They head for the surface

Teysa was the first to come back to consciousness. Aliara slept soundly with her head half-sunken into Teysa's gooey breasts. The goo-girl gently pulled herself away. The goo stretched like taffy to connect the two, but eventually with a wet pop Aliara's head was free. Fortunately the stuff didn't stick that well to hair.

Aliara's eyes twitched behind their lids as her head hit the floor. She grunted softly and began to stir. Teysa waited patiently until her friend was awake.

"Tey..." Aliara sounded groggy. "Tey, 'zat you? Wha' happen?" She smacked her lips and rubbed her eyes with her fists. "It wasn't a dream, was it? You've been... changed, or something."

Teysa suddenly found her lip quivering. Aliara was her oldest friend and hearing the confusion in her voice hurt more than it had any right to. "Yes, Li. I don't know what to call it. A curse, maybe. But with your help I can go back to normal! I really think I can. Remember when we had to decurse that governor? I mean, he was a frog. I still sort of look almost human, right?" She was aware of the note of desperation in her voice. Aliara looked at her with a pitying expression. Abruptly she wrapped her arms around Teysa's shoulders.

"Oh, Tey, I'm so sorry! I thought you were dead!" She pulled back, and her eyes glistened. "I'm just so glad you're alive. We can fix this. I promise."

Teysa was buoyed by her friend's optimism. "We have to get out of here, though. We have to make it to the surface. Can you take us there? You're the tracker."

Aliara's pause was uncomfortably long. "I think so, as long as we don't run into any more monsters." She blinked, as if noticing something for the first time. "Hey, where are my clothes?"

Teysa would have blushed if her goo body was capable of it. "Um, I kind of dissolved them. By accident. I'm sorry! I didn't know my... goo... would do that. I just had to pick you up, and it seemed the quickest way..." Aliara's face twisted in disgust. "I was inside you? Oh, ugh! Sorry, Tey, sorry! I didn't mean to offend you, I just... ugh!" Teysa chuckled a little. Despite everything, that was pretty funny. "I know. Sorry Li. I just wanted to get you away from that lake. Who knows how many predators there are in here?"

Aliara nodded. "It's ok. It's not as though there's anyone down here to see me. Might be a problem when we reach the surface, though. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it."

She set off, pausing occasionally to inspect a particular stalagmite or decide on a cross-tunnel. Teysa followed close behind. She was hyper-alert for predators, but Aliara seemed to have a knack for avoiding the more populated areas of the cave. Occasionally they heard a skittering, a thumping or, once, a deep bellow from somewhere in the distance, but nothing disturbed their path. Glowing patches of fungus lit their way. After interminable wandering, Aliara stopped at an intersection. "Light! I think I see daylight!"

Teysa couldn't see it, but followed her friend anyways. Aliara was hopping excitedly now. She vaulted over ledges and danced around stalagmites, and yes, the cave was noticeably brighter. The two of them rounded a corner and, all of a sudden, a shaft of real sunlight was lancing down into the cave ahead of them.

"AAAAIIIEEE!" Teysa yowled in sudden pain and surprise. Where the sun touched her slimy body, it smoked, giving off curling wisps of burned matter. She recoiled and lunged into a shadow, panting. Aliara frowned. "What's wrong?"

"It burns! Li, the light burns!" Teysa turned her eyes away from the horrid light. Looking at it for too long hurt her head. "I can't go into the light!" she sobbed. It was like a dam had broken-- all of the pain, the fear, the misery of her ordeal, it all hit her at once. Teysa couldn't stop herself from breaking down. Her gooey body began to slouch and melt.

Aliara's face fell. "Tey, I have to go. I'll bring help, I promise. I'll be back."

"N-no! P-please don't l-l-leave me!" Teysa wailed. "P-please! I don't want to b-be one of those monsters! If I have to stay h-here, I know it'll h-h-happen!"

Aliara stood between her friend and the hateful light. "There, there. Tey, it's ok. I won't leave, ok? I won't leave you here alone. I'm here." She gulped and reached out to rest a hand on Teysa's gooey shoulder. To her surprise the gel was warm and pleasant-feeling, just firm and springy enough to maintain its surface. Aliara cooed softly and rubbed Teysa's shoulder, murmuring reassuringly. "Shhh, Tey. Shhhh. I'm here, Tey. Sneaky Li, remember? I'm here for you. We'll get you through this."

Slowly, Teysa calmed down. She concentrated and reformed her body a bit. Deep breaths, Tey. Deep breaths. Li's right. It was a while before Teysa trusted herself to speak aloud again, but eventually she looked up at her friend. "It's ok. Maybe you can carry me out?"

Aliara scowled. "In what? I had a bag, but you dissolved it, Acid-Girl."

Teysa considered the problem, her eyes running up and down Aliara's naked body. The half-elf was short and slim, with close-cropped black hair and lithe, muscular legs. Her hips were wide and voluptuous; her breasts perky and alert, tipped with pale pink nipples. Her features were fine and narrow, with an elegant blade of a nose and deep-set violet eyes. Those eyes turned on Teysa now. "Tey? What are you looking at? Peep show ain't free, you know, " Aliara giggled and shifted nervously.

"Li, I think I know how you can get me out of here. But you won't like it."

"Tey? What are you talking about?"

"Well... you do have a bag, as it happens. Sort of. And it is designed to hold a person. And it's not being used right now..."

Aliara looked lost. She followed Teysa's gaze and realization dawned. "No! Absolutely not! Tey, gross! You're way too big, for one thing!"

Teysa shrugged, a surprisingly fluid motion with her gooey shoulders. "I'm pretty squishy, as you can see. I know it's kind of a weird idea, but it's the only way I can think of to get out. Can we at least try?"

Aliara stared at her with a disgusted expression. Finally she gave a curt nod. "Ok, Tey. Because it's you. But if this works you can never tell anyone."

Aliara laid down on her back with her legs spread, her knees up. "Warn me before you, you know, start. Please?" Teysa didn't respond: she was focusing all of her willpower on controlling her slimy body. Compress, she thought. Shrink. Miraculously, it was working. She felt herself getting smaller, denser, more tightly compressed. Her tentacles wilted and shriveled. Her frond-like hair withdrew into her head. She narrowed herself down and willed her body to form a tube shape. She still thought she might be too big, but this was as small as she could get. "Ready, Li?"

"Honestly? No," responded the half-elf, "but you better go anyways, before I realize what a stupid idea this is."

Teysa took a deep breath-- more out of habit than anything else-- and oozed over to Aliara's pussy. This close, she could really admire its delicate symmetry. The half-elf had taken her share of lovers, but she was still tight as a drum, her pussy lips beautifully pink and smooth. Teysa extended a pseudopod to part them gently, and was rewarded by a hiss from Aliara. "Ack! Gently, please!" Teysa mumbled an acknowledgment and slithered closer. She started to ease herself into the tight, wet tunnel, when she heard another hiss. "Ah! Sorry, I'll try to be quiet, but this feels weird!"

Teysa eased about four inches of her body into Aliara, but found herself compressed tighter and tighter. She would never get in like this. She moved a bit more slime into the pseudopod and flexed. Like a muscular arm, her slimy extrusion swelled, forcing Aliara open wider. "Ahhh!" yelped the half-elf. "Whatever you just did kind of stung! Easy there!"

Teysa slid her face along the extrusion. This was truly odd, but she had to see where she was going. And it seemed to be working. She plunged deeper, feeling Aliara's walls pulse and contract around her. I need to lubricate her a bit. She extruded another pseudopod from the portion of her body left outside of Aliara's pussy and quested around until she found what she thought was the half-elf's clit. She began to rhythmically rub it, willing her slime to be rubbery and firm. Aliara said something, but noise in here was curiously muffled, like being underwater. The physical reaction, however, was obvious. Aliara's pussy began to clench and pulsate, and the peristaltic motions helped Teysa pull herself along. Li's walls oozed a slick solution that helped propel Teysa deeper. She was keenly aware of just how much of her body was still outside. I have to get all the way in there.

She continued questing blindly until she bumped up against an obstruction. Her womb is right through there. Sorry, Li, I know how this feels. Teysa put forth another pseudopod, willing this one to be firm and strong. She snaked it up to Aliara's cervix, feeling around for any gap or looseness. One area had a bit of give, so Teysa pushed as hard as she could. She could feel motion, so she strained harder until-

There!

she was through. This provoked an immediate reaction: Aliara bucked and writhed, but Teysa didn't wait for it to subside. Continuing to rub Li's clit, she began oozing into her womb, finally able to spread herself out a bit. After the tightness of her vagina the spacious womb felt huge, but Teysa knew that there was a lot of slime to go and she would have to stretch her new home out some.

She got into a pattern-- she'd pull a bit of slime in, then flex a bit to widen the space, pull in a bit more, shift, adjust herself, flex a bit, and so on. Little by little the womb expanded as Teysa drew more and more of herself inside. With a start, she realized that her last trailing bit had finally passed Aliara' clit and was inside. With some difficulty, she rotated, adjusting herself, and then extruded her head and facial features along her body, back the way she had come. She oozed her head out of Aliara's pussy, blinking to adjust to the feeling of air on her cheeks again, then extruded a bit more. She had hoped to see Li's face, but her massively engorged belly was in the way. Li looked pregnant-- looked ready to pop, in fact. Teysa had shrunk herself down as much as possible but she could only go so far. She tried to move around to see Aliara's face.

"Li? Li, you awake? It's done! I did it!"

Aliara groaned. Her voice sounded pained to Teysa. "Well, thank Quz for that. Is that what childbirth feels like? Never again, Tey. Never again." Her breathing sounded labored. The half-elf propped herself up in a sitting position and looked down, seeing Teysa's face. "Well, that's wonderfully surreal. Do me a favor and don't do that while we're in civilized company. I think I can pass for pregnant, but not with a goo-girl's head sticking out of my pussy. Hope it's not too tight in there."

Teysa smiled. "Oh, you're plenty tight, Li. Don't worry, I'll stay cooped up. I'll keep it nice and neat in there for you. Might sweep the floors before I leave. Stack the chairs, you know."

Aliara grimaced as she wobbled to her feet. "Ha bloody ha. What a pain in the... ass you're turning out to be. Ugh, I feel bloated." She smiled almost shyly. "Say, that trick with the rubbing? Maybe, when we get you back to civilization... before they turn you back... could you do that one more time? It felt kind of nice." Teysa smiled. "See? I told you this was a good idea."

She retreated into Aliara's pussy, contracting herself as much as possible. By rotating her face as close as possible to Aliara's pussy, she could breathe, and even see a little. She felt her host start to move, climbing away from the cave. Teysa knew that finding a cure would be an adventure in itself, but she was ready for it.

TO BE CONTINUED (in a later story)