Arrieta let out a breath, as she leaned back. From behind Darious inquired, “So what did you find out?”

  She blinked, “I thought you had....”

  “Bigger things to worry about? Fat chance, you just found and cleared a maneater’s nest right in the middle of the capital. Do you have any idea how embarrassed the Order of Aurous is over this?”

  She pictured those pompous church knights and had an urge to giggle, “Yeah I guess they’d be rather unhappy about that. It doesn’t look good on them.” She paused and then gestured to the other room, where the boy, and his pregnant sister-wives were resting with their daughters. Thankfully for them the two little girls hadn’t suffered that horribly at the hands of the maneater. “That poor boy and his family have some interesting luck. The maneater wasn’t the only Abyssal they’d run into.”

  “More maneaters?”

  “No, but they aren’t that pleasant either, Qayan Body Sharks.”

  The older priest bnched, “Are you sure?”

  “It was clear as day in his memories once I worked it out.”

  He drew closer, “Give me everything. The order will deal with them at once.”

  Too close! He was far too close, some part of her couldn’t believe he was willing to act. The Church was usually far too eager to just let the Abyss be. There was an Amesis in the north they knew about and did nothing about, and her mother’s vilge was known too. Yet neither were touched, but the maneater was an embarrassment and he wanted to deal with the Body Sharks? Taking a step back, she started to speak, even as the memories she’d just seen fshed by in her mind again.

  Seven years ago, the young man had been living out in a small town on the coast. The local markets smelled of fish, as the merchants tried to sell the test haul of fresh fish from the town’s many fisherman. It felt like a pretty normal day for him as he walked past the busy townsfolk with a basket full of purchases, but he couldn’t help thinking something was wrong.

  Every day the town just felt a little more off, but he could never figure out why. It just didn’t feel right. It was always little things that would bother him, but he was never sure what was wrong about them. Turning the corner, he stopped for a moment once again feeling something was off.

  Ahead of him, he could see a young woman about six months pregnant sweeping her porch. Across the street, an older man was settled on his porch with a small boy, his son perhaps? They were pying a game, but it was hard to tell what the game was. For a moment he thought something was up with the game, but that didn’t seem to be it. Then he took another look at the people walking the street but it was the usual mix of pedestrians. A few people with baskets of goods like him, others that seemed in a hurry and a few stopped for idle chats.

  Then for a moment he realized what was off, it was the pregnant girl. She was topless giving him an excellent view of her swollen milk-heavy breasts which seemed surprisingly firm given their extra weight. The hard nipples glistened with the moisture of milk, while her areo were a nice dark shade of pink. Her pregnant belly was round, yet tight with a hint of muscle, telling that she spent a lot of time keeping fit. Yet his real notice were her eyes, they were strangely bnk, almost as if she wasn’t seeing the world at all. Yet she kept sweeping like nothing was wrong. It almost seemed normal, at least until the strange girl showed up.

  At first gnce she looked normal, aside from being completely naked. Yet no one spared her a gnce, she was young and fit with a smile on her face as she climbed the steps. The pregnant girl noticed her, and set the broom down before dropping her skirt, revealing her bare sex.

  This very much didn’t seem right and he was close enough to hear as the strange girl examined the pregnant one. “Very nice, very nice indeed you’ve done a good job getting your body ready.”

  “Thank you,” she replied as the strange one was hefting one of her breasts, “But um can’t I have more time? The baby...”

  The strange one smiled widely, “All the better and it will do fine. I’m sure it will make a wonderful pything.”

  The pregnant girl seemed to defte a bit, “Is that a no?”

  “Sure is, now just rex and it will be over in a moment.” The strange girl said as something emerged from her sex. It was long and slimy, seeming to take ages to emerge revealing a serpentine body with a strange head. He didn’t see any eyes, or fangs like he’d expect on a serpent instead he saw several pores, along with a mane of tentacles all ending in little barbs. Where he would expect a mouth was instead a pair of long tentacles ending not in barbs like the others but something like a sucker. It slithered onto the pregnant woman, its odd tail shaking behind it, as it moved around her.

  It left a trail of slime, as its sucker tentacles rubbed against her skin. What even was that thing? Why did he feel like he’d seen one before? Wouldn’t he remember that?

  After a moment longer the snake thing found its way to the girl’s sex and suddenly shifted into a stance that reminded him of a snake about to strike. Then suddenly it surged forward penetrating into her folds. The pregnant woman gasped as the serpent kept going, it was so long and as it was moving he realized it was easily longer than she was tall. How’d the strange girl fit that thing in her body?

  The strange girl pulled the pregnant one against her, and began rubbing the other girl’s belly. “Thats it, let my daughter in. Let her take your body; her body.”

  This was a strange mix of creepy and erotic, which left him feeling uncertain. Yet no one else seemed to pay it any mind. Hell the two boys on the porch across the street were still pying their game and not even giving this a gnce.

  Yet all too soon it was over, and the st of the snake thing disappeared into the girl, then he watched the tip of the tail split, tendrils shooting into her flesh as it molded over her pussy and vanished. Leaving no sign that it was there. Yet he knew what it had done. Up higher he saw her face, the gssy bnkness in her eyes had vanished as a new spark filled her. One that seemed dark; cruel, and downright malevolent.

  “How are you feeling, daughter?”

  “Wonderful, I can’t wait for this baby to be born. I have so many things I want to do to it.”

  “Mind letting me join in? I’d love to hear the thing squeal.”

  “Wouldn’t have it any other way.”

  He gulped and then remembering his errand, hurried off as he had to get home. Mom wouldn’t be happy if he was te, she was kinda mean. Then a thought occurred to him, he hadn’t seen his sisters in a couple of weeks, why hadn’t he realized? A frown graced his face as he walked, strangely this wasn’t the first time. Yet why only now was he noticing how odd that was?

  Questions in his mind, he picked up the pace. It wasn’t long before he reached his home. It was a modest two story home, the walls were made of weathered logs and pnks. Dad had done a good job keeping the pce maintained, but it was starting to show its age. The young man recalled it had been in the family a long time, and he could believe it.

  Walking up the steps, he used his key to unlock the door and slip inside. Almost instantly he heard Mom call, “Darrel? You are te, I’m in the kitchen.”

  He let out a breath, and headed for the kitchen. Everything looked normal, the foyer was properly arranged with a couple of sofas, a stand with a vase on it, a low table, and a wardrobe for the family coats. Just as it had always been, the family room didn’t look any different either, yet something felt off. It wasn’t the first time he’d felt this way and it made him look twice. In light of what he just saw it made him wonder.

  Entering the kitchen, he pced the basket on the counter, as directed while staring at the table. Dad was strapped down, his dick held in pce by an odd cmp. Mom was standing by him, naked with a smaller table full of knives and weird tools next to her. “So what took you so long? I thought you’d be back with our dinner sooner?”

  “It took longer than I thought to find a good fish,” he replied automatically while staring at his dad. Dad’s dick looked very swollen and it was strangely erect not to mention discoloured. You’d think he wouldn’t be, given what mom was doing to him, as the young man could see blood flowing. The left ball sack had been punctured, cmps used to spread the wound open.

  “Well I’m almost done working on your father, take your pants off and wait there for me? Okay sweetie?”

  This felt wrong, but he found himself nodding and settling in the corner indicated. While taking his pants off, why was he cooperating? This clearly wasn’t right. Had they done this before? He felt worried and then there was the thought about his sisters. Where were they?

  Mom pulled out a strange tool, and stuck it into Dad’s wound. Dad gasped.

  After a moment mom looked over, “Go ahead and get erect for me sweetie.”

  He blinked and felt himself do just that. Giving him more questions as he watched this. It felt strangely normal and odd at the same time.

  She chuckled, “Oh don’t go looking so confused I know your memory is a little bnk. Feel free to ask some questions. I’m going to clear your memory again soon.”

  “Why?”

  She giggled, as she pulled something out, “Aside from keeping things fresh? It keeps you from making trouble. If you weren’t so useful I wouldn’t keep you around.”

  “What are you doing to dad?”

  “Oh just some dick surgery. He just wasn’t performing to my liking,” said Mom but her tone felt cruel, and malevolent yet strangely pyful as she suddenly spped Dad’s wound. He howled in response, “Besides its just good fun!”

  He did not see how this was good fun, and he had the sinking feeling Mom wanted to put him on the table too. Why was he still erect? This didn’t feel erotic at all.

  Mom pulled her tool out, some flesh coming with it, to another howl. Just as there was a knock on the door. Mom frowned, set the tool aside and walked off. She came back a minute ter with a naked dy, Darrel knew her well enough. That was their neighbor, he’d pyed over there a lot but he couldn’t recall the st time he’d been there. He hadn’t seen her daughter at all since then either.

  Mom smiled, “Just let me close my husband up and we can talk. How’s Kari doing?”

  “Oh just lovely, she’s responded so well to her treatments.”

  “I’d love to hear all about it, we can trade notes,” said Mom as she finished up with Dad. “Darrel you can go wait in your room, your surgery will have to wait.

  He slipped out of there right away, starting for his room, but stopped halfway. He didn’t feel the need to go all the way there, but he was really worried. Mom was off, something was up with their neighbors, and he didn’t think whatever was being done to their neighbor Kari was good either.

  With that in mind, he had to find his sisters. The question was where would they be? Racking his brain, he figured Mom would keep them close which left few pces for them. They weren’t in their rooms and hadn’t been around in a few days. He recalled being in the celr recently, but there was a part he wasn’t supposed to be in. With that in mind, he decided to check the celr it seemed like a good start.

  One that quickly proved a bust, coming back upstairs, he caught some talking, “Kari responded especially well to my new heart pump method.”

  “Oh? What did you do?”

  “I opened her chest up for access to her heart. Made some changes so I can get to it more easily from now on. Its such a useful organ, made it much easier to pump out a rge amount of blood by using it against her.”

  “Tell me everything, it takes so long to repce my girls' blood...”

  He turned a little pale as they left earshot, now really worried for the girls. He picked up the pace as he went upstairs, he needed to get them out and since they weren’t in the celr the only logical pce left was the attic.

  The attic wasn’t a pce he visited often, and he couldn’t recall the st time he had been there. Reaching the end of the hall, he climbed the dder and entered opened the hatch to the attic. Thankful it wasn’t locked.

  Looking around he was surprised to see a door with a chain on it. Wasn’t this always one room? Why a new door? For a moment he stood there before approaching the door. The chain was thick and sturdy, but it was held by a hook. There wasn’t anything to prevent someone from going in, so it was clearly meant to keep someone or something in. That could only mean one thing, his sisters were in there.

  Releasing the hook, and fingering the tch he pushed the heavy door open, to reveal a room not at all like he remembered the attic. Gone were the old crates and dust, instead it was clean, a tub on the left, two beds in the center, a table full of strange tools, and something weird on the ceiling. He didn’t know how to describe it, but his gaze was really on his two sisters.

  They were naked with chains securing their limbs. On the left his younger sister Kelly had a weird device secured between her legs, several prongs penetrating the flesh of her swollen crotch. He winced at the sight, that looked painful. Up higher her young breasts were secured in cmps, holding them against gravity while a long needle like object penetrated the nipples, with four more piercing various spots. Her boobs were the same ugly shade of purple as her pussy, but much more swollen. Last time he saw her, she’d been ft, now she was bigger than his older sister Emi. The st thing he noticed was her eyes, they’d turned quite red with a pair of needles penetrating each eye.

  As for Emi, her boobs were also cmped and discolored, but they didn’t look swollen. In fact they’d shrunk, he was pretty sure of it, down lower her pussy was swollen and discolored but he didn’t see a device there. Emi also had a pair of needles penetrating her eyes but they weren’t so red, they looked more normal but her pupils had changed colors. The lovely amber shade she’d always had had turned a burning shade of orange. What the hell was Mom doing to them?

  Drawing closer, he started looking at their restraints, even as Emilia noticed him first, “Darrell! What are you doing here?”

  “I’m here to get you out.”

  “Don’t Mom won’t like that!”

  “What’s she done to you, two?”

  Kelly interjected, “Darrel? You are here? How?”

  He was silent for a moment and then voiced, “I kept noticing things were off, then I saw something weird and it was like a fog was lifted. We have to get out of here, while she’s distracted.”

  While he finished releasing their restraints, Emi sighed, “Yeah that sounds like a good idea, but we’ll need to be careful. Mom won’t be very happy.”

  “You want to stay here? Did you see what she’s done to you two?”

  Kelly shook her head, and waved a hand in front of her face. The needles were no longer in her eyes, but they were still quite red, “I can’t see. Not since she needled my eyes and they burn.”

  He looked to Emi, “My eyesight is okay but my eyes really burn. I think she was blinding me again.”

  “Again?” he frowned, as he pulled out the needle piercing Kelly’s left nipple. Wincing as each little barb came out.

  Kelly commented, “Mom doesn’t like it when we can see. She gives us the blinding solution all the time. Don’t you remember when we were st with you?”

  He blinked, that had been... a couple of months ago. His memory on it was still fuzzy, but as he thought about it he recalled the girls needed to be led around. They hadn’t been able to see, and then he recalled Mom squeezing a lemon into their eyes one night. Why had he forgotten that? The girls had been crying so much when Mom did it, and Mom had been enjoying it.

  “Somewhat, I seem to recall her squeezing a lemon into your eyes.”

  Kelly winced, “Yeah she loved that. Twice a day, sometimes three.”

  Emi nodded, “Kelly had it worse, got more lemon and more often.”

  “Well we can’t just talk here, let’s go!”

  Arrieta pushed the memory aside. Recalling how the rest of Darrell’s memory had gone. After dodging his mother and neighbor, he’d tried to find Kari but he couldn’t. Things were getting too risky, so he’d taken his sisters and skipped town. For weeks after, he recalled dodging strange monsters, but eventually they were gone. As for his sisters? Emi’s boobs started swelling back to normal size, and her eyes went back to their normal amber color. Kelly’s boobs did shrink a little, but they were still rger than they used to be, and the redness in her eyes went away after a few days. They’d been fine, but all three slowly forgot about the town but still remembered that Mom was evil. Likely something the Abyssal parasite had done as a safeguard against runaways

  “Well if you’ll excuse me I have some arrangements to make,” said Arrieta.

  “Hm? What arrangements?”

  “I promised them I’d find them a home. I don’t think a location in the capital would be a good idea. Too close to the trauma of a second Abyss encounter, but given Darrel’s background he’d be right at home at Bordertown. I think the locals would be happy to have him too.”

  “Sure go ahead, just don’t go too far.”

  She wasn’t pnning to. Her obligations meant she still had things that needed to be done here, but perhaps it would give her more reason to visit Bordertown on occassion? Kelly and Emilia were pregnant again, Darrell’s from the look of it and from the sound of things, Lyida had pnned to eat the babies. Worse, she’d been pnning to kill one of his two daughters, but the kid was safe now. Arrieta wanted it to stay that way.