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The darkness of the cave was absolute and I couldn't even tell if my eyes were open or closed. I had never experienced such a complete sensory loss before and not even being blindfolded could compare to it. At least when you wear a blindfold you know you can take it off. I had lost my only source of light and the helplessness of that knowledge was beyond my capacity to bear. For a few moments I frantically attempted to get the phone to switch back on, but it would only make a tone as the screen attempted to boot but only flickered before shutting back down. It had gotten wet and sticking it into a bag of rice wasn't an option since I didn't have the foresight to pack any for my trip. Not that it mattered since my luggage was gone anyway.

I stood frozen in place, my breath came in ragged, terrified bursts as I tried to hold it in order to hear but continuously failing and making it worse. Of course that wasn't going to do me any good. I wasn't going to hear my way out of this cave and I certainly couldn't defend myself by sound alone. The creeping sensation that unseen things were all around me was maddening. I jammed the useless piece of technology into my pocket before grasping the hilt of another useless thing. I ripped Zoe out of her sheath with a ring of steel.

"--n't put me back to sleep!" the sword finished her earlier objection before making an observation: "Oh... Why is it so dark?"

I held her blade out in front of me in a feeble attempt to ward off any danger. "I lost my light! I can't see anything!"

"Well, find it!" she insisted. "This is really scary!"

"It won't work!" I waved her around, trying to attack what my mind was convinced was about to sink its teeth--or whatever unpleasant thing it eats with--into me.

"Whoa! What are you doing? You're going to-- OW!" she cried out as her blade smashed against a stalagmite. "Ow! Stop that!"

I managed to stop myself from giving into the panic and lashing out wildly, hoping to God that what I had hit really was a stalagmite and not another one of those snail monstrosities.

"I don't know what to do!" I whimpered. "I don't want to die here!" I reached forward and felt the stone pillar, finding some small comfort in its solid existence. Something I could hang onto in the dark. I leaned my back against it and sunk to the wet floor, feeling like breaking down and weeping like a little girl.

"We just need some light," Zoe offered.

"I don't have any damn light!"

"I can make light."

"You can?"

"Yeah... um... it's just there's sort of a whole thing to it," Zoe admitted with an unsure voice.

I shook her in front of me impatiently. "Then make light!" I insisted.

"Wait, wait! I can't just do it when I want to!"

"What? Why not?"

"Because that's not how it works. I need someone to help me."

"What do I have to do?" I asked feeling around her hilt. "Is it a switch or something?"

"No, it's nothing like that... it's just..." Zoe sighed. "I just met you and this is all happening too fast!"

"What are you talking about?" I demanded. "Just tell me what to do!"

"Okay! Okay! You need to..." her voice dropped to a shy whisper, "... stroke my pommel."

"Your what?"

"My... bottom."

I turned her, put a hand on the butt of her hilt and rubbed it vigorously. "What? Like this?"

"Eeek! N-not so rough!" she warned shrilly. "Do it gently!"

I eased up and slowed down.

"Yeah... yeah, that's better. Just use your fingertips."

I started polishing her smooth pommel, running my fingers over it, but there was no sign of any light. "Nothing is happening."

"It takes a b-bit," she said with a small gasp. "K-keep going."

I continued and noticed Zoe was growing warm. Something was starting to happen, but still no light. She buzzed lightly in my hand and uttered a groan.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"I-I'm good. It's good," she replied shakily. "Just that your hands are so soft and I haven't done this in such a long time. Maybe... change it up a bit? Try tracing your finger around the tip."

I could feel the row of decorative nodules around her pommel and ran a finger over them. A sharp jolt ran through her.

"Oh, gods, yes!" she responded breathily. "Just like that, master!"

"Wait... are you getting off on this?" I suddenly realized as I pulled my fingers away.

"Nuu! Don't stop!" she demanded with a gasping voice. "I was almost there!" There was a dim purple glow that flickered through her blade before disappearing.

"This is crazy!"

"You wanted light! Y-you have to rub me!" she begged frantically. "Please don't stop now, Master Jake! I was so close!"

"It's Jack," I grumbled.

"Master Jack, that's what I said!" she whined. "Please finish! I need to light so badly right now!"

Well, she did start to glow, so that was promising. If this would get me out of this cave I guess I didn't have much choice. I reluctantly put my fingers back onto her pommel and she gasped. Her hilt grew hotter and her blade started to gleam a dim purple as I rubbed.

"Is that it?" I asked her. A cell phone screen was easily brighter.

"I can m-make way more," she assured with a moan. "Do it faster!"

I stepped up my pace and her hilt hummed in response. She also started muttering quiet "Oh, gods. Oh, gods", which didn't make the whole experience any less awkward. However, she was starting to get a little brighter.

"Harder! Rub it all over!" she coaxed me, which I obliged. Her light was beginning to reach out into the darkness and I could now dimly see my hand doing what I suspected was a very lewd act. Even though she claimed that she didn't breathe, she was panting quite convincingly.

"Suck on it!" she suddenly insisted.

"What? No!"

"Then lick it!"

"Stop making this weird!"

She whimpered like a puppy. "Ooh, but I'm sooo close!" Her glow shimmered erratically and my hand was starting to get tired, but I rubbed for all I was worth. She didn't appear to mind the rough handling anymore, in fact, she encouraged it. Repeating "Harder!" in rapid succession.

Then she fell silent. The gasping and muttering stopped. The glow fell down to barely a flicker and I sensed I had done something wrong. Just as I was about to stop rubbing, Zoe screamed an intense wail of bliss.

"AAAWWW! AAAGH!"

"Christ on a stick!" I cried out as I held Zoe away from myself and winced. Her blade had burst into an intense flair of purple brilliance, too bright even to look at and I could feel the heat of it on my face. The entire cavern was abruptly flooded with light, not even allowing for shadows to exist. I put up my hand to shield myself from the light. As my eyes adjusted I saw that there were creatures all around. Several axolotl-pedes had been attempting to sneak up on me in the dark and had very nearly managed to. They were far more shocked by Zoe's light than I was. They shrieked and stumbled over each other, slamming into walls and crashing into stalagmites in their haste to flee.

'Aaww! Ahh! Ahh!" Zoe continued her--what I guess was a lightgasm--and wailed uncontrollably. It echoed through the cave, and the much brighter light source easily extended to the ceiling far above me to reveal a swarming mass of hairy creatures. Large, dark, bat-like monsters that were very disturbed by the noise and light. Their faces looked down at me in agitation, faces that didn't have any eyes that I could see but possessed a very toothy mouth and multiple pairs of fanned ears. The blind bats started to drop from the roof of the cave and unfolded twin sets of membrane covered wings as they took flight. Wings with brightly colored spots like those of a moth or butterfly. In seconds the cave was filled with the monsters fluttering about chaotically, and I dropped down to the ground flat on my back to avoid them. They screeched and shrilled but fortunately they weren't interested in attacking. After a few moments they synchronized their flight with each other and it was like looking up through a huge school of swirling fish. Then, as if on cue, they all quickly and efficiently filed out through one of the many passageways.

Zoe's light started to lose its intensity, and so did her cries of ecstasy. She gasped and sputtered, humming softly in my hand and had grown quite hot.

"Ohhh, masterrr," she purred. "That was amazing!"

I stood up and brushed myself off. Rather pointless since what had been dripping on me the whole time and soaked through all my clothes was not water. All the more reason to leave this place.

"You have magic hands," Zoe cooed.

"Can we please not talk about that?" I grumbled as I raised her up. Her light had fallen to the intensity of a lantern and appeared to stabilize. I looked around and to my delight, spotted my luggage. I rushed over to recover it. It had a gaping hole melted in it, but was still mostly intact.

Zoe managed to compose herself. "Okay. I'm good." She gave a quivering sigh. "So what should we do now?"

"Well, the salamander things ran that way." I motioned in one direction. "But the bats all went out that direction." I pointed to the passageway. "I assume they would want to leave the cave, so I guess that would be the way out."

"That makes sense," Zoe agreed.

I held her up in front of me as I dragged my luggage toward the passageway. The entrance to it had a uniform round shape and the passage maintained that uniformity like it had been carved rather than eroded. Similar to what those boring machines do to make underground tunnels. Was I under a city in an abandoned subway system? No, there were still cave formations in the passage. Stalactites take thousands of years to form, right? So it must be a natural cave that happens to be perfectly shaped for a bus to drive through. The going was treacherous since the floor was slick with a substance I didn't want to think too much about. There was an upward incline which caused me to slide backwards on occasion, but I took as a good sign that I was going to eventually reach the surface. The passage turned and branched multiple times, but it was easy to tell which way to go because of the obvious trail the bats left along the ground. The wet, smelly path was the right path.

After at least three miles of walking and stopping once to "relight" Zoe when she began to fade, I started to worry that I was never actually going to find an exit. Perhaps the bats just lived in the cave and only flew around inside it? That might explain why I've never seen any of these animals before. They simply haven't been discovered living in an underground cave system. I supposed if I did find my way out I might become famous for this discovery. Heck, I even took some pictures of one of these creatures. Maybe I'll be celebrated by the Nature Channel as a famous explorer. Plus I got a talking sword that orgasms light. I'm sure that must be interesting to someone. But all that was a matter for another time. I was tired, sore, and getting anxious about the thought of being stuck underground forever, when I sensed something.

"Do you feel that?" I asked.

"Yeah! I think I do!" Zoe said excitedly.

"Smells like fresh air!" I started walking faster. Before long a light appeared ahead. I rounded a corner and there was sunlight. Beautiful sunlight illuminating an exit. I felt like crying.

I squinted my eyes as I stepped out into the daylight, feeling a huge wave of relief. Which didn't last long since it was sweltering even compared to inside the cave. The cave opened on the side of a mountain, below me was a lush, forest that had a strangely purple/pink hue. In the distance beyond there was an ocean that appeared orange with faint peaks of blue mountains beyond. Being in the dark so long must have really screwed with my eyes if I couldn't see color correctly. To the left and right were tall mountain ranges that appeared to stretch on forever.

Where was I, exactly? There was no way this was the Rockies, too close to the ocean. Europe? No, that forest looked tropical. Perhaps someplace in South America? Peru? That didn't seem right either. It couldn't be Hawaii, the mountain range was too vast.

"Ooh! That's a pretty planet!" Zoe exclaimed.

"What planet?"

"Up there."

For a moment I could only gape stupidly. Above me was a large object that dominated the sky. A pink and yellow orb with a gossamer ring around it that reached from horizon to horizon. The giant planet dwarfed the sun right next to it. A sun that didn't seem to be the correct color. Glancing around there was another much smaller planet, then another. A blue one and a gray one. Then I noticed a dark spot in the sky that appeared to glow blackness.

I swallowed a hard lump in my throat. "Zoe... where the hell am I?"