The Light Within Ch. 04

"You are addicted to lust!" boomed the King, a bit uncannily. "It no longer matters what fills you, eh?"

My knees knocked together. "Umm, yeah."

A long, thick tendril emerged from his black mass and I flinched. I opened as something in front of me tugged on the leash and I saw he had taken in from Bonebreaker.

"Step before me, Human Female, and I will sate your addiction."

I wobbled over on the leash, my arms still bound behind me, trying to let my fear overwhelm my disgust, because in a moment he was going to know the difference. He was going to touch me.

He towered over me, over his own royal wall. My heart was trying to get out of my chest.

"I have not left you, Little Shade. And I can see you now."

"I can't see you," I whimpered in my head.

"Good," said Perikos gravely. "Then neither can any of them."

A spongy, heavy tendril came to rest on top of my head even as he held the lead. He pressed down until I lowered myself to my knees and then he gave my lead a decisive tug and I felt flat on my stomach, though I managed to spare my face.

Perhaps he had expected me to put my arms out but with the manacles that wasn't happening. A funny wave of emotion came off him; he was embarrassed to fumble when he had an audience who wanted to see prowess.

I felt a little surge of arousal ping through my body as Perikos' obliged to make it easier. I decided to gamble. "The Kragosi bound my hands, er, Leader Most...Strong and...Virile."

Rather than unbind them, a meaty tentacle flipped me over onto my back so I was lying on them.

"Human Female, as your master, you know I will have you fat with young, do you not?"

Didn't have to fake the fear part, which was good. From the sound of it he didn't care if I was fat with his young or fat with any young, so long as I was pumping 'em out.

"Please, your Highness, all I ask is that you are gentle. Human Females are fragile and, um, broken very easily. My escort can attest," I added, always a slave to my vindictive streak.

Thick, fatty tentacles wound around the naked thighs and pulled them in a V, exposing my nakedness completely.

"Yes," the King gurgled. "No one hurts my property without my permission." His hold on the leash tightened a moment.

Suddenly there was a blur of motion and then a high pitched hum that became a horrifying shriek of agony and I didn't need the metaphorical smoke to clear before I understood what had happened. I got Bonebreaker killed. Eaten. And against all sense I felt devastated.

"I would have killed him too," Perikos murmured to me and I felt another, much more powerful twinge of pleasure. I didn't want to cry, not now, even when I was feeling like bishop in a chess game. "I'm sorry, Jayne, but I need to preserve your cover."

My cover was apparently that I was turned on by cannibalism, which was thankfully one fetish I did not have. "How long am I keeping this cover up for?"

"Not much longer," Perikos assured me. "Soon he will let his guard down."

The great black mass reached down and pinched the trimmest part of my waist and the widest part of my hips. "You will be a good slave for me," he boomed, so obviously the arousal thing worked. He thought we were two peas in a pod.

A thin blunt phallus bumped the apex of my legs. "This is where you keep your children?"

I wanted to curl up and die. Instead I said, "one day."

His laugh banged like a gavel. "Ha! One day soon!"

And he pushed it into me and in my mind it was clear as the night was long that Perikos, not Evil King Blob was holding the leash and pushing a narrow appendage into pussy. Perikos was the one who chained my arms and held my thighs open.

"That's right, Sweet Shade." His music was like a lullaby. "You know nothing will have power over you but me. Your body is mine in every sense. There is nothing he can do to you we do not let him do so we may gain an advantage."

It was easy to say and comforting to hear but Perikos wasn't the one getting raped. I clenched my teeth and tried to think sexy thoughts as the good king pounded away, shallow and clumsy. Luckily my disgust didn't seem to matter.

"How you taste!" He exclaimed. "Never has there been anything sweeter." He grunted and dug in deeper, so that when he thrust, he bumped up against my cervix.

"Any moment now, Shadeling," Perikos harmonized to me.

"You will remain with me until you die!" cried the King.

"Brace yourself, Jayn." He whispered to me and then braced my body for me, not willing to wait.

"Tell my subjects who is your master, slave! My breeding slave. Tell them!"

I was saved from doing so when the meteor hit me. Quicker than thought, it wrapped around me and cushioned by head and neck before slamming into rock face nearest the king. I was stunned, out of breath, but not unconscious when two thick phallus filled my holes. The one in my ass seared but the one in my pussy detonated the tension building inside me.

Perikos' tendrils constricted around the back of my head and over my mouth to muffle the sound of orgasm and tightened their hold around my torso even as all hell broke loose.

Something black and heavy flew wildly around the canyon smashing into guards, and devouring them, judging by their screams. Evidently Shadow had decided it was justifiable to cannibalize in war time, which was good, because there was no way out of this otherwise.

Perikos pounded away at my insides as we charged the massive King Blob but he shrank suddenly and Perikos rolled us out of the way to avoid his strike from below.

A tentacle came hurling at as we slowed but Perikos pulled away so fast it only just grazed us. Something malleable poked its way between my lips and Perikos made me bite down hard on it. I tired to open my mouth again but my jaw was glued shut as Perikos formed a sort of biological mouth guard just in time for us to actually get clobbered. It knocked us back towards a wall of guards as my head spun and the tentacle inside my pussy widened.

Perikos grew larger as I groaned from the strain and he knocked the guards aside with whirling arms until they scattered and he pinpointed the King and barreled after him. I heard more screams come from behind us, thankfully none of them Shadow's.

Perikos grew in size like he had before, so that before long I felt like I was strapped into a space cruiser rather than any organic thing.

I could feel us closing in on Kingy, who to his credit was booking it towards the Loyalist hundreds as fast as his tentacles would carry him through air. We got there faster and swatted him up and away from the crowds. His body tumbled and hit the rock face of the canyon and rocks and boulders tumbled like pebbles on top of the King's palace wall, making it more substantial, but drawing a lot of unwanted attention.

"Faster," Perikos chanted, as though I were his vehicle instead of him being mine. The dense blackness in my pussy stretched wider still and I screamed into him as we dove after the King.

"Just like before," he soothed, and my mind's eye flooded with images of him splitting me open, back on the Kragosi ship, and before, the last time we escaped the Loyalists. There would be no escape this time.

We crashed into something that certainly wasn't rock but as we made to pull away something held me neck, hard. I darkness I could only just make out the leash, which must have been hanging loose around my neck, just waiting to be grabbed. Someone had it now, that was for sure, and they were fighting a fierce tug of war with Perikos for who would control me.

Perikos slapped my ass hard, as though it were my fault, but the shockwaves made me quake on the two members inside me and something black and keener than any blade I'd ever seen flashed in front of my eyes and the chain fell away and I was free.

He folded my legs at an odd angle so he could push each tentacle deeper and pulled out of the way just in time to avoid two pursuing guards.

"Do not think about this, think about these!" he panted in my head, wiggling each tentacle and alternating in and out.

It was a tall order and I wasn't up to it. Perikos dived after the King in pursuit and I felt Perikos smash an enormous appendage down to the ground, barely missing his target.

Something broad and sharp slashed across my partially exposed belly and Perikos felt my pain and stopped, completely jarred. Something thin lashed my hips and tugged me hard and I went sailing through the air again.

A thin membrane of flesh not dissimilar to a sack snatched me mid-flight and the warmth of the skin told me I'd gotten lucky. Perikos reunited me with his protective mass, which seemed to wind and coalesce around me.

My head and shoulders protruded from the darkness and on his other side so did everything between my hips and my knees. Like I had been absorbed into a living pillory that tightened around me middle and left me breathless. My shoulders ached from the chains but I could feel the gash in my stomach knitting closed even as a stylus-thin bit of Perikos clamped down on my clit, and a much thicker tentacle corked my still gaping ass.

The tentacle I rested my forehead against divided itself so Perikos could plug my howls. My pleas were probably distracting from the theme of death and dismemberment.

Perikos hurled us bodily forward, determined to make up for lost time. "Hold on!" he told me, but how, and to what?

Perikos' mass was entwined with the King's, I could feel it through his skin. For the count of ten each of them held perfectly still, unsure which would strike first.

"When I tell you to come, keep it up and do not stop," Perikos whispered inside me so I knew only I would hear. But how was I supposed to do that?

Suddenly, the pain overwhelmed me. It was nearly as bad as the UV light that burned me to unconsciousness, except that it grew, expanding like a cancer inside of me until I couldn't think or feel anything beside the feeling of being devoured from inside out.

"Come!" Perikos begged me in some distant part of my brain, but I'd never felt like less coming. As if to inspire me, the shaft in my ass widened and dug deeper and the one that ground at my clit redoubled its efforts but the pain Perikos pulsed with overcame everything else.

Something slammed into us and I felt Shadow begin to whip my exposed ass and pussy before I even had a chance to worry about Loyalists. While he whipped me, his thick, meaty organ drove itself past my superficial gag and down my throat.

"Swallow it!" Shadow shouted and I tried to relax my throat. Pain mashed at the corners of my mind like broken glass. Shadow responded my jamming it down my throat till I choked and gagged, till my eyes watered and he massaged by throat roughly. "Swallow it now, Jayn!"

He pounded it into my throat and Perikos pushed the tentacle deeper into my ass, though more feebly than before.

"Do not think about his pain. Only your pain matters now," Shadow growled and hit me hard enough I though my skin would split. I screamed into it and withdrew to let me breathe before forcing it down so I would have to swallow it again.

"He told you to come and you did not. Obey him!"

It's not so simple, I begged him to understand. Perikos had even turned my pleasure dials up to ten and I couldn't let go. He felt like he was dying. I heard to screams, the shrieks, from Perikos and another and even as our shared pain was numbed, so was my pleasure.

"It is not enough for you?" Shadow cried, withdrawing and then plunging his tool down my throat again even as the force of his blows arced painfully. "Then think of nothing else but this."

I had only a second to wonder and then he drove a white hot needle through my swollen clit. I screamed and bucked and writhed and begged and clung to the lifeline Shadow had thrown me. Or used to pierce me. He had thrust himself through my like a trussing needle and he wasn't about to stop riding me now.

Perikos' organ swelled wider still and pumped me with renewed vigor even as Shadow hailed stringing blows all around my hole. Shadow tugged mercilessly and my clit at the same time my brain begged for air.

"Earn it!" Shadow hissed at me. "Come!"

I did, hard enough that my vision whited out and I could see less than in total darkness. My transcendence was rewarded with a gulp of fresh air before Shadow resumed fucking my throat.

The cruelly thick tentacle in my ass mimicked Shadow's, withdrawing just enough to let my hole try to squeeze shut before Perikos jammed in deep inside me again.

"My pussy," I reminded him, begged him. It might have swollen shut with neglect, or just with gushing arousal.

I could feel Perikos fighting distantly. He pushed a few more inches into my ass.

"Not there!" I squealed around Shadow's tentacle, and was rewarded with another couple inches. He was so deep now the cramping threatened to overwhelm the white hot pain in my clit. I still couldn't see anything for the whiteout.

"Did you hear that, Leader?" gasped Shadow, breathless from torturing me to safety. "She needs you as deep as you are willing to go. Don't stop until her belly is swollen from it."

That was a horrifying enough ordeal when the bulk of matter was where it anatomically should be. I tried to tell Perikos no, I never said that but when I tried, Shadow only pushed his organ deeper. Every time I tried to think it, he tugged so hard on the strand piercing my clit that I nearly crashed down again.

Perikos seemed hell bent on obliging my non-request. My insides cramped and twisted and to save me from dying there and there, he tapered his width and continued to push into me. Soon he'd gone deeper inside than ever before and the fear and pain of it, combined with a timely tug on burning my clit from Shadow brought me over the edge again and tears streamed down my face. Would the whiteness ever go away?

Another of Shadow's tendrils, a rather thin one, slithered inside my slick, gaping pussy and laid his tip feather-light against my g-spot.

"Thank me for saving you, fixing you," Shadow's tune was nearly inaudible in the melee but I heard it. "Thank me for that. And that. And this." Three hard blows landed on my glowing ass the thighs.

"Thank you," I whispered around the shaft in my mouth, another second before I gagged on it again.

The tip of Shadow's tendril ground into my g-spot and I came light a rocket, blasted away by this one painless reward.

Not waiting more than a second for my insides to stop contracting, Shadow continued. "Thank me for fucking your gullet and piercing your nub."

"Thank you," I moaned into the tentacle in my throat. My words were unintelligible but he knew I was sincere.

He pressed so hard on that spot I thought he was trying to escape out the other side. I writhed a moment and then came again, painfully this time. It didn't matter. If Shadow's little game was giving Perikos energy, I would play as long as it took.

"Feel that," Shadow whispered, but he knew my hands were quite literally tied. He wasn't talking to me.

One of Perikos' slender tendrils followed Shadow's, widening around my distended belly. They stroked the skin and Perikos' buried tentacle wiggled so deep inside me I thought I would scream.

"Thank me for asking him to fill you as deep as anything has ever filled you." Shadow ordered, and oh fuck how he was right.

"Thank you!" I screamed around the invader in my throat, and the great serpent lodged in my ass. "Thank you!" I shrieked again as Shadow's vibrations in my pussy sent me into the stratosphere and then brought me down hard so that it felt like six dozen needles were scraping the insides of my holes.

Something else was screeching too, something else was in agony, probably more profound than mine. Everything was white, and hot and desperately sore and I didn't know which was up or if it would ever stop.

"The Light within you is bright, Jayne. Burn him with it." Perikos' voice echoed in my head and I took the pain and thought of the King and everything he had caused, everything awful second and turned it into Light, and gave it back to him.

"It brought me you," Perikos whispered inside of me and I might have been flying or falling but there was no more pain.

When I came to everything was still white but after a second it began to fade away. The first thing I noticed was that it was quiet. The second thing was I was cradled against Perikos' mass.

"-has been vanquished!" someone was shouting. Was it Shadow? "Before you all as sacred witnesses, I proclaim a new Leader! His titled shall be He Who Ushers in Peace and Grants Those Loyal to Him Freedom and Abundance."

"You are awake," Perikos said softly as the crowd chanted his title again and again, their rhythm even as a metronome.

"I couldn't miss the cool historical part." Though I felt like I'd been by a ten-ton truck.

Perikos brushed the hair out of my face. "Alone I could not have beaten him and lived. I owe you much."

I shook my head. "You owe Shadow much. Without him, I was nothing."

There was that tinkle of bells in his perfect laughter again. "He rose to the occasion, to say the least. It is not for nothing he is my second." He stroked my face so tenderly I could cry from the gentleness of it. "Though your physical and emotional contributions are not to be underestimated," he added softly. "You turned the heat of your love, and your pain against him and burned him in a very real way. Those feelings are impossible to feed from and yours were strong enough to burn."

I took pride in that, however esoteric, as I lay still and listened to the chanting. After a quarter of an hour or so Shadow moved to stand next to me and Perikos.

"How are you?" he asked, his tone jubilant and I reached out to touch him and noticed that I actually could do so – someone had snapped the thick chain the held my wrists together. One wrist now held a manacle, and other held two, like dangling bracelets of willing enslavement.

"In the interest of not causing your body permanent damage, I decided to break them," sang Shadow.

I reached out and pulled one of his heavy tendrils to me and just held him as tightly as I could. If he had not been there, Perikos wouldn't have survived, and I would have only wished to meet the same fate.

"I meant it when I thanked you," I told him hoarsely.

A soft-tipped tendril poked my cheek. "I know we wanted the same thing. I am relieved you do not hate me."

"Well, don't make a habit of it," I told Shadow drowsily. He patted my head and turned to give Perikos some privacy with me.

"Shall we return to our makeshift, crumbling palace?"

"You mean the sectioned area with a half-destroyed wall? Yeah, let's live it up."

Perikos set me down on my feet and held my shoulders while I steadied myself. It was hard to tell how far away it was in the dark. Probably less than a kilometer, but the terrain was cratered and treacherous.

"We'll go slowly," Perikos promised me and I felt gentle tug from the collar that was still in tact. A thin, wiry tendril stretched between Perikos and I and after all I'd been through I still blushed.

"What are you afraid of?" he whispered, pulling gently on the tether if I lingered too long in one place.

"With this?" I wrapped my hand around the leash. "That it makes me a freak. That I'll stop being me and start being...something else."

"Silly shade," Perikos' tune was warm and bright. "Why do you think I have this? I will guide you."