Underwood Rescue
I submitted this for inclusion in a Fur Planet compilation and it was ultimately not chosen. Since it won't see publication, I'm uploading it for free. I hope you enjoy reading.
Underwood Rescue
A moon rises on the horizon to join another one already in a clear dark sky as solid black eyed individuals, small of stature; each one an ash skinned humanoid with faces painted black and armored in black leather armed with primarily with nets but each one also has daggers and a machete like short sword in reserve upon their persons as well as carrying shields that features a spiral coiled black worm advance on a silent farm house through a corn field that is almost ready for harvest. None of the goblins are taller that four feet in height as they scramble their way through the yard and into the house as quickly and quietly as they can accomplish. They make little noise as they steal their way in and kill the chicken sized dinosaurs, compsognathuses to be precise, acting as warding creatures with thrown daggers.
But an alarm is raised and a very male wolf farmer of black fur and red hair comes to investigate as his vixen wife, pale green furred with brown socks and gloves but purple hair in a homely nightgown, takes their young son, who looks almost exactly like daddy in swaddling clothes, and finds a hiding spot in the cellar as their young adult daughter, who is almost a carbon copy of her mother but completely nude at present, makes a beeline for the barn. Half of the goblin squad, around ten to fifteen of them, runs after the daughter while the other half draw swords and attack the father. The wolf is in a nightshirt but armed with a scythe and almost triumphs over his attackers but through sheer force of numbers the goblins take him down and murder him as the others net the daughter before clubbing her unconscious with their shields as a prelude to dragging her back the same way they invaded the property to begin with as silently as they started their raid.
The next morning the vixen visits a tavern that serves as an inn that is well known to all in the general vicinity as catering to the general wants and needs of wandering adventurers. She is looking for anyone that could avenge her husband and rescue her daughter, preferably not in that order but given that she has no control over what sort of psychopathic individual she will find among those who take their therapy in the form of slaughtering monsters with various methods that, by their own admission, have varying degrees of effectiveness she will take what she can get, and stops her search when she sees a ranger sitting in the corner eating and drinking a simple fare of the ale and stew the inn serves up as one of its specialties, the contents of the stew being of often questionable quality as it is the result of whatever the trappers in the surrounding forest, lake and river manages to procure that morning but it is fresh meat and for a carnivore that is the wolf-bear consuming the repass; the fact that it is meat is pleasing enough to the palate that it counts as a meal in all the ways that really matters. Russet brown fur with moss green eyes and hair to match in leather armor fashioned from the hide of a land shark, a mighty bow across his back, the lupursyn Kodyax is an impressive figure indeed. The fact that the tree of life emblem of the Druid Council is emblazoned on his chest in forest green is a good indicator as well that he might just be what the vixen is looking for and she might even convince him to take on the mission without much in the promise of payment for taking on the task; as she does not have much to offer in any case.
"Excuse me, sir," The vixen says meekly as she approaches the ranger with her child in tow. "Are you a ranger?"
"Aye, ma'am," Kodyax says firmly. "My name is Kodyax von Jaeger, I am a ranger knight of the Druid Council. How may I assist you?"
"I am Dana Farmer, good ritter," She says with some hesitation, "I have a matter most dire that I need to hire an adventurer to take care of. Will you hear my tale?"
"Aye," Kodyax says with a nod and motions for her to sit with him as he takes the young folf on his lap with a smile.
"Thank you," Dana says with a sigh of relief. "Last night, my farm was attacked by goblins, my husband was killed and my daughter taken."
"This area is not strictly under Druid protection," Kodyax cautions her. "But by my oaths I must act in cases like this, what can you tell me of the goblins?"
"They were ashen skinned with black leather armor and they carried shields emblazoned with a strange emblem," Dana states and then watches in somewhat alarm as Kodyax retrieves a scroll from his satchel on which is printed may strange emblems including one she recognizes and points to it. "That's the one! They all carried that symbol on their shields! What is this scroll?"
"These are the collected symbols of all the known tribes of goblins infesting the continent," Kodyax relates with a heavy sigh. "And the logo you indicated you saw is most disturbing." She gives him a fearful look as he continues. "They are known as the Shadow Worm tribe and they live in the underwood occasionally striking the surface for victims and other things. Please show me where this all took place."
Dana just nods and leads Kodyax to her home where he examines the scene with grim determination. A local priest of Allah-Yaweh the god of all, a pig named Gunther Schmidt, is praying over Herman's body when Kodyax comes in to look around. Gunther looks askance of Dana as Kodyax is allowed into the house with Adolf following close behind the ranger like a lost puppy.
"How could you, Dana?" Gunther asks with a disapproving growl. "This is most unseemly! Bringing that godless heathen back here. What were you thinking?"
"I was thinking of avenging Herman's death and maybe saving Olga's life, Gunther," Dana growls back in response. "I know Herman was a devout parishioner but look what that got him? If it takes a ranger, a holy hunter of the pagan faith to bring back my daughter safely, then so be it so help me god."
"There is nothing holy about that heathen," Gunther counters, "I was going to have a paladin come in and save her soul."
"A paladin would come too late," Dana states with a glare. "Goblins are not monsters that wait to do their foul deeds."
"Is this Olga's?" Kodyax asks as he comes out with a book bearing a pentagram on the cover that shocks the priest and the mother.
"I told Olga to get rid of that blasphemous tome!" Dana growls. "If she brought the goblins to her..."
"I doubt that," Kodyax states which causes Dana to be relieved non-verbally, "But if this is hers, then I need to find her."
"She's a witch!" Gunther screams. "God save us!"
"Aye, she is a witch," Kodyax growls in confirmation. "Which means I need to bring her before the council for proper training if nothing else."
"The Council would train her?" Dana asks in a guardedly welcoming tone. "My husband and I would argue with her about her abilities..."
"Godless heathen ways that needed to beaten out of her to save her soul!" Gunther screams.
"Alright, that tears it!" Kodyax says and takes out his quarterstaff before attacking the priest to give a good and proper drubbing.
"She can be taught to use her gifts to help others?" Dana asks after Kodyax has beaten Gunther unconscious.
"Aye," Kodyax responds, "Witch sorceresses are just above me in our sacred hierarchy. We try to make sure that we use our abilities to benefit nature and those that live in harmony with nature, farmers included."
"If you find her in time," Dana asks, "Please take her to be trained. If Olga can use her gifts to help others and be happy, I will be content. Despite what Gunther might bleat. At least as a witch she'll be able to defend herself."
Kodyax gives her a respectful bow and then follows the tracks the goblins made into the woods. He casts a spell to sharpen his own senses to let him do his job quickly and efficiently while calling out to the sacred power of nature itself in prayer. Dana takes her son inside and writes a letter to her stepson who has long since moved away to start his own farm to ask him to give what aide he can and keep her company.
"Momma," Adolf asks, "Why does Ritter Kodyax called the underground the underwood?"
"I'm not sure, Adolf," Dana answers as an old rabbit that is a long time friend of Dana's makes her way inside.
"I heard you had trouble, Frau Farmer," Lorelei inquires, the old witch's face a mask of neutrality.
"Aye, Lorelei," Dana says and pours her friend a cup of tea. "Lori, why do you and other adherents to the ways of the council call the underground the underwood?"
"There is an agent of the Council here?" Lorelei asks in bewilderment, "I am expecting Lord Kodyax, but as to why, under our feet there are whole forests of stone columns standing like petrified trees. It is in reference to these rocky groves that we call the region the underwood. As well as the fact that if you are shallow enough you can see tree roots. By the way, where is Olga?"
"Taken by the goblins," Dana says. "Why?"
"She came to me for help and advice on controlling her abilities." Lorelei easily admits.
"So you gave her the book of shadows?" Dana asks to which Lorelei just nods. "Ritter Kodyax went to fetch Olga from the goblins as he thought she was a witch in training."
"More like a witch in need of training," Lorelei says wryly. "I was going to take her on as my apprentice."
"When he comes back, I'm going to ask about that," Dana states as Lorelei gives her an approving look.
"I was supposed to have him with me as a back up when I came for Olga," Lorelei states grimly. "Olga is at a difficult stage in her development. I am duty bound by my oaths to the Druid Council to train her to be her own person."
Back on the trail Kodyax is keeping one eye on the tracks for him to follow and another looking for potential trouble that he will have to deal with. He clutches his quarterstaff tightly, both as a walking stick and, if need be, a weapon of defense. His precaution proves prudent as a quintet of goblins of the Shadow Worm tribe stayed behind to waylay potential pursuers.
The stench of the grease paint they use to blacken their faces gives them away before Kody's eyes can catch a glimpse of the horrific humanoids. One of them leaps out to try and startle the ranger and gets his skull crushed for his trouble. The other four form a pike hedge to advance on the invader to their territory.
Kodyax has no patience for the little ankle biters and uses his staff to sweep the quartet of spear wielding goblins aside. Twin piles of two goblins apiece fall to either side of the lupursyn as he presses on. One goblin from each pair attempts to rise, using the butt of his spear to steady himself, only to have their own heads staved in as Kodyax is in no mood to have stragglers tarry behind him with murder on their twisted minds.
Deep underground, an albino dwarf watches the scene with glowing yellow eyes and frowns as he braids his handlebar moustache. Behind him is a green furred folf with brown socks and gloves bound naked to a table and sleeping at the moment. She twitches fearful as a pile of purple hair lies forgotten by the derro who shaved her head and gave her a sedative before turning his attention to the outside world.
He hears a call in his mind and leaves the chamber as Olga cries in her sleep as she rests fitfully in the clutches of furless monsters she is damn well sure mean her harm. The derro "scientist" follows the mental summons to another chamber one that is mostly flooded with a bridge that has a platform at its apex where one can converse with the sea life swimming scant feet below and where an alien fish of titanic proportions awaits. Three eyes stacked on top of the other glare balefully at the entering derro as it waves its tentacles in the air menacingly.
"You called me, Master?" The derro says to the aboleth.
"A hunter approaches from the surface," The aboleth states in the derro's mind. "Capture him and bring him to me."
"I hear and obey, my Master," The derro says with a bow.
The derro walks through the underground until he gets to a staging area where ten shadow worm goblins have gathered around a fire where a naked rabbit is roasting on a spit and they take turns poking her in sensitive places in between taking turns rolling dice to determine who gets to eat her breasts. He barks orders at the goblins in their own degenerate tongue and they stop what they are doing and salute him. A female derro, who was fondling and getting fondled in return by a lady goblin until the male arrived, glares at her counterpart and demands a reason for his intrusion but backs off of her belligerence when she is informed their master gave the order to mobilize.
She doesn't redress when the goblins leave and the male goes over to her to have some fun of his own as their minions do the dirty work as the spearheads and daggers the goblins carry are coated with a paralytic poison. Moans of pleasure reverberate throughout the caverns as Kodyax makes his descent. The sounds of sex disturbs him as he can only imagine what is going on.
The smells all around him are overpowering as fungus hopping around on insect legs leap menacingly at him. Kodyax smashes a swarm of the things as the goblins creep closer, using the attack of the crawlers as a blind to distract the ranger and confuse his senses. When the goblins launch their offensive, the lupursyn never knew what hit him as the poison courses through his veins.
Kodyax has a strong constitution and manages to survive a few hits with his freedom of movement more or less intact for a minute before he becomes overwhelmed. He is dragged into a staging area and stripped of armor and weapons before being chained up before what's left of the poison wears off. In a drug induced stupor, he is only dimly aware that the poison has the unintended side effect of giving him a stiffy.
One of the female goblins is only too aware of the effect and strips herself before climbing onto the wolf-bear for her own reward for a job well done. Exactly what their leaders want the furry for is beyond the general caring of the goblins as the dying screams of the rabbit girl her compatriots are carving up come into cell quite clearly. Concern is plain on Kody's face as the goblin girl giggles at the predicament before riding his pole.
The goblin girl is a little disappointed as Kodyax can't even moan in his current state even if she can and does which eats at Kodyax's conscience as one of her fellow shadow worms comes in with the head of the rabbit they just murdered and goes off in the corner to desecrate the corpse by using her mouth as a masturbation aid. Externally, Kodyax shows no emotion but he has no illusions as to what is going on although he is a little relieved since it was not Olga that they just murdered but even still he is feeling some righteous rage that he can't express right now as his own body won't let him. Unfortunately for the goblins, the female using the wolf-bear as a canine marital aid, he may have a bear's body, but both of Kody's heads are canine as well as his tail, she is actually speeding his recovery from the drug they injected into him.
Slowly but surely Kodyax can feel his muscles return to their normal function, albeit with a lot of pain as he regains proper use of his body. The goblin girl has gotten off from riding his cock and has gone to eat while leaving Kodyax hanging, suspended from the ceiling. Even though he shot a load into goblin pussy, Kody's cock is still rock hard, slickened a little from the orgasm the goblin had while riding him but still quite erect and ready for use.
A quartet of female derro invade the cell to poke and prod at Kodyax with at least one of them undressing and as she does a tattoo on her body disturbs him enough that if it wasn't for the drugs artificially giving him a hard on right now he'd being going flaccid quite quickly. The tribal tattoo she and all the derro have on their bodies features an open eye in the center of a sinister sun symbol consisting of tentacles radiating out of the eye itself apparently. Kodyax recognizes the tattoo as being the generic emblem of the dark ones, a pantheon of alien deities no sane mind worships.
The contraption the ladies are constructing consists of a piston shaft, a crank, a frame and a spongy dildo that changes its design randomly of its own accord. Of the four, one of them guides the dildo into Kody's tail hole and then monitors the whole operation to make sure the results gets properly recorded; two of them turn the crank which pistons the shaft and subsequently takes the wolf-bear up his anus while the fourth rides his cock until she comes and is replaced with another of the four girls until each one has gotten a turn on top. By the time the first derro girl had climaxed, Kody is fully in charge of his body but plays at still being paralyzed to fool the derro who are more interested in having their fun and experimenting on the lupursyn than anything else.
While the derro are having their fun, the aboleth is watching from its chamber psychically. What it feels about what is going on it does not communicate to anyone. Instead it lets the derro have their way and tries to send waves of supplicating thought to suppress Kody's will to fight. Its efforts actually do the opposite as the crushing waves from the alien mind of the monster energizes Kody's own will to fight and survive as well as let him know of its presence which actually endangers its existence as Kodyax has taken things like aboleths as one of his specialties of monsters that he hunts.
Slowly but surely he works at his chains and eventually manages to free himself while the derro and the goblins are asleep. He goes to find Olga and finds her still asleep and on the slab to which he tanks the powers of nature and cops a feel of her breasts because he can. He finds a veritable arsenal in the next room consisting of weapons and armor from countless other adventurers who had met their fate at the hands of the monsters living here.
He finds a magic key wand and uses it to release himself from his shackles before reclaiming his own equipment from the vault. After getting himself dressed and armed he goes looking for the aboleth that was trying to suppress his mind; reasoning that it was the glue that held everything together and was controlling the derro who commanded the goblins.
The chamber of the aboleth is not easy to find and that was done on purpose as the creature prefers to deal only with the derro themselves which are completely in thrall of the evil water monster mostly by choice but the aboleth does have a kill switch in place which activates if it is ever slain. Every derro and goblin in the caverns has a post hypnotic suggestion, placed there by the aboleth itself to commit suicide or go on a homicidal rampage that includes suicide that triggers when the alien fish itself is ever killed. The paranoid creature of eldritch origin did this because it did not fully trust its own minions and occasionally activates the trigger in those that displeases it but it never occurred to the thing that someone outside of its control would ever find and kill it, a notion that it is having now as Kodyax is actively seeking a way to get to its own cell and slaughter the beast according to his own code of honor.
Kodyax's own dark emotions are radiating out from him for anyone with the senses to read such things to pick up. Terrors from beyond the stars have haunted Kody's dreams since he was a child and it was the fighting and slaughtering of those nameless horrors that drove him to be the ranger he is now. Many are the folks who think him the brave and fearless guardian even if that is not the case as the nightmares have never actually ceased, Kody has just gotten better at fighting off the monsters that assault him in his sleep; they still terrify him but now they induce a murderous rancor within him instead of paralyzing him with fear; that's how he deals with it, inside he is actually terrified as he hunts for the aboleth; what makes him a hero is how he has chosen to channel his fear.
Nameless dread wells up within the whole of Kodyax's being as he stalks his way through the tunnels of the underwood. Every flickering shadow gives him a start as he is prepared to fight something at every single moment. Sleep is to remain a stranger as he dares not close his eyes in a place like this; the nightmares he would have are more intense than he is prepared to deal with right now and he is well aware of this fact.
Eventually Kodyax comes across a small round chamber with glyphs on the floor that glow a pale and sickly yellow light. Similar sigils parade in a circle just above his head with only intensifies the nameless dread Kodyax fills within. Heaving a heavy sigh, Kodyax walks into the middle of mystic circle and is unsurprised when the lines of eldritch equation shine forth walls of sickly yellow light to entrap him as he shakes his head and switches to his bow.
The stone platform he is standing on descends into the chamber below as another reforms to seal up the hole in the ceiling his passage initiated. Chanting in an alien tongue fills the air as phantom music begins to play from where Kodyax has no idea nor does he really care as his heart is pounding as the nameless dread of anticipation builds within himself. Below him is a scene out of some surrealist painting with bridges and platforms everywhere above an endless sea of waters of such inkiness the depths are impossible to fathom.
Balls of light float in mid air supported by nothing and move around the chamber of their own accord. The lights change color and display every hue imaginable with the interim of the changing of the spectrum of their illumination seemingly occurring at random. Light trails accompany the movements of the phantom lanterns that seem to linger in the air longer than they have any right to exist and together form complex patterns and eldritch signs that thoroughly unnerve those unfortunate enough to study them for any length of time.
Kodyax notches an arrow to the string of his bow as part of a ritual he makes himself do to concentrate on the task at hand of slaughtering whatever abomination he finds himself hunting on a given mission. He whispers prayers to the spirits of nature that empowers him; asking them to grant him the courage he needs to stay the course and do what must be done. None of which prepares him for what he sees below him.
Olga is chained to a pillar of stone that is half submerged in the shallow waters of the flooded chamber where the aboleth can swim freely and molest her with its tentacles as much as it might want. The young folf witch sorceress is shuddering at the touch the alien fish makes as it inserts its tentacles into her cunt and tail hole. She can't speak as her muzzle is also filled with a tentacle as her breasts are molested by yet more tentacles.
She cannot speak, but the look on her face is pure terror as her eyes look around frantically for someone, anyone who can come to her rescue. Kodyax brings a paw up to his muzzle to give her a shushing motion and a wink to ask her in a non-verbal fashion not to give away his location. Olga doesn't want to but the fact that she calms a little, secure in the knowledge that salvation is at hand alerts the aboleth to the fact that they are not alone.
"Who dares intrude of the sanctity of this inner sanctum?" The aboleth asks hypothetically as it broadcasts waves of thought. "What manner of chimera would disturb the amusement of a superior being such as I?"
"You are not a god!" Kodyax states in a thundering whisper as he takes his first shot after enchanting the bow with a quick spell.
"I see," the monster mentally broadcasts calmly as it quickly retreats from Olga after it's been shot and wounded by Kodyax's carefully aimed arrow. "The hunter has arrived. You think you can kill me?" It dives beneath the inky black waters. "I assure you that you are quite mistaken." Stalactites fall like rain and after landing they right themselves and unfold into beings with features of both hermit crabs and nautiluses. "I am master here. You will not prevail!"
"Creeper crabs?" Kodyax yells in challenge, "Is this the best defense you have monster?" He easily lines up a single shot kill and decimates the small army that quickly amasses around him. "Force of numbers will not save you, monster, not with the quiver I have." Shot after shot, each arrow kills a crab effortlessly until all are killed and the aboleth breaches out of the water to try and whip the ranger personally only to get an arrow in the eye for its trouble. "I'm well aware of your tricks, fish, I shall defeat you!"
"Doubtful," the aboleth broadcasts calmly but dives far too quickly for that to be its true state of mind as the water starts to boil. "I have other minions. You will wish the creeper crabs killed when I am done with you."
Pillars of flesh rise from the waters with lashing tentacles and balefully glaring eyes. Understanding comes slowly as there seems to be no weakness to the creatures, whatever they are. By accident, Kodyax discovers that each pillar must be killed slowly as he plunges his daggers into them as climbing aids that causes the things to write in pain until he gets to the top and finds a cavity at the bottom which is the brain of a given tower that he can shoot to kill it.
"How?" The aboleth demands to know as it beaches itself on the shore of the chamber near the pillar where Olga is chained. "How are you able to destroy my minions so quickly? Nobody has beaten the towers of the sultan of the void before. I must kill you myself now." Another eye gets shot out. "Quit that, it will not aid you." The last eye gets blinded. "I can still perceive you without eyes, hunter, you will not survive."
"Wrong, monster," Kodyax promises as he switches to the long knives that are his daggers and starts to lop off the tentacles of the beast one by one. "I am going to take you apart, piece by piece if necessary."
"Steel talons do not make you the superior predator, hunter," the aboleth admonishes. "I still have my mind." Kodyax is forced to stop his assault for a moment as the aboleth tries to activate that part of the brain that causes a person to take their own life as waves of despair emanates from its alien mind. "Kill yourself!"
"Not today, monster," Kodyax growls and starts to tear into the flesh of the beast with his daggers. "If I am going to die it will be fighting something far more powerful than you. And even then I will take it with me into the dark embrace of death."
"Brave words, hero," the aboleth broadcasts in a mocking fashion. "But eventually all heroes die. I do not suffer the same fate. My kind are immortal. Only violence can terminate the existence of one as perfect as I."
"Like the violence he is perpetrating on you now?" Olga asks mockingly. "He serves the Druid Council as a ranger. He is a hunter and you are his prey!"
"I am predator," the aboleth tries to correct as it begins to slide back into the murky depths. "This chamber is my hunting grounds, none may best me here."
"You are wounded severely," Olga challenges in return as Kodyax carves rents into the monster's side, grievous wounds that bleed an alien ichor that flows from the wounds and even gushes out in spots. "You think the water will save you? This ranger is damaging your gills, I can see that from where I am now."
The beasts gives a final shudder and then becomes deathly still. The bleeding stops and the form of the creature begins to deflate. Kodyax and Olga look at each other dumbly.
"It's not bragging anymore." Olga observes. "Did you kill it?"
"Either that or it really knows how to play dead." Kodyax says as he approaches Olga. "I am Kodyax, you must be Olga."
"Yes, thank you," Olga says and then gives him a lustful look. "Before you free me, would you mind fucking me? I'm going to become a witch-sorceress and I'm not sure if I'll get this opportunity again."
Kodyax says nothing but instead lowers his muzzle to lick and suckle at Olga's tits, the owner of which moans appreciably and does her best to spread her legs and welcome his invading member. He reaches down and massages her clit with his fingers before lightly stroking the lips of her pussy, more to make sure he knows where it is without looking but also with a mind to giving her as much pleasure as he can. Olga has had a harrowing experience, in Kody's mind, the least he can do is give her a good time to make up for not finding her sooner.
Olga is shuddering in pleasure as she had heard of Kodyax through Lorelei and hoped to somehow meet him; not like this but from the way he is taking her now, she is sure that her mentor was right about him having a caring heart. Some of the other things Lorelei would let slip about Kodyax is coming to mind as well; how gentle he can be and attentive to detail. A part of Olga is wondering what it would be like to enter the next stage of a woman's life with his help: transitioning from maiden to mother.
That transition may happen sooner than she might think as the chemicals that went coursing through Kodyax's system earlier have lingering effects that are coming into play as he takes her as willingly as she surrenders control to him. His knot inflates a little faster as he gets harder faster but it quickly recedes once he blows his load inside of her. The bottom line is that she gets at least one full blast of his seed before he sets her free and has to carry her out of the dungeon.
Dana just smirks when her daughter is returned as she and Lorelei are having tea. Lorelei can smell the fact that Olga got what she herself has enjoyed a few times with Kodyax and she embarrasses him with talk of innuendo bantered back and forth with Dana which Olga has no real idea as to what they are discussing but Kodyax knows all too well. Kodyax is summoned away but he leaves Olga in place as Lorelei's apprentice, never knowing he planted a few seeds inside of the young witch to be both physical and mental.