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Trials of Ukuni.

By FOXCARROTS

Part Five

“The Cavern of the Hagfish”



    With a flash of light Ukuni and Comet found themselves transported miles away. They each fell to the ground as the flash ended and were both shocked.

    “My feet!” Ukuni said as she clutched her bare soles. She rubbed her fingers along them, enjoying the softness of parts of her body she was starting to think she would never see again.

    “We’re free!” Comet said as she got to her feet, moving around in a circle, lifting her feet up and down, enjoying the feeling of being free of the glue’s elastic grip. I cant believe how good it feels just to be able to move them!”

    “I was starting to think we were doomed.” Ukuni said as she got to her feet. Part of her mind could almost not believe that her feet were capable of movement, her mind almost expecting to be snapped back. “That annoying genie actually did it. She got us out of that shit.”

    “Well, we better get to work and get the thing she wanted us to get.” Comet agreed. “Unless you want to continue the fight.”

    Ukuni looked at Comet, seeming to consider. “Let us enjoy being free after so long hopelessly stuck. “We can worry about our conflict later.”

    “Works for me.” Comet nodded, looking up to a massive cakelike structure at the top of the hill. “That has got to be it.”

    Ukuni examined it. “I have heard of this place. It is said that a powerful artifact was hidden here and it is protected by a tentacled monster.”

    “Tentacles.” Comet nodded. “Kinky.”

    “It’s like an octopus!” Ukuni scoffed. “Why must you say the most inexplicable things at every opportunity?”

    “It’s my way I guess.” Comet replied looking down at herself. “Seems I have some equipment Lunabelle thought I might need.”

    “I do as well.” Ukuni commented as she drew a long knife from her belt. “I still don’t think this will be easy.”

    “That is for sure.” Comet said as she took a few small steps forward, having to retrain her mind that she could do so without being restricted. Ukuni did the same, her pale bare feet needing some effort to get used to the rediscovered freedom. After a few steps both girls were confident their feet were ready for action once again and they headed up toward the ruin at the top of the path.

    As the pair reached the small cave that led into the ruin, they began to see evidence of the octopus. There was fish and debris fresh from the sea beyond and sign of the shuffling of tentacles. Ukuni took out her hunting knife, ready to cut onto the interloping invertebrate should it show its ugly head.

“You really like cutting things, don’t you?” Comet asked as she followed.

    “Who doesn’t?” Ukuni replied before glancing back at Comet. “Well other than weirdos like you.”

    “Well, us monks prefer hand to hand mastery over relying on sloppy weapons.” Comet rebuffed. “Something you have long since forgotten.”

    “Nothing sloppy about a sharp edge.” Ukuni replied with a grin as she looked at her knife.

      As they walked into the cave, they began to notice a change in the consistency of the floor. It went from dry, to wet, to clammy, to sticky. They were at first grossed out...as would anyone barefoot encountering such slime in the near darkness. But as she walked she became aware of a bigger problem...that she was having trouble walking at all. Both looked concerned, having spent so munch time stuck in permanent glue the idea that they might get stuck again was not one they wanted one bit. Soon their fears were realised as by the time they were twelve steps into the cave she could not take even one more step! Every time either girl attempted to lift a foot, sticky tendrils of slime would trail up with the soul of her foot and snap it back down. Comet bent over, exposing her round butt behind her and started to tug on her ankles. Though the goo would stretch and squish it would not allow her to free her feet from the floor.

    “Our feet are gunked again!” Ukuni growled. “I did not get it off my soles just to get them slimed again!”

    “What is this stuff?” Comet asked out loud as she began to grow increasingly frustrated. “I am having trouble taking any more steps!”

“You're not just having trouble.” A female voice said form the darkness. “You are stuck.”

Comet reached into her pouch and took out a small hand torch. She lit it up to reveal that there were four women in the cave with her, all monks of her order. One was standing several feet away, another sitting on her butt on the ground, two more were against the wall one with their arms against it, the other with her palms flat to the slimy wall.

    “I am glad to see you!” Comet said in an excited tone. “We can all work together and defeat this offensive octopus and get the treasure!”

    “I'm afraid you are not going to get much help from us.” The standing monk said, hugging her robe clad body and sighing. “We are stuck.”

    “You are all stuck?” Ukuni asked, looking from girl to girl and indeed seeing the same goo that held her. However, their goo did not look sticky and stretchy, more like a hardened mucus. “How did this happen?”

    “When we came in here, we like you noticed we were starting to stick to things.” One of the wall-bound girls responded. “We fought it as we could but some east lagoon hagfish were on us in seconds. They are eels that move like snakes even on the land. They leave this stuff on you as commanded by the vile creature that lurks in this place. The lucky of us stayed either on their feet or nearby. Myself and my companion ended up pasted to the walls.”

    “This is torment.” The other wall-bound girl responded. “My shoulders are killing me, and I have no way to lower my arms.”

    “Well, I am not giving up!” Comet responded in an encouraged tone. “I will get myself loose first of all then I will see about setting you loose. We will put a stop to this monster once and for all!”

    Ukuni nodded to Comet in the others and went to work. She started trying to cut the sticky strands on her feet but found that they were far to slippery to allow her knife to gain the necessary sawing friction that it needed.

    Comet went to her pouch of gadgets that Lunabelle provided them, looking for something that might combat the sticky hagfish slime.

    “You think you got something in there to help us?” Ukuni asked. "I can’t even begin to cut this stuff!”

    “A HA!” Comet said as she held up a spray vial. “Super strong Roy brand pepper spray. This should cut right through the stuff.”

    “I wish that was standard issue.” The girl sitting on the floor replied. “I never think to bring any.”

    Comet sprayed the pepper spray at her feet and sure enough the hagfish slime fell away, her feet now with a wet coating temporarily impervious to the goo. “I'm free!” She preceded to move over and spray some at Ukuni’s feet, freeing her instantly much to her relief.

    “What about us!” The girl standing near Comet said in a tone full of desperation and despair. “Please set us free!”

    Comet moved quickly, crouching by the girls feet and spraying some of the pepper spray at it. However, unlike the goo before the pepper spray had no effect. Ukuni then hacked at it with her knife, the goo proving indestructible against either tactic.

    “It's not working!” Comet said in surprise. “The goo on you won’t come off.”

    “We have been in it too long.” One of the wall bound girls explained. “You can potentially fight it in it's gooey stage but once it dries it is set on you.”

    “Set on us?” The standing stuck girl responded. “What does that mean?”

    “It means the goo on us is permanent.” The girl replied. “Nothing can ever free us of this stuff.”

    “Please you have to continue your mission!” one of the girls pleaded to Comet and Ukuni. “Kill the octopus and the hagfish will become confused and lethargic. Bring a hagfish body back to town. Our only hope is that they can use it to make some sort of antidote for the goo we are trapped in. If you fail, we will be stuck here forever!”

    Cometgi nodded. “Don't worry, I will stop at nothing until I take care of this menace. I will have you set free I promise. One way or another!”

    Ukuni took Comet aside, carefully to not let the others overhear what she was going to say. “I have heard of this stuff. I once met a sea captain that got this stuff all over her. Like us they managed to get some of it off but the rest hardened. This stuff is like the glue we were trapped in and it never comes off no matter what. You need to know that these women are never getting out of their glue.”

    “Well, we were just a little while ago stuck in hopeless glue that we were told would never ever come off.” Comet explained. “But here we are with our bare feet free. If we can get out of glue that can’t ever come off maybe there is a way to free the others. Maybe they are right and there is an antidote in the hagfish somehow.”

    “This isn’t antivenom.” Ukuni scolded. “The only thing in the hagfish’s bodies is more of this stuff and it will dry up if we even take a live one far from the sea. There’s no antidote to the stuff when it is hardened its pretty much indestructible and waterproof.”

    “So?” Comet asked. “We cant just tell them they are stuck for good and move on.”

    “Why offer them lies and false hope?” Ukuni asked. “I just don’t see the point of it at all.”

    “These girls are stuck just like we were.” Comet replied. “Whenever someone came to us with a solvent or plan the hope was the only thing that made me feel anything close to good. I might never be able to free them, we might not even be able to get back to them the least I can do is offer them some hope.”

    “That makes a certain amount of sense to me.” Ukuni agreed. “But make sure we stay focused. Our freedom came at a cost of us finishing this mission. We have to succeed no matter the cost.”

    “Agreed.” Comet commented. “Let is get moving, we can worry about anything else later.”

The pair then left, continuing her pursuit of the octopus and the treasure beyond, leaving the victims in their permanent gooey prisons.

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Description

Trials of Ukuni.

By FOXCARROTS

Part Five

“The Cavern of the Hagfish”



    With a flash of light Ukuni and Comet found themselves transported miles away. They each fell to the ground as the flash ended and were both shocked.

    “My feet!” Ukuni said as she clutched her bare soles. She rubbed her fingers along them, enjoying the softness of parts of her body she was starting to think she would never see again.

    “We’re free!” Comet said as she got to her feet, moving around in a circle, lifting her feet up and down, enjoying the feeling of being free of the glue’s elastic grip. I cant believe how good it feels just to be able to move them!”

    “I was starting to think we were doomed.” Ukuni said as she got to her feet. Part of her mind could almost not believe that her feet were capable of movement, her mind almost expecting to be snapped back. “That annoying genie actually did it. She got us out of that shit.”

    “Well, we better get to work and get the thing she wanted us to get.” Comet agreed. “Unless you want to continue the fight.”

    Ukuni looked at Comet, seeming to consider. “Let us enjoy being free after so long hopelessly stuck. “We can worry about our conflict later.”

    “Works for me.” Comet nodded, looking up to a massive cakelike structure at the top of the hill. “That has got to be it.”

    Ukuni examined it. “I have heard of this place. It is said that a powerful artifact was hidden here and it is protected by a tentacled monster.”

    “Tentacles.” Comet nodded. “Kinky.”

    “It’s like an octopus!” Ukuni scoffed. “Why must you say the most inexplicable things at every opportunity?”

    “It’s my way I guess.” Comet replied looking down at herself. “Seems I have some equipment Lunabelle thought I might need.”

    “I do as well.” Ukuni commented as she drew a long knife from her belt. “I still don’t think this will be easy.”

    “That is for sure.” Comet said as she took a few small steps forward, having to retrain her mind that she could do so without being restricted. Ukuni did the same, her pale bare feet needing some effort to get used to the rediscovered freedom. After a few steps both girls were confident their feet were ready for action once again and they headed up toward the ruin at the top of the path.

    As the pair reached the small cave that led into the ruin, they began to see evidence of the octopus. There was fish and debris fresh from the sea beyond and sign of the shuffling of tentacles. Ukuni took out her hunting knife, ready to cut onto the interloping invertebrate should it show its ugly head.

“You really like cutting things, don’t you?” Comet asked as she followed.

    “Who doesn’t?” Ukuni replied before glancing back at Comet. “Well other than weirdos like you.”

    “Well, us monks prefer hand to hand mastery over relying on sloppy weapons.” Comet rebuffed. “Something you have long since forgotten.”

    “Nothing sloppy about a sharp edge.” Ukuni replied with a grin as she looked at her knife.

      As they walked into the cave, they began to notice a change in the consistency of the floor. It went from dry, to wet, to clammy, to sticky. They were at first grossed out...as would anyone barefoot encountering such slime in the near darkness. But as she walked she became aware of a bigger problem...that she was having trouble walking at all. Both looked concerned, having spent so munch time stuck in permanent glue the idea that they might get stuck again was not one they wanted one bit. Soon their fears were realised as by the time they were twelve steps into the cave she could not take even one more step! Every time either girl attempted to lift a foot, sticky tendrils of slime would trail up with the soul of her foot and snap it back down. Comet bent over, exposing her round butt behind her and started to tug on her ankles. Though the goo would stretch and squish it would not allow her to free her feet from the floor.

    “Our feet are gunked again!” Ukuni growled. “I did not get it off my soles just to get them slimed again!”

    “What is this stuff?” Comet asked out loud as she began to grow increasingly frustrated. “I am having trouble taking any more steps!”

“You're not just having trouble.” A female voice said form the darkness. “You are stuck.”

Comet reached into her pouch and took out a small hand torch. She lit it up to reveal that there were four women in the cave with her, all monks of her order. One was standing several feet away, another sitting on her butt on the ground, two more were against the wall one with their arms against it, the other with her palms flat to the slimy wall.

    “I am glad to see you!” Comet said in an excited tone. “We can all work together and defeat this offensive octopus and get the treasure!”

    “I'm afraid you are not going to get much help from us.” The standing monk said, hugging her robe clad body and sighing. “We are stuck.”

    “You are all stuck?” Ukuni asked, looking from girl to girl and indeed seeing the same goo that held her. However, their goo did not look sticky and stretchy, more like a hardened mucus. “How did this happen?”

    “When we came in here, we like you noticed we were starting to stick to things.” One of the wall-bound girls responded. “We fought it as we could but some east lagoon hagfish were on us in seconds. They are eels that move like snakes even on the land. They leave this stuff on you as commanded by the vile creature that lurks in this place. The lucky of us stayed either on their feet or nearby. Myself and my companion ended up pasted to the walls.”

    “This is torment.” The other wall-bound girl responded. “My shoulders are killing me, and I have no way to lower my arms.”

    “Well, I am not giving up!” Comet responded in an encouraged tone. “I will get myself loose first of all then I will see about setting you loose. We will put a stop to this monster once and for all!”

    Ukuni nodded to Comet in the others and went to work. She started trying to cut the sticky strands on her feet but found that they were far to slippery to allow her knife to gain the necessary sawing friction that it needed.

    Comet went to her pouch of gadgets that Lunabelle provided them, looking for something that might combat the sticky hagfish slime.

    “You think you got something in there to help us?” Ukuni asked. "I can’t even begin to cut this stuff!”

    “A HA!” Comet said as she held up a spray vial. “Super strong Roy brand pepper spray. This should cut right through the stuff.”

    “I wish that was standard issue.” The girl sitting on the floor replied. “I never think to bring any.”

    Comet sprayed the pepper spray at her feet and sure enough the hagfish slime fell away, her feet now with a wet coating temporarily impervious to the goo. “I'm free!” She preceded to move over and spray some at Ukuni’s feet, freeing her instantly much to her relief.

    “What about us!” The girl standing near Comet said in a tone full of desperation and despair. “Please set us free!”

    Comet moved quickly, crouching by the girls feet and spraying some of the pepper spray at it. However, unlike the goo before the pepper spray had no effect. Ukuni then hacked at it with her knife, the goo proving indestructible against either tactic.

    “It's not working!” Comet said in surprise. “The goo on you won’t come off.”

    “We have been in it too long.” One of the wall bound girls explained. “You can potentially fight it in it's gooey stage but once it dries it is set on you.”

    “Set on us?” The standing stuck girl responded. “What does that mean?”

    “It means the goo on us is permanent.” The girl replied. “Nothing can ever free us of this stuff.”

    “Please you have to continue your mission!” one of the girls pleaded to Comet and Ukuni. “Kill the octopus and the hagfish will become confused and lethargic. Bring a hagfish body back to town. Our only hope is that they can use it to make some sort of antidote for the goo we are trapped in. If you fail, we will be stuck here forever!”

    Cometgi nodded. “Don't worry, I will stop at nothing until I take care of this menace. I will have you set free I promise. One way or another!”

    Ukuni took Comet aside, carefully to not let the others overhear what she was going to say. “I have heard of this stuff. I once met a sea captain that got this stuff all over her. Like us they managed to get some of it off but the rest hardened. This stuff is like the glue we were trapped in and it never comes off no matter what. You need to know that these women are never getting out of their glue.”

    “Well, we were just a little while ago stuck in hopeless glue that we were told would never ever come off.” Comet explained. “But here we are with our bare feet free. If we can get out of glue that can’t ever come off maybe there is a way to free the others. Maybe they are right and there is an antidote in the hagfish somehow.”

    “This isn’t antivenom.” Ukuni scolded. “The only thing in the hagfish’s bodies is more of this stuff and it will dry up if we even take a live one far from the sea. There’s no antidote to the stuff when it is hardened its pretty much indestructible and waterproof.”

    “So?” Comet asked. “We cant just tell them they are stuck for good and move on.”

    “Why offer them lies and false hope?” Ukuni asked. “I just don’t see the point of it at all.”

    “These girls are stuck just like we were.” Comet replied. “Whenever someone came to us with a solvent or plan the hope was the only thing that made me feel anything close to good. I might never be able to free them, we might not even be able to get back to them the least I can do is offer them some hope.”

    “That makes a certain amount of sense to me.” Ukuni agreed. “But make sure we stay focused. Our freedom came at a cost of us finishing this mission. We have to succeed no matter the cost.”

    “Agreed.” Comet commented. “Let is get moving, we can worry about anything else later.”

The pair then left, continuing her pursuit of the octopus and the treasure beyond, leaving the victims in their permanent gooey prisons.

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