Rhaëlya decided to look over the sleeping ones again, in case they were waking up. She couldn't help but notice that all of them had different expressions on their faces.
Crypt was frowning, as if he had just seen something disgusting.
Carmen had a wary and scared expression, as if she was having a nightmare. And Azrakai's face was tight with worry and sorrow.
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In another forest, a young beastwoman with flaming red hair was running like her life depended on it. She seemed to be about fourteen at most.
She had a damaged scorpion tail which hasn't had it's first shed yet.
She was running with wounded feed, leaving blood stains behind her but she didn't seem to care.
She was worried about the beastmen chasing her. Adult beastmen.
Finally, she reached a lake and jumped in it, swam head first downstream and ended up in an underwater cave.
Her safety.
Nobody had ever found her here.
Her big round, golden colored eyes looking around the humid cave, as if searching for something, or someone.
And behind her stood a much taller beastwoman. With the same hair and eye color as the small one.
Carmen.
She looked at her younger self with confusion in her eyes. Somehow, she had found herself in the past.
She wanted to speak but nothing came out of her mouth, she couldn't touch anything either.
And looking around this seemed to be the time before that...thing happened. She wanted to bury those memories so deep that nothing could dig them up again.
She felt her heart tighten as she looked at the luminous mushrooms growing on the walls.
Young Carmen had no idea that those mushrooms had aphrodisiatic effects, which will soon lead to her experiencing the worst and most humiliating night of her entire life.
Carmen was watching her younger self with no emotion in here eyes, only disgust. Not at what's to come, but at her ignorance.
But she couldn't do anything. She cannot stop what's to come. And she cannot warn either.
She tried to leave but she couldn't. She cannot even close her eyes or block her hearing.
She could only sigh, sit down and wait for it to happen.
Suddenly, out of the corner of her eyes, she saw another beautiful beastwoman enter the cave, her hair a warm orange and her eyes a pale grey.
"Older sister!" Young Carmen exclaimed while throwing herself into her older sister's arms.
Carmen simply stared at the adult beastwoman who had entered, Karina, her older sister. And her heart tightened, her breath hitched.
She had watched her die right before her eyes. Ravaged by the abandoned and resentful beastmen that had followed her in.
The orange haired beastwoman held little Carmen for a bit, kissed her cheek and placed her back on the ground, "Now, what's gotten our little scorpion baby so agitated?"
Little Carmen huffed up, chest puffed out and damaged tail harshly tapping the ground, "Kari you don't know! Those wretched males have tried to attack me again! I'm not even an adult yet, what do they want! It's not like i can mate now!" She asked in her youngling voice.
Karina simply let her younger sister vent, a knot forming in her chest, then she bent down and kissed her little sister's forehead again this time, "Come on Carmen, you've escaped them, and that's all that matters. Let's go to sleep now, okay?"
"Okay!" Little Carmen explained, hooking her arms around Karina's neck, wanting to be carried.
Karina laughed but didn't pick her up, "Come on now, you've only got four more years until you become an adult, I cannot carry you anymore little scorpion." She teased.
Little Carmen pouted but still let go of her older sister, walking towards their nest.
Just as they laid down to sleep, rapid footsteps and growls rebounded from outside the cave and behind the water curtain that was flowing down.
Carmen was already preparing herself to re-watch that scene that has haunted her for years, but her fists were still clenched with blood spilling down her arms from the force she's using.
Little Carmen suddenly opened her eyes and hurried to make her sister get up as well. She recognized these sounds and her blood was running cold. But her sister wasn't waking up.
And Carmen, the adult one, now found it strange. She didn't notice it in the moment because she was panicking, but her older sister shouldn't have fallen in a deep sleep after only mere minutes.
The abandoned beastmen and feral beastmen have now entered the cave. Their growls, smirks, laughter and violent lust filled eyes scanning the inside.
It was dark, with only the light from the luminous cave inside. They spotted little Carmen and the beautiful Karina.
Carmen's breath hitched. It's here.
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The beastmen hurried over to the sleeping Karina, and little Carmen tranformed into a young scorpion, protecting Karina.
But unfortunately, having not eaten in days and with a damaged tail, she couldn't do much against four grown adult males.
A male had transformed into his beastform, a crab.*
Little Carmen had engaged in battle with him but the adult male crab only saw it as amusement. Which she knew.
The other fifteen males were ready surrounding the unconscious Karina, all licking their lips and muttering about revenge, use for their pleasure and whatnot.
Carmen and to watch it all happen. Again. But now she could hear everything clearly, and she wanted to throw up.
They wanted to use her older sister's body for their pleasure, filling her up with their younglings over and over again until she was "damaged" and then throw her to the lower underlings to use.
They were abandoned and feral beastmen from the Gates of Mud. An underground city filled with disgusting males like them, where a "king", the strongest among them was on top and the others were split by strength.
A competition to decide who's stronger is organized ever week. A group of 10 to 20 abandoned males will leave the city to kidnap beastwomen or female children and bring them to their king before fighting out who'll get the king's "leftovers".
Of course, more often than not, they'll "use" a female or two before bringing them to their king.
And Karina just happened to be one of those females.
Carmen watched as they took off their animal hide coverings and started touching Karina all over. Karina had finally woke up and was terrified. She wanted to scream but they shoved a bunch of luminous mushrooms in her mouth to make her quiet.
Little did anyone know at the time, that because of those mushrooms, Karina would start playing along with them. Losing her head to lust due to the mushrooms.
It was a drug. Which would cause havoc later on, when the Gates of Mud city learned of the effects. Causing multiple beastwomen to be kidnapped, used or killed after being played because of the drug.
Both Carmen, and Little Carmen, were forced to watch Karina being abused by these filthy things.
Little Carmen was forced to watch by the crab beastman while Carmen was forced to watch by the dream.
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In the waking world, Rhaëlya was taking a break. She was exhausted from all the walking around the sleeping bodies on the ground and bickering with Orion at the same time.
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* The crab here is a giant crab with venom inside it's pincers and mouth.