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											| Melia - Chapter 2 By Darkage
 (c) July, 2001
 Chapter 2
 
 Melia awoke lying on the rock. Her wrists and ankles
 were free. She dressed in the tattered remains of her
 clothes and headed for the tunnel, at the far end of
 the cavern.
 
 She stood before the tunnel's dark entrance and
 hesitated for a moment, fear in her heart. But the
 thought of Alara drove her on. Alara, her lover of
 four years. She remembered the moment she first laid
 eyes on that lovely,   standing alone amidst
 the revelry of an equinox festival. That  became
 Melia's love, her whole world. And some evil creatures
 of the underearth had taken her, carrying her away
 into the depths of the underearth.
 
 Her vision revealed a long and winding tunnel,
 probably carved by small miners many years ago. The
 floor was rough beneath her bare feet, the air
 stagnant. She hoped this meant it was also
 uninhabited.
 Melia continued on for what felt like days, though she
 had no way of knowing how much time actually passed,
 hidden deep in the earth as she was. She slept on the
 tunnel floor and ate the dry rations she'd carried
 with her. Her water supply was running low and she
 knew that if she didn't find a fresh source soon, she
 would die of thirst in the dark tunnel.
 After what she counted to be three full days of
 walking, Melia came to a set of stairs carved into the
 tunnel, which slanted upward. She started up the
 stairs.
 
 As she climbed, she felt a warm wing blowing steadily
 down the tunnel. She also heard the trickle of running
 water.
 
 Cresting the stairs, she found herself at the edge of
 some sort of underground forest. She was at the edge
 of an  cavern, filled with giant mushrooms and
 thick growths of ferns. There were patches of
 mushrooms on the ground in front of her, all about
 normal sized, but the deeper into the forest they got,
 the greater their size. In the  of the forest she
 saw some as large as small trees. That was as far as
 she could see.
 
 She found a stream running along a stony path into the
 forest, and she filled her waterskins here. When they
 were full, she drank them down and refilled them. She
 sat on the pebbly path as she drank her thirst away
 and grew sleepy with contentment. Laying her head on
 her pack, she fell asleep on the shore.
 Melia slept for hours. She dreamt of Alara. Her lovely
 golden locks falling about her shoulders as the
 bathed her. Melia felt her soapy hands sliding along
 her skin.
 
 Melia woke with a start. She stared up at the cavern
 ceiling through the mushrooms and felt something
 sliding across her stomach. Looking down, across her
 body, she saw a large snake slithering from the
 stream, over her, and into the forest. Trembling, she
 waited for the snake to pass.
 
 When she was sure the snake had gone she gathered her
 belongings and started along the path, into the
 forest. The sounds of insects filled the air, as did
 the intermittent echoes of dripping water. The air was
 warm and steam rose from small holes in the forest
 floor.
 
 Hours passed, and Melia found herself deep in a
 strange jungle, drenched in sweat. She was suddenly
 thankful for the tears in her clothing. She continued
 on, the mushrooms now tall and thin around her, their
 caps towering hundreds of feet overhead.
 With her next step, Melia felt her foot sink into the
 ground, as it would water. Suddenly she was falling,
 darkness all around her. She tumbled down a slippery
 tunnel that spit her out into a small dark cave. Melia
 rolled quickly, avoiding injury.
 
 As she recovered her wits, she realized with horror
 that she'd fallen through a sinkhole in the floor of
 the limestone cavern. The cave she was now trapped in
 was completely dark. Her vision revealed a rubble-
 strewn floor with pools of steaming water dispersed
 among the rocks. Steam rose through the air and
 funneled into holes in the ceiling and walls. At the
 far end of the cave billowing masses of steam rose
 through the air.
 
 Looking around in despair, Melia saw that there was no
 hope of climbing back up. The holes, dripping with
 condensation, were too high and no doubt too slippery.
 She crept along the rubble, hands and feet clutching
 at the slippery rocks, making her way around the
 steaming pools of water. The steam grew  and hot
 around her. Her damp clothes clung to her skin and the
 steam blocked her vision. She moved ahead slowly to
 avoid slipping into the steaming water.
 
 Finally the rock walls opened up into a larger cave
 and Melia pressed her back up against the wall. She
 looked in terror at the huge pool of boiling water
 that came nearly to the cave walls. It was throwing
 off  amounts of steam, which billowed through
 the stalactites hanging from the ceiling. She
 cautiously edged her way along the wall towards the
 large cones of rock that protruded from the ground at
 the far end of the water. Looking down at the boiling
 pool, she realized just how deep it was. The center
 was very dark and no bottom could be seen. Suddenly
 she saw a dark movement in the depths of the pool.
 Moving faster, she finally reached the cones of rock
 and scrambled up them. This miniature mountain range
 led her up to a tunnel near the ceiling of the cave.
 Running up the bumpy tunnel, Melia heard something
 large emerging from the water down below. She didn't
 dare look back, but sped up the tunnel, past a branch
 off.
 
 She came to a fork in the tunnel. The right branch
 continued forward while the left one headed upwards
 and appeared to taper. Up she went, scrambling up the
 steep climb of the left branch, hoping it would be too
 small for whatever was behind her to follow. Her wish
 was granted, but only too much. It tapered so quickly
 that she could fit no more than fifteen feet up it.
 She was trapped.
 
 Looking down the dark tunnel, she saw steam rising up
 it. She could hear deep, loud breathing and the sound
 of something large pushing its way up the tunnel. She
 huddled in the darkness, her wet clothes clinging to
 her damp skin, and her arms wrapped around her knees.
 Tentacles came into view, writhing up the tunnel
 below. Tendrils of steam careened around them. And
 with each heavy snort of breath below, steam billowed
 up the tunnel. The tentacles began to slither up the
 tunnel in which Melia lay, trembling, and she could
 now see where they met, at the head of some huge,
 brownish green creature of the deep. Its huge body
 continued out of her sight. The bases of the tentacles
 surrounded a soft round mouth with a red, snake-like
 tongue that occasionally flickered from it. The steamy
 breath came from its mouth. Melia trembled audibly and
 the creature paused, then slid its tentacles slowly up
 towards her hiding spot.
 "No," she trembled. "No!"
 
 She sobbed with fear and tried to pull herself farther
 up the tapering tunnel. It was useless. A tentacle
 grabbed her ankle, wrapping its slender tip around her
 leg. Another followed suit, and another, and another
 until they had all wrapped around her calves.
 
 "No," she whimpered, pleading hopelessly.
 
 The base of the tentacles was at the entrance of the
 tunnel, its round mouth sending steamy breath up to
 Melia. She panted with fear and clutched at the walls
 around her as the tentacles writhed up her lower legs.
 They were working their way up to her knees, wrapping
 her slender legs tightly together.
 
 One tentacle slid up past her knees and began to slide
 up the valley between her thighs. Just before the hem
 of her skirt, it plunged down, sliding between her
 thighs. It continued down towards the rock floor and
 began to slide up along the inside of her skirt. Her
 knees pressed against her chest, Melia shuddered as
 the tentacle touched the rounded region between her
 anus and her vagina. The creature breathed, sending
 hot steam billowing up the passage, all around her
 body. She clenched her teeth and whined, clutching the
 walls as the tentacle crept along her secret region
 and slid between her labia, into her hot, slippery
 vagina.
 
 The rest of the tentacles continued to writhe up her
 legs, wrapping around her thighs beneath her black
 skirt. They reached her hips and Melia moaned with
 fear as they slithered up her buttocks, some sliding
 along the smooth inner curve, some creeping up to her
 back.
 
 As the lone tentacle was sliding its way up her hot,
 slippery vagina, another one left the group,
 slithering quickly up her belly beneath the waist of
 her skirt, to her stomach. Others followed and soon
 many began sliding and wrapping around her body
 beneath her blouse. Melia whimpered in terror as a
 pair of tentacles slid around her wrists and pinned
 her arms behind her. More steamy breath blew up the
 passage, clinging to her skin in droplets. Her arms
 tied behind her, she began to pant with fear as
 tentacles opened her blouse, revealing her bare
 breasts, which more tentacles slid up her stomach to
 caress. The tentacles began to pull her, on her back,
 down the tunnel; her knees still raised in the fetal
 position.
 
 One of the tentacles left the rest to slide back down
 her stomach. It slid among the tentacles caressing her
 breasts, down the centerline of her body, and past her
 navel. It continued down the curve of her belly,
 between her thighs, through the soft black forest of
 hair. Arching her neck back, Melia moaned with terror
 and ecstasy, her jaw trembling as its rounded tip slid
 over her pink, exposed clitoris, and down her vaginal
 lips, slipping into her soft flesh. Hot steaming
 breath billowed around her, her skin wet with hot
 droplets, as the two tentacles writhed around each
 other inside the hot slipperiness between her legs.
 
 Melia, overcome with lust, began to moan passionately.
 She became moist and the tentacles slid with more ease
 inside her. The first tentacle slid along the pink
 entrance to her anus as it penetrated her deeply, the
 second along her clitoris. She gasped excitedly as her
 inner thighs became wet with milky fluid.
 
 Melia's lustful sighs echoed in the steamy passage as
 the creature's tentacles pulled her, on her back, down
 towards its round steaming mouth. Her skin slid easily
 on the tunnel floor, slippery with condensation. She
 felt the steam growing hotter as she was pulled closer
 to the creature's mouth. It pulled her down the
 passage until her naked body lay in all its glory
 before its mouth. Lying on her back, Melia stretched
 her legs, extending them up towards the ceiling, then
 lay them wide open before the intense heat of its
 large mouth. Her delicate feet rested on either side
 of the creature's head.
 
 The two tentacles withdrew from within her body and
 slid to join the others, caressing every inch of her
 beautiful body. A long  tongue slid from the
 steaming depths of the creature's mouth and slowly
 snaked up towards the swollen lips between her slender
 legs, which lay open and wet before it. Its pointed
 tip touched the flower between her thighs, and milky
 fluid pulsed from within her, causing Melia to sigh
 with passion.
 
 The tentacles suddenly tightened their grip around her
 body and the   tongue slid between her vaginal
 lips, which parted like the pedals of a flower. The
 tongue penetrating her deeply, Melia panted with lust
 as the strong tentacles pulled her rear into the
 creature's hot, steamy mouth. Its tongue slipped up
 inside her, tasting her sweet, milky insides and
 bringing Melia to a climax. Burning ecstasy pulsed
 through her body and the tunnel echoed with her
 lustful screams of bliss.
 
 The creature then withdrew, sliding back down into the
 steaming water whence it came, leaving Melia lying on
 the floor of the steamy passage. Her body was damp
 with moisture and her thighs were wet with the warm
 milky fluid coming in little pulses from between her
 labia. Eyes closed, her lips pressed into a smile of
 content, she slid her come-coated inner thighs along
 each other and drifted off to sleep.
 
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