 
sun-bleached bone. To her right lay a half a chest of 
ribs. Terrified though she was, she continued on, her 
curiosity peeked. Besides, what other options did she 
have? What she found in the hut turned her stomach. On 
the floor lay a half-decayed, half-eaten human body. 
It was mangled nearly beyond recognition. She doubled 
over and wretched, nearly vomiting. After a couple of 
dry heaves, she regained enough self control to stand 
up and run from the hut, heading back towards the 
rockslide from which she'd come. Suddenly something 
snapped around her ankle and she hit the ground with a 
thud. Her ankle throbbed with pain and, looking back, 
she saw that she stepped upon some kind of snare 
fashioned from bone and twine. She turned her face to 
the sky, screamed, "HELP!" and suddenly realized her 
terrible mistake.

Something moved over by the rock pile. She saw some 
sort of creature crawl from a crevice between two 
large boulders. It was roughly humanoid, but its arms 
were unusually longer than proportional. Though 
immensely fat in the midsection, its arms and legs 
were long and scrawny, covered in reddish hair, and 
its picked its way down the rocks with incredible 
speed and ease. It moved somewhere between upright and 
all fours, lumbering across the valley floor nearly 
sideways.

As the creature lumbered near, Alara looked with 
terror upon its face. Beneath a sloped forehead it had 
tiny, close-set eyes, a fat nose, and an unusually 
wide mouth. Its floppy, bat-like ears poked from 
beneath its ratty hair, which was a dirty reddish-
brown. It had the evil, drooling sneer of the 
demented, and its many chins folded into its fat neck. 
Though thick hair covered its arms and the tops of its 
hands and feet, the rest of its pale-skinned body was 
very nearly bald. It was naked, save for a tightly 
wrapped loincloth. Alara thought it seemed at first to 
be a female, for two ugly, droopy breasts hung from 
its chest, but there was a fearful bulge in its 
loincloth, which left her uncertain of its gender.

As it approached, a terrible stench accompanied it. To 
her horror, Alara saw that clutched in its left hand 
was a bone, still covered with some bloody meat. The 
thing plopped itself down a few feet from the snared 
girl, its immense belly hanging over it loincloth. 
Staring at the girl with hungry eyes, it tore a bit of 
meat from its bone with its big yellow teeth. 
Paralyzed with fear, the girl lay still as it flashed 
a huge grin at her, blood and drool dripping from its 
wide lips.

It sat leisurely for a while, picking the bone clean. 
When it was done, the creature leaned forward, its 
flabby belly and breasts hanging beneath its body, and 
reached a long arm out toward her. With its long, 
hairy hand, it grabbed the girl's blouse. Alara 
swatted at its hand, but this only elicited an 
expression of rage from the beast and she quickly 
stopped resisting. It tore the blouse from her body, 
exposing her beautiful, smooth back to the harsh, 
bright daylight. It pulled at the blouse, tearing it 
to shreds, and looked down at the girl that lay at its 
feet. 

The beast lifted itself from the ground and stood to 
its full height, nearly eight feet tall, before the 
naked girl. It unwrapped its loincloth, which made its 
stench even worse, and Alara's heart beat fast with 
fear at the sight of the frightfully large flaccid 
penis that dangled amidst thick red hair between its 
legs. Closing her eyes and pressing her face to the 
ground in fear, Alara whimpered pitifully as the beast 
leaned over her body, but was surprised to feel it 
fiddle with the snare and release her ankle from its 
terrible grip. Any thoughts of escape, however, were 
crushed as she felt the beast's large, strong hands 
grab her legs and spread them wide before him. He 
supported his enormous weight on his left hand as he 
leaned over the girl's prone body, and he slipped 
right hand under her smooth belly, lifting her ass up 
towards him.

Her face pressed into the ground, Alara panted with 
fear. She could feel the heat of the enormous beast's 
body on top of her. She felt the heat increasing 
behind her ass as it began lowering its crotch towards 
her, and she squirmed in its grasp, pressing her 
thighs together tightly. Angered, the large beast atop 
her grunted with rage. Again, its fearful anger 
paralyzed her, and Alara's body hung limp in its 
grasp. Her mind weary, in a haze of fear, Alara was 
dimly aware of her legs being spread wide again. She 
felt the beast push itself into her vagina, filling 
her painfully with his beastly member. She passed out 
at some point as the enormous creature pounded into 
her over and over, raping her upon the hard valley 
floor.


Alara awoke in darkness. She could not remember 
exactly what had happened, or where she was, but the 
foul odor that filled the dank air brought the 
memories painfully back to her. She seemed to be in a 
small cave, and small cracks between the boulders let 
in tiny rays of sunlight, providing minimal lighting. 
She crept toward a large patch of light and found that 
it was the entrance. Some large thing lay blocking the 
cave's entrance. Rose and fell as if with breath and 
Alara realized with terror that it was the beast that 
had raped her. Now it kept her captive, blocking the 
cave's only exit with its own enormous body. He was 
asleep, she realized, and the girl began trying to 
creep over his body. She had to actually climb up his 
body to get past him. As she did, however, his ugly 
snoring stopped suddenly and he grabbed her leg, 
pulling her to the floor. The foul creature pulled her 
close and started licking her skin. Alara screamed and 
swatted at the beast, smacking him above the eye. 
Infuriated, the beast grabbed her with one enormous 
hand and dragged her from the cave. He threw her body 
over his shoulder and began climbing up the rocks. One 
hand wrapped tightly around her ankles, he climbed 
with his other three limbs until he reached the level 
ground high above the valley floor.

He lumbered along the edge to the cliff where Alara 
had originally emerged from the forest. Laying her on 
her back with her head hanging over the edge of the 
cliff, he pinned her down with one hand while with the 
other he started unwrapping his loincloth. Alara 
looked down her naked body and saw that as he knelt 
there holding her, his penis was growing rigid and 
thick. The beast knelt on the ground and spread her 
legs wide before him. Holding her thighs apart, he 
lowered his enormous member, already dripping with 
pre-come, towards the swollen lips between her legs. 
He slipped the head of his penis into her and her 
labia hugged his shaft just beneath his glans. He then 
grabbed her sides and slid her towards the edge of the 
cliff. Her head and shoulders hung over the edge and, 
her heart pounding with fear, Alara looked back past 
her blond, dangling hair at the terrifying drop. She 
whimpered and squirmed away from the edge, impaling 
herself on the beast's member. The lips between her 
thighs stretched to accommodate his thick shaft as it 
slipped further into her.

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