I Dream Of Insects 2
A sequel to the original. Our two transformed insects now have a new mission in life: To prevent others from suffering the same fate as they have.
(There is no transform tag as the pair are already transformed in the beginning.)
There was a sound of buzzing as a fly flew through the quiet motel room. The fly was approaching a fly strip, but quickly swerved out of the way. The fly flew into a small hole in the wall, while it's many countless unblinking eyes guided its way. It eventually came to a landing near a creature that resembled a white maggot. The fly leaned its head down and slowly stroked the side of its prickly head on the smooth, squishy body of the maggot.
The maggot and fly were no mere insects. The two creatures were once humans, humans that met a tragic transformation, a transformation that left them as nothing more than a female fly, and a male maggot. The two simply couldn't live out their lives as normal humans, so they lived both inside, and outside the walls.
The fly was once a beautiful woman named Rachel. She loathed being a disgusting fly. She ate by vomiting a bile onto food that melted it, and then she sucked it back up through her tube. It was as such a fly lived, but she was more intelligent than the average fly. She could avoid spider webs and fly traps.
The maggot was a man once named Alex. At first glance, one would just see a normal writhing white maggot with tiny claws, claws too small to cause a normal human to bleed, and two small beady black unblinking eyes. He also had a mouth, a circular mouth stuck permanently open with many rows of sharp teeth. It allowed him to digest virtually anything, which was good as it was hard for him to move very fast. His body crawled like a worm, one that could inch forward before it dug its claws down, and then pulled its back half with it.
At first when the two changed, they deeply regretted it. The maggot had first longed for death, even if it couldn't really display any emotions. Alex, the maggot, couldn't blink. He couldn't shift his circular mouth into any other form, it simply pulsed, and sent that pulse down the rest of his body. Alex assumed that he would live as long as a maggot, but over the months, the two realized they lived long past the lives of normal insects. They weren't sure how long they could live, but they learned to serve a purpose. They might have been tiny insects, but they could still help out other people, just in ways those people never realized...
The door to the motel room opened as a couple walked inside. The man stepped in first with his head held high. "Here we are, our honeymoon..." He then looked around the motel room, and his demeanor quickly changed from proud, to depressed. "...suite."
The motel itself was a run down two story motel in the shape of an L with a drained pool complete with rust. The interior of the motel room had brown shaggy carpeting with stains around the bed, a coin operated television, and one door that led to the bathroom which had so little room that the toilet was positioned inside the tiny shower, as well as the sink. The bed itself, while large, had visible stains in the area where a person would normally position their waist while sleeping.
A woman followed the man in shortly after. She wore a white shirt with light blue jeans. She took a quick glance around the room, and then glanced at the man. "You know, getting married at the courthouse is one thing. Weddings are expensive, but could you at least have booked us a hotel that has more stars and less roaches?" While she didn't see any pests when she walked in, the various tiny holes in the walls, and floors was a dead giveaway. That, and the fly strips positioned on the ceiling.
"They said this motel was a place of dreams." The man replied with a sound of shock in his voice. He took out his phone from his jeans and checked the website. "It even has five stars on the site. Sure there's only like...50 reviews, but still, five stars."
While the man and woman talked, both the fly and maggot could pick up their conversation from inside the walls. Both had very tiny holes on the sides of their head that served as ears, and while the conversation was largely an echo, and hard to understand completely, both of them knew the motel room had another couple. Alex and Rachel, the maggot and fly, had both done their hardest to drive people out of the motel room. They had suffered the fate of being transformed into insects from sleeping in the motel, and decided they would remain alive as long as possible to prevent others from going through the same fate.
Rachel nuzzled Alex gently with her hard body before her clear fly wings buzzed, and she flew out from between the walls to spot the man and woman with her many eyes. She kept a good distance from them, but while she was out in the open, she flew around rapidly to spell out 'GO' to the pair.
"Yeah, this is the place of dreams alright. It's the stuff of fucking nightmares." The woman replied with a roll of her eyes. She watched Rachel fly around with a raised brow. She couldn't quite make out what the fly was doing other than just fly around aimlessly. "Look. This place is infested with flies." She wasn't even sure what the fly was after. Sure the motel room was shoddy, but there wasn't much in the way of trash or foul scents.
The man watched Rachel fly around. "Ugh. Flies are so annoying." He looked around for something to swat it with, but there was little in the motel room that could work. Even the very lamps near the bed were screwed onto the end tables, which were screwed onto the floor. "They fly around with no rhyme or reason, and never tire." The man did notice that Rachel kept flying around in the same pattern, but he wasn't sure what that pattern actually was.
Rachel's multiple unblinking insect eyes looked down at the man and the woman. She could tell she had their attention, but that they just looked more disgusted than afraid. She flew onto the door handle of the motel room, and instinctively rubbed two of her large front insect legs together.
The woman looked down at Rachel. "The door's still wide open. Get out, sheesh." The woman was hesitant to kill the fly with her bare hands, but she waved her hand in the direction of the door close to the fly.
Rachel had gained the senses of a fly. She could tell if she was in danger. She knew she could leave at any time too, but she would be leaving her lover behind, and then she knew the fate of these two would be horrible. Rachel flew away from the doorknob, and towards the woman. She flew directly in front of her face before she flew away through one of the many cracks in the wooden walls.
"Ugh. It wouldn't shock me if we could hear insects humping through these walls." The woman said in disgust when the fly left. She had to admit though, that fly was certainly bizarre. Even if the room had cracks in the walls, she wondered what a fly would have to gain by going into it. "Maybe we should get out of here. The car is a better place to sleep than here."
"Look, I know it's not the best of places." The man walked beside the woman and shut the front door. "But it's far more privacy than the car, and air conditioned too. Let's just try it for one night, okay? Worst case scenario, we get bed bugs."
The woman glanced at the door with a grimace. She crossed her arms, and let out a sigh. Their car wasn't air conditioned, and it was hot outside. "Fine, but we're not bringing in our suitcases. The very next morning we take off our clothes, we shower, and we go out to our car with a towel draped around us and put on new clothes." She wasn't taking any chance with any bed bugs.
Meanwhile, Rachel flew back to where Alex was stationed inside the walls. Communication between the two was difficult, but Rachel made various flying motions. She flew left and right as much as she was able to do so in the walls.
Alex's unblinking beady black eyes watched Rachel, his eyes thankfully being able to see in the dark walls. He could tell that the two people hadn't left, and they had to go to plan B. Alex hated plan B. He hated getting involved personally with people. His form didn't allow him to move nearly as fast as Rachel could have. At the same time, he didn't want anyone else to be turned into the monstrosity both him and her became. His boneless maggot body began to crawl forward. His small claws attached themselves onto the wall, and he crawled outside the crack in the hole. Inch by inch, he made his way along the walls until he was just above the bed. He then let go of the walls and fell down. To a normal human, he fell about 5 feet. To Alex's body, it felt as if he had hit terminal velocity after merely a few inches. He hit the pillow with a thud so quiet that nobody could hear it. He curled up until a circle once on the pillow, and he waited. His off-white body looked different enough than the pillow on the bed itself that someone could definitely see him. He knew his form was utterly disgusting to many humans. He did look like a giant maggot after all.
"Let's just clean off the bed first. You know there are tactics to check if there are bedbugs." The man made his way to the bed, just barely big enough for the two of them. "Like you..." when he glanced down at the bed, he froze midsentence. While the pillows lacked anything to cover them, his eyes were focused on the creature on the very center of the pillow on the left. "What the fuck is THAT?" It was one thing to spot a roach, he knew what one was, but the creature on the pillow looked like something he had only seen in nature documentaries, and ones that were much smaller than it.
The woman had to see for herself. She glanced at the pillow, and her eyes widened. While Alex definitely looked scary if one looked at him close up, he was miniscule to people. His multiple rows of sharp teeth could create a bite the size of a little less than a dime, and be lucky to penetrate much skin. "It looks like some sort of freakish insect." She knew there were hundreds of bizarre insects in the world, but the creature on the bed was unbelievable. She wanted to get it off the pillow, but she didn't want to touch such a vile squirmy thing.
Alex heard their voices as his body gently pulsed. He could hear them talking about his form. Such words would have normally been depressing for a person to hear, but he had grown used to it. He had been called everything unpleasant under the sun. He was disgusting and revolting. The things his body could digest often surprised even him sometimes. He wriggled and shifted around a bit on the pillow.
Rachel watched from afar. She was worried about Alex when he had to do interactions with people. Rachel could fly away with the speed of, well a fly. Alex however, had very limited mobility.
The man shook his head. "I don't know what it is, what it does, and if it has any weird bacteria on it. Honestly, I don't want to find out." The man picked up the pillow by the sides, and then turned it 180 degrees. He moved the pillow away from the bed, and shook it hard to get Alex off of it.
Alex could only hold on for so long before his small claws came out. While the pillow was only shaken gently, it felt like an 8.0 earthquake to him, one with gravity turned on its head. His small claws let go, and he fell a good distance down to the dirty carpet below. No human could hear the noise he made when he hit the ground, but he heard the sickening splat that his body made. Despite such a large drop, once again he was still alive. He knew the floor was the most dangerous place for him to be though, not just because of the two humans that watched him, but other insect hazards.
Alex crawled away as fast as his maggot body could carry him. His tiny claws dug into the carpet, not even far enough to touch the ground the carpet was laid on top of. He moved at a pace only slightly faster than that of what a worm above ground could make before he got underneath the bed. His body was incapable of breathing fast, impossible to have a fast heartbeat. His body looked the same, but underneath that squishy body, Alex was afraid. His black beady eyes allowed him to see under the bed just fine. Underneath the bed was a large needle, used by the looks of the dry blood stained tip. There was also Kleenex tissues on one side of the bed, and a brown wet spot directly underneath the center of the bed.
There was also an insect in that wet brown spot underneath the bed. The insect had a large brown shell, six legs, and two antennae. It was a roach, a roach that found something interesting in that brown spot. The antennae wriggled with the roach's head as it stuck out what appeared to be a tongue, and licked up the dark spot.
Alex froze when he saw the roach. While his length was about as long as the ring finger on a human, the roach he saw was a giant one, one larger than him. To a human, the roach would simply be a pest, a bug, something definitely annoying and disgusting, but to Alex, the roach was a real threat. Being fully eaten was impossible for Alex, he had learned that the hard way one day, he regrew parts faster than any insect could eat them, and he couldn't be squashed either. He had no real 'organs' in him to speak of, he would simply inflate back up to normal. His unblinking, black beady eyes stared at the roach. He didn't want to go back out from underneath the bed, but at the same time, he didn't want to get noticed by the insect and bitten, but at the same time, he didn't want to get squashed. He might not die from either, but pain was still pain, and unfortunately, despite all of the vital organs he now lacked as an insect, he could still very much feel pain. At least he couldn't smell anything, not that there was anything to smell.
Rachel in the meantime was the literal fly on the wall. She watched the situation unfold. As much as she hated Alex getting hurt, she knew he couldn't die. Neither of them could. It was both a curse, and a blessing. They could go anywhere in the world together, but they vowed to remain in that hotel room to make sure nobody else had their fate, as many would call their fate far more of a curse. Rachel flew down behind the two humans and got underneath the bed to find Alex and his situation. There was a crack in the wall, and Rachel flew towards to it. Her buzzing body travelled from where Alex was, to where the hole in the wall was. Rachel signaled a way he could get to safety. The hole was simply too small for the roach, but big enough for Alex.
Alex was all too thankful to see Rachel fly down. His black beady eyes that let him see in the darkness watched as she flew over to a hole, and Alex began his crawl to that hole. A distance of what was only less than ten feet away felt like miles for Alex to crawl. Inch by inch, he crawled past the roach. Thankfully unnoticed, Alex crawled back inside the wall. He placed his claws on the inner depths of the wall and crawled upwards back to their home they created.
The home Alex and Rachel created was of little more than an area made from tiny pieces of wood arranged in a small circle along the inner walls. It was high enough that most insects didn't care to go that far, and thin enough so that mice couldn't get through it either. Alex crawled back, and he thought of one more thing he could try to do to get those humans out of the hotel. He curled his body up into a half circle, and waited for Rachel.
Rachel flew back through the dark walls. Her fly eyes that saw the same things multiple times at many different angles helped guide her way. When she finally met up with Alex, she noticed the position he was in. While the two couldn't talk with each other, they had made other forms of communication, and based on the half circle Alex was in, Rachel knew that Alex wanted to do plan C to get the two humans out. Rachel loathed plan C, but it was often an incredibly effective one. If the first few plans to get humans out didn't work, plan C often did. Rachel would have shown her dislike for it, but she was unable to express anything as the fly she was.
"I'd feel a lot better if all of these damn holes were patched." The woman said from the motel room to the man. She was hesitant to approach the bed again after seeing the maggot-like creature that was Alex.
"I know it's still terrible, but that weird creature is gone, and I don't see any signs of anything else on the bed." The man replied. "I honestly don't even see any bed bugs on the sheets." He said as he inspected the sides of the mattress, and then underneath the pillows. "Let's just get something to eat first. I have some leftover sandwiches from the reception. We eat a few of those, maybe have some entertainment, followed by a quick nap, we'll be in and out of here before you know it. The door locks, and if you're nervous we can prop it up. The only thing we'd really have to worry about are insects, and the ones we've seen are totally harmless...I think." The maggot he saw looked harmless.
The woman let out a huff. She took a seat on the foot of the bed with her arms crossed, and her head turned away. "Some honeymoon this is turning out to be..."
"Hey you heard about how more expensive the weddings are, the worse the marriage. That just means this will be the best marriage yet." The man gave a forced laugh before he left the room.
Meanwhile Rachel had agreed to Alex's plan by flying up and down rapidly as best as she could to signal a 'yes' motion from her. She wasn't involved in plan C unless it went wrong. She flew besides Alex and rubbed her hard body up against his soft one. Her body rapidly buzzed as she rubbed.
Alex's small claws dug into the old wood of the motel. He pulled himself forward up onto the walls of the inner walls, and continued to crawl upwards. He ended up on the ceiling, and crawled upside down out of the inner walls, and back into the motel room. His maggot flesh blended in well with the ceiling. While his pulsating body could be found easily if one looked, one often didn't look up at the ceiling for crawling insects. Alex dug his way to the center of the motel room ceiling, and waited.
The man returned into the hotel room with a small white tray covered in clear wrap. "I know it's been rough, but things will get better. We're pretty far away from our home, and this was the only place to sleep within a 50 mile radius of the courthouse. Besides, do you really want to just go to the courthouse, get married, go home, and call it a day? That doesn't sound like a very lovely wedding day to me."
"Not really..." The woman replied with a frustrated sigh. She hated the motel, but something she couldn't fully explain was that the motel made her tired, just by being in the room. "I guess I am kind of hungry too."
"Well then." The man set down the tray on the kitchen counter and took a sandwich. He brought it over to her, and kneeled down. "Here you are my dear queen."
The woman grinned and rolled her eyes. "What would I do without you?" She took the sandwich, but before she took a bite out of it, she opened it up. "What kind of meat is this again?"
Alex watched from above. He inched towards the bed where the woman was located while both the man and woman talked, and continued to wait. The relationship of the two humans reminded him of what Rachel and his relationship once was like. Even without words, the two still very much loved each other. Alex stared down with his beady black eyes, thinking about how much he missed being human, and how being nothing more than some maggot monster made him incapable of actually showing much emotion.
Alex positioned himself exactly where he needed to be, and stared down at the woman. When she opened up the sandwich, he let go of the ceiling, and dropped down. With a small splat, he landed precisely on top of the sandwich meat. Due to the type of maggot he was, the meat he landed on actually smelled quite appetizing. Not that Alex knew where his nose was located, but he didn't question his new bodily functions. His constantly opened mouth reached down, and took a small bite of the meat. His mouth pulsed shut when it surrounded a bit of the meat, and he took it into his body. He had no taste buds, just the sharp teeth that pulsated tremendously when there was food in him.
The woman opened her mouth to take a bite of the sandwich, but froze when she saw Alex on top of it. Her jaw still open, she stared down as the maggot creature took a bite of the meat. After a brief moment, she shook her head, dropped the sandwich, and stood up. "Nope, nope, nope, nope, not having this, not today, I'm out of here." The woman's foot stepped on the sandwich on her way out, stepping on Alex with the very bottom of her shoe as she stormed outside. "I'm done with this motel. I don't give a shit if I have to sleep in the car. I'm done, I'm out, thank you for your time."
The man couldn't believe what happened as well. He didn't even see the maggot creature. He glanced up at the ceiling, but the only thing he saw was the single light with plenty of insect carcasses inside of it. "I don't know where he came from. Maybe it was just a one off thing though? Relax babe. We just need to seal all these holes in the wall..."
The woman stormed to the door. She opened it so fast that the door handle slammed against the wall so hard it left a dent in it, granted it already had a dent, now it was just bigger. "Let me be blunt." The woman turned to the man with a look of rage in her eyes. "It's either this motel for a night, OR OUR FUCKING MARRIAGE!" she turned back around, and stomped her way out of the room.
The man closed his lips tightly. She had a point that this room was extremely disgusting. He glanced down at the sandwich she had stepped on, and noticed the maggot. "Ugh...revolting..." he muttered. He then grabbed the stuff the woman and he brought in, and left, although he left the food behind.
Alex laid on top of the sandwich on the floor the entire time after he was stepped on. The woman's shoe reminded him for a brief moment just how pathetic he was. He was a wriggling writhing creature so small that a single foot was a threat to his very being. His body had virtually no organs to speak of, and he was absolutely boneless, so a simple crushing wasn't enough to kill him. In fact, without pain sensors, he barely even felt the foot at all. He watched the man and woman leave, and he mentally let out a sigh of relief. Plan C was often dangerous, sometimes he was crushed, and very rarely was he actually eaten, but the immortality he was granted made it impossible for him to actually get killed, even in someone's digestive tract, which even with an immortal body, was an absolutely terrible experience to go through.
Rachel had seen the whole thing from afar. She was thankful that plan C worked, but not so much that Alex was still left underfoot. She flew over to Alex once the man and woman were gone, and brushed her hard body against his soft wriggling one as a sign of affection.
The man and woman were gone, Rachel was thrilled that they had managed to get a couple to leave the cursed motel room. The room would not have a pair of victims tonight. All that was left were the insects in the room, including Alex and Rachel, whom were more than happy to finally be left alone.
Alex's body pulsated and throbbed while he recovered from being stepped on. With his simple his body was, it didn't take very long for him to turn from his side. He didn't leave yet though. His maw tilted downward, and he helped himself to more of the sandwich. It was rare he was able to eat actual human food, even if he couldn't taste it. The many sandwiches the couple left alone would be feeding them for days, even after the food rotted, they were more than capable of digesting it.
Rachel watched Alex momentarily. She figured that if the humans weren't coming back, then maybe she could help herself to some food as well. She quickly flew onto the other side of the sandwich that Alex was on, and shot dark clear green goo out of her insect tube-like mouth. The goo worked to melt the meat that Rachel was standing on, although with her size, it was a very tiny portion of the meat. With the same tube-like mouth that spat out the green goo, she sucked the melting meat into her body like thick liquid from a straw.
Once Alex got his fill, not that he could tell when he was full, he just stopped eating about half an hour later, he crawled down off of the sandwich, onto the carpet, and then through a hole in the wall to go back to what he called home. His black, unblinking eyes, guided him through the giant motel room, and then the smaller hollowed walls, though to him the hollowed out walls were as wide as a large hallway.
Rachel watched Alex through her fly eyes. She saw many instances of him from multiple angles, though she was just interested in making sure he got back through the wall safely. Her front two insect legs rubbed up against each other, and then briefly over her bristled thorax instinctively as she watched. She was aware there was a roach still nearby, and the roach could easily overpower her and Alex. Such threats made her feel insignificant at times, though unlike Alex, Rachel could actually fly places. It was easy to startle her and get her to fly away like the insect she was, but flight meant she could go to so many other places that Alex could not. She never intended to leave Alex though, despite his lack of wings. On the contrary, something at the very end of her abdomen pulsated, and Rachel instinctively knew what was going to happen. With a soft buzz, she lifted up her wings, and flew through a crack in the wall to go back to their small home.
Alex crawled back to the small home they had created, and curled himself up in a circle. While his eyes were unblinking, his pulsating body slowed to a near halt as he entered a state of torpor, the only way for him to get any rest as the maggot creature he now was.
Rachel flew back to where the home was, but rather than fly next to Alex, she was about half a foot away. Her abdomen trembled more than the rest of her body buzzed, and she felt the sensation to push. Her abdomen tilted downward, and the very base of it opened up. Tiny eggs, tiny even for her size, pushed out from her abdomen, and landed on the beam she was currently on. She felt egg after egg push out from her, and by the time she had finished, she had laid a good twenty eggs. She turned back to look at those many eggs, and she knew where those many eggs had come from. She had mated with Alex off and on, and those eggs were the results of their mating. She knew not the children that were going to come as a result of the two mating, just that she would train these new insects to aid them in getting rid of any humans that tried to sleep in that motel room. No one would suffer the same curse Alex and Rachel had, not if they could prevent it