With the good feedback I've gotten from the first part of this story, it was much easier to write the second part. 😀
For those of you just joining us, the first part is here: http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33071
This part has substantially more tickling and this time of a more torturous nature.
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Eva didn't have a moment of cognizant thought between being stricken sharply in the back of the head with that blunt instrument and falling into unconsciousness. It had all been far too quick and now she was waking upon an uncomfortable iron slab amidst sweltering heat, something all frost giants hate with a passion. She could feel dried blood in the bluish blond hair on the back of her head. She tried to reach up to touch it, but suddenly realized she couldn't move her arm! She blinked her eyes open and looked around.
The room she had been contained in was small, with a single, heavy door set into one of the dark iron walls that emanated sweltering heat. On those walls were numerous wicked-looking implements of torture. Seeing these made Eva cringe slightly, but the realization that she recognized some of them as being tools made by fire giants scared her much more. She also noticed that her wrists and ankles had been bound to the slab she lay on by thick, iron bands that felt very hot against her cyan skin. Her arms were spread out to her sides, perpendicular to her body, and her legs were only slightly separated, leaving her in a split-bottomed "Y" shape.
She was still wearing her fur clothing, but all her jewelery had been taken including her favorite anklet that she had been wearing on her right foot when she was captured. This angered Eva, but she tried not to let it distract her from her current predicament.
The frost giant was about to start pulling on her bonds, when the lever on the door that took the place of a doorknob turned down and the door swung open. There in the doorway stood a trio of grinning, armored fire giants with a pack of hellhounds, demonic dogs that can breathe fire, at their feet. The two in the back were armed males, but they were unimportant to Eva right now, it was the one in the middle that interested her.
She was a female, carrying no weapon, but wearing gilded armor similar to that of the males, but much more revealing. Eva recognized her. Her name was Rashina and she had served the giant lords in what would be called the Lesser Giant Revolution together with Eva. Rashina was the taller of the two and had a more slender, seductive face than Eva. Her skin was a deep red and her hair and lips were maroon, practically her frost giant compatriot's opposite. Beneath her spiked, golden greaves (leg armor), one could see that her feet were bare, like Eva's. But Rashina's feet were much smaller and daintier with perfectly manicured, sharp, black toenails that looked like little obsidian claws. The grin beneath her ornate crown showed a mouthful of sharp white teeth.
Relying more on guile and trickery, Rashina had always been less strong in combat than her frost giant compatriot and so she constantly schemed to kill Eva and raise higher in the ranks herself. They had never gotten along very well, especially when Rashina had stolen the credit for one of her partner's victories and got herself promoted, becoming Eva's superior. This had made the frost giant furious and she had publicly beaten Rashina into unconsciousness. Assaulting a higher ranked warrior was punishable with execution in the giant army, so she had no choice but to flee into the Northern human lands where she had been for the past twenty-five years.
Rashina now smugly approached the bound Eva, the two bodyguards at her flanks chuckling menacingly through their short, oily, black beards. "My, my, my...," She said in her sly voice, "If it isn't Eva, the pariah. How has exile been going for you my dear?" The frost giant just narrowed her eyes at her captor. "You shouldn't be so bitter, Eva. You of all giants should be able to appreciate 'Possession by Aggression'." Eva wondered how a manipulating coward like her dared to talk to her about the giants' code.
"What do you want?" She spat out.
Rashina's grin just widened. "What do I want? Gold, of course. What else is there to want? Our clan has been offered quite a bit of by a group of smallfolk. One must wonder how they manage to get so much of it out of the earth with their puny little arms." Smallfolk was a giant term for the humans and elves and dwarves and the other humanoid races like them.
"You're pathetic. Taking bribes from smallfolk? I thought even you were above that."
"It must be sad living by such tired old traditions. I care nothing for them, but they serve my purposes well. You can talk about them being inferior all you want, but in the end, their gold spends just as well as anyone else's."
Eva paused to glare at her old comrade. "So what do I have to do with all this?"
Rashina's grin widened significantly. "The Phoenix Bane, where is it?"
The Phoenix Bane? The frost giant had never heard of such a thing. Rashina had also said it in a way that made it seem as if she didn't know what it was either. "What are you talking about?"
"Oh please, Eva. Don't play games with me, you know I always win. They told me you'd know where they were, now tell me!"
"You babbling idiot, I have no idea what this Phoenix Bane is."
A look of anger spread on Rashina's face for a moment, before she calmed herself. "They did also mention that you would likely be very obstinate about telling us." She snapped her fingers and grinned again. The two guards who came with her moved to the slab and strained as they turned it ninety degrees, so that the soles of Eva's bare feet pointed towards Rashina. "This should be most entertaining."
The guards took their places behind Rashina, but she soon was waving them off. "Go. I will handle this alone. And leave two of the hellhounds here." The males grumbled, but complied, walking out of the room and taking all, but the two hellhounds she had requested with them. Those two were chained to a hook in the nearby wall.
With her guards gone, Rashina's grin returned as she looked back at the bound frost giant. Eva had thought she would procure one of the torture implements from the wall, but instead she pulled out a long, stiff, brown feather with a white tip from a pocket in her armor. This confused Eva as she had no idea of what a feather was capable of. There wasn't even a word for "tickling" in Giant. "What's that for?"
Rashina offered no response as she slid the feather across her own palm, looking down at Eva's large feet. "Hmm... such colossal feet. It's a wonder that puny little kobold could even get his hands all the way to the top. Nevertheless, this roc feather should get an even better reaction."
Two revelations hit Eva's mind at that time. First, that it had been Rashina who had knocked her out and that she had seen her receiving the foot "massage" from Meepo. And second, that the fire giant was going to recreate the feeling Meepo's claws had created on her feet with the feather, and she got the feeling she wasn't going to enjoy it this time. Her eyes widened with fear as her face became a darker blue in embarrassment simultaneously. "You... you..." She managed to stammer out, before she felt the feather's tip glide up the smooth sole of her left foot.
Eva gritted her teeth, pinched her eyes shut, and curled her toes to try and keep from bursting out laughing. This only made Rashina move the feather faster. The pale white bottoms of the poor frost giant's feet were smooth and excruciatingly ticklish despite her constant barefootedness. Already, giggles were welling up inside her and it wasn't long before some were escaping. "Hee... heehee..." Her giggles were surprisingly feminine and shrill.
"Whenever you're ready to tell me where The Phoenix Bane is, just let me know." Rashina was taunting her as she tickled Eva's feet which tried to move to cover one up with the other, but they were positioned just too far for her to do that.
"Sh..shut up!" Eva shouted, but she would soon regret it. Speaking these words gave her laughter the chance it needed to explode out of her. "Eeeheeheehahahaa! Noo-ohohohoho!"
"Did you know the smallfolk actually have a word for this? They call it 'tickling'. An odd word isn't it? But I'm glad they told us about it, it seems to be working quite well." Eva was too busy laughing to respond.
"Waahahaha! Stop... Rashinaaahahahahahaa! No, nooohohohoho!" The fire giant just smirked, deciding to change tactics. With one hand, she grabbed the toes of Eva's right foot, pulling them back and used the other to rake her sharp, black fingernails up the sole of the frost giant's foot. Her reaction was explosive. "Bwaaahahahaaa! I dohohoho... don't know, aaahahahaa!"
"Eva, I don't have all day to do this. Just tell me where The Phoenix Bane is!"
"I... hahave no ideaaahahahahaa! I don't... eeheehee... know what that is ahahahaaahaha!"
Rashina frowned and stopped tickling, leaving Eva panting and gasping for breath. She had thought it would be easier than this, not that she wasn't enjoying applying this entertaining torture to her old rival's feet. But she had things to do and they still needed that information from Eva. She grinned as she decided to go to her backup plan.
The fire giant stopped tickling to open the metal footlocker behind her. She withdrew a clay jar before closing it and walking to a lever off to her captive's side. She pulled it and the slab Eva was bound to began to lower down. It descended until it merged with the room, leaving the frost giant at floor level.
Rashina grinned as the frost giant gazed up at her with a questioning look. "Don't worry Eva, you'll know soon enough." She then sat before the bound giant's feet. "This is deathbeetle paste, they say it tastes like ambrosia to hellhounds. Hopefully, it will be enough for them to keep you entertained while I'm away." With that, she began to slather the gooey substance on her captive's feet.
Eva's eyes nearly popped from her skull. "... You wouldn't..." She managed to say between suppressed giggles. She had been licked by pet winter wolves before and she knew how it felt. She could only imagine how it would feel on the sensitive bottoms of her feet.
Her tormentor raised an eyebrow and glared at her. "I wouldn't? How dare you even say that, smallfolk-lover!" She began to scratch the nail of her index finger up and down on the middle of Eva's sole and she quickly burst into laughter.
"Aah! No, hahahaahaha, stop! Haaahahahahahaa!" Rashina smiled and finished coating Eva's feet in the deathbeetle paste. The entire bottom surfaces of her feet and toes were now covered in a thick layer of the translucent, green goo. She stood and walked to the two hellhounds who were already pulling on their chains, trying to get at the gelatinous treat. The poor frost giant shook her head vehemently as her tormentor grinned... and released them.
"I'll be back in a few hours." Rashina said cruelly as she left the room. When the first hot, slippery tongue touched her foot, Eva lost it.
"Waaaahaaahahaa!! Nooohohohohoo! Rahahashinaaa!!" The hellhounds' tongues just kept swiping up the bottoms of her feet. "Eehaahahahaa! No, no, n-EEK!!" One of them had just nibbled at the ball of her foot to scrape up some obstinate residue.
Eva managed to wonder, between the screams and hysterical laughter, if she was going to make it out of this situation. Sure she had survived in equally dangerous scenarios, but this new torture was making her weary. She didn't know if she'd have the strength to fight. But she couldn't let Rashina win, she had to fight. She hardened her resolve to escape, before the hellhounds' tongues moved up to her toes and erased all coherent thought from her mind....
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Hope everyone could enjoy that. I'd like to know how well it stands up to the first one.
For those of you just joining us, the first part is here: http://www.ticklingforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33071
This part has substantially more tickling and this time of a more torturous nature.
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Eva didn't have a moment of cognizant thought between being stricken sharply in the back of the head with that blunt instrument and falling into unconsciousness. It had all been far too quick and now she was waking upon an uncomfortable iron slab amidst sweltering heat, something all frost giants hate with a passion. She could feel dried blood in the bluish blond hair on the back of her head. She tried to reach up to touch it, but suddenly realized she couldn't move her arm! She blinked her eyes open and looked around.
The room she had been contained in was small, with a single, heavy door set into one of the dark iron walls that emanated sweltering heat. On those walls were numerous wicked-looking implements of torture. Seeing these made Eva cringe slightly, but the realization that she recognized some of them as being tools made by fire giants scared her much more. She also noticed that her wrists and ankles had been bound to the slab she lay on by thick, iron bands that felt very hot against her cyan skin. Her arms were spread out to her sides, perpendicular to her body, and her legs were only slightly separated, leaving her in a split-bottomed "Y" shape.
She was still wearing her fur clothing, but all her jewelery had been taken including her favorite anklet that she had been wearing on her right foot when she was captured. This angered Eva, but she tried not to let it distract her from her current predicament.
The frost giant was about to start pulling on her bonds, when the lever on the door that took the place of a doorknob turned down and the door swung open. There in the doorway stood a trio of grinning, armored fire giants with a pack of hellhounds, demonic dogs that can breathe fire, at their feet. The two in the back were armed males, but they were unimportant to Eva right now, it was the one in the middle that interested her.
She was a female, carrying no weapon, but wearing gilded armor similar to that of the males, but much more revealing. Eva recognized her. Her name was Rashina and she had served the giant lords in what would be called the Lesser Giant Revolution together with Eva. Rashina was the taller of the two and had a more slender, seductive face than Eva. Her skin was a deep red and her hair and lips were maroon, practically her frost giant compatriot's opposite. Beneath her spiked, golden greaves (leg armor), one could see that her feet were bare, like Eva's. But Rashina's feet were much smaller and daintier with perfectly manicured, sharp, black toenails that looked like little obsidian claws. The grin beneath her ornate crown showed a mouthful of sharp white teeth.
Relying more on guile and trickery, Rashina had always been less strong in combat than her frost giant compatriot and so she constantly schemed to kill Eva and raise higher in the ranks herself. They had never gotten along very well, especially when Rashina had stolen the credit for one of her partner's victories and got herself promoted, becoming Eva's superior. This had made the frost giant furious and she had publicly beaten Rashina into unconsciousness. Assaulting a higher ranked warrior was punishable with execution in the giant army, so she had no choice but to flee into the Northern human lands where she had been for the past twenty-five years.
Rashina now smugly approached the bound Eva, the two bodyguards at her flanks chuckling menacingly through their short, oily, black beards. "My, my, my...," She said in her sly voice, "If it isn't Eva, the pariah. How has exile been going for you my dear?" The frost giant just narrowed her eyes at her captor. "You shouldn't be so bitter, Eva. You of all giants should be able to appreciate 'Possession by Aggression'." Eva wondered how a manipulating coward like her dared to talk to her about the giants' code.
"What do you want?" She spat out.
Rashina's grin just widened. "What do I want? Gold, of course. What else is there to want? Our clan has been offered quite a bit of by a group of smallfolk. One must wonder how they manage to get so much of it out of the earth with their puny little arms." Smallfolk was a giant term for the humans and elves and dwarves and the other humanoid races like them.
"You're pathetic. Taking bribes from smallfolk? I thought even you were above that."
"It must be sad living by such tired old traditions. I care nothing for them, but they serve my purposes well. You can talk about them being inferior all you want, but in the end, their gold spends just as well as anyone else's."
Eva paused to glare at her old comrade. "So what do I have to do with all this?"
Rashina's grin widened significantly. "The Phoenix Bane, where is it?"
The Phoenix Bane? The frost giant had never heard of such a thing. Rashina had also said it in a way that made it seem as if she didn't know what it was either. "What are you talking about?"
"Oh please, Eva. Don't play games with me, you know I always win. They told me you'd know where they were, now tell me!"
"You babbling idiot, I have no idea what this Phoenix Bane is."
A look of anger spread on Rashina's face for a moment, before she calmed herself. "They did also mention that you would likely be very obstinate about telling us." She snapped her fingers and grinned again. The two guards who came with her moved to the slab and strained as they turned it ninety degrees, so that the soles of Eva's bare feet pointed towards Rashina. "This should be most entertaining."
The guards took their places behind Rashina, but she soon was waving them off. "Go. I will handle this alone. And leave two of the hellhounds here." The males grumbled, but complied, walking out of the room and taking all, but the two hellhounds she had requested with them. Those two were chained to a hook in the nearby wall.
With her guards gone, Rashina's grin returned as she looked back at the bound frost giant. Eva had thought she would procure one of the torture implements from the wall, but instead she pulled out a long, stiff, brown feather with a white tip from a pocket in her armor. This confused Eva as she had no idea of what a feather was capable of. There wasn't even a word for "tickling" in Giant. "What's that for?"
Rashina offered no response as she slid the feather across her own palm, looking down at Eva's large feet. "Hmm... such colossal feet. It's a wonder that puny little kobold could even get his hands all the way to the top. Nevertheless, this roc feather should get an even better reaction."
Two revelations hit Eva's mind at that time. First, that it had been Rashina who had knocked her out and that she had seen her receiving the foot "massage" from Meepo. And second, that the fire giant was going to recreate the feeling Meepo's claws had created on her feet with the feather, and she got the feeling she wasn't going to enjoy it this time. Her eyes widened with fear as her face became a darker blue in embarrassment simultaneously. "You... you..." She managed to stammer out, before she felt the feather's tip glide up the smooth sole of her left foot.
Eva gritted her teeth, pinched her eyes shut, and curled her toes to try and keep from bursting out laughing. This only made Rashina move the feather faster. The pale white bottoms of the poor frost giant's feet were smooth and excruciatingly ticklish despite her constant barefootedness. Already, giggles were welling up inside her and it wasn't long before some were escaping. "Hee... heehee..." Her giggles were surprisingly feminine and shrill.
"Whenever you're ready to tell me where The Phoenix Bane is, just let me know." Rashina was taunting her as she tickled Eva's feet which tried to move to cover one up with the other, but they were positioned just too far for her to do that.
"Sh..shut up!" Eva shouted, but she would soon regret it. Speaking these words gave her laughter the chance it needed to explode out of her. "Eeeheeheehahahaa! Noo-ohohohoho!"
"Did you know the smallfolk actually have a word for this? They call it 'tickling'. An odd word isn't it? But I'm glad they told us about it, it seems to be working quite well." Eva was too busy laughing to respond.
"Waahahaha! Stop... Rashinaaahahahahahaa! No, nooohohohoho!" The fire giant just smirked, deciding to change tactics. With one hand, she grabbed the toes of Eva's right foot, pulling them back and used the other to rake her sharp, black fingernails up the sole of the frost giant's foot. Her reaction was explosive. "Bwaaahahahaaa! I dohohoho... don't know, aaahahahaa!"
"Eva, I don't have all day to do this. Just tell me where The Phoenix Bane is!"
"I... hahave no ideaaahahahahaa! I don't... eeheehee... know what that is ahahahaaahaha!"
Rashina frowned and stopped tickling, leaving Eva panting and gasping for breath. She had thought it would be easier than this, not that she wasn't enjoying applying this entertaining torture to her old rival's feet. But she had things to do and they still needed that information from Eva. She grinned as she decided to go to her backup plan.
The fire giant stopped tickling to open the metal footlocker behind her. She withdrew a clay jar before closing it and walking to a lever off to her captive's side. She pulled it and the slab Eva was bound to began to lower down. It descended until it merged with the room, leaving the frost giant at floor level.
Rashina grinned as the frost giant gazed up at her with a questioning look. "Don't worry Eva, you'll know soon enough." She then sat before the bound giant's feet. "This is deathbeetle paste, they say it tastes like ambrosia to hellhounds. Hopefully, it will be enough for them to keep you entertained while I'm away." With that, she began to slather the gooey substance on her captive's feet.
Eva's eyes nearly popped from her skull. "... You wouldn't..." She managed to say between suppressed giggles. She had been licked by pet winter wolves before and she knew how it felt. She could only imagine how it would feel on the sensitive bottoms of her feet.
Her tormentor raised an eyebrow and glared at her. "I wouldn't? How dare you even say that, smallfolk-lover!" She began to scratch the nail of her index finger up and down on the middle of Eva's sole and she quickly burst into laughter.
"Aah! No, hahahaahaha, stop! Haaahahahahahaa!" Rashina smiled and finished coating Eva's feet in the deathbeetle paste. The entire bottom surfaces of her feet and toes were now covered in a thick layer of the translucent, green goo. She stood and walked to the two hellhounds who were already pulling on their chains, trying to get at the gelatinous treat. The poor frost giant shook her head vehemently as her tormentor grinned... and released them.
"I'll be back in a few hours." Rashina said cruelly as she left the room. When the first hot, slippery tongue touched her foot, Eva lost it.
"Waaaahaaahahaa!! Nooohohohohoo! Rahahashinaaa!!" The hellhounds' tongues just kept swiping up the bottoms of her feet. "Eehaahahahaa! No, no, n-EEK!!" One of them had just nibbled at the ball of her foot to scrape up some obstinate residue.
Eva managed to wonder, between the screams and hysterical laughter, if she was going to make it out of this situation. Sure she had survived in equally dangerous scenarios, but this new torture was making her weary. She didn't know if she'd have the strength to fight. But she couldn't let Rashina win, she had to fight. She hardened her resolve to escape, before the hellhounds' tongues moved up to her toes and erased all coherent thought from her mind....
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Hope everyone could enjoy that. I'd like to know how well it stands up to the first one.
