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											| Melia - Chapter 4 By Darkage
 (c) July, 2001
 Chapter 4
 
 Driven by bliss and exhaustion into a half-conscious
 state, Melia's head swam dreamily as she was carried,
 slung over the orc's massive shoulder, down a long,
 dark corridor. Torchlight grew around them and
 flickered before her eyes, and she sensed that the
 hallway had opened into a large cavern.
 
 Aroash cast the greeting had signal to the guards,
 identifying himself as one of the tribe, as he strode
 into the chamber. They nodded in recognition and let
 him pass, eyeing the unconscious woman and mumbling
 amongst themselves as he passed through the chamber.
 He passed into another hall at the end of the chamber
 and walked down its shadowy length.
 
 The echoing footsteps of her captor filled Melia's
 ears as she felt herself being carried through the
 dark. Through sleepy eyes, she saw the dark stone
 walls around them open into an  cavern filled
 with the warmth and light of fire. Thousands of
 torches burned upon the walls, and a number of
 bonfires blazed throughout the cavern. Noise began to
 surround them; strange, excited speech filled the air
 around them. There was something touching her,
 thousands of hands, hands upon her skin.
 
 Aroash barked furiously at the orcs swarming around
 him and his capture. He glared and snarled at the
 lecherous beasts, his fellow people, as he passed
 through the crowd. A trail of aggression and jealousy
 followed him like a cursed tail as he strode deeper
 into the cavern. He knew it was a dangerous thing to
 bring such a catch back, especially one not concealed
 in a sack of some sort, but today he didn't care. He
 was angry for having been demoted to a tunnel scout,
 and cocky after his pleasure with the human girl. He
 swaggered through the sea of jealousy, unleashing an
 occasional fist where necessary, all the way to his
 abode. It was a humble, two-room clay hut. Though
 Aroash lusted after the impressive stone houses that
 housed his superiors, his was a far better dwelling
 than the tents and hovels most of the tribe lived in.
 Inside his hut, he dumped the unconscious maiden onto
 his straw mat and went to fetch the shackles. Finding
 them among a pile of old, discarded gear, he locked
 one end to the iron ring set into the floor (a not
 uncommon feature in an orcan dwelling, useful when one
 comes into the possession of a captive, a dangerous
 beast, etc.). Gingerly lifting the maiden from the
 mattress, he placed her on the fur rug at the foot of
 the bed and fastened the remaining end of the shackles
 on her right arm, locking it around her wrist. He
 looked down, hungrily, at the beautiful maiden
 sleeping upon his floor, and turned to attend to the
 rest of his day's duties.
 In a strange and dark place, Melia awoke to the
 feeling of her blouse being torn off her body. Looking
 up in terror, she saw, against the firelight outside,
 the dark silhouette of some beast kneeling over her,
 tearing the clothes from her body. Squealing in
 terror, she locked her legs and tried to pull them up
 in a fetal position to protect her body. The beast
 grabbed her ankles and spread her legs wide despite
 her resistance.
 
 "NO!" Melia begged as the beast brought its large,
 erect member down to the lips between her thighs.
 Ignoring her pleas, he slid his penis into the warmth
 between her legs. She screamed as he jammed his entire
 length up into her. With her unshackled hand, she
 strained to push the beast away, pressing her hand
 against its thickly muscled stomach to no avail. Her
 whines and squeals filled the hut as he thrust himself
 into her with terrible brutality. She eventually
 passed out, and the beast continued to fuck the
 unconscious maiden.
 
 Melia awoke with terrible pain all throughout her
 body, but especially between her legs. The night's
 rape had left her  filled with burning pain. To
 her surprise, the large orc who'd brought her hear
 after practically raping her (though far more gently),
 seemed distressed at her condition, and appeared to be
 tending to her. He was applying some cool ointment to
 her body, smoothing it gently over her skin. She was
 touched by such unexpected care, and a tear trickled
 down her eye as she attempted a smile up at the orc.
 
 Aroash was, at first, infuriated when he discovered
 his maiden had been raped by another. Her terrible
 condition had evoked a sympathy that was rare among
 his people, especially toward a human. Nonetheless, he
 pitied the poor creature that'd given him such
 pleasure the day before, and set about to healing her.
 Having applied the first ointment the medicine  had
 given him, he began mixing up the internal medicine,
 mixing its contents in a small clay bowl. He then
 gently parted the girl's legs and dipped his finger
 into the medicinal bowl.
 
 A little cry of pain escaped Melia's trembling lips at
 the touch of the orc's fingertip upon her labia. The
 ointment upon it was cool, however, and she let him
 smooth it over her. He dipped his finger again and
 brought it to the lips between her thighs. As the orc
 spread the cool ointment over her clitoris and the
 soft  flesh between her labia, Melia smiled weakly
 up at him and moaned in tender pain. The orc dipped
 his finger deeply into the little bowl of ointment,
 coating it thickly, and looked questioningly into
 Melia's eyes. Though the  was still trembling, she
 nodded at Aroash; she was ready. She sighed quietly as
 the fingers of one hand gently parted her soft flower.
 He touched the tip of his ointment-coated finger
 between her inner lips, and Melia moaned softly as he
 gently slid his finger up into her soft vagina. Cool
 as the ointment was, she was terribly sore and tender
 inside, and tears began rolling down her cheeks. The
 orc slid his finger around just enough to apply the
 medicine, and then withdrew from within her body. The
 girl's sobbing subsided, and he looked sadly down at
 her. She looked up at him with wet brown eyes and
 placed the fingers of her free hand lightly on his
 thick forearm. "Thank you," she whispered.
 
 "I...I'm sorry. I'm sorry thees happened."
 
 Melia was still unsure how much of her language the
 orc understood. She looked anxiously at the shackles
 that bound her captive, then up at him with pleading
 eyes.  His head fell into his hands and he shook it in
 confused anger and sadness. "I'm sorry," he said again
 as he got up and turned to leave.
 
 Before leaving the hut to attend to his duties, Aroash
 covered the maiden with the softest blanket he had.
 Despite the roughness of the material, Melia
 appreciated the gesture. Aroash left the hut, but kept
 a careful eye on the goings on around the
 neighborhood, determined not to let this happen again.
 
 As he attended his daily duties, Aroash found himself
 filled with distressing, confusing feelings and ideas.
 He felt strangely protective towards the human girl.
 Not in the usual greedy, suspicious way, but in a
 caring, tender way. These emotions were very foreign
 to him, and plagued his thoughts endlessly. In an
 attempt to return to familiar mental territory he
 vowed to find the orc who'd raped her and kill him.
 
 Melia was very scared that day, as she lay, vulnerable
 in the small hut. No one, however, assaulted her or
 even entered the home of her captor.
 Melia again awoke to the large orc's tender hands
 smoothing the cool ointment over her body. This
 continued, everyday, for near a week. On the sixth day
 after the assault, Melia awoke feeling mostly pain
 free. She didn't, however, protest to her captor's
 tender care. She lay naked upon the soft fur rug as he
 caressed the soft lotion over the entirety of her
 body. He stopped to mix the internal ointment, and
 Melia found herself eagerly awaiting the soft touch of
 his finger inside of her. The orc was surprised to
 hear Melia whine as he spread ointment over her labia.
 Her soft cries of pain had mostly ceased recently.
 Nonetheless, she sighed tenderly as his fingertip
 applied the medicine to the soft flower between her
 thighs. His confusion ended, however, as he readied to
 apply the ointment inside her. He touched his finger
 to her, and it slid into her  with surprising
 ease. It was lubricated, he realized, with her own
 lustful fluids. Smiling up at her, he saw that her
 head was thrown back and her lips quivered in a silent
 moan of pleasure. He continued to lovingly apply the
 ointment to her soft love canal, evoking deep, panting
 breaths from her, then removed his finger.
 
 Melia felt the orc withdraw his slippery finger. She
 sat up and looked into his eyes. He stared up into
 hers as he lowered his head down between her legs.
 Leaning back on her shackled hand and placing her free
 hand atop the orc's bald head, she sighed as he kissed
 her softly. She gasped and sighed as he teased her
 softly with tongue and teeth. Becoming weak with lust,
 Melia lay back on the soft carpet and spread her legs
 wide before the orc's mouth. Her groin grew hot
 beneath his sensuous kisses and she gasped with bliss
 as his long tongue slipped into her. Melia's pleasure
 mounted as the orc's astonishingly long tongue snaked
 its way deep into her.
 
 As the maiden's sighs grew more frantic, Aroash
 withdrew his tongue from within her, wishing to
 penetrate her orifice with something more substantial.
 Feeling the orc withdrawing from between her legs,
 Melia looked up to see him searching a pile of items
 lying against the wall. He picked a large dagger and a
 small jar of white substance from the pile. Laying the
 dagger on the floor, he knelt between her legs and
 smiled at her as he unscrewed the jar. He dipped a
 finger into the jar and it came out coated with some
 oozing milky fluid. He pressed the slippery fingertip
 between her legs, tracing a line of fiery bliss down
 across her labia, along the rounded region beneath
 them, and over her anus. Melia sighed with aching
 desire as his fingertip slid over her anus, coating it
 in the jar's slippery contents. Aroash felt the girl's
 body tremble with ecstasy as he gently pushed his
 lubricous finger into her anus. He pushed it in 'til
 it would go no further, the pink entrance to her
 hugging his knuckle tightly. The maiden whined and
 squirmed, her body deep in ecstasy, as he caressed the
 inside of her taught canal, coating it with slippery
 fluid. He began removing his finger and she sighed
 softly as it slipped from inside her.
 
 Melia's panting, already heavy with lust, grew quick
 with fear when she looked down her body to see the orc
 kneeling between her legs and lifting the large dagger
 from the floor. As he held the tip of the ten-inch
 blade just centimeters from the delicate flower
 between her legs, now dripping with her own fluids,
 she whimpered in fear. Slowly, the blade neared her
 vaginal lips. Finally, the orc touched its tip ever so
 lightly to her pink flesh and Melia gasped in
 expectant terror. He did not, however, impale the
 on the  blade. Rather, he flipped the dagger
 around and held it by the blade (which was actually
 quite dull). To her surprise, Melia felt the large
 pommel at the base of the weapon's handle press
 against her anus. Her panting again grew passionate as
 the orc pressed with increasing pressure, causing the
 entrance to her anus to spread, stretching to
 accommodate the smooth sphere of metal. Finally, the
 pommel slipped into her and she froze, trembling, a
 blissful sigh upon her lips, a handle between her
 hips. He pushed five or six inches of the smooth
 leather handle up into her, 'til the dagger's iron
 hilt pressed between her buttocks. The girl's body
 shuddered and come began dribbling from her vacant
 vagina.
 
 Aroash took the empty leather sheath from his belt and
 sheathed the dagger, leaving its handle deep inside
 the maiden's trembling body. He stood and, looking
 down upon the human  frozen in a state of ecstasy,
 he undressed himself.
 
 Melia, panting in astonished pleasure at the anal
 penetration, opened her eyes to see the large orc,
 with his erection of equine proportion, bearing down
 on her. He spread her legs wide and gingerly pushed
 himself into her. She moaned with heavenly delight as
 he pushed himself deep into her, the lips between her
 thighs hugging his  shaft as it slid into her
 body. Her moans grew to wails as he pounded into her,
 driving her to the edge of the cliff of ecstasy. The
 dagger's handle and the orc's penis pressed deep
 inside her body and Melia clenched her thighs tightly
 around his waist, her body shuddering in bliss, and
 sobbed with delight as she came, her  milky
 fluids pulsing and dribbling around the shaft of her
 captor's member.
 During the following days, Melia made an effort to
 converse with her captor when he was around. Their
 conversations were awkward, to say the least. She knew
 none of his rough language, and he had only a minimal
 grasp of hers. When he was off duty, they would spend
 time trying to communicate with each other, expressing
 ideas with the most rudimentary words and gestures.
 She managed to convince him to get her a pair of thin
 metal hair clips to clip up her long, black hair.
 Secretly, she worked at picking the lock in her wrist
 shackle with the clips. After a few days of struggling
 with the clips, she managed to pick the lock,
 releasing her wrist from the iron shackle. After a few
 minutes of freedom, she replaced the clips in her hair
 and the shackle on her wrist, half clipping the lock
 so she could easily remove the shackle though it would
 appear to be locked.
 
 That evening, Aroash returned from his duties and
 began sorting through his pile of belongings. He
 pulled out the bronze and leather of a ceremonial
 garb. Melia tried to ask him what was going on, but he
 wouldn't respond. After donning the ceremonial gear he
 left the hut and she watched him walk off toward the
 center of the cavern, where a large group of orcs was
 gathering. The crowd grew, and the orcs milled about
 the central bonfire until finally, a large male orc
 covered from head to toe in glittering bronze armor
 stood before the fire and began speaking loudly to the
 group. Peering through the hut's small window, Melia
 watched, hypnotized by the orc's powerful silhouette
 making strong, sweeping gestures. When he had finished
 his speech, he grabbed a flaming stick from the fire
 and the rest of the orcs followed suit, reducing the
 bonfire to a small smoking pile. The orcs began
 walking towards the hut and Melia huddled in the
 darkness, terrified to think what the torch-bearing
 mob coming towards her meant to do. In the flickering
 torchlight she saw that the usually somber faces of
 the orcs were now filled with a terrible excitement
 and evil grins spread wide across many of their faces.
 Melia drew her knees up against her chest and
 whimpered in the darkness, too afraid to think. To her
 surprise, however, she heard the mob walk past and
 around the hut and continue on. Peering out the
 window, she saw that the entire village lay dark and
 empty. She could see the glow of the mob's torches
 reflecting upon the cavern ceiling and receding from
 the village. Removing the loose shackle, she
 cautiously peeked outside and slipped out the doorway.
 Sneaking behind the hut, she saw the mob walking off
 into the distance. Keeping in the darkness that
 followed their flickering torches, she crept along ten
 yards behind them to see what was taking place.
 
 They walked farther and farther from the village until
 the torchlight began flickering off the facets of a
 huge stone formation that loomed before them. The mob
 stopped fifty feet from the stone wall that stood
 hundreds of feet high before them. The firelight
 illuminated an  and grotesque face carved into
 the wall. Its eyes were wide with terror, its nose
 wicked and sharp, and its mouth was stretched open in
 a silent scream, its bottom lip meeting the cavern
 floor. There was an impenetrable darkness that filled
 its open mouth. Melia strained her eyes and still
 could not see into it, as if it led to an utter void.
 Before the wall and to the right of the face was
 another formation. An X-shaped altar of carved stone
 lay upon the ground. With each crosspiece about
 twenty-five feet long, it was raised in relief about
 five feet above the cavern floor, which was lacerated
 with tiny cracks radiating from the X. Each leg of the
 X was about four feet wide, allowing an orc robed in
 black to stand upon each end. The four black-robed
 orcs chanted softly as they stood facing inward toward
 the center of the X, where a female figure lay nude
 with limbs outstretched. Straining her eyes Melia saw,
 to her horror, that the woman upon the X was Alara.
 She was spread upon the rock, her wrists and ankles
 shackled, one upon each leg of the X. She appeared
 rather faint, and her long  hair flowed out
 behind her head and down over the edge of the rock.
 
 The chanting grew louder as the entire crowd joined
 in. Melia found herself growing dizzy as the deep,
 steady chanting filled the cavern. The darkness in the
 stone face's mouth appeared to pulse rhythmically and
 a faint glow of pale light extended inward from each
 robed orc, meeting in a ball above Alara's body. The
 void in the wall throbbed with increasing intensity as
 the chanting grew. A shadowy form the size of a bull
 began to pull itself through the void, emerging from
 within the  mouth. As it emerged its body took
 the form of a four-footed, wingless, gargoyle-like
 beast. Its skin shone like black onyx in the
 firelight. Its pale yellow gaze scanned along the
 crowd of chanting orcs until it fell upon the
 illuminated X. Drawn by the light, the shimmering
 beast crept slowly toward the altar. Melia watched in
 terror as it leapt up onto one of the altar's legs and
 crept gingerly toward Alara's body. Shaking the
 dizziness from her head, Melia snatched a rock from
 the ground, ran towards the altar, and threw with all
 her might at the beast. The rock missed the beast
 entirely and struck one of the robed orcs in the head.
 The orc fell from the altar and the light running
 along his leg of the X disappeared. The force of the
 broken spell cast the other three orcs from the altar
 and the black beast looked up suddenly, no longer
 caught in the magical trance. It leapt from the altar
 into the crowd and tore viscously into the nearest
 orcs, slashing through ceremonial armor and casting
 blood in the air. Violent chaos erupted and the beast
 was eventually driven back towards the wall, where it
 turned and leapt back through the void whence it came.
 
 Suddenly Melia found herself in the midst of an angry
 mob. Though a number of the orcs were fighting amongst
 themselves, many were coming after her, the disrupter
 of the sacred rite. She tried to escape into the
 darkness beyond the torchlight, but the crowd was too
 dense and she only crashed into the limbs of her
 pursuers. Hands grabbed her from all around and though
 she struggled, it was to no avail. She would have been
 torn apart if not for the intervening of a large
 bronze-clad orc. Melia recognized him as the one who'd
 stood and spoke in front of the bonfire. He tied her
 hands tightly behind her back with stiff, hairy rope
 and led her back towards the village as the rest of
 the orcs jeered and cursed at her.
 
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