A Perilous Plant
Just a weird little short story that popped into my head the other day. I had to get it out to make room for other new stories! The jungle is a mysterious place, and also much more dangerous than previously thought as the character in this story finds out! Story contains vore, digestion, death, though not in graphic detail. So if that isn't your thing, I don't blame ya for skipping it.
The weather was hot and oppressively humid as I made my way down the jungle path. My friends and I had been trekking through the Amazon, visiting isolated villages, and generally just enjoying exploring the mysteries of the jungle. The village we were staying in was one of the most remote known villages in the jungle, and the area beyond it was mostly unexplored. As I had left to explore, one of the members of our host family had sternly warned me in broken English to stay on the path, no matter what. I assured them I would, wandering off the path was a guaranteed way to get lost in the jungle! As I trekked down the path, the air was filled with the sounds of the jungle. Birds calling, animals moving through the undergrowth. Then I heard a voice cry out. I stopped and cocked my head to listen. The voice came again. It was in the language commonly used by most of the villages we had visited, and if I wasn’t mistaken, it was a cry for help. The call repeated again, and I found myself uncertain of what to do. The call sounded like it was coming from quite a ways off of the path, and I was hesitant to leave it. The cry for help repeated again, and I decided I couldn’t ignore it. I pulled out my machete, and began cutting a path towards where I thought I had heard the cries for help. After hacking quite a ways into the undergrowth, I paused to listen again.
“Hello?” I called. The cry for help repeated, it sounded very close. I hacked through a dense wall of growth, and suddenly found myself in a small clearing. There were thick vines crisscrossing the ground, and some kind of massive plant pod in the middle that the vines seemed to originate from. The plant pod weirdly resembled the head of an alligator, even to the teeth like protrusions running along it.
“What in the hell is that?” I wondered aloud, as I stepped closer. I stumbled on one of the thick vines, and to my shock, it suddenly whipped around my calf, and twined up my leg. I cried out in surprise, and slashed it with my machete, cutting myself free, but another thick vine was already wrapping around my other leg. I cocked my arm back to slash at that vine, but before I could swing, another vine whipped out and coiled around my arm. The thick vines on the ground had begun to move and writhe, and more of them began coiling around my legs and torso. I struggled to try to bring my machete down, but the vine trapping my arm was too strong. The plant pod’s jaws cracked open, and I heard the cry for help again. A shiver ran down my spine as the realization that it had been the plant mimicking the call for help sunk in. My eyes widened fearfully when I noticed the bones scattered on the ground around it. The vines dragged me down to the ground, and my machete slipped from my hand. I grunted with effort as I fought to get free, but the vines held me tightly. I screamed for help as I was slowly dragged slowly towards the widely opening plant pod’s jaws, a clear fluid dripped from the edges, and sizzled when it hit the ground. It looked like some kind of acid, and I screamed again, realizing I was moments away from being fed into those dripping jaws.
“Is someone back there?” I heard one of my friends call, most likely from the path.
“Yes! Help! There’s a giant plant thing ooompf!” I tried to cry out, but a thick vine quickly looped around my face, cutting off my cries for help. The plant paused in dragging me towards its jaws, and called out for help again with its mimicked voice.
“Hold on, I’m coming!” my friend called, and I heard them noisily making their way through the brush. I managed to maneuver my hands to try to pull at the vine covering my mouth. I needed to warn them before it was too late! The vine held fast though, and didn’t even budge. My friend burst into the small clearing, immediately tripping on one of the thick vines on the ground, and fell flat on their face. They barely had time to lift their head before they were swarmed with vines, and immediately ensnared.
“What the hell is this thing!” They cried out in fear, but I was unable to answer. When they had rushed into the clearing, they had fallen closer to the plant pod than I was, so the plant decided to start with them first. He yelled out in fear as the vines lifted him off the ground, and fed him into the plant’s jaws, which promptly snapped closed. I cringed at the muffled screams coming from inside the plant, imagining the horrors my friend was experiencing. The plant pod shook slightly from the struggles within it, but soon it stilled, and the muffled screams faded. I heard a gurgling sound come from the plant, and shuddered. While the plant digested its meal, the vines holding me lazily slithered across me, taking their time to explore my body. Some slid inside my shirt, and others slid up my shorts leg holes , and snaked across my crotch, one slithered between my asscheeks. I bit my lip as I felt the vines tip begin prodding at my asshole, almost seeming curious about it. I grunted as it began to slowly slide into me, the tip brushing against my insides as it explored inside of me. The vine slid further and further into me, then thankfully, finally retracted itself from me. The sensation of it so deeply inside of me had been very unnerving, though also weirdly pleasurable. The plant pod turned towards me, and appeared as though it was thinking. The vines repositioned themselves on my body, looping around my arms and legs, pulling me into a spread eagle position. Vines slipped up into my shorts again, then tore them free from me. I was naked from the waist down, and the vines flipped me over onto my stomach. I struggled in the vines again, but it was just as hopeless as it had been before. I looked over my shoulder at the plant nervously, as a blunt tipped vine emerged from below the plant pod, and slithered towards me. I could see fluid dripping from the tip of it, but the ground didn’t hiss and sizzle when the droplets landed, so at least it didn’t appear to be the same acid from the plants mouth. The blunt vine slid up between my legs, rooted between my asscheeks until it found my asshole, then surged into me. I gave a muffled cry of discomfort into the vine still covering my mouth, and squirmed at the feeling of the vine pushing deeply inside of me. The vines tightened around my arms and legs to hold me still. The vine stopped burrowing into me, and I looked over my shoulder again, wondering fearfully what the plant had in store for me next. Small bulges began to travel down the vine buried in me, and I began to panic and struggle as they got closer. All I could do was grit my teeth as one after another, the bulges reached me, then forced their way into me. I could feel the vine retract slightly after each one entered me, and finally it pulled free from me. One of the bulges was still coming up the vine, and spilled out onto the ground. My eyes bulged in shock at seeing what appeared to be a large seed. The blunt vine groped on the ground briefly, and sucked the seed back up when it found it, then retracted back to the plant pod. My guts felt bloated and full with the seeds that filled me. The vines flipped me back over, and I saw my lower abdomen was slightly swollen. I shook my head in fearful denial, was the plant using me as some kind of seed bed? I was surprised to feel the vine around my face unwind. I would have called for help again, but I would just be luring somebody else to their death. As if to prove my point, the jaws of the plant cracked open, and my friend's slimy bones spilled out to clatter to the ground, joining the others scattered around the plant. Another thick blunt tipped vine emerged from below the pod, and slithered towards me. I expected another round of seeds in my ass, but instead it coiled around my chest as it crawled up my body, until the blunt tip hovered in front of my face. A sweet smelling fluid dribbled from its tip as it moved towards my mouth. I turned my head to the side, and shut my mouth tightly, fearful that now the plant was going to try to plant seeds in my stomach as well. I kept turning my head away from the tip as it tried to get in my mouth, and all it succeeded in doing was smearing the sticky fluid running from its tip all over my face. After a few moments of constantly turning my head away, a vine looped around the top of my head to hold it in place. More vines crept towards my face, their pointed tips slipped between my lips, and pulled my mouth open. Undeterred now, the blunt vine slid into my mouth, and began to excrete a sweet tasting fluid. I had no choice but to swallow it to avoid choking as it flooded my mouth. Thankfully it was only fluid and no more seeds, but I still had to wonder just what the purpose of the sweet tasting fluid was. The flow of fluid seemed never ending, and I could feel my stomach expanding uncomfortably as it filled. I was starting to fear I would burst, but finally the vine slid out of my mouth, along with the smaller vines that had been holding it open. I sighed in relief, and looked down to see that my stomach was now visibly quite swollen with the unknown fluid. More thick vines wound around my torso, and used their tips to begin to gently massage my swollen stomach. I was utterly exhausted from struggling, and everything else I had been through, but the feeling of the vine tips massaging my stomach was surprisingly pleasant. I slumped in the vines coiled around my body, and found myself dozing off. I had no idea how long I had slept for, but was awakened when I felt the vines begin sliding from my body, and releasing me. Still slightly groggy, I immediately scrambled for my machete and grabbed it, then turned and faced the plant pod, holding it in front of me. I was confused as to why it had released me. The vines that had held me were once again motionless across the ground of the small clearing. Cautiously I backed away, half expecting for them to suddenly come to life and grab me again. They remained motionless though, and I turned and ran. I was almost back to the path when a massive cramp hit me. I dropped my machete, and clutched my stomach as I fell to my knees. My stomach gurgled ominously, and I was terrified at the movement I could feel beneath the skin of my belly. My bowels lurched, and I managed to get off my knees and squat, the urge to move my bowels was overpowering. I grimaced and panted as everything left me in a rush. A feeling of great relief swept through me, I no longer felt full and bloated. I moved away from what I had expelled, and looked back to see the glistening seeds that had been inserted into me piled on the ground. The seeds twitched as I watched, and small tendrils emerged. I watched in a mixture of disgust and fascination as the seeds used their tendrils to crawl away from each other, presumably to find a place to plant themselves. One of them crawled in my direction, and curiously, I picked it up. No sooner had I picked it up, then it emitted a high pitched squealing sound. I cried out in surprise and disgust, flinging it away. I heard a rustling in the undergrowth near me, and saw a large vine slither out, then move slowly in my direction. Another one of those monstrous plants?!? I had seen enough, I turned and ran back to the path. As I made my way back to the village, I wondered if anybody would believe what had happened to me and our friend.