Chapter 2 - To Lakeview Point


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Chapter 2: To Lakeview Point

A cloud of bug spray filled the air around Cassie as she continued to spray herself well after Kira thought she had had enough. Kira coughed as she spoke waving her hand to chase away the vapors “Cass’ please, I’m sure that’s enough, no bug in the tri-county area is going to come near, I’m sure of it. And we need to reach lakeview point while the sun is still in a good position, remember you wanted to draw that sketch for me?”

Cassie looked like a child that knew the parent was right but didn’t want to admit it. “I’m sorry, it’s just you know I’m afraid of bugs. I don’t want them to come near me, and if they don’t come near me they also won’t be squashed, I don’t want to hurt them, just keep them away.”

Cassie literally wouldn’t hurt a fly, Kira smiled to herself at this thought, yet another reason she adored every moment of being with Cassie. “Well let’s get this hike on the road, did you remember your sketchbook?” using her motherly tone once again, looking slightly upward at her taller partner.

“Yep” she chirped with a bubbly nod that caused her wide brimmed sun hat to tilt up and down, its ribbon fluttering briefly.

“Good, and I’ve got the lunch and water, so let’s head out”

“yay snacks!” Cassie bubbled, as she began to skip ahead down the trail.

Kira took her time enjoying the scenery as she walked, her regular pace contrasting with Cassie’s aimless, flighty stride. They each enjoyed each other’s company as they hiked, chatting about the weather, the beautiful trees and plants, the sound of the birds, anything and everything that made life worth living. Cassie would stop to smell a flower and insist Kira join her, or Kira would find some hidden track and explain what animal had left it. As Kira was looking up at the treetops, trying to spy some bird she had seen in the distance, she heard Cassie’s voice “Kira! What animal left this track?”
It only took her a few moments to find Cassie a few yards down the trail, crouching and looking intently at something in the dirt. As Kira drew alongside her, she draped her arm over Cassie’s shoulder before examining the track.  Kira was surprised by what she saw, it was not any track she was familiar with, despite her knowledge of biology and dabbling in animal and nature watching hobbies. She thought herself that if she didn’t know better she’d say it had to from an insect, but massively enlarged. “Well?” Cassie asked, this new finding capturing the entirety of her abundant curiosity.

 “I’m not really sure” Kira pondered “It actually looks like the shape of an insect foot, though the bug would have to be… huge” Cassie stood up quickly, brushing Kira’s arm off in the process “Awww Kira, don’t try to scare me! I just wanted to know what it was” she pouted, her face reddening with embarrassment.


Kira stood up quickly placing her hand on Cassie’s arm reassuringly “No, no Cassie I wasn’t making fun of you dear. I’m sorry I was just thinking out loud, it ­does look kind of buggish, I’m sure it’s just left from some other hiker’s walking stick, or a couple of tracks mangled together.” This answer seemed to satisfy Cassie, who could never stay upset for long anyway.

Soon they saw the top of the hill, “lakeview point” as it was called; a beautiful, pristine clearing on the top of a hill overlooking the lake and the valley, the trees, the crystal clear lake, and mossy rocks painted a beautiful natural landscape that was truly breathtaking. “We’re here!” Cassie exclaimed happily, running over to a fallen tree that had been dragged into the perfect spot for sitting and looking out at the beautiful scenery. “Here, here, you have to sit here Kira! The lighting is perfect, I’ll to go over there and draw you!” she patted the log emphatically to punctuate her point.

Kira giggled to herself as she tried to catchup to her energetic better half “I’m coming Cassie, I know you’ve been wanting to do this for a long time, so I want it to be perfect. You tell me exactly how you want me to sit and I’ll do it.”

Cassie’s face was beaming as she began to gently prod Kira’s body, shifting her arms, legs, and everything else into the perfect pose for a portrait. “There! Just stay perfectly still!” she said, holding her hands palm outward as a sign to not move.

Cassie then skipped off twenty or so yards into the woods nearby, searching for a good spot to sit and begin to sketch a picture of her favorite person in the world. Once she had found a spot that seemed to please her she raised her voice just a bit to be heard. “Okay, now stay super duper still!”

Kira could not see her very well off in the midst of the trees, but Cassie was clearly sketching furiously, her hands dancing across the paper sketchbook with practiced movement and focused intent. She must have slipped a bit because Cassie’s voice echoed across the clearing “Please try to not move Kira!”. Kira quickly returned her focus to trying to keep herself from moving.

A few minutes passed, and Kira was focusing intently on not moving despite a large black fly that had decided she would make a good perch. She glared daggers at the bug, but it continued to buzz around aimlessly, attempting to ruin her focus. Her staring contest with the fly was interrupted when a dull rumbling echoed through the forest, and some dust scattered up through the trees nearby Cassie’s seat. A tinge of fear shot through Kira as she called out “C-Cassie are you ok? What was that?” Kira’s emergency response instincts began to kick in as something was clearly amiss. She counted out five seconds without reply, before deciding to abandon  her attempts to stay still and investigate what had happened. She ran as fast as she could to where Cassie had been seated “Cassie, CASSIE! What happened? Cassie! Are you okay?!”

She faintly heard a voice, slightly muffled, echo a reply “Oh Kira… Kira I’ve fallen down somewhere”

Kira reached the spot where she had been sketching and began to take in the situation, there at the bottom of a large pit was Cassie, lying against a small mound, surrounded by dirt, grass and detritus of the ground above. “A sinkhole!” Kira said “ Cassie, dear, are you hurt?”

Cassie’s voice was tight with fear and pain, tears glazing her eyes “I- I’m not sure. I think it’s mostly scrapes and bruises but, I… I think I twisted my ankle, possibly broken, it really hurts”

“Oh god Cassie, I’m so sorry this happened. We’ll get you out of there as quickly as possible. Just stay calm!” Kira replied, her time as a trauma surgeon had prepared for all manner of disasters, and this one was no different. She already knew what she had to do, return to the camp site and retrieve some rope and climb down to administer first aid and helped her out of the sinkhole.

“I- I’ll try” she said, holding back tears. “What are we going to do?” as always in times of trouble Cassie looked to Kira for guidance.

“Alright Cassie I want to listen to very carefully, I have to run back to camp and get some rope so that I can reach you safely, I will only be gone for a few minutes I promise. Please, please don’t be scared, I promise I’ll be back for you before you know it!”

Cassie’s voice quivered as she replied “O-okay, I’ll try to stay c-calm, it’s just a sinkhole, I’m barely bleeding, everything will be ok…” Kira knew her well enough to see that she was hiding the pain, her leg was likely broken.

“Please Cassie, I’m so sorry I have to leave but I’ll be right back!” Kira reassured her one last time before sprinting back towards the camp site.

Kira knew better than to panic in a dangerous situation, so she kept her pace even, jogging quickly but not letting fear drive her to run too quickly or haphazardly. She mentally calculated the distance back to the camp site, A little over a mile, so at a measured pace she should be there and back in just under a half hour. She could see that Cassie was in no danger of bleeding out, mostly superficial scrapes and bruises so securing a safe way down and back out of the sinkhole took priority over first aid.

The minutes ticked by, trees flew past in her peripheral vision as she continued her run to the campsite. The trail seemed familiar, she must be reaching it soon she thought, she had passed the strange track Cassie found a couple minutes back, a good marker for roughly the half way point. She tried to keep her thoughts from straying back to Cassie, even with all of her experience dealing with life and death situations, the thought harm coming to Cassie still got to her, she kept mentally reassuring Cassie that she was going to be safe. Her introspection was broken when she say the light blue and grey dome of their tent, and sprinted the last hundred odd yards to the camp site, quickly locating the bundle of rope from a duffel bag, and grabbing the second first aid kit from the trunk of the car just to be safe. Out of habit she checked her cellphone and was disappointed to find it had no signal, though it was not unexpected by any means. And so she began her jog back to Lakeview point.

The return trip was more difficult, most of it being uphill, she flashed a look at her watch, 19 minutes, likely another 6 or 7 to go before she reached the sinkhole. As she ran she focused on her footsteps, trying to keep her mind off of the thoughts of Cassie potentially terrified, alone in the pit, he leg throbbing in pain, these were the thoughts that could cause panic and Kira knew it. All too often in her time working emergency rooms and trauma ward she had seen situations in which more harm had come to more people because of panic, and she knew she couldn’t let it get to her, silently cursing how much she was worrying over what was obviously a relatively minor injury as far as emergencies were concerned.

She checked her watch again, 23, 2 or so minutes to go. She pushed herself to run faster, just a little something to reassure herself she was doing the best she could for her beloved. Finally she saw it, the clearing, Lakeview Point, and just as she slowed her pace to catch her breath something took her breath away and sent a surge of adrenaline coursing through her body. Cassie’s voice was echoing throughout the area, screaming and terrified. Kira’s body acted on its own, surging forward at a sprint she didn’t even know she was capable of, Cassie’s words becoming clearer with every step closer to the sinkhole
“ELP! … EASE, KIRA!-… LEASE, PLEASE STOP!-… SO SCARED, KIRA!-… ET OFF OF ME!-… PLEASE, PLEASE KIRA! PLEASE COME BACK! I’M SO SCARED!”

“CASSIE?! CASSIE I’M HERE FOR YOU!” she screamed as she ran to the spot where the sinkhole was, and her stomach turned over on itself at what she beheld. There in the sinkhole was her beloved Cassie, face down in the dirt with her ass up in the air, some sort of glossy resinous substance pinning her in that position, with six monstrously large insects climbing on top of her and spraying some sort of fine mist over her body. Each one of them was as large as a decently sized dog, they were all clambering around her body, each one vying to-, Kira felt a twinge of visceral repulsion- vying to insert some sort of probing appendage into her anus or mouth. Strangely erotic moans and gasps emanated from Cassie with each of their thrusts.

Cassie turned her head as best she could to look up pleadingly at Kira, tears streaming down her face, her mascara causing it to run black and grey down her white face. “OH GOD KIRA” a pleasured sigh interrupted her, apparently aroused despite her terror “PLEASE HELP ME! TH-THE BUGS THEY’RE R-“ before she could finish one of the bugs near hear head thrust something inside her mouth, something fleshy and throbbing protruding from the end of its abdomen.

Kira’s stomach churned at what was happening, but her nerves had been steeled by her experience with disaster situations, and her mind flew into action taking charge of the situation. “Cassie! I swear to god I’m coming to help you! Please, please just don’t be afraid! Don’t think about the bugs, focus on me, do you hear me Cassie? Focus only on me, on the sound of my voice!”

Cassie’s body contorted and thrashed in discomfort as the bugs continued with their vile attentions to her fragile form, but even gagging as two more insectoid appendages forced their way down her throat she nodded a weak and terrified nod at Kira’s words. Cassie’s moaning haunted Kira as she swiftly tied her rope to the nearest tree and quickly began to climb down into the pit all the while continuing to reassure Cassie; disaster rule number one, keep everyone calm “Cassie, I’m climbing down now! I’ll be there in just a few seconds, just hold on, everything is going to be okay!” She took a few moments to study the insects on her way down the rope, they were far larger than any extant bug, they had three pairs of legs, the two front ones being the smallest, the middle pair slightly longer than the first, and the rearmost pair were far longer, like those of a wasp or grasshopper, long and powerful for supporting weight and jumping. Kira could not fathom where they had come from, they reminded her of something she had hear of in biology class, long extinct species of large scorpions and dragonflies from the cretaceous period, but they also didn’t look like any species, almost appearing to be a hybrid of many different forms.

“P-pleath hrry” Cassie’s words were barely comprehensible as her mouth was invaded by two more of the wretched insectoid penises but something in her voice was clearly different, as if her will was weakening, giving over to aimless pleasure. She cooed erotically around the throng of appendages inside her mouth, now spit roasted on three dicks each in her ass and mouth.

The thought of Cassie being violated by the things she feared most tore Kira’s heart, and seeing what they were doing to her mind was even worse, forcing her to enjoy it. She continued her mantra of reassurance “Cassie please, stay with me Cassie, I’m almost there, I’m almost to the bottom of the rope!” As Kira lowered herself into the pit she smelled something strange, a musty smell with a hint of sweetness, and her mind fogged with a faint hint of cloudy arousal as she realized the bugs plan, the misty spray they had been dousing Cassie with, it was a powerful pheromone based aphrodisiac! Kira quickly reached into the first aid kit and grabbed a filter mask, her first aid kit being much more well stocked than your average camper’s due to her extensive knowledge as a medic and trauma surgeon.

Cassie’s only reply was an erotic, meek, and dazed cooing, as Kira could hear her greedily sucking the abhorrent cocks that filled her mouth, with her hips rocking to the rhythmic thrusts of her anal invaders. “CASSIE!” she screamed “Cassie! Listen to me! Don’t let them get to you, fight the urge I’m going to stop them as quickly as I can!”

 By now her feet just touched the ground and she sprinted towards Cassie and the insectoid assailants. The large bugs turned to look at her and four of them flew away, leaving just two, both with their wretched dicks lodged in her tender anus. “Ah?” Cassie cooed softly as the dicks vacated her mouth, looking around with glassy, dazed eyes, searching longingly for the pleasurable penises that had mysteriously disappeared. Kira immediately swatted at the remaining bugs, her fist connecting with the durable chitin of their exoskeleton.

 Despite the resilience of the bug’s shell, it did give way slightly under her assault and the bugs withdrew from Cassie’s ass and fluttered back a few paces to swarm with its brethren that were taking stock of this new creature invading their love nest. It was now a standoff, the six bugs hovering in the air of the sinkhole, with Kira standing between the group and their prey.

She took a moment to look over her shoulder and reassure Cassie “Please Cassie, I don’t know if you can hear me right now, but I’m here for you, I won’t let the bugs hurt you anymore!” It broke Kira’s heart that Cassie’s only response was a glassy stare, her mouth and lips lapping at the air, futilely trying to summon the dicks that had recently been pumping her throat with god-knows-what.

 Seeing an opening, one of the creatures buzzed by Kira’s head, the thrumming of its wings low and menacing like a helicopter, but she ducked aside at the last moment. Soon another bug challenged this invader, as it flexed its abdomen forward and let loose a spray at Kira’s face, she quickly closed her eyes and looked away briefly, not going to work! She thought to herself as the bugs hovered for a moment waiting for their pheromones to take effect, only to be disappointed as her mask kept her mind clear and reflexes sharp.

 She picked up a hefty tree root with a clump of dirt on the end and let it fly at one of the bugs screaming “GET AWAY FROM  HER YOU MONSTERS!” It attempted to dodge her projectile but was caught in the wing and crashed to the ground with a flurry of irritated mandible clacking.  The other five bugs observed their brother’s hobbled wing and their swarming changed, becoming more erratic, Kira assuming they now knew she was not to be trifled with. And so the standoff continued for a few minutes, Kira methodically bending down to grab something to throw at the bugs whilst never taking her eyes off of them. However suddenly and without warning, things changed, the insects all looked to a cavernous opening in the side of the sinkhole, and one by one they flew upward and out of the sinkhole, the one with the crippled wing being the last to leave, climbing as quickly as it could up the side of the pit, but still no match for the speed of its flying brethren.