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Anthro Sex Squad Story 4 - Bizmark's Story

By Killenor

Arc 1 - Origins

Chapter 2

Half an hour later, Bizmark finally scrabbled down to the canyon floor.

"Gah..." Bizmark gasped, sorely out of breath, "You call... whew... THAT a trail?!"

"Yeah," Tanja said, boredom oozing from her voice, "and it sure took you long enough."

"That was a half hour!" Bizmark snapped.

"Pssh. For you maybe... I've been waiting a whole third-hour it seems. Now come on, we're already late. It's just lucky that my trail brought us so close."

"Oh yeah... a few minutes away... I'm sure it'll be dark by then."

"I can't believe you aren't in better shape. I mean, you run around with me every day... and you are always running right behind me when we get caught."

"I have been getting better... it's just... so have you, yannow? You never slow down, which means that you always go as fast as you can... well, so do I. I always run my fastest, you're just faster."

"Well, that's true," said Tanja with ample bravado, "Alright, alright, I'll slow up this once, but seriously, that tree thing should be just right over there."

A few more minutes took then to the edge of the riparian forest. Here the canopy broke at the tree-line and a wide green expanse of bushes and grasses extended outward. It was there, in the center of this abrupt change of scenery that the weird tree stood with its strange fruits swinging in the breeze. The fruits were so strange, that the two young elephant-folk could almost swear they saw movement inside. But strangest of all was the wide yawning opening facing them from between the odd twists of wood. Nothing could be seen inside and the darkness almost seemed to reach out at them.

"See?" Tanja said breathlessly, "It's like a door."

"We'd still have to duck to get in there." Bizmark pointed out.

"Yeah whatever Sir Dark Cloud," Tanja snapped with yet another punch to Bizmark's arm.

Bizmark stumbled from the unexpected blow and fell to his knees. When he looked up he was greeted with what he could swear was a pair of bright blue eyes. Shocked, he scrambled backward only to notice that they were just a pair of strange flowers on an even stranger bush. It was some sort of bean plant but the bean pods on it looked just like his...

No, but that was impossible.

"Hey look!" Tanja said, grabbing his attention once more and directing it at that strange bole of a tree before them, "I didn't notice from up here, but look what the tree looks like."

Bizmark turned his attention back to the amazing trunk. Tanja was right! It was more than just some strange twisted tree, each new twist made it look like... like intertwined people! At the bottom he made out large folk, larger than even the elders of his people, and the forms shrinking as they approached the top. He could see representations of his own kind but also of hippo-folk, rhinos, birds, humans, goblins, shabbamanes, lions, bell-kin, hyena... and hundreds and hundreds more than he had ever seen! The images of their bodies were always paired, always intertwined with one of the opposite gender, and...

Bizmark turned away as a blush spread out across his face. He had seen this act before in the books that accompanied all stern lectures that the elders had given him only a few months ago. They were all coupled in acts of mating! His embarrassment was even greater thanks to the more negative light that the elders had cast upon such a thing. They made him feel ashamed whenever he became aroused at the thought that he would always end up hurting the ones he loved and inflicting them with offspring. It was the natural order of things, yes, but he still couldn't help feeling sorry for the old elephant women who had raised him that they had to be so burdened when they made it clear that they were so much better off without males in their lives.

Tanja's laugh felt like another stone added upon a great weight. How could he be so embarrassed and she be so... amused.

"Oh come on Biz," Tanja chided, "it's not like you've never seen naked females before. You grew up around all the rest of us. I know you had your own separate lessons, but it's just mating. I saw how it was done the last time males came to the village. It's a natural thing! Stop being such a wimp about it."

The following slap to Bizmark's back stung a bit more than Tanja had meant it to.

"Wait..." Bizmark said suddenly, "you saw it?"

"Uh... yeah," scoffed Tanja, "All us girls did."

"I didn't even get to see the males!" Bizmark cried, "Kayera took me on a nature study! They were gone before I got back! Duma and Eebar were there too!"

"Those old-wrinkles? They can't even mate anymore, they're so old. All dried up like sun-baked fruits. They normally leave the village during mating time so the males don't waste their energy." Tanja stated matter-of-fact-ly.

"I guess I'm just a distraction then..." Bizmark grumbled with a sudden rush of anger, "they just wanted me out of the way too."

Tanja grabbed him gently around the shoulders and moved his head so his eyes met hers.

"You," Tanja said with the first hint of concern Biz had seen in months, "are gonna be a big handsome bull one day. The day of decisions will see you right and you'll be a great male. Besides, we are a distraction. They're just picking on you 'cause it's easy to see that you're a male. It's something to blame everything on. They'll let me slide, 'cause they know I'm not gonna have to carry our reputation out..."

She stopped, looking like she had just been caught spilling a whole bowl of dinner out.

"What?" Bizmark demanded, "Out where?"

"I... I'm... I can't tell you Biz," Tanja said, uncertainty creeping into her voice, "I'm not supposed to tell..."

"Oh yeah? When were you so big on rules?" Bizmark pushed on.

"Please Biz... I can't... if the others found out..."

"Oh whatever..." Bizmark huffed and stood, "Nothing different, males against females like always. Come on then, let's go see your creepy tree with the spirits inside and be done with this."

"Bizmark wait!"

As Bizmark stomped along in his cloud of anger, he didn't notice the plants moving aside. They moved not only to avoid being crushed by his big feet, but also to rub up against him in very suggestive ways. Worse yet, they were snaking up taller, seeming to reach up to take hold of him. Bizmark only made it half way before the tangle of plants was simply too much for him to press on through.

"Bizmark!" Tanja cried and ran headlong into the field. She reasoned that if she could only run fast enough, the plants would not have time to grab her. She also knew she was stronger than Bizmark and guessed that if she could grab hold of him, she just might have the momentum and power to tear him free.

It was with that reason that she ran dead-on into Bizmark's back, tackling him free of the large tangle, but also sending them both sprawling in the field. The plants all reached toward them, and they both took the opportunity to scramble forward, toward the empty grass before the tree. But before they reached the safety, both of them felt not only a few thorny stings, but also the alluring and arousing caress of the tendrils.

They came to rest just out of reach, only a few strides from the dark opening in the tree, right near the foot of two massive creatures coupling. Both rolled onto their bottoms to examine their dirty clothes and scraped knees. It was then that Tanja REALLY noticed Bizmark. He was busy rubbing on one of his knees and seemingly oblivious to his aroused condition otherwise. Both of them wore roughly the same thing, a wrap-around plant-cloth shift that closed with toggles and reached their knees. With so loose a garment, it was plainly obvious to see Bizmark's rather large erection tenting the fabric.

Tanja only then noticed that she too had become rather aroused. Her breath was coming in short gasps and she knew that she was growing very moist indeed. Her tender nipples pressed themselves out, creating bumps in her front that mimicked in miniature Bizmark's own tent. She felt rather warm and simply could not tear her eyes off her plainly aroused, long time best friend.

Bizmark's large ears noticed a kind of a soft whimper from his friend and turned his attention away from his injuries. Tanja sat right beside him, her eyes fixed at his waistline. He could see her nipples poking up from beneath her clothes and noticed she was holding an arm beneath her moderately sized breasts. Her other hand was cupped betwixt her legs. It was at once disturbing and very arousing to see his friend like that.

Their eyes met only for a moment, but that moment was long enough to tell each other exactly what they realized. Everything they had learned over the last year told them just what they wanted to be doing. They reached for each other as previously unacknowledged desires for one another coursed through their bodies. The moment of realization lasted but a moment.

"Ahah!" came on oddly displaced voice from inside the tree, "Aye, and they do know how to make it grow. Stronger she grows the garden does! Welcome, welcome folk of the loxodont variety. Y'toptapta has great use for you, aye 'e does that!"

The pair turned in shock. The voice they heard was unlike anything else. Somehow it didn't sound... complete, like it was only half there. More shocking yet was the thing that made its way out the door.

At first glance it looked like only half a man had come from within the tree. Both had seen humans before, however, and it took but a second to realize that this was nothing like a man save the barest resemblance. Its skin was the hue of caramelized sugar and looked as if partially melted. The arm and leg it did possess seemed to grow more from the middle of its body than the side, but seemed not to hinder the odd creature's balance in the least. It stepped as if it were possessed of two legs, though how it supported itself was altogether a mystery.

Its face was as strange at the rest of it, one brilliant eye shone, just too high to look normal. Its nose was long and drooping, but with only a single nostril, and hung over its wide jagged-tooth smile that seemed to be longer than the thing's entire face. Long, lank, and dirty hair hung in clumped strands across his features, giving the disturbing vision an even creepier tone. Finally, a shock and mane of perfectly preened, dark satin-blue feathers grew from its head and draped over its shoulders.

Bizmark and Tanja, their arousal still plain for the world to see, hastily backed away from the creature. It was only when they heard the grasping plants behind them that they froze in fear, trapped as the creature advanced.

"Heeee!" crowed Y'toptapta in delight at his capture, "they know naught what to do! They do cower at the sight of I, yet me plants keep them here. They know the plants wish their precious life fluids and would drain them dry. With I they guess they might only be killed, aye? Or eaten, aye?"

"W-who... w-w-what... I mean... wha?" Bizmark sputtered.

The thing stopped before them.

"Do that be a question, me lad?" Y'toptapta said, his eye going wide, "not a question for I is it?"

"Who are you?" Bizmark repeated with a modicum more steadiness, "What do you want from us?"

"NYAAA!" screamed Y'toptapta, "Me name?! Lad, have ye the knowledge of how serious that be?!"

"What?" Bizmark sputtered, taken completely aback, as the creature advanced on him

"Ye ask one o' the fae for the name! It can nay be taken lightly!"

"How was he to know?!" Tanja hollered back, leaping to her feet, "We've never seen anything like you before! We only know of fae from legends and stories! You can't expect us to know anything!"

A raucous peal of that horrible half-laughter served to confuse the frightened pair.

"Aye, spirit! Oh my what spirit!" the half-man guffawed. A new disturbing sound arose as he clapped his single hand upon nothing. The sound of one hand clapping was one no mortal was truly meant to hear. It sounded as a clap of two hands, but hollow and displaced and entirely otherworldly. "You two will do nicely. Ooooh Y'toptapta Y'toptapta, how does thy garden grow?! Bluebells and crocus as well, all fertilized in sexual show!"

"WHAT?!" exploded the pair in shock.

Y'toptapta pointed at them.

And then they knew no more.