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Little Shop of Monsters
Chapter 6 (The Conclusion)
by
c_tickler and The Hawk
Chapter 6 (The Conclusion)
by
c_tickler and The Hawk
Katie shrieked as she saw Hailey’s feet kicking from TeeKee’s bud-mouth. She stood in utter shock as she saw it all. Now she knew the horrid truth. “TeeKee…how COULD you?” She stood there helpless, the shock paralyzing her.
She saw the monstrous plant suck in Hailey’s feet and lick its lips. She saw the gulp and heard him say, “Easy, a plant’s gotta eat something…and I’ve eaten well tonight…heheheheheheh…”
“No, you can’t do this! Spit her out, right now!” she demanded, not knowing how she could make him, unless it felt devoted to her enough to obey her. Instead, TeeKee spit something else out. Two pair of dark nylon socks landed at her feet.
“I hate the taste of them…too…chewy” he replied. “Now, time to prepare for the customers to fawn over us.”
“No. I can’t let anyone in here after seeing you do that…to…her…” she fired back at him. Him? It? Whatever it was. “I have to put a stop to this. You, you ate Vicky too, didn’t you?” she stammered out as she walked slowly backwards toward the counter.
"Yes, the ones you call Vicky and Claire were very tasty. They went down real well. Tonight's meal was much more work. This "Hailey' as you call her was much too fiesty. Almost as much work as that policeman who kept harassing you. I like the double portions, but they are much too much work. I hope my next meals aren't as...uncooperative."
Katie was stunned. The police officer? He had eaten C.T. as well tonight? Katie's mind raced. She had to stop him, and stop him now. She couldn't bare the thought of this, this creature eating anyone else! Katie quickly tried to come up with a plan. She walked behind the counter as she made a show of getting ready for the day. She reached under the counter and found her small machette. She kept it for clearing the weeds along the road next to the nursery. She slid it into the small bag she kept the plant feeding supplies in.
"I suppose I'll need to reduce the nitrogen in your food mix if you're going to be eating on your own," she calmy spoke as she carried the bag from behind the counter. "I wouldn't want you to burn from too much acidity."
"How very thoughtful of you. I am feeling low on phosphates. The change might be good for me." TeeKee replied. It unnerved Katie how this heinous plant was talking to her as if this was a 'normal' part of the day. She slowly checked out other plants as she worked her way there. When she reached TeeKee, she did her best to stay calm.
"So, more phosphate, less nitrogen. Perhaps some blood meal mixed in as well?" she asked, using her best sympathetic voice.
"Oh, blood meal would be wonderful," the huge plant cooed. "I'm begining to get quite a taste for it."
"Good. Perhaps then, you'll like some of....YOUR OWN!" Katie shrieked as she quickly pullled out the machette and began fast, swift hacks at TeeKee's trunk. The plant howled in rage as the blade sank in deep, creating deep wounds. Katie's swift, experienced swings caught TeeKee by surprise
"YAAAAAAHHHH!" Katie screamed as she felt vines sling and wrap all over her arms and legs. She began to hack swiftly at the entagling vines, moving back from the large terra cotta pot to stay free. "I swear, TeeKee, This shop won't reopen until I take care of you, once and for all. You've eaten your last meal tonight."
"With all I've eaten, by this time next week, I'll have gone to seed. My seedlings will quickly take over your countryside. You won't be able to stop me...heheheheh," TeeKee boasted as he slowly moved vines behind Katie into position. He knew the weakness of these humans, and nothing could stop him now.
Suddenly, two vines shot around Katie's waist from behind, lifting her off the ground like she was on a pulley. She screamed as her arms and legs flailed in the air helplessly. She swung, but the crafty plant kept all other vines out of her reach. Many of them had been cut and hacked, so he needed to preserve what good ones he had left.
"Put me down, you, you monster weed! Let...me...GO!" she shouted. She held tight onto the machete as she looked at the gaping jaws of the plant, now just a meter away from her face.
"Hmmm...I think it's time to set some new ground rules here. Everything you have now is from me. The business, the crowds, the attention, even those people planning on taking pictures of you and Keelie today. You NEED me now, so now I make the rules."
"No way!" she cried out. "I don't take orders from a plant. What am I supposed to do, serve you a customer once a week? Get arrested for murder when people disappear?" She held still, trying to come up with a way to swing quickly and free herself. She had to get loose and either break the pot, poison it, or machete it enough to overpower it. But, everything she needed was in the storeroom behind her.
"As I said. I seed in one week. After that, all I need is a body every 3-4 weeks. I'm sure you can find some nice, easy, gullible person somewhere to offer me."
"No, I won't. There is no way I would do that. That would be murder!"
"Ahhh, but you will. I will convince you as my kind did in the jungles ages ago..." As he spoke, TeeKee made his move. Vines from behind Katie shot out and wrapped around each ankle. Katie screamed and tried to lash out with her machete, but the vines on her ankles made it impossible to move her body around. Her legs were now fully spread apart and she found herself unable to move them. She looked back, to her horror, to see two more vines moving toward her legs. The vines, starting at her ankles, began a slow, snake-like slither up her legs.
"No, let me-hee-hee gohoho," she tried to demand. To her shock, the vines felt light and feathery as they made their slow entwine on her calves and thighs. She now regretted her and Keelie's decision on short skirts as part of their uniform. She prepared for the plant to either start to crush or pull her apart, but, to her amazement, she could see and feel that TeeKee was doing something else. "What are you-hoo-hoo-hoo doing to me-he-he-he-he?"
"Simple," the plant replied. "We weaken our human prey with pleasure. But, I need you...you need me. And soon, you will do anything I demand. No human can last for long" It almost looked to Katie that the plant was actually smiling as the slow, rhythmic tickling sensations slid up and down her legs. She stayed silent, struggling with all her might not to give into it. She just prayed that the vines stayed there.
"Now that I have you warmed up, let's get right to the point," the plant taunted. At the same time, a vine shot out and wrapped around her left wrist, the arm without the machete. In her distracted state, she was unable to move it in time. She started a swing at the wretched vine, only to have a vine shoot out and bump her left side ribs. To her shock, it hit her ribs in the perfect way to send tickling sensation through her side, causing her to miss the vine completely. Before she could swing again, a new vine was wrapping around her shoulder and armpit, starting the same dreaded motions as on her legs.
"No-hohohohohoho...you derherty cheheheheheh-ter!" she cried, now fighting for her composure and grip on her weapon. More vines shot out around her waist, wriggling under her top and around her rib cage. She swung and cut some, but there were too many now. They began their methodical assault on her ribs. The tickling was just too much. She tried to hold onto the machete with all her might, but her muscles, reacting to the rib attacks, were jerking too much, and she wailed as she felt it slip out and fall to the floor next to the pot. It clattered to the floor, and Katie saw her only way of escape lost.
Instantly, TeeKee took a vine and grabbed her remaining arm. Katie fought and struggled to get her hands free, but the vines were like ropes as they secured her tight. Any resistance she has was waning from the slow, incessant tickling of the vines on her thighs, calves and midsection. “Now, it is time to convince you to be the servant and make ME the master...” he purred out. As he did, Katie felt the vines start to pull her hands over her head. Then, a new set of vines began to coil and snake down her arm toward her torso. The sensation was as maddening on her arms and freshly shaven pits as they were on her legs. She did everything she could to hold in the building laughter in her body.
As the vines worked past her arms, they went under her top. She shrieked as she heard the sound of material ripping. She looked down and saw the vines start to pull away at her top, ripping it to shreds. If her face wasn’t red from holding in the ticklish laughter, it would have been as she regretted going bra-less today. The vines wasted no time as they began a slow, torturous, erotic coil around one breast, then the other. She let out an unexpected moan as they stroked and surrounded them. When she did, the giggles and laughter started to flow out.
“Pleahehehehehese...stahahahahahap ihihihihiht....let me gohohohohohohoho!” she cried out vines began to slowly move over her belly. She didn’t even hear it when the vines began to rip off her skirt; the tickling had her so much in its grasp. The vines moved down her torso and up her legs, seeking to complete the attack. She suddenly felt the vines trying to remove her thong. She moved and tried to block its attempts as best she could, but the vines were holding her too tight now. But, the vines could not seem to get a grip or get under them. The attempts tickled her all over her bum and upper thighs. More moans joined the giggles as it tried, then finally gave up stripping her totally nude.
“Now, you will bring me food...human food...once every three weeks. You will take my seeds and raise them, selling them to the public. In return, I will give you the ultimate of pleasures...all over...” As he spoke this, he intensified the tickling along her inner thighs, breasts, and bottom. She tried to resist the sensations, but, being hit in more than one spot at once, it was impossible to block them all out. “Come on...give in, like the jungle women do. No one can resist me. Especially not you...”
“P-pleease...stop...let me go-ooooooo,” she laughed and moaned. The plant was trying to arouse her to the point of desperation, and she fought to resist it. The vines were almost wrapped around her like cloth strips on a mummy. One could still see skin, especially around her thong and breasts, other than that, all that was visible were her hands and feet.
“Not until I have you totally in my control. Soon you will be in bliss and beg me to let you care for me. HAHAHAHAHA!” laughed the plant as he moved the final set of vines. In horror, he let her watch as two vines lowered toward her defenseless feet, still covered with her black socks.
“No...please....not there....ANYTHING BUT THERE!” she shouted. Her feet were insanely ticklish. Horribly ticklish. Her ultimate weak spot.
“Please...TeeKee... don’t...not there...NOOOOO!” she cried as he let the vines slowly hover over them.
“Just give in to me, and I spare them...” he purred out softly.
“No...never...would be...murder.”
“Your choice, then,” TeeKee said as he slowly drug the vines across her soles like a feather boa. Katie screamed and then fell into loud laughter and the vines slowly, cruelly slide and drug themselves over her soles. The laughter spilled out like water from a fountain as the plant began to wind a vine between her toes and moved along them. She could feel and hear the nylon tear as it weaved between her toes. Time stopped for Katie as the foot attack did its job of removing any resistance she had left.
Sensing her surrendering to the tickling, TeeKee began the final step. The vines around her body began a slow, cruel reticulating process as they moved across her body in a peristalsis motion. The motions hit every spot on her nearly nude body, especially along the erotic zones. Katie felt her mind succumbing to the sensations, the sweet, erotic, tantalizing sensations. Now, even the foot tickling was making her loins burn for release.
“Yes...yes...yield to it...give in to it. Don’t you want more from me? Imagine this every day when you close shop. I can give you completion like no one can.” He whispered to her.
“Oh....ohhhhh...noooo....so cruel...so...unfair....so....wuuunnnderfullllll” she murmured. She was falling under the plant’s spell now. She could not stop or resist it. All she could think of now was completion. Sweet, sweet climax. “Yes, every night...care for you...enjoy you...”
Keelie arrived in the parking lot and slammed on the brakes. She checked her watch. Cool, she was 10 minutes early. Today was the BIG photo shoot for the Maxim UK cover. They wanted a country/farm girl theme. She looked herself over. She had on her red mini-tube top and skin tight denim short-shorts. She knew Katie would be mad that she was going to wear it all day rather than change at the end of the day, but who cares? There were more cute guy reporters and photographers coming around now, and she wanted to be able to flirt at her best. It had been hard enough to get her to agree to the miniskirts as part of their work uniforms. But, with all this attention now, she wanted to be seen and discovered. She adjusted her top, got out and walked to the back of the building.
She heard Katie’s laugher and shouts as she got to the door. “Wow, Katie’s having a great time,” she thought. Maybe Corey, Katie’s long-haired rocker boyfriend, was back from their 3 month band tour of Europe. She had been missing him. Maybe she was FINALLY being less uptight. This she had to see! She slowly approached the door, and slowly turned the knob.
Keelie’s jaw dropped as she took it all in. Katie was almost totally wrapped in vines from TeeKee, giggling, laughing and moaning. The plant was...was...talking to her? She quickly hid behind the counter and checked out the scene. The plant was apparently tickling her all over, trying to make her do something. She listened to the demands of the plant in shock. She knew what she had to do but had no idea how.
She looked all over the area as quietly as she could, staying hidden. Then, she saw it. A bottle on the floor, next to the counter. She slid over and grabbed it. The label said “Mun-Clear.” “Wow,” she thought to herself, “this stuff could clear a forest.” She knew she would have, at best, one shot at this. The plant’s total concentration was with Katie, so if she moved quickly, she could do it.
Without making a sound, she raced out from behind the counter. She made it to the terra cotta pot without the plant, or even Katie even noticing. All that could be heard was Katie’s near-orgasmic moans and laughter as the plant was obviously torturing her. She quickly took the top off the bottle and stood up. She rapped on the side of the bulb-mouth hard to get the plant’s attention. “Hey, TeeKee, when’s my turn?” she cooed.
The bud-mouth moved toward Keelie. Before it could speak, she turned the bottle upside down over the open maw and poured the plant killer in as fast as gravity would allow. The plant roared as it tasted the fluid and tried to spit it out. Instead, she threw the bottle in his mouth and ran for the counter.
TeeKee had all his vines busy with Katie. He couldn’t go after her and hold Katie too. He loosened some vines and tried to reach out for Keelie, but she quickly got out of reach. As he did, Katie felt herself loosening from the tickling embrace of the vines. She fought to clear her mind and felt herself slipping to the floor. She landed on her side and hands and grabbed the machete.
Keelie squealed as the vines reached for her. At the same time, she heard the plant roar as Katie again began to hack at the plant’s trunk. Taking the hint, she grabbed the pruning shears and ran to join her. “I fed it some Mun-Clear,’ she blurted as she joined Katie at the pot.
“Can’t wait...for it to kick in...gotta kill it now...” Katie shouted. “Watch out for the vines...don’t let it get you,” she added. She looked and saw a sight that made her heart pound. The plant was trying to spit out the bottle, which she could see was now empty. It almost sounded like it was gargling as it roared at them. The vines were not moving much as the plant tried to fight off the deadly herbicide.
“Katie! LOOK!” Keelie shouted. Katie looked first at Keelie’s horrified face, then where she was pointing. In the two parts of the trunk, where it forked in two directions, they could see the shape of a human body as if the plant was wrapped around it. Katie began to hack one foot away from the shape of the legs. With Keelie’s help, they cut away and found two bare feet.
“Help me pull her out!” Katie shouted. Together, they pulled, and the body slid out. It was Hailey, as Katie suspected. Hailey moaned as Keelie attended to her. Katie returned to the plant and kept cutting. She shrieked as she found another set of feet. She pulled with all her might, and to her delight, out came the body of C.T. After rousing him, he helped her explore more, and they pulled out the bodies of Clair and Vicky from another trunk of the plant. They were weak, but still alive.
“Katie, what happened to you?” C.T. asked as he took notice of her standing in just a thong. He pulled off his shirt and gave it to her. She told him what had happened as she pulled the shirt on. “Wow, good thing you too poisoned it.”
Suddenly, they heard a loud gush of air come from the pot. The group watched as the bud-mouth sank and all the vines go limp. TeeKee was finally dead. Katie and Keelie helped the other girls get to their feet. Vickie seemed to be recovering the slowest, since she had been there so long. Katie walked to the counter to pick up the phone. The shop would not be opening today, and she needed to tell Mr. Ockerman what had happened.
“LOOK OUT!” C.T. shouted. A loud creaking and crash was heard as a ceiling beam fell to the floor. Katie looked up and saw the vines all intertwined among the beams. She then looked at TeeKee. The plant was collapsing as it died. As it did, she saw the vines being pulled down upon as the plant collapsed. It didn’t take much to see what was happening.
“Everyone, we gotta get out of here NOW!” Katie shouted. The building was old and would not last long. She could hear the beams creaking and cracking. The whole thing could give at any moment. Katie ran to help Keelie with Vickie. The group moved quickly to the front door.
Katie and Keelie got Vickie out the door first, with C.T. right behind them. When they reached the parking lot, they turn around to face the building. As they did, they saw that two of them were missing. Katie told Keelie to stay with Vickie as she and C.T. ran back to the building. They could hear screams as they approached the door. They saw Claire and Hailey entangled in vines between the door and counter. They seemed to be in a panic. TeeKee was dead, but they were screaming as if the creature was alive again and going after them. All the while, they could hear the beams cracking from the roof.
“You stay here, Katie, I’ll get them!” C.T. shouted. Katie stood there frozen as she saw the two of them, screaming and crying out in sheer panic, the vines now twisted around them as they tried to free themselves. When C.T. reached the door, a loud roar and crash filled their ears. Beams of wood collapsed to the floor, blocking C.T’s entry. Katie screamed as the building collapsed in front of her. Then, there was silence. No creaking boards, no breaking glass...no screams...
Epilogue
Keelie squealed as she held the magazine. She and Katie were on the cover. It had been 4 months since the horrible incident with the strange talking plant. During the end of it all, the press kept pressing for details on what had happened, the reappearance of the missing, the strange plant. No one seemed to believe them except the tabloids, of course, which still got it all wrong. Keelie could care less. She was on the cover!
Katie was still in mourning. C.T.’s report had cleared her and Ockerman of any wrongdoing, thank God, and life was beginning to get as back to normal as it could. Mr. Ockerman finally sold out to Munster Nurseries, and Katie now worked for them. She was now Hailey’s replacement as spokesperson/model. With her looks and the mystery around TeeKee, she was an instant success, as they figured. Vickie was on tour with “Wicked,” and, as luck would have it, filled in for the sick leading lady and was a critical hit. In a few months, she would be in Hollywood making some movie.
She leaned back against the sofa. Corey came in with the mail. It was so good to have him back. He placed the mail in her lap, which included a small box. It was from the same place that had sent her the TeeKee bulb. She opened it quickly and found an envelope and letter.
It stated: It has come to our attention that a bulb labeled TK-11 was sent to you. We have also discovered that you were sent a rare bulb of “Iugatiius tittalous,” a very rare exotic plant not allowed out of this country, by mistake in its place. Please destroy or return it immediately, since the plant may have unsafe characteristics. Please accept these true bulbs of TK-11 with our apologies...”
Katie looked at Corey, stood up and took the box and its contents outside. She placed it on the grill, doused it with lighter fluid, and tossed a match on it. It burst into flames instantly and was burned up in a few minutes. She sighed, smiled, then walked back inside to find her Corey...
