He also thought about all of the other ebu gogo he had impregnated, and realized that when their due dates approached, they would all die too, because the babies, having half of his DNA, would be too large to fit through the ebu gogo’s small birth canals, and would break through their wombs and stomachs as well.
And he knew that the reason the ebu gogo didn’t tell him that his seed would lead to their deaths is that they weren’t human, and didn’t have a human’s developed sense of right and wrong.
But these women in the pit, they were human. Their humanity showed as they clasped their hands behind their backs and above their heads and stuck out their chests at him. Their breasts were firm, and didn’t hang down below their hips like the ebu gogo’s breasts did. At thirty-eight Linda was older than the other two and her breasts had a few stretch marks here and there, but she was undeniably beautiful and somehow her stretch marks only accentuated her beauty. He watched as the women pivoted on one foot, winked at him, and blew kisses at him from the bottom of the pit, all while professing their desire for him with brief, teasing words.
Martin couldn’t take it any longer. He knew that he couldn’t let the women out of the pit. That would be a recipe for disaster. But, what he could do was climb down into the pit with them. There was a hand-woven rope at the side of the pit that the ebu gogo used to lower food and other things to the women. One end was tied to a rock outcropping at the side of the pit, and the rest was coiled at its edge. Martin tested the rope and decided that it would hold his weight, so he removed the bamboo grate, took the rope in his hands, and slowly climbed down into the pit where the naked redhead, brunette, and blonde women waited at the bottom.
Of course Amber, Christa, and Linda did not really want Martin. They hated his guts. But they wanted to talk him into helping them to escape from the pit so they could kill Lua, who they didn’t know had just given birth and was dead, and escape from the horrible jungle. In order to do all that, they had to seduce Martin, and to make him dependant on them for sexual gratification instead of on the ebu gogo.
Martin reached the bottom of the pit, and the three women grabbed him at once and made a show out of pushing each other out of the way and pulling him towards themselves as they pretended to compete with each other to make out with him, grabbed his dick from each others’ hands, and tried to mount him. Then, a high pitched scream came from above them. All four looked up to see the three ebu gogo guards looking into the pit with horrified expressions on their faces, screaming, “Eeeeeee, Eeeeeee, Eeeeeee,” as their enormous breasts swung back and forth above the heads of the humans in the pit like pendulums.
Chapter 16
Lewis, Jack, Dr. Stern, and Clare stood around the rocky clearing. The moment the interns arrived, Dr. Stern turned to Lewis impatiently and said, “Now that everybody is here, can you please stop being so mysterious and show us what you found?”
Lewis motioned with his hand for everybody to follow and led them through the jungle to a clearing with a large tree in its center, where the cryptid Lewis had tranquilized earlier had a rope tied around his neck like a leash. The other end of the rope was tied to a low hanging branch. Dr. Stern, Clare, and the interns gaped at the cryptid in amazement as it jumped around and chattered happily, in apparent oblivion to the fact that it was a captive. Lewis said, “Ladies and gentlemen, I have discovered the ebu gogo.”
Lewis took a dramatic pause, and Jack, taking advantage of the silence, put his hands on his hips and said, “Hey! I discovered the ebu gogo!!!”
Lewis angrily shouted, “You did not! You were so busy babbling on about nonsense that you didn’t even notice them.”
“Oh, I noticed them,” Jack said smugly, “I just didn’t say anything because I wasn’t surprised.”
Lewis roared, “You were so surprised when I pointed them out to you!”
Dr. Stern furrowed his brow and said, “Both of you stop it. Mr. Dare, I think everybody here is willing to accept that it was you, not Jack, who discovered the ebu gogo. The question is, what do we do now?”
Lewis said, “Now, we bring it back to New York!”
Dr. Stern said, “We need to study the ebu gogo before we can bring it back to New York, given that we don’t even know what it eats.”
Lewis angrily shouted, “Five minutes ago you didn’t even believe in the ebu gogo!”
Dr. Stern looked at the ground. As hard as it was to admit he was wrong, he grudgingly said, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry. They exist.”
Speaking in an overdramatic way that always got on Lewis’s nerves as he gestured like a bad actor, Jack said “Lewis, I think it is excellent that we have captured an ebu gogo. Just wonderful. But just think: There were many varieties of ebu gogo in that clearing. Some were spotted, some were striped, and some were all orange with little clumps of black hair on their heads. Imagine how great it would be if we returned to New York with a collection of ebu gogo!”
Clare rolled her eyes and said, “Jack, they aren’t Pokémon.”
Jack ignored Clare and continued, “And consider this: Our furry little friend here is male, and all the ebu gogo we saw were male. Don’t you think he would be happier in New York if we found him a lady friend before we left?" Jack sauntered over to Clare and whispered in her ear, “You know, somebody to yiff with?”
Dr. Stern overheard Jack’s whispered words and his jaw dropped. Clare clenched a fist and whispered back, “Take one step closer and I drop you.”
Jack sauntered away from Clare and continued, “I don’t want to leave Flores yet. I am having too much fun. And I like having fun. Fun keeps me distracted. I don’t want to do bad things when I am having fun." Jack sauntered over to Lewis and whispered into his ear, “When I am having fun, I don’t want to blackmail people.”
Once again Dr. Stern overheard Jack’s whispered words, but not knowing the context, took it as further evidence of Jack’s delusions.
Lewis however, knowing that Jack’s threat of blackmail was real, announced “Let’s put this to a vote. Who wants to stay on Flores?”
Dr. Stern and Jack raised their hands.
Lewis then asked, “And who wants to go back to the mainland?”
Clare and the three interns raised their hands.
Jack put his hands on his hips and gave Lewis a threatening glare. Lewis caught Jack’s glare, glanced at his feet uncomfortably, looked up and exclaimed, “Then it’s settled. Since interns don’t count, the vote is two we stay, one we leave. We will search for more ebu gogo, learn more about them like Dr. Stern wants, and try to capture different varieties of ebu gogo while keeping an eye out for a female one, like Jack wants. This way the majority is happy.”
The three interns grumbled amongst themselves, but they accepted without protest the casting net that Lewis gave them and walked off together into the jungle.
The three interns had not walked long when they came upon a thin patch of jungle where dozens of male ebu gogo were hopping and skipping about playfully. The short fat intern and the tall skinny intern held the casting net at either end and slowly approached the ebu gogo, who continued with their play, apparently unaware of the two interns. But when the interns threw the casting net, the ebu gogo all jumped out of its way. The ebu gogo did not, however, try to run away from the clearing, but instead hopped and skipped around the interns.
The two interns threw the casting net at the ebu gogo again, and again they jumped away. The fat intern noticed that right after they jumped, it looked as if the ebu gogo all giggled. Astonished, the fat intern said, “This is fun for them! They are treating us trying to capture them as a game!”