Earth - Tentacle Breeding Ground Ch. 04

Sarah was still curious as to why both human and bellus females had permanently enlarged mammaries - a trait otherwise unique to humans - but she figured that A'luhr would have no idea either, so she didn't bother bringing it up.

The team assembled at the front door of the mansion and, after some glances out the windows to make sure the coast was clear, slipped outside into the overcast afternoon. They stealthy shuffled down the sides of the road, expertly ducking between parked cars, fences, and bushes as they went. Sarah nervously watched the skies for any signs of the dragonflies, but the thick layer of murky clouds in the sky made it difficult to have complete confidence each time she confirmed there were none of the creatures in sight.

Eventually, the university buildings came into sight at the end of the block and they hunkered down behind a fence to get a gauge on the situation. They could see the doorway that A'luhr had been attempting to bash open before. As Steven had claimed, it was no longer obstructed by the ichor, which seemed to have been melted away. All of the other doors they could see were still blocked by the hard substance, however.

"Maybe your tool malfunctioned and managed to destroy the gunk, then fell to the ground and got blown away in the storm?" Zoey suggested.

"That is a possibility," A'luhr agreed, still seeming a bit suspicious.

"Let's go check it out," Adam whispered. "Zoey and Steven, you watch our sides, A'luhr, cover our six, Sarah-"

"Six?" A'luhr was puzzled.

"...Watch behind us. Sarah, you keep your eyes on the skies. I'll move in front so if anything happens I'll be the one to bite it and the rest of you will have a chance to react."

"But that's-" Sarah started to object.

"I have complete faith in all of you." Adam cut her off and nodded to the group. "We need to move before something finds us. Let's go!"

They krept out across the street towards the doorway, constantly swiveling their heads around to check for danger. Sarah could only imagine that the Lucky Charms she had eaten a week ago had really worked some leprechaun magic, seeing as they had yet to encounter a single Taker since the day they had escaped the bunker.

They got to the door without incident and crouched down as Adam peered in through the lightly tinted glass.

"It seems pretty clear inside," he breathed. "Save for some overturned furniture."

"Do any of you have your ID cards to get in?" Steven asked, realizing that there was a card reader next to the door.

"That would have been a good thing to check beforehand, eh?" Adam gave him a look. "I do, but we actually won't even need em. The locks operate on an electric timer - I helped install them myself actually - and if the power ever goes out, they become disabled as a safety feature." He grabbed the door handle and slowly swung it open to prove his point.

"Ah, excellent," Steven coughed. "Just as I planned."

"You never cease to amaze me..." Zoey said, moving into the dark building with the rest of the group.

"Naturally." He winked back at her. She rolled her eyes, which had started to become somewhat of a trademark for her when near her brother.

"Wow this is... eerie." Sarah whispered as they walked through the shadowy interior. She was no stranger to seeing the halls empty as professors often worked in the buildings during the Summer months to adjust the curriculum and take workshops, but seeing the campus totally dark and derelict sent a chill up her spine.

"Where is the chemistry storage?" Adam asked her.

"I'm actually not super sure..." Sarah admitted. "I guess it's probably near the bio storage, which is on the top floor at the other end of this building."

"Of course it is."

"It's not like the building planners had 'ease of access during alien invasion' on their minds when designing the layout." Sarah shrugged. They entered into one of the many small cafe areas, which was well-lite by the large windows lining the wall. Sarah noted with alarm that almost none of the baked goods still on display had mold on them. They were certainly sure to be hard as rock - though whether or not they had always been that way was up for debate. Sarah didn't much care for the college food services.

Suddenly, a loud clang and the sound of falling metal struck the floor behind them, tearing Sarah from her thoughts as she and Adam jumped in surprise and spun on their heels to face the incoming attack that they were sure was heading their way.

"S-sorry! Fuck! Sorry!" Steven stammered. "I didn't even see that!" It seemed that he had bumped into a small table and sent a food tray tumbling to the tiled floor, sending the silverware skittering away from the light of the windows and into the darkness deeper into the room.

They stood frozen for a second before all releasing a sigh of relief.

"Be careful, idiot!" Zoey hissed at him. "You're gonna get us all fucked! Literally!" Sarah raised her eyebrow at the pun, which was unexpected from the girl. "S-sorry..." She meekly chuckled. "I've kinda been holding onto that one for a while." The rest of them giggled as well, except A'luhr who was squinting her eyes and staring off into the darkness where the silverware had landed. Her eyebrows twitched as if trying to get a read on something.

Then, out of the surrounding darkness, they heard the sound of a table slowly screeching along the floor.

"Th-that isn't me..." Steven whispered in a barely audible, hoarse voice.

"Nobody... make... a sound..." Adam said through clenched teeth. Sarah desperately willed her heart to stop pumping so loudly. It was deafening in her ears and she was convinced that anyone in a fifty foot radius would easily be able to hear it. She gulped and felt her mouth become dry with fear.

They all fought to hide their shaky breaths, but it was a losing battle as a sense of dread began to wash over them as something else crashed to the floor in the shadows, closer than the previous sound had been.

Out of the corner of her eye, Sarah saw A'luhr very slowly draw a sparkler out of her waistband and hold it to the blade of the dagger at her hip, ready to strike it at a moment's notice. Sarah gripped her own sparkler with white knuckles, trying to quietly fumble through her pocket for her lighter.

"Stupid!" She thought. "Why wasn't I on guard!?" She inwardly cursed her own carelessness.

They stood otherwise motionless for what felt like several minutes without hearing anything else. Just as Sarah was about to take a breath in relief and suggest it was just a rodent or something, A'luhr suddenly whipped her hand away from her hip, igniting the sparkler on the blade of the dagger and thrusting the spraying lights in front of her in one fluid motion. Something humanoid was vaguely illuminated standing a few feet away from them in what had previously been complete darkness.

"UAAHHH!" Zoey shouted as the rest of the group stumbled back in surprise. Their shock only increased in magnitude however as, at the same time,

"HIIEEEE!!" A woman's shrill voice rang out in fear near where A'luhr was brandishing her sparkler. With an acrobating motion, A'luhr spun towards the source of the sound, sweeping the woman's legs out from under her and drawing a dagger to her throat with one hand while holding the sparkler up to the panicking woman's face.

"Why do you hunt us?" A'luhr growled. "Speak now or lose that privilege forever!"

"I-I-I-I- Please don't eat me! Oh god! No! Please!" The woman cowered in terror at the unearthly sight of A'luhr's inhuman features, made even more pronounced by the wildly dancing lights of the sparkler that lit her face.

"W-wait! A'luhr, stop!" Zoey shouted out, running over to the two of them. "P-professor Wilde!?"

"Z-Zoey? Zoey Jones is that you!?" The woman stuttered. "Don't let this thing get me! Please!"

"Thing!?" A'luhr spat in dismay.

"It's okay, A'luhr!" Zoey pleaded with her. "She's my Life Sciences professor! I know her!"

"Hmph," A'luhr snorted, standing back and allowing Zoey to help the woman up off the floor. "And why, exactly, were you lurking in the shadows watching us? Waiting to pounce when our backs were turned to steal our equipment?"

"N-no!" The woman said, flustered. She straightened out her wrinkled dress and adjusted her large glasses as she stepped forward into the light. Sarah wasn't particularly familiar with all of the general ed professors, but she did vaguely recognize the women. She looked to be in her late 40's, with a narrow frame, long, dirty-blonde hair that was in complete disarray, dark brown eyes that were magnified through her lenses, and a surprisingly full bosom... though Sarah didn't want to be impolite and stare. "I was just approaching to see if you were friendly but then I saw this... creature standing there and thought you were all like that! I froze up!"

"Everyone, this is Professor Mary Wilde." Zoey briefly introduced her to the rest of the group, ending with A'luhr, who was still eyeing the frail-looking woman suspiciously. "...And this is A'luhr. As you have guessed, she's... not from around here... but she's been a huge help! You can trust her!"

"I... I see...!" Mary stammered. "A pleasure, I'm sure." She said, shaking everyone's hand, except for A'luhr's who refused to take it. Sarah wasn't sure if she didn't understand the custom or simply had a distaste for the woman. "I've been hiding here all alone for months now! Giant monsters are roaming the streets but they didn't seem to find me in here! So I've been surviving off of the food in storage and the water in the toilet reservoirs! Just what is going on out there!?"

"We really don't have time to explain, Mary," Adam calmly said. "We need to get to the chem lab storage as quickly and quietly as possible. Do you know where it is, exactly?"

"Why, yes! Yes I do!" She bobbed her head up and down. "I've passed by it a few times!"

"Awesome!" Steven pumped his fist. "Can you take us there?"

"Of course! Just follow me!"

The group looked at each other and shrugged, walking after the woman. A'luhr seemed to relent and tossed her spent sparkler onto the floor as they went. They quietly winded their way down a few other halls and up some short flights of stairs, heading towards the science wing. The finally got up to a long skybridge that led into the next area, with large windows forming the walls on both sides and offering a spectacular view of the campus ground. As the group filed across it, Sarah noticed something strange in the well-lit corridor: Mary seemed to be tracking a thin, wet trail along the floor from underneath her dress as she walked.

"So... Mary... was it?" Sarah quietly spoke up, slightly slowing her pace.

"Y-yes?" The woman in the lead responded, looking over her shoulder.

"How did you manage to avoid being dragged away back the first day of all this? We saw the school - it was completely overrun!"

"I suppose I just got lucky?" She shrugged and adjusted her glasses. "I'm sure there were several others who got away as well. How silly that we were in such a panic despite being right next to a trove of magnesium throughout the attack!"

Sarah stopped in her tracks, making Zoey bump into her back by mistake.

"How did you know we were here for magnesium...?" Sarah slowly asked in a cautious voice. "We never said anything about that." The woman abruptly came to stop with her back still turned to the rest of the group. Sarah felt her face lose its color as she reached behind her to motion for Zoey to step back. Suddenly, Mary let out a small, giddy laugh.

"It doesn't really matter why you're here." She smiled at them. "You will soon know the warmth of the Krinis's embrace, just as I have."

"EVERYONE, GET BA-!" Sarah started to shout, but it was too late.

SMASH!

Several flying Takers suddenly crashed through the glass windows of the skybridge, sending glass flying. Mary laughed drunkenly as she watched the creatures lash out at the group with dozens of nimble tentacles.

"FUCK!" Steven yelled as tentacles wrapped around his limbs, knocking the sparkler from his hand. The rest of the humans weren't faring much better. Adam was grunting and struggling in vain against the powerful appendages tightly binding his arms to his sides, while poor Zoey couldn't even make any sound at all as tentacles had already completely engulfed her upper body all the way up to the top of her head. Her flailing legs kicked at the air as the creature started to take flight.

Suddenly, her face burst free of the tentacles, allowing her screams to echo around the surrounding campus. Sarah had managed to light her sparkler in time, already having her lighter ready to go from earlier. She scared off one of the Takers that had targeted her and quickly spun around to slice through the tentacles binding Zoey, which turned to ash as the monster shrieked in agony.

"I knew this woman was a danger!" A'luhr yelled, fighting off two of the Takers at once while dual-wielding sparklers. "She is a thrall to the Krinis, just like your friends!" A'luhr pivoted and vaulted towards the woman, ready to take her down, striking at the scattered Takers along the way.

"They Krinis are kind masters," Mary replied, now lewdly fondling her own modest chest and rubbing her fingers against the crotch of her dress, which was getting damper by the second. "They show you a happiness that was impossible in our imperfect world before. Do not resist their love! Join us in ecstasy!" As she shouted the last line of her speech, several tentacles suddenly slithered out from under the hem of her dress, as if exiting from her vagina.

The tendrils shot out and caught the surprised A'luhr in midair, holding all four of her limbs in a spread eagle position. Mary laughed gleefully as she watched the alien woman struggle valiantly against the tentacles before staring daggers at her captor.

"A'LUHR!" Steven hollered. Sarah had freed him from his captor and he fell to the ground, scrambling to pick up the sparkler he had dropped. He didn't get a chance to do anything though as A'luhr had already made her move.

Looking down at the writhing woman below her, A'luhr seemed to give up her fight, the sparklers slowly beginning to die in her hands. But suddenly, a light gleamed in her eyes and she flicked the glowing sticks into the air above her head, deftly catching them with her long eyebrow antennae. She swung her head forward and jammed the smoldering ends of the sparklers into one of the tentacles binding her, slicing through it and creating a blistering wound.

The squirming mass between Mary's legs suddenly jerked around in pain, knocking the woman off of her fee. A'luhr had apparently been aiming to completely sever all of her bonds with her last stunt, but one around her left ankle still remained, leaving her hanging upside down and causing the loose fabric of her tank top to fall over her face, exposing her tightly restrained chest and blocking her vision. She attempted to blindly swing up at the last tentacle but wasn't quite able to reach it.

Steven dashed forward as Sarah and Zoey continued to push back the three remaining Takers with their rapidly weakening sparklers, trying to push past them to save Adam. Steven leapt into the air, his sparkler outstretched towards the tentacle around A'luhr's leg. She managed to push the tank top out of her eyes and, as if in slow motion, the two of them locked eyes for a moment... before the flailing tentacles holding A'luhr up suddenly and violently hurled her through the broken glass wall and down to the ground three stories below.

"NO!" Steven shrieked, rushing over to the gap where she had just been seconds before. As he neared the opening, he heard his sister let out a shrill shout from behind him,

"STEVEN!"

His world went black as a flying Taker blasted through the hole he was standing next to, ensnaring his entire body with one flourish of its tentacles before rocketting off into the clouds on the other side of the skybridge.

Sarah faltered in shock after seeing A'luhr get thrown from the building and Steven taken away by the flying monster. This opening was all that the other Takers needed, especially now that her sparklers were little more than charred rods at this point.

"S-SARAH! HELP M-!" Zoey shrieked as tentacles once again quickly wrapped around her curvy body, dragging her into the sky towards her brother, and leaving her broken glasses on the floor.

Adam had also been grabbed again and the tentacles were quickly winding their way over his muscular form. He struggled and bit at tentacles, but it did little more than annoy them.

"SARAH!" He yelled, snapping her out of her shock. "GET THE MAGNESIUM FROM THE LAB! GO! WE'LL FIND A WAY T-" His voice was silenced by several thick, slimy tentacles that engulfed his head. Sarah watched in despair as her boyfriend got lifted away by the winged abomination, leaving her alone on the skybridge with Mary.

Sarah didn't have time to mourn and curse for being so foolish as to go along with such a risky plan. She started to sprint down the hall past Mary, who had stripped completely naked and now seemed to be lost in orgasmic spasms. She reached the end of the skybridge and grabbed the doors to throw them open, but suddenly she felt powerful tendrils grab her limbs from behind and drag her backwards towards the ceiling.

She was spun around to face Mary, who had regained her composer. Sarah confirmed that the several tentacles binding her were indeed protruding from the inside of Mary's gushing slit. Her large, sagging breasts jiggled as she laughed up at Sarah's struggling form. She reeled Sarah closer and ran a hand up under her shirt, sliding a thin finger under the center of her bra and between her heaving boobs.

Sarah gritted her teeth as Mary teasingly tickled her cleavage with a long fingernail and ran another hand down her waist to squeeze at her firm ass, letting out a cheerful giggle.

"You've been with us before..." Mary said in a whimsical voice. "Mmm... how I'd love to welcome you back personally..." She moved her hand from Sarah's butt and gentle rubbed the bound woman's crotch. "But our mother wants to have a word with you first." Mary's face dropped into a pout. "I'll come visit you soon so we can play though, doesn't that sound nice, hm?"

"Fuck. You." Sarah growled defiantly.

"No, no - didn't you hear what I just said? That comes later." Mary beamed and then, without warning, her tentacles threw Sarah bodily out of the skybridge.

Sarah screamed as she tumbled through the air but the sounds of her distress were quickly muffled as another Taker shot down from the clouds and snatched her up before she could even fall a single story. The last thing she saw before her eyes were covered by squirming tentacles was a glimpse of A'luhr's crumpled form, shakily rising to her feet far below, with a small silver orb in her hand.