When we’d entered the cavern, it had been with high spirits. This was, for us, a bit of a lark, after all and we were experienced adventurers. Jonas had been given a map leading us here for payment instead of the gold we’d been promised, which hadn’t gone over well with Luke or Caspar, though they stopped complaining once we set out. Sala usually went along with whatever Jonas said or did, and this was no different. As for me, it was the thrill of adventure that I craved, more so than that glint of gold, and this seemed like a nice diversion from the usual fare of fighting goblins and trolls.
“Here there be dragons!” Jonas announced dramatically as we filed into the cave, torches lit. Sala giggled a bit, looking around in wide-eyed wonder as if searching for mythical beasts behind the stalactites and stalagmites that grew out of the ceiling and floor like teeth in some great monster’s enormous maw.
“More likely salamanders and crickets,” Luke commented, doing his best to pretend he was bored while Casper wandered off to stand near a large pool of water collected in a basin. “Fish too. White ones.”
Me? I walked along the wall, looking for ancient markings or hidden recesses – something to turn the cavern into something more than it was.
“There’s a passage over this way,” Luke called out, having wandered to the far wall. “Oh, interesting. Looks like it was cut into the stone. Not at all natural.”
His comment both excited and disappointed me. On one hand, it promised adventure. On the other hand, I hadn’t been the one to discover it. Still, it meant that it wasn’t a dead end. The map had promised a treasure trove of riches. It had also promised a dire guardian or, at least, someone had drawn a nasty looking snake on it. In my experience, it was usually a ruse to keep people out rather than a real threat, but the possibility still excited me.
“Let’s have a look,” Caspar rumbled, scrunching up his face as he peered down the square-cut tunnel. It was low enough that even I would have to duck a bit, and Caspar was a large man. A very large man. Sala, of course, wouldn’t have any problems navigating it – one of the advantages of being three foot and a handful of inches tall.
“I could take a look,” she chirped merrily, gigging as she skipped deeper into the entrance before anyone could say something wise and sage like ‘be careful’ or ‘beware of traps’ or even ‘do you think that’s really such a good idea? There might be, you know, a giant snake or something’!
Not that any of that was needed. Besides, I went in right behind her, just in case she got into trouble, which is how I ended up setting off the trap that Sala had avoided and fallen down a pit and into a pool of what can only be described as slime. The upside about that was it broke my fall rather than my neck. The downside, of course was, it was slime.
While I had little doubt that my companions would soon find a way to rescue me, I wasn’t at all happy about being separated from them, especially since my torch had gone out. Thankfully, the pit was in the center of a much larger cavern in which walls were covered with some sort of glowing moss or maybe lichen.
“Yuck,” I groaned out load after wading through the slime and crawling out onto the stone floor, dripping with the vile thick green liquid, my voice echoing in the huge chamber. Looking around for some sort of hint of where I was, I spied several features which made me wonder if I’d found a short cut, rather than a trap. One. The floor I stood on was not natural, but rather fashioned of stone tiles. Two, there were carved pillars holding up the ceiling. Three. There was a stone tub filled by a softly flowing fountain near the pool of slime. Being a seasoned adventurer, of course I was suspicious, but other than the flowing water, there were no other signs of movement. There was, however, a pair of small round bronze doors opposite each other in the chamber’s walls that warranted investigation. First things first, however. The slime smelled less than pleasant and there was a basin large enough for me to bathe in. Keeping a wary eye out for peeping toms and giant snakes, I stripped naked and climbed in. In retrospect, perhaps I should have waited for the others to join me, but I was confident that I could take care of myself. After all, who was it that had single-handedly defeated Fobor One Ear? Who had overcome (with Lukes’s help, admittedly) the Red Guard in the Tower of Shuten? And who was it that was victorious, more often than not, when wrestling with Sala’s cat over the blankets? The answer was me – Hannah the Hellion (or, as Luke liked to call me, Hannah the Horny, which was not nearly as flattering but perhaps just as accurate).
Surprisingly, the water was warm. I chalked that up to being drawn from a hot spring. Warm and soothing. Very soothing. I felt at peace, not to mention clean. In fact, so at peace, that I decided to relax a little and close my eyes for a moment…
When I awoke, I knew that something was wrong. Very wrong. For one thing, I was no longer in the basin. Instead, I was chained to one of the pillars. Someone, or something, had attached steel collars around my neck, ankles, wrists and waist! I struggled for a moment, but gave up pretty quickly after making a lot of useless racket. Obviously I was not going anywhere without a key or a set of lock picks which were, unfortunately, in a pouch with my clothing. Upside, my things did seem to be untouched. Downside? They were about twenty yards away. They might as well have been six towns over. I was, for now, a prisoner of unknown forces! Not that I panicked. Well, I did a little, but quickly calmed down. Jonah and the others would be here soon to rescue me. Sure, it would be embarrassing for them to find me like this – naked and helpless. I’m sure they wouldn’t let me forget it for a long time. After all, Luke still teased me about that time I lost a bet and had to ride through town on a bull while naked. Or the time I had to climb Jort’s Tower while naked. Or the time I had to race Sala through two feet of snow naked. Or the time…
I thought it best not to dwell on all the times the others had seen me naked and, instead, dwell upon escaping from my predicament. For one thing, it was making me incredibly horny!
So, I did my best to not think about the past and, instead, concentrate on the present. The present in which I was chained, naked and helpless, to a pillar. The present in which there was just enough chain to allow me to almost touch my pussy. Almost, but not quite. The present in which I was becoming increasingly turned on as I imagined my companions finding me like this and, instead of freeing me, taking advantage of me. The future in which one of the bronze doors began to open and I could breathe a sigh of relief at being rescued…
Only, it wasn’t Luke who came through the passage. It was a snake. A giant snake. Sort of. This one had two sets of arms and more than one cock. Not something you see every day. So that part had been accurate which meant that the part about there being untold riches might also be accurate. Jonah would be pleased.