Chapter 7 - Desperate Division

Half of a mile away, several luscious girls in skimpy sheer cloth were on their knees or against trees. Heavily breathing as they took a brief rest from a long and fast run. Adrenaline had pushed them to their limit and even their rescuers were tired.

“Got anything to drink?” Galina handed over a cask which Fatsani took a drink from. She handed it off to one of the girls who passed it between themselves. “They only gave us wine...”

“Who are all of you?”

“I'm Fatsani from Georgia, Alabama.” Fatsani said with a heavy breath and pointed to the others to introduce them. “The German girl is Rosmunda or Rose for short." The german girl waved eagerly. 

"She's Avani from India." The indian girl in a dancer outfit nodded as Fatsani pointed to the arabic woman. "Zaida's from Saudi Arabia." 

"Iryna and Larissa were taken from their home in Ukraine." Fatsani explained, pointing out the Ukrainian friends and then towards the Americans. 

"Nichoni's from Oklahoma, her tribe owns a casino on the reservation. Olivia and Camilla are sisters from Virginia Beach. Saga's from Sweden-”

“So are my sisters.” Saga spoke up and grabbed onto Meiko. “My sisters! Ellen and Viveka! Have you seen them?”

“I'm sorry...we haven't seen them.”

“They could be dead already-” Nichoni slapped Zaida who rubbed her cheek indignantly. “You know I'm right! That hunter's caught worst than two girls-”

“If it were your sisters, would you want to hear that?” The native american woman asked the arabic girl. “The jungle's very dense, they could have escaped.”

Zaida didn't look convinced, but said nothing. Noriyo looked between all of the girls and at the bruises on their wrists. “Those men...did they kidnap you?”

"We were sold to them.” Iryna muttered in bitter hatred. “My father sold me to pay off debts with the Russian mafia. I was put in a box and flown...different places I guess...but I never saw any of them. They only took me out when I got here with Larissa and the others. They pushed me out of a plane with a parachute and the hunters found me.”

“I guess this is a waypoint.” Rose guessed. “We were all dropped here to keep from being tracked. The bitch leading the bastards said that there was a plane just outside of the jungle. We were moving there to head to the final destination...where we'd be bid and sold.”

“A lot of loops to go through...” Galina said to herself, she knew that smugglers and traffickers sometimes took cargo to neutral places to lay low and trade them off. But the Amazon seemed ideal to her, it was vast, it was outside of most national jurisdictions and no plane out of here could be tracked to its destination. “Where were you being taken exactly?”

“I'm thinking China...maybe Jordan or maybe Taiwan...probably even North Korea.” Fatsani guessed. “Or maybe the bids taking place on a boat in the middle of the Atlantic.”

“There will be no bid.” Meiko insisted. “We will help you. They will not hurt you again.”

“What are all of you doing here?” Camilla asked. “Thanks for helping us, but why are you here?”

“Looking for an Amazon dragon.” Noriyo replied, causing the girls to laugh in disbelief. “I agree, I'm starting to think it doesn't exist.”

“Maybe dragons existed once.” Saga conceded. “But if they were around once...they are gone now.”

“Never mind that!” Olivia said, wanting to focus on more important matters. “How did you get here? Do you have a plane?”

“We were dropped off.” Meiko replied. “The pilot is supposed to return in four days...maybe five.”

Olivia's eyes widened with hope. “Can...can you take us with you?”

“The plane wasn't meant to take so many people.” Galina said, dashing Olivia's hopes. “But...the airport we were at had other planes. Marcus is friends with the owner...”

“Just friends?” Noriyo inquired, blushing from the memory of Marcus bending over his “friend” and filling her pussy with cock cream. 

“Either way, she'll lend another plane.” Galina finished, sparking hope for Olivia again. “I don't know if we can get you all home though-”

“Fuck that.” Zaida spat. “My father sold me for not marrying a man three times my age. I don't want to go back to there. Are you from America?”

“I am from Russia, but I go to school in the American States.” Galina answered. “The planes are going to Costa Rica first and-”

“Hey! Getting rescued and getting a free vacation?” Fatsani said with higher spirits and looked to the other captives with a bright smile. “Not like we've got a better plan. How about it girls?”

“That...that sounds nice...” Saga muttered fearfully, trying to smile like the others.

“First, we need to find Marcus and the others.” Noriyo decided, figuring that dragon hunting was on a permanent pause for now. “And then leave before the smugglers track us-”

“Too late for that!” The girls shrieked when Gred and Morkins burst out of the grass with guns raised. “Hands up! All of you!” The girls complied fearfully as Morkins walked among them and turned to Galina. “What's that in your hand? Drop it!”

The russian dropped the knife and recoiled when Morkins slapped his gun in her face. She fell to a knee, spitting up blood as she looked up at the balding man pointing his pistol down at her.

“If you weren't so pretty, I'd shoot you right now.” Morkins growled. “You've got a lot of nerve meddling like this. You think getting cargo from around the world to no man's land is easy?”

“People are not cargo!” Meiko shouted defiantly, looking Gred right in the eye as he raised his rifle at her. “What you are doing here is wrong!”

Gred just laughed. “How ethnocentric of you, jap. I'm just following my culture.”

“Then your culture is wrong!”

Gred thought a moment. “Maybe.” He luridly looked upon her chest, his gaze honing in on the breasts hidden under the japanese girl's sailor fuku. “Come to think of it, Morkins. We never did get a jap in the collection.”

“Now we've got two.” Morkins laughed. “And a Russian...I think if we bring all of them in too...Shamira should forgive us right?”

“Yeah. And let us keep one of the bitches for ourselves.” Gred reach out and forcefully grabbed Meiko's breast. He fondled it roughly, licking his lips as the girl's nipples began to poke through the fabric. “You can have the other jap, she's too flat for me.”

“Jap's are too submissive. I prefer bitches with fight in them.” Morkins said, looking from Fatsani to Galina. “Fuck it! I'll take my luck and see about keeping the russian and the colored girl. You can have a turn at the nigger once in a while if I get a turn with one of yours.”

“No!” The two men turned their guns on Avani, she held a rock in her hand. She trembled as she stared down her kidnappers. “I would rather die...I will not go back.”

“Fine, let's shoot her-”

“No!” Morkins rebuked his partner, remembering that there was a very wealthy buyer who liked Indian girls. He lowered his gun and just looked at the young woman. “Listen...ah...Shamtini-”

“Avani!” Avani shouted. “My name is Avani! Touch me and I'll hit you with this rock! I don't care if I die!”

“Listen, Avani.” Morkins said as he approached the girl, Gred pointing a gun at the others to keep them from interfering. “With that rock? You won't kill us. You'll hurt us, maybe even use it to escape. But what will happen then? Sir Garforth will hunt you down. The Africans too. They're used to hunting lions and hyenas in the Congo. Think they'll worry about a skinny pretty thing like you?”

Avani looked past Morkins and then looked to Meiko. Meiko was looking up at something which Avani spotted briefly and looked back down at Morkins.

“Put the rock down, bitch.” Morkins said assuredly. “Put it down and I won't touch you again. We can go back and you'll get your own room with a bed and sheets! What do you say?”

“Can I go home?” Avani asked, a tear streaming down her brown face as Morkins just laughed. “I...I just want to go home-”

“That chance has been long gone, girl.” Morkins stated and just shook his head. “Now drop the rock and come with us-” Morkins ducked when Avani threw the rock. He looked up and saw that he hadn't been hit. “Really bitch-” A dislodged hive fell on his head.

Unleashing a swarm of angry and awakened hornets on the man.

The story of how this hive of Japanese Giant Hornets came to the Amazon is unknown at the moment. But Morkins was immediately set upon by dozens of bites and stinks as his pistol shot through the air at random, hitting bark and rock.

“RUN!” Galina shouted and the girls all scattered. Morkins screamed out, his eyes bleeding from where multiple hornets burrowed into his eye socket and sting his eyes directly. Gred swat at the hornets and was running from the scene, abandoning his partner to his fate as he ran to the riverside.

Right where a crocodile was waiting for him.

The massive scaled predator had spotted the girls nearby and was waiting in the water for one to come to it. Instead, Morkins had blindly come to the great lizard who snapped its massive jaws over the man's torso. Morkins screamed frantically, his body spun like a rag-doll as the Crocodile rolled and spun in the water. 

The hornets that were caught in the water were forced to drown in water dyed by blood as others returned to their fallen hive.
With their combined wing power, the hornets amazingly lifted their hive back into the branches as others were methodically repairing the damage from where the rock struck it. Other hornets would pursue the other humans only so far before returning back to their hive.

The hornets paid no heed to the crocodile tearing a man apart and consuming him. They didn't care about how bone and muscle were crushed in the lizard's powerful jaws. How Morkins blindly reached up out of the water as the river predator gulped him down.

Why would they?

It was just another day in the Amazon Animal Kingdom after all.

Xxx

Elsewhere, Noriyo collapsed in exhaustion, behind her Fatsani, Zaida, Nichoni and Rose all fell down finally brought to their limit.

“We lost them.” Nichoni assured tiredly. “And the others...”

“I hate bees!” Fatsani said in fear, still jumpy at the idea of one being on her. “I'd kiss one, but I don't want to die.”

“Those were hornets...I wouldn't kiss one.” Rose corrected and laughed.

“What the hell are you laughing at?” Fatsani asked the german.

“Did you see the look on their faces?” Rose asked as she kept laughing. “I think they shit themselves.”
Zaida giggled. “If I were that fatass, I'd shit myself too.” 

Noriyo smiled looking from girl to girl as they laughed. Laughing at the karmic pain of their tormentor though unaware of his karmic and painful death; laughing in relief to be alive and laughing because they had escaped yet again.

Then she started giggling too.

They were safe now.

xxx

In the canopy of the Amazon, two brothers watched a trio of man-animals run into their sight.

“You could have warned us first, Avani!” The tall russian girls shouted to the brown girl.

“He'd have grabbed me if I didn't throw it, Galina!” The brown girl shouted back as the third girl looked around fearfully at the trees around them. “We're safe now aren't we?”

“For now...” Galina muttered, looking up and the white brother narrowly ducked out of her sight. “Let's find the others and regroup with Marcus. I've had enough adventure for now.”

“Adventure? Who said this was an adventure?” Larissa sarcastically added as she followed the others. “I always thought this was a pleasure cruise!”

The serpentine veterans followed them from above, surfing through the threes with ease despite their great length and girth...

xxx

Elsewhere near a dark ravine, Meiko, Olivia, Iryna, Camilla, and Saga were already moving.

“Breath Saga. Breath.” Iryna was tending Saga, her breathing labored due to the sting of the hornets The hornet had stung between her shoulder blade and spine, leaving Saga unable to move without help. “She may need a medic.”

“Meili is a medic.” Meiko assured. “She will help you.”

“Thank...you...” Saga managed, gasping when Iryna applied ointment to the throbbing wound. “It hurts...”

“It'll be alright.” Iryna soothingly said to the young swede.

“Over here!” Olivia and Camilla were ahead, testing the sturdiness of a wooden bridge going over the ravine. It was suspended by rope and each end was embedded into the ravine walls. “Where does this go?”

“Anywhere but here.” Meiko said, not wanting to test her luck any further. There was no telling on if those smugglers would find them again. “Just be careful.”

“Right then.” Camilla was the first to start trekking, her sister followed behind her. Meiko took up the rear, letting Iryna help Saga onto the bridge.

As soon as she stepped on the bridge, Meiko knew that something was wrong.

“Stop!” Meiko shouted to the girls, looking at the stressed rope holding up the bridge. She noted the ants in the ropes, biting and cutting at the threads during a war between ant colonies. “Come back! Come back!”

“What's wrong?” Olivia shouted back as Camilla kept going forward. “The bridge is safe! Come on!”

“Ants!” Meiko shouted ahead as Iryna started moving Saga back to Meiko. “Ants are cutting the ropes! We have to go back! The bridge won't support us!”

Then the bridge broke.

Between the girls on the stressed planks and the ants cutting up the ropes, the bridge pulled apart and plunged the screaming girls into the ravine below...

xxx

“Hear that?” Larissa asked Galina and Avani, pointing in the direction where she heard screams. “That was Iryna!”

“Come on!” Galina sped off after Larissa with Avani following behind. None had seen the two slithering stalkers that wormed through the trees after them. A third was close behind, honing in on a worthy meal for his first hunt...