The Cephalopods, Chapter 9, The Lady’s Serpent, by Devoured Star 9. Image created by the author using ‘Canva’

SCIENCE FICTION | EROTICA | HORROR

The Cephalopods #09 ~ The Lady’s Serpent

The Shieldmaiden kneeled before them, victorious

This is an erotic sci-fi novella for adults only. The story is set in a 
universe where warrior women feed each other to mutant tentacled beasts.

There are 14 chapters.
Chapters 7-9 form ‘Part 3: The New War.

This story contains situations which some readers may find objectionable. 
All characters are 25+ and not based on any real people.

Sensory Accompaniments:
Lotus-flowers and overripe roses.
Taste honey.
Play ‘We Appreciate Power’ by Grimes feat. HANA.

Catch up with the story here:

[embed]The Cephalopods #08 ~ The Director Takes A Bath “I hope,” said the Director, “that we have an alliance.”medium.com

When she arrived, the Lady decimated the fleet and obliterated the cities. She served a greater power – The Supreme Singularity easily unlocked the Dome, which split into segments that opened like the petals of a gargantuan flower in bloom.

Keira, the blue-haired gamine Usurper Whore, observed the invasion, as she reclined in her blue figure-hugging deck suit on the ancient nepenthes plant at the centre of the Jungle Halls, and was pleasured by the old squid inside.

The Lady’s armoured lander blasted a circular clearing, and the exposed jungle reverberated with the roar of her cataclysmic arrival – And the searing cacophony of grunging, metallic battle-tones demanding capitulation.

The Lady smiled at Keira from the deck of her battle-chariot like a psychopath studying a soft kitten, and primed her blue energy-bangles.

Behind her was a golden-haired Shieldmaiden with an energy spear, wearing only an ornate skjede-guard. Her eyes were like the sly sea, her smile crooked like a spoon. Keira smiled in recognition, and the Scandi scowled.

Fifty Praetorian warriors spilled from the lander, embodying the searing malevolence of their groaning battle-music. Their lithe, synth-skinned bodies shimmering in the gloom, and their pristine faces were cold and calculating. They brandished their squat blasters, grey swords, and heavy zookas, and took up their fluid fighting stances, turning their beautiful heads to scan for targets.

Enhanced by the Supreme Singularity and unencumbered by fear, they were a formidable enemy. Their synth-skins were in deep colours from scarlet, to aqua, to mauve, to mustard, and their postures accentuated the smooth curves of their pristine bodies.

Their Commander straightened her slender arm to incinerate a nepenthes plant with her blaster. Her lithe body was clad in a deep rouge synth-skin that flattened her diminutive bosom.

She used to be the Empress’ Harem Consort. Now, her hair was black and swept her firm shoulders, as she stepped on a rotting stump to throw her strength behind her sword to impale the emerging squid. Her eyes were still grey, but with a metallic sheen. She no longer lurked in the shadows, but served a higher purpose.

The cephalopod squealed as it boiled around the searing blade that pierced its vile head.

“The Shieldmaiden and the Harem Consort had a choice,” smiled the Lady, as her chariot circled the Whore. She transmitted her thoughts directly into Keira’s mind, to cut through the din. “They could feed my serpents or be uploaded by the Supreme Singularity.”

“Nice reward,” smirked Keira.

The jungle floor now boiled with activity as a hoard of ravenous Nectocaridids rose up from the peat. The battle music made no difference to them, but the Praetorians revelled in the searing anthem, and incinerated them by the hundred.

“You must be the Empress’ clone-sister, here to claim the throne-bed,” continued Keira as the soothing tentacles of the old squid continued to give her comfort.

“I have my own throne-bed, dear,” laughed the Lady as she circled closer. She was robed in an ample, white, gold-trimmed gown that framed her healthy curves, and her pristine Grecian plaits framed her cheery face and dimpled cheeks. “I came to avenge my poor dead sister.” She clacked her energy-bangles with murderous delight.

“I didn’t know you loved your sister so much,” smiled the Whore.

The Lady laughed loudly, her topaz eyes flashing humorously as she drank in every curve of the delightful blue-haired gamine, and revelled in the anticipation of ripping her snug, blue deck-suit from her diminutive body.

“No, my dear,” she chuckled, “I want revenge on the person who took away the hope that one day I might feed my sister to my serpents.”

“Oh,” said Keira with mock surprise. “I had no idea.”

The Lady raised her topaz eyes with false exasperation. “Oh, you’re delightful,” she giggled, and stepped from the chariot into the Empress-killer’s welcoming arms, and tore the deck suit from her, grappling her tattooed buttocks and breasts with spiteful relish as she settled in to consummate her victory.

Together they watched the Praetorians, their perfect bodies glistening as they parried and pirouetted, slipping easily from the medley of desperate tentacles as their synth-skins repelled every attack, and they incinerated or impaled the monsters. The warriors revelled in the kill, goaded by the onslaught of mutilated noise, underpinned by its heavy beat of unpreventable doom.

Their Lady grunted with deep satisfaction as a scarred tentacle found its mark. She grappled the Whore in delight, and her groans came loud and fast as the tentacle rippled against her spasming cunt. She fiercely climaxed, and slipped her humming energy-bangle around the thick, ejaculating tentacle, and fried the limb until it sizzled, shrivelled, and came away in her sweaty hand.

As its hideous old owner clambered out of the carnivorous plant, the golden Shieldmaiden lunged with her energy spear, impaling the squealing, grizzled old mass, making it boil and spill its vile innards onto the jungle peat, as it died in searing agony.

The furious battle-music ceased with a climatic triple-beat, and — Silence.

“This is just what I needed,” sighed the flushed Lady, as she bit off a piece of the amputated tentacle. “But seafood is so overrated,” she declared, tossing the ruined appendage over her shoulder.

“Oh, fuck!” laughed the Whore, suppressing a shriek of rage. “You’re GOOD!”

The slugs were destroyed, the squids boiled within their incinerated pitcher plants, and the Jungle Halls were silent.

The Lady winked at her new lover. “I brought my pet!” she gushed.

The Shieldmaiden took her cue, grabbed a new spear, activated a hatch under the chariot’s high deck, and jumped onto an energy disc.

“Behold,” smiled the Lady with dramatic emphasis, “my precious Serpent!”

Keira stopped mid-kiss to eye the massive beast, as it oozed from its foul recess and sniffed the pheromone-laden air with its drooling snout.

The Shieldmaiden descended on her energy disc to jab the wyrm spitefully with the javelin, as it expanded its oily body and extended its claws. It advanced with slackening jaws, amber eyes and rancid breath, as its euphoric keeper herded it towards the waiting Lady and the Whore.

The Shieldmaiden kneeled victorious before them on her energy disc, and addressed Keira with her crooked smile. “Enjoy the Wyrm, Whore,” she leered with her honeyed voice. “We’ll enjoy watching your devourment.”

The Lady gripped Keira tight and grinned at her beautiful bodyguard. “But how unfortunate,” she winked. “You are more expendable than The Usurper.”

“No!” shrieked the Shieldmaiden, as the Supreme Singularity withdrew its constraints on the Serpent, and powered down her energy disc.

The serpent doubled back on itself to snatch the javelin with its massive claw, and sniff for honeyed pheromones. As it opened its drooling jaw, a luminous snare ballooned from its gullet and fired a tangle of red, toxic barbs through the thinning energy disc, and into the warrior’s buttocks.

The Shieldmaiden yelped and spasmed, stiffened and stilled, as the venom flooded through her lovely, long body. She sighed as the toxins stirred her animal lust, her lovely eyelids fluttered, her breathing slowed, and her glistening lips parted to emit a long, low murmur of expectation, and she shook her lovely head to let her golden hair cascade over her strong shoulders.

An undeniable yearning for the great, oily beast grew within her clenching depths. With a lustful smile, she parted her lovely thighs further, pressing her smooth buttocks against her immaculate heels, and dipping her ornate skjede-guard to tease the slavering Wyrm.

“Your serpent is delightful,” breathed Keira, and the psychopathic royal clapped her hands in glee.

As the energy disc disintegrated beneath her, the snare unfurled to catch the groaning Shieldmaiden, and she dribbled with lust as the tendrils prised the ornate skjede-guard from her tensing glans, releasing her citrus-honey essence as they stimulated her welcoming delicacies. The toxic tendrils rippled higher to sting her perfect, golden breasts and plum-ripe teats, making her spasm again, in delight.

The doomed Scandi raised her lovely head, and fluttered her limpid eyes at the whispering beasts in the canopy of the trees, as she felt their lustful thoughts hushing her to darkest secrecy.

The trap furled up and shrink-wrapped her fantastic body, and the Lady clapped again, as the ravenous monster hauled the Shieldmaiden’s squirming, writhing, sweet honey promise into its expanding gullet, like a trawl-barge pulling in its catch. As she loudly orgasmed in the maw of the beast, the voluptuous Shieldmaiden’s long, golden form gracefully slid all the way into the Serpent’s rippling gullet, followed by her golden flowing hair, and she was gone.

The bloated Serpent lumbered away to complete her absorption in peace.

“My Serpent loves Scandi’s so very much,” smirked the Lady, as she licked Keira’s pert right nipple, and revelled in her victories of the day.

… Continued in Chapter 10:

[embed]The Cephalopods #10 ~ The Lady & The Beast An alliance was about to be bornmedium.com

The Praetorians: Inspired by the 2020 official lyrics music video by Grimes and HANA for ‘We Appreciate Power’ by Grimes feat. HANA.

The Serpent: Inspired by a short story about a striptease artist swallowed by a python for an audience (author and title forgotten) in a horror story anthology published circa 1975.

CHARACTER LIST
Keira, Whore, Usurper (Roses):
Found The Seeds, usurped The Empress.
Nepenthes Plant, Pitcher Plant:
The lair of the Cephalopods.
Cephalopod, Squid, Octopus:
Tentacled monster.
The Lady (Lotus flowers):
The Empress’ clone-sister.
Empress, Witch-Queen:
Fed to the Seeds in Chapter 4.
Supreme Singularity, Synth-God:
Artificial Intelligence.
Praetorian Commander, Harem Consort (Saffron):
Former Empress’ henchwoman.
Shieldmaiden, Scandi (Honey):
Former Chief Shieldmaiden.
Slugs, Glow-Worms, Nectocaridids:
Ancestors of the cephalopods.
Serpent, Wyrm (Rancid):
Beast from the mines.
Tentacled dragon/worm/snake hybrienslLady.

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