Note: This story was dynamically reformatted for online reading convenience. Notice: The subject matter within the contents of this document is unsuitable for children (and some adults), reader discretion is advised. By viewing this document, you acknowledge that it is legal in your area to view such material as contains sexual references, sexual references involving creatures other than humans, and sexual references involving creatures and humans Bestiary (nosex/non-erotic, beast, alien, rape, nc, preg, magic/scfi/fantasy) ------------------- Table of Contents Section I. - Overview Section II. - Version History Section III. - Beastiary Section IV. - Copyright Information ------------------- Section I. Overview This document is meant primarily as a scratch-pad for myself in which I describe the various creatures that I will impliment in the stories I write. This is (and will always be) a work in progress, I will include a version history below which will be fairly self-explainitory. For the purposes of this document, there is no actual activities taking place in any kind of a story setting, nor are there any characters for the reader to be worried about or feel bad for, so I didn't include such story codes, however there are graphic descriptions of the behavior of creatures that may turn off certain people, I advise persons that are extremely sensitive to rape stories to avoid this document. Furthermore, I'd like all persons reading this to remember that these creatures exist in a fantasy setting only and that any societal beliefs regarding these creatures that I have listed only work for societies that may have existed in the dark/middle ages. ------------------- Section II. Version History October 1, 2003 - Started writing, finished rapefish/whorefish and started shepard's beast. October 1, 2003 - Did some grammar fixes, however that doesn't prevent the file from looking stupid thanks to ASSTR's dynamic reformatting. ------------------- Section III. Beastiary Rapefish (other names include rapeworm and whorefish/whoreworm): Etymology: Contrary to it's most popular name, this is not a fish that rapes people, indeed, most people who are unintentionally infested with this creature don't even know it for most of it's tenure. It actually gets it's name from the fact that normal people who find that they have this parasite are usually rape victims. The rapist in question is usually infected by the rapefish by a prostitute or other woman of ill-repute, hence the second-most common name, "whorefish". "Worm" will occasionally and more accurately take the place of the word "fish" but since "fish" sounds better and was used first, most people will call it rapefish. Description: This creature is a very small, extremely thin, sliver shaped worm with a pointed head, no longer than two centimeters long. The tip of it's tail end looks flat, similar to the head but appearing to have no pointed tip, however on closer inspection the tip of the tail actually has a concave shape to it. It is perfectly round with no discernable top or bottom and most varieties of the rapefish are dull silver colored but others have a ruddy, reddish-brown color, however both are shiny and very smooth to the touch. All varieties of the rapefish are asexual/hermaphroditic, and their sexual organs, unlike most creatures are internal and never become exposed. Rapefish and Female Hosts: The rapefish subsists within the female human body by worming it's way inside of the host's uterus and feeding on the host's mensus. Hosts infected by human males have no way of knowing about the infection other than visually observing the male's semen, which will appear to have extremely small (no larger than one millimeter) line-shaped objects moving within it, at this phase the rapefish has no discernable color or shape other than being linear shaped and may be undetectable at a glance unless the male's semen is thin or unusually clear. Occasionally, the adult rapefish infesting the male may be ejected along with the male's semen but this usually doesn't happen and usually isn't noticed either. Inside the female host's body, the rapefish usually multiplies over the period of one week to a month to a number usually around 20 or 30 adults, and all of them are ejected from the host's body during menstruation, leaving behind little more than a feeling of disgust when an innocent discovers the infestation. Rapefish will not voluntarily leave the uterus under any other circumstances other than during intercourse which they can somehow detect, most likely olfactorily, and if a rapefish does leave the uterus and does not find a penis to enter, it will most likely return to the uterus, the female host usually will not feel this happening owing to the small, thin size of the creature. Rapefish and Male Hosts: The rapefish infests male hosts differently, it usually enters the host's penis before or directly after ejaculation during sexual intercourse and worms it's way up the host's urethra to just below the prostate, then attaches itself to the wall of the urethra using it's concave tail like a suction cup. The male usually does not feel this happening or if they do, they feel an odd feeling along the bottom of their penis as the creature moves upward along the urethra. Occasionally it goes into the section of the urethra within the prostate, but usually it moves quickly to it's normal location due to semenal secretions causing it to lose it's footing on the urethra. The rapefish does not eat after infesting a male and remains within the male's body for a period of up to two weeks or up to three ejaculations (whichever happens first), after which the dying rapefish is expelled from the body in the male's urine. During a male host's ejaculation, the rapefish expels it's young, usually numbering about 10 or 20 into the male's semenal fluids, which then usually infest the recipient of those fluids with 80-90% success, unless the recipient is menstruating. The rapefish cannot infest a human through anal sex and young rapefish cannot infest another male. Rapefish and Society: Given such a short lifespan, it may seem odd that such a creature has not naturally become extinct in humans. About 80% of rapefish infestations are actually voluntarily contracted, mostly by prostitutes due to the fact that the rapefish is extremely effective at preventing pregnancy. Voluntarily contracting the disease can be done by either having sex with a male known to be infested or to take an adult rapefish from a prior infestation and insert it vaginally. The number of rapefish that a female expels with her mensus is usually proportional to the number of rapefish that infested her to begin with, therefore some persons who find the infestation desirable will save all of the rapefish from a prior infestation and insert all of them back into herself. Perhaps the most unattractive part about doing this for persons who do it intentionally is the possibility (or certainty, if all of them are reused) that one or more of the rapefish will die inside of the host's body and be carried within her for weeks. Rapefish are unusually clean, which helps their survival as a species, and will carry no diseases unless they are exposed to them by direct contact, in which case the disease would probably spread without their presence anyway. Not much is generally known about the rapefish other than that it prevents pregnancy and usually infests those who visit houses of ill-repute. For this reason, rapefish infestations are either kept secret (in the case of infestation by spouses) or used as proof of rape or infidelity, which leads to all kinds of misuses since the origin of the infestation is usually said to be whatever any person wants it to be to serve their agenda. In general, for the purposes of law and justice, rapefish infestations are only taken seriously by the authority of a village or town if one is reported by the parent of a person under the age of thirteen (proof of rape since the person is under the age at which most girls marry [thirteen; keep in mind we're talking about the dark ages]; which is still subject to misuse but is far less likely) or proof of infidelity of a husband if the wife becomes suicidal (which is subject to misinterpretation since the true origin may be the wife's lover). The penalties for crimes proven by rapefish infestation are lesser than their eye-witness counterparts but are still taken seriously, especially in more superstitious, backwater areas that believe that rapefish are created within the female host's body by divine providence to show infidelity (defined as sex outside of marriage, including rape, which negates the possibility that the woman's husband infected her). In these areas, intentional infestations are a gamble or simply just don't happen among normal people because of lack of knowledge. Places with more people tend to have more information and hence more intentional infestations by normal people, this is especially true of young women who have sex outside of marriage and somewhat true of older women who don't want to have anymore children. In general, however, the majority of people will find such infestation disgusting and will avoid it, even if they know all the facts about it, unless they have been infested once by natural means, in which case the possibility of intentional infestation will rise. Shepard's Beast Etymology: This creature is primarily associated with shepards because of it's predisposition toward impregnating sheep and other cattle with it's young or carrying them off in the night to be surrogate slaves. This creature also can use humans as surrogates but is less likely to take them because of their natural fear of humans, since humans are their only real predators. Description: This creature is oddly shaped considering it's habitat, in general most varieties of these creatures are about six to ten feet long from head to tail, and resemble the loch ness monster for lack of a better comparison. The neck and tail are each between two and a half and 4 and a half feet long with the neck being slightly longer than the tail, both sticking out from a round body section, the neck of the creature is not more than four to five inches in diameter and not less than three. It has two front feet shaped somewhat like flippers that are generally not used much during movement but really just to dig with, and two back feet which are actually very tiny stumpy limbs that stick out from the body section only four inches or so and are usually tucked back against it. These two "legs" each contain a retractable claw which are only used during the creature's adolescent stage. This creature's body is mostly smooth, yet porous and contains many wrinkles in it's skin especially about the neck and tail and in the wild will exude a translucent green or semi-opaque greenish-brown slime for most of the year (mostly green). The creature's skin is actually rather pale with a slightly apricotish tint to it during most of the year and turns white during cold weather, at which time it will mostly stop producing slime from it's body to conserve heat and prevent heat transfer from it's body. These creatures also do not have any eyes, and no nasal openings, instead using their mouths to smell with and have an empathic/electromagnetic sensory ability. This ability isn't extremely special, it mearly allows the creatures to sense the presense of other animals and learn their moods through experience and direct association of a particular brainwave pattern with a particular behavior (attacking, fleeing, etc.), and mostly uses this ability to avoid possible predators. The same sensory ability also can sense electromagnetic disturbances, particularly the creatures are adept at finding exposed pieces of lodestone and will often work together to unearth large pieces of it. Also, the male of the species is slightly larger than the female of the species, especially in the diameter of the creature's neck, but there is no sensory, heirarchial, or non-sexual behavioral difference. Lastly, as I nearly failed to mention, the creature can both breathe and drink through it's tail, and almost never needs to excrete anything unless it's primary diet is nuts, all excrement is exuded along with the slime on it's body and it's usually so minute as not to be smelled or noticed, especially since it produces so much of it per day and most of what it exudes is undigested chlorophyll and undigestable starches and fiber (gives the slime it's thickness and color) General Behavior: These creatures are primarily herbivores, consuming nutritious plants and flowers for most of the year, gathering seeds to consume during winter. They are also semi-social and empathetic, and tend to gather into pods much like whales and dolphins. Larger groups have been rumored but if true are very rare and likely only exist in extremely wild areas. As mentioned above, these creatures are adept at finding lodestone and will often reside primarily in locations with an abundance of it (foothills and mountains) which often leads to conflict if the creatures run into miners or miners run into the creatures since lodestone is a ferrous material. Often the presense of these creatures is considered proof of the presense of a nearby iron vein, hence these creatures tend to remain in hiding if they reside within the mountains. In mountainous areas, the creatures tend to reside in caves and not many tend to stay in one area together due to sparse feeding grounds. If humans tend to be around the area, the creatures will line the entrance and main area of their cave with shards of lodestone and place a very large piece of it at the middle of the entrance, this will prevent any humans from carrying ferrous metallic weapons inside. It is rumored because of this that only silver weapons can harm these creatures, though that is in fact false. If these creatures reside in foothills or other forested areas, they will tend to be over electromagnetically anomylous areas just because of their genetically behavioral predisposition to do so. In these areas, they will dig burrows in the ground and will usually, given a number of years, create a network of tunnels akin to a rabbit warren. Occasionally, the creatures will unearth lodestone and put it inside the tunnels or bury it underneath the tunnel entrances to mark them as locations for other pods of these creatures to find safety or help them return home if lost. For the most part, they actually tend to stay out of their own burrows for most of the year and cover most of the entrances with rocks and dirt in the spring and unearth them at the end of autumn, leaving open just a few entrances with which they deposit seeds and nuts into then one creature guards the entrance from rodents while grazing. This behavior is supposedly to keep the interior of the burrow dry, since the creatures are slimy for 8 months of the year, which can cause problems if their burrow is waterlogged in the winter from slime. Sexual Behavior: These creatures are highly sophisticated despite their dull sounding appearance and are very clever and many consider them very cruel and vicious despite their herbivore status. The creatures owe their sophisticated nature primarily due to their high genetic overhead, that is to say that they need to be gestated for an extremely long period of time, upwards of 2 years in some cases, in order to fully develop their brains due to their highly adapted electromagnetic sense. Because of this extremely long gestation period, the body tends to grow more than what the creature's body can contain, and eventually evolved a specialized reproduction method that uses surrogate mammals that have a larger body mass than the creature itself. The method is somewhat complicated, firstly, the creatures have internal sex organs only, thus copulation is strange, the female pushes her head and neck entirely into the male's throat and into his body (the male may need to scrunch his neck up to do this) and regurgitates the egg into him, which he then swallows into a special sack and fertilizes. At this point, the male can either keep the egg or give it back to the female, how this decision is made is unknown but many believe it is related to the proportion of males to females in a pod, the member of the majority gender will carry the egg due to their expendability. At this point, the creature leaves the area of their habitation and seeks out a mammal of size no smaller than a medium/large breed dog, the minimum weight seems to be about 70 lb. and the creature will only attempt to impregnate mammals who exude pheremones or other chemical evidence that they are ovulating. Once one is found, it slowly creeps up on the creature, especially while sleeping and uses it's surprisingly strong neck and tail to constrict the creature's hind legs, then forces itself into the host's vagina, to it's cervix, and through it with it's pointed head and into it's uterus, then regurgitates the egg into the host's body and withdraws. This is the normal scenario, however the creature can adapt it's behavior depending on the behavior of humans in the area, which tend to hunt down host creatures and cull them, then kill the creature infesting the host. In such cases, the creature or perhaps the entire pod will drag the host animal away kicking and screaming, at which point the circumstances vary, some pods will immobilize the host by hobbling it (breaking it's legs and not allowing them to heal correctly) others will drop it down a hole that they've dug with an impossible incline after impregnating it. In either of the two cases, the creatures will feed the host by regurgitating food for it or having a female creature force feed it directly into the host's stomach (unlikely with larger hosts since the host may bite, most common with uncooperative human hosts). In the case of the hobbled host, the creatures will either pull it inside of a special burrow for most of the year and drag it into the main burrow for winter or leave it outside of the burrow exposed, which often leads to the host being eaten by wolves or other predators if the creatures aren't vigilant. Forced surrogates are most often reimpregnated as soon as the creature leaves the womb of the host, and often there are 3 or 4 forced surrogates kept by a pod at any one time, though most hobbled or trapped surrogates usually don't live for more than two impregnations due to nutrient loss caused by eating grass for 8 months of the year. Human surrogates that are forced are usually trapped by dropping them head first down an impossible incline because of their body structure, which allows them to move around even if hobbled, however human surrogates are not usually preferred since more humans usually come looking for the missing girl. Behavior vs Animals: These creatures tend to avoid or ignore animals unless they are breeding, and are not usually killed by predators because they have long advanced warning of them. Even though they tend to be sluggish most of the time, they prove themselves quick and agile when attacked and can often fight and kill most other creatures singlehandedly by constriction while suffering only minor injury. The creatures themselves exude no smell, the slime covering them has mostly the odor of freshly cut grass, which earns them pretty much no real predators though many insects will try (and fail) to "eat" them thinking that they are leaves, ending up drowning in their slime. Indeed, many other creatures that are used to the presense of these creatures will avoid the smell of cut grass, while the smell is a dead give-away to more observant human hunters. Behavior vs Humans: Humans rightly hate and loathe these creatures mostly because of their attacks on an owner's cattle, and often have bounties put on their heads in most towns and villages. Oddly enough, humans are the only creatures that can and do intentionally become impregnated by these creatures or keep such impregnation secret, indeed there are rumors of a secret village populated by run-aways and prostitutes that became too old that intentionally keep these creatures as pets and become impregnated by them to achieve a feeling of motherhood without having to deal with being subjugated by men, though some of them get tired of being reimpregnated after the fifth or sixth time, they're really powerless to stop it unless they want to leave (which they don't). This is of course just a rumor however there are many documented cases of individual women being kept much like pets by the creatures and can communicate with them on a rudimentary basis. Voluntary hosts are usually taken care of and provided with nuts and other food if they do not allow themselves to be force fed, and are used as more than surrogates, often used to help excavate their burrows or gather food independent from them in return for the shelter (and some say companionship) they provide. Because of the nature of mammals compared to them, the creatures may cuddle up with a forced or voluntary surrogate for warmth during winter when the creature isn't so slimy. On the other side of the coin, there are former hosts who loathed the feeling but since removing the creature is not possible, they endured its painful gestation and birth only to kill it, then began hunting the creatures anywhere they may hide. Such women (and men, possibily husbands, brothers, or children of such affected women who tried to remove the creature and ended up dying, or had to watch their family member suffer through the pregnancy) form parties and use specialized equipment to find and kill these creatures, notably they use wooden gorgets (to prevent constriction and lodestone immobilization) and armor and wooden spears and, oddly enough, serrated wooden blades though they are not sharp at all and usually don't last beyond one use without sharpening. Perhaps the most important piece of armor for women is the wooden plate they strap on to cover their genetalia. Impregnation: The way in which these creatures gestate inside the womb of other animals is not the same as a normal pregnancy, indeed the host is not actually "pregnant", they're just carrying the young inside their womb. The young creature hatches from the implanted egg after about one to five days and immediately positions itself against the surrogate's cervix and forces its tail through it, which is moderately painful at first but weakens to a dull ache or disappears. The creature then feeds on the host's mensus and begins secreting hormones into it which cause the uterine walls to produce more mensus and prepare to expand. In terms of humans, at this point in the pregnancy, the host can insert her finger and won't be able to find the tail of the creature until it's about one month along, it breathes air through its tail and will start excreting the excess iron and water out of its tail section as well as inside of the uterus, causing it to fill slightly with fluid, it will look as if the host is bleeding but actually is not, the red liquid will be thinner than blood and translucent, and if dried out it will slowly turn dark like normal blood, indeed this will probably only be noticed by the people in the setting if they actually wear undergarments or touch themselves (as they are taught not to do) and even if they do wear undergarments, they would likely be stained without the help of the creature infesting the person in question. At the end of two months, the host may be relieved about the presense of redness coming from her again even though she will feel slightly bloated, that is until the creature within her adjusts itself, at which point her vaginal cavity will immediately feel very full as the creature pushes its tail growth out of her womb, which it hadn't done since it first pushed out of her at the beginning. At this point, the host can easily touch the tail of the creature and if she so desires can play with it, it will play back, wriggling around inside of her until she stops poking it. Over the period of the next 8 months, the creature's tail and body will expand until the tail is protruding from the host's vagina about two or three feet and she looks to be about nine months pregnant. This ends its growth for the most part, it only lengthens another one foot total and widens by one inch over the next two years, at which point it will push itself out of the host. For the most part the body will be completely red from iron oxide and water excretions from its body during the entire gestation and after birth for about two weeks until it has injested enough plant material to begin turning green as it passes through the creature's body. During the gestation, after the fourth or fifth month, the creature's body will begin to dry out due to insufficient water intake and will become sticky (at this point the tail will protrude from the host's vagina about five inches give or take one or two). Knowledgeable hosts will dip the tip of the tail into a glass of water once a day and let the creature drink it, others will have a sticky feeling inside of themselves and may be a little uncomfortable, especially when the creature moves around. The creature can subsist without additional water but it is in the favor of the host to give it water. ------------------- Section IV. Copyright Information Copyright (C) 2003, "Nagru", All Rights Reserved. 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