I closed the door behind me securely and stepped out towards the road, looking around. It was quiet for a moment before a gunshot rang out in the distance in a rapid staccato. The city had not settled yet. I drew up my hood, hoping it would help with the towel wrap. Walking purposefully, I moved from building to building, trying not to be in the open for long. As the Safeway came into view, I realized I'd have to go across a wide, car-strewn road and then a wide open parking lot to get to it. I didn't see any alternative way, so I pressed forward.
I heard a fluttering above me as I ducked behind a truck. A pegasus landed heavily on the same truck and started looking around. She didn't seem to have noticed me directly, but was looking, perhaps for me. "Where are you?" she asked in a plaintive tone. "I won't hurt you..."
She could talk? Maybe they were recovering? Maybe the insanity would pass by? I felt a surge of hope, but couldn't bring myself to reveal myself. She snorted softly. "So thirsty..." Her voice raised to a shout. "Are you there?!" She flopped onto the bed of the truck, hooves scraping on the plastic cover as she whimpered, "Do you have a drink?"
I felt conflicting emotions warring. I had a bottle of water, but it was the only one I had, and she could still be dangerous... My humanity wouldn't let me ignore her increasingly feeble cries, and I stood up. She jerked back in surprise at seeing me. "Oh there you are!" She quickly rushed at me, her jaw unhinging. She was one of those long tongued ones, great. "Do you have water?"
I held up a bottle in offer and a tongue lashed out, grabbing it and pulling it over to her. She sat down on her haunches and started batting at the bottle, trying to get it open very unsuccessfully. She looked frustrated enough to cry. She was clearly more intelligent than an animal, but maybe not that much higher? I carefully climbed up onto the back of the truck with her, holding out a hand. "Let me see it. I'll open it for you."
She watched me intently, but let me take the bottle and pull it free of her tongue, which hung wetly a moment before she drew it back up and closed her strange snout. Ugh. I unscrewed the top and suddenly she was on top of me. One of her tongues dipped into the bottle and she shuddered with what I want to say was pleasure as the water dipped low quickly. Was she absorbing it directly through her tongue? Satiated, she started slobbering over me, her tongues exploring my face wetly. "Thank you!"
I tried to tell her to get off, but opening my mouth was an invitation for those tongues to come inside, and soon she had her snout pressed up to my lips, and I was gagging as they went far deeper than they had right to go, wriggling around in my throat. Her hooves grabbed at me, hugging me tightly as she wept with joy. I had saved her and was being molested as a way of thanks. I got my hands up against her chest and pushed her up and off and she came free with a wet slurp. She sniffed at me lightly. "Play now?"
I shook my head. "No, my friend needs my help." I struggled back to my feet. That had been strange, but she didn't actually hurt me, and I was already infected, so I... guess it was mostly harmless. "Do you have a name?"
She looked baffled at the idea and frowned. She looked around at all the cars, then up at the sky. "Cloud..." She looked at me. "Hood. Cloud Hood." She looked especially proud of the name she picked for herself. "Play now." I wasn't in the mood to play, and hopped off the truck, moving towards the Safeway as I originally intended, at least until wet tendrils grabbed me around my torso. One dipped down into my pants rather pointedly, slathering at sensitive bits. "Play." How did she talk with her tongues out like that?
In some ways, this was a better outcome than many I had imagined for this trip, on the other hand, she was keeping me from reaching the store, and on the other other hand, why did her tongues feel so damn good? All three of them had slipped under clothes and despite trying to focus on the task at hand, I was reacting to it big time. I had tented my slacks as her tongue ran up and down the throbbing pole and down across my balls. This should be disgusting me, not turning me on. I pulled against her grip, but it only succeeding in drawing her closer, not dislodging her. "You're alone," she said. "Herd. Together." A tongue squeezed me around the middle as the one down below began to stroke me purposefully. "Alone. Herd. Together. Play."
I heaved out a shuddering breath. "Cloud Hood, we have work... mmmf... we should be doing."
"Work?"
"Yes... work." I pointed at the store. "Water, food. Friend needs it."
She hopped closer, wings flapping as she kept her tongues around me, soon beside me. "Play first. Food. Water. Friends. Herd?"
"Yes, Herd!" My voice caught as her teasing intensified and she brought me to the ground. She undid my pants with those tongues of hers and pulled it free. My boxers were soon after "Cloud, come on! This isn't right." She ignored my feeble complaints, but did react when I kicked her across the snout when she went to get on top of me. She shrank back, tongues suddenly withdrawing. A hoof rubbed over the sore spot on her snout. "Not friend." She turned and suddenly flapped off, fleeing into the city.
I felt relieved, and yet upset. She wasn't that bad, if she could be weened off of the whole rape-for-bonding thing. I sat up and just caught my breath for a moment before I felt a soft shaking under my ass. The ground before me parted as a new horse face poked out, followed swiftly by two others. A herd. They smiled at me, bright and hungry. "Look, sisters, a stallion."
One of the other heads bobbed. "Maybe he has water, and food. He definitely has seed, look." I was still naked from the belt down, and my limp package held their attention. "Share the gift?" The ground parted and instead of three separate ponies, all three heads were attached to one great equine form with a long sinuous tail of fur and flesh, wide enough to belong on an alligator. I grabbed my pants and scrambled to my feet, making a mad dash towards the store, only to be tackled roughly to the ground. I was having no luck with these damn ponies!
The great beast rolled me over effortlessly, and kicking it didn't even seem to register against its thick innards. She pushed me downwards as all three heads kept right on talking, trying to calm me down. "Don't fight so much. We're your friend. Once you get your hooves, you can be our stallion."
"Do you think he'll be a stallion? The last one became a mare and left us."
"He must! Third time's the charm." Once I was mostly between their legs, they began to grind down against me. The sensation of their soft fur being rubbing up and down began to get a response whether I wanted it to or not, and as soon as it was even partially engorged, they sat on it, plunging it into wet slipperiness inside them. Despite their size, it was tight around me and seemed to pull like a milking machine. All three heads moaned in their different tones, starting to ride my increasingly rigid pole. I was a helpless passenger for the ride, held down by their large form as their hips came up and down, thrusting me into their depths.
The one that seemed to be the leader of the three cooed. "We should stay until he starts to grow or shrink, then we'll know."
How long would that take? I couldn't just stay here and be raped into the ground by this burrowing behemoth. My thoughts went off-kiltered as I hit my limit and exploded into her in powerful spasms. She sighed from all three heads and sat back, seeming satisfied with my release.
I tried to press the minor break in the action. "Say, could you let me up? I really do need to get going?"
"Why?"
"No."
"We want to keep you."
"It's for my, er, herd. They need what I'm getting."
All three heads looked disappointed. "Oh. You have a herd..." They pulled up and off of me with a wet pulling sensation, as if her body didn't want to give me up even if the brains had decided it. She stepped off of me, tail swaying widely. "Fine. We're thirsty anyway."
One of the others gestured with her snout. "I smell water this way." And off they went, burrowing into the ground out of sight.
I took the time swiftly to get my boxers and pants back in place. Great, raped twice on the way to the store. Was that a record? That second one seemed pretty lucid. Did three heads add their intelligence together? No time to think that over too much. At least I hadn't been shot. I quickly dashed across the parking lot and entered through an already broken window. The inside was dark, but as fortune would have it, there were some flashlights for sale near the front. I grabbed one, found some batteries, and soon could dispel the darkness. I could see that some looting had already occurred, but there was plenty left for the taking, and I started filling my backpack with water bottles and microwavable food. How long would it be before the power went out? I grabbed two re-usable bags and stuffed them with spaghetti, rice, and other things I figured would be good for a while. For a treat I tossed in a tub of rocky road ice cream. A good haul!
Hopefully the store would still have stuff the next time I came through. I wondered how many others had thought the same thing when they ran through here.