//------------------------------// // The Tribe // Story: Daring Do and her friendly rival // by Red flame //------------------------------// Slowly the brave adventuer's eyes began to open up, the first thing she noticed was that she was off the ground. She felt something wooden on her back, looking up a bit she sees a Y shaped staff in the ground. An end of the pole was locked into it, she felt rope around her chest pinning her front hooves to her sides as well as rope around her hind hooves. Her belly was facing toward the ground. She heard hoofsteps coming from her right, she glanced in that direction and saw a White unicorn with red stripes on his cheeks. "Finally awake sleepy head." The pony smiled. "What's going on here?" Daring asked. "First let me introduce myself, I am Veil leader of the tribe you now find yourself in." Daring do had noticed a couple tents from what she was able to see. It was obvious she was tied above a fire pit, but it was'nt lit. It was a hunch but she was guessing they did'nt want to kill her. If this turned out to be the case then the question became why did they capture her. Her thoughts were interrupted as Veil walked infront of her head. "This tribe is a tickle themed one, anypony who loves tickling is welcomed into it." Veil explained. "Oh now I'm starting to get it." Daring chuckled. "Smart as your books claim, yes we saw you as you entered the forest and so alot of the members here really wanted to tickle you." It seemed this was very true as six different colored ponies began to surround her, one red, one blue, one dark blue, a turquoise pony, a grey pony, and a brown one. Each one had a feather in their hoof. She smiled nervously and even began to sweat a bit, though the question of why she was above a fire pit still lingered in her mind. She at least was assured they would'nt hurt her. "So the rules here are simple. We keep you until you either manage to escape on your own, or you ask to be let go. Till then your a tickle toy for everpony in the tribe" Veil explained. "Sounds fun, I'm betting a failed escape will be punished right?" Daring guessed. "Oh yes, but we'll save that for later. These ponies want to start the fun already." Veil smirked. On cue the six ponies began to brush their feathers along her belly, this instantly got them adorable laughter from her. She squirmed under the soft tickly touch of the feathers pulling on the ropes holding her, they were firm and well tied. She felt those feathers swirl on the helpless skin getting ever inch of it. She felt two of these feathers began to move toward her belly button, her laughter slowly growing as they drew closer to it. Finally they dip into it and she instantly arched her back, a loud squeal escaped her mouth in addition to her laughter reaching hysterical levels as her poor button was being tortured. "NOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOOT THE BUTTOHOHOHOHOHOHON!" Daring begged out of reflex. "Oh how cute, the mighty Daring do is begging." One Pony teased. A blush appeared on her face from this, for a whole hour they were merciless to her belly and belly button. Four of those feathers moved in a circle around the button while the other two brushed the center inside of it. This left her a hysterical laughing mess shifting in the ropes from it all. Finally she felt those feathers leave her belly allowing her to take in deep breathes. She felt the pole she was on rotate until she was now facing the sky. "Now it's my turn, then we'll get to why your above that fire pit." Veil smirked. "Well g-give me-e your-r best shot." Daring do panted. "If you insist." Veil grinned. His horn began to glow white aura, the same white energy began forming two objects above Daring Do's vulnerable belly. They finally shape into two white arrows. Without warning these two begin to scribble fast along that belly. It was so much worse then the feathers as the tickly effect increased with each second that passed. Poor Daring was sent right back into hysterical laughter by them. Shaking in the ropes holding her. After a couple minutes a third arrow is manifested and inserts itself into her belly button, it scrubs around in there driving her mad. Her poor belly rippled in place while she belted out her adorable laughter, it got harder and louder with each second that passed. The sound was so sweet to hear to the tribe ponies. "HAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAVE MERCY!" Daring do laughed. "Sorry your just too cute to not tickle." Veil teased. The arrow in her button began to spin in it making her back arch up further. Her squeals became very high pitched while her laughter was beyond hysterical at this point. Her thrashing was more rapid, the ropes would'nt give her any leverage however they were too well tied. The poor pegasi just had to lay there and submit to it all. After two hours the arrows vanish and she went limp on the pole, her yellow belly pumped up and down from her adorable rapid panting. "So strong yet so cute at the same time." A pony teased. This gave another blush on her face, she saw three unicorns approach the pit and was curious as to what they were doing. One of the unicorns a black one with red stripes all over his body was at the end of the pole where her legs were bound. While the other two's horns began to glow. Suddenly she could start to feel her body heat up and grew a nervous look on her face. "Relax my dear, you are in no danger. The unicorns in our tribe can control the temperature of the fire they create, right now it's at 70 degrees perfectly safe for ponies. We like pretending to roast our captives, mainly just to see them sweat." The black red striped pony explained. Hearing this eased Daring do's mind letting out a quick sigh of relief, indeed it felt as hot as a hot tub would and it made her feel relaxed. She could feel sweat start to form on various spots of her body already. She shifted in the ropes a bit and let out a cute moan of relaxiation. This made her captors giggle. "So yooou'lll be rotatiiing me." Daring moaned. "Yes I am called Trickfire. First thing's first though" The black red stripped pony explained with a smirk. He poofs up an apple and hovers it above her mouth. Daring do smirked keeping it shut, however that was quickly met with two feathers brushing on her belly real quick from the two of the other ponies. This made her bark out laughter and Trickfire shoved the apple into her mouth without much trouble after. The feathers quickly left her and the fire soon had her completely relaxed again. "Mmph." Daring said She could finally feel the pole begin to slowly rotate her, sweat dripped along her body as it was now feeling every inch of the 70 degree heat. She gave a relaxed muffled moan. Her eyes drooped a bit from this rather nice treatment. While being rotated she took some time to collect her thoughts. She felt very happy with these tribe ponies, their love for her was very apparent and it made her content to be their captive for at least the rest of the day. Two if her escape attempt failed, she did'nt want to waste more than that though. After all she had a new rival to play with as well. As she was rotated she noticed a crowd of ponies staring at her belly, blushing she shifts a bit in the ropes to make it jiggle for them. This made them happy as she heard cheers and compliments about how cute she looked right now. Trickfire rotated her a bit faster which made her a little dizzy which she was sure was the unicorn's intent. Suddenly she felt two feathery rods prodding at her belly which made her belt out cute muffled laughter. Two pegasi held the rods torturing her poor belly, it seemed they were "Testing the meat" with these rods. One of them scrubbed down into her belly button making her arch her back getting a huge adorable squeal of laughter out of her. "Ah not ripe enough yet." One of the pegasi teased. "Four more hours should do." Veil smirked. Daring rolled her eyes at their playfull jokes and this earned her belly another prodding from the feather rods. It was really fun to be at the mercy of such tickle happy ponies. After four hours she get's "tested" again and they decide their "meat" was done. They untie her from the spit, they help the wobbly pegasi over to a Totem pole in the center of the villiage. "Ok lay down." Veil ordered. Daring laid down on her back, rope was wrapped around her hind hooves securing them together again. They attach the other end of the rope to a ring on the top of the totem pole. They then lift the tired explorer up off the ground turning her upside down. After she's about two inches off the ground, she laughs from quick pokes to her belly and then they leave her be for a bit. "You'll be hanging here for the rest of the day, anypony can come up to you and tickle you silly." Trickfire grinned. A little while later two fillies a light blue Unircorn and a gold pony came up to her eager to have some fun with her. Daring grew a weak smile on her face as the unicorn poofs up a box labled tickle tools. They both dig through it looking for their first tools to torture her with. The unicron pulls out two feathered claws rather energetically and the pony had a buffer in her hand. "Yay now we get to tickle the awesome Daring do!" The unicorn exclaimed. "You can go first then Lenny." The girl pony smiled. "Thanks so much Flelly!" "I bet you won't-t e-even ma-ake me-e gigg-gle." Daring smirked weakly. "Oh." With a big grin Lenny hovered the two feather claws over her yellow belly, then flip the switches on both of them causing them to begin scribbling around on that helpless belly. They scrubbed over every inch of it making sure to give the adventurer all she could handle, and it was working as huge laughter poured out of her body. "So what was that." Lenny sneered playfully. "I'M SOHOHOHOHOHHOHOHOHORRY I'M SOHOHOHOHOHOHORRY!" Daring begged out of reflex. "I"ll bet you are, that's what happens when you put on a cute tough act here." Lenny taunted playfully. Flelly chuckled at her friend, Lenny was thrilled when they brought Daring do into the villiage two days ago. Everyone was fans of hers, but Lenny especially really admired her and it meant so much to be able to tickle his idol silly right now. After letting him go solo for a few minutes Felly added her buffer into the mix, it began spinning fast right on top of Daring do's belly button. This caused her back to arch forward which only pushed it further into the tools tormenting her. Her laughter rose to huge hysterical levels, her belly jiggled in place under those maddening tools. Lenny especially was making sure she felt everything he had. The two pinkie fingers managed to get under the buffer and into her button scrubbing the walls of it, this finally made tears begin to form in her eyes. "Yes Daring do is now in tickle induced tear mode!" Lenny shouted happily. "PLEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEASE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAVE MERCY!" Daring begged out of reflex. "No way this belly is too much fun for us to stop anytime soon." Flelly grinned. Daring do happily laughed away as the kids tortured her. Through all of what she's been subjected too, she feels a small tear in the ropes holding her. She could easily get free with that, though she wanted the kids to have their fun with her first. Which meant enduring their merciless tickling until 8 pm at night. At which point they were forced to stop only cause it was time to go to bed. This left her a sweating panting mess of a pony. Two kids watched her belly as it heaved rapidly from her fast breathing. "It's so cute, I can't wait to play with it tomorrow." Lenny smiled. "Ma-aybe y-you coul-ld show it-t some me-ercy." Daring said in a playful and weak tone. "Nah, infact because of that I'll tickle it extra hard tomorrow." "Hehe come on Lenny." Flelly smiled. As they walked Lenny kept watching Daring's belly, so she stayed as still as she could so the boy could stare at it until he was inside his home tent. Now alone Daring pulls her hind hooves in diffrent directions. This makes the tear in the ropes bigger and eventually rips them apart. She lands on her hooves though very wobbly from all the tickling. With her so worn out she had little chance of actually getting away. Still she could'nt help but want to see what methods they had to recapture her. Silently she began to make her way toward the forest, it surronded the entire tribe so she could pick any spot to start walking into. Going through the bushes, she accidently triggers a trip wire. Two ropes try to wrap around her, but she manages to duck before they get her. She kept on her way, however she soon slumped against a tree due to her exhaustion, the wood she leaned on moved into the tree and five sleep darts shot at her. Reacting quickly she managed to just barely sidestep out of their way. However one of her hindhooves steps on a branch, at first it seemed nothing was happening. However her nose began to itch all of a sudden, she began sneezing uncontrollably. They were too rapid for her to try and decude what it was, however a few chuckles she heard in the bushes nearby answered her question. "Agree to get on your knees with your front hooves up and we'll stop the sneeze scent spell." Veil's voice explained. "oacho ok you win just make this a-a-achoo stop." Daring surrendered. Veil and Trickfire emerge from the bushes. Veil's white magic held a small jar labled sneeze scent, he opens the top and the scent removed itself from Daring do's nose. Panting she got down on her knees with her front hooves above her head. Trickfire walks behind her holding rope while Veil goes infront of her. "You were so close too, I'm surprised you were able to move so quickly despite being so worn out." Veil expressed happily. "if-f I su-ucuumbed too ex-xhaustion eas-sily Ahuizotal woul-ld've kille-ed me a-along time ago." Daring chuckled weakly. Trickfire pulled her front hooves down behind her back tying them together. He helps their captive stand up on her hind legs and begin walking back to the tribe with her. A quick poke to her belly from Veil's tail earned a quick laugh from her as well as a warning that she would be getting it much worse when they got back, and that excited her greatly. To be continued.