Background on Art: The second and final part of this commission, showing what the "antlion" had in store for its poor "ants." As I mentioned before, this was only a 2 part comission but the story will have several more parts.
(Continued from Part 1...)
I turned to where Stacy looked with wide terrified eyes
and saw what had dragged us underground.
Whatever it was, it was not of this world. The creature actually did sort of resemble an
octopus, or at least a mutant one. Its
body was a round green mass and the dozen tentacles that had grabbed us
sprouted from the creature’s body and writhed around in the air. In the center of the creature’s body it had a
large opening, surrounded by a red swollen “lip.” Slime or drool or some other substance leaked
from the opening, and I got the impression, right or wrong, that this was the
creature’s mouth. Other than this mouth
and the tentacles, the thing had no discernible features. It had no visible eyes, no nose, and no limbs
or other appendages other than the writhing tentacles. The creature’s central mass was large,
probably five feet tall and almost as wide and long. My first instinct was that this thing meant
to eat me; it looked big enough to swallow up a human and the “mouth” looked
big enough that I could fit through it. As
big as its mass was, the tentacles did not seem big enough to make the thing
very mobile and so Stacy and I ran to the corner furthest from the creature,
pressing against the wall, hoping we were out of its reach. The cavern we were in was perhaps fifteen
feet by fifteen feet, which did not allow us to put too much space between us
and the monster. The creature’s
tentacles were long enough that the distance did not matter and several shot
forward and grabbed us. Tentacles
wrapped around my wrists and began dragging me back toward the creature. I frantically tried to pull away but the
creature was incredibly strong, and it was no use. Other tentacles grabbed Stacy and began to
drag her towards the creature as well. We
both screamed loudly, helpless as we were pulled closer and closer.
(story continued after the jump...)