Unexpected Plant Snack!

Here's another oldie but goodie featuring an old friend of mine from my Disturbed Things days. She actually loves hiking down odd remote trails so something like this was bound to happen. Enjoy!

Ann was out hiking one morning. She was strolling along her favorite path, enjoying the warm summer day. It wasn't too hot yet, but Ann knew it would get warmer as the day wore on . so she dressed accordingly. She wore a light pink spaghetti strap camisole, tan cargo shorts & ankle high hiking boots with thick socks rolled down to the tops of her boots. The outfit was designed for comfort in the hot summer weather, but it was also designed to show off a lot of her well tanned skin. especially her long shapely legs. Ann worked out frequently & took care of herself. Her body was firm & toned, but her legs were her pride & joy. She shaved frequently & rubbed lotion on them to be sure they were smooth as silk! They positively glowed in the light of the morning sun! Her shapely muscles rippled sensuously with each stride she took. She enjoyed the looks she got from men, being quite flattered by their admiring gazes. She turned her head up as she walked letting the sun’s rays wash over exceptionally pretty face. She smiled exposing perfect white teeth.

Ann was walking down her favorite path. Since it was a weekday, there was virtually no one else around. She slipped her water bottle off the clip on her belt & took a sip. She didn’t want to risk getting dehydrated. She came to a fork in the path. Normally, she went right, which took her down past a beautiful flowing stream she liked to sit by & think. She gazed at the left path. It led off deeper into the woods. She rarely went this way. It was much longer & rarely traveled. She decided that since there was nobody else out today anyway, she’d give this path a try. She clipped her bottle back on her belt & walked off.

Ann had walked for what seemed like forever. She was getting tired, it was getting warmer, even in the shade of the trees & she was nearly out of water. She knew she had a bout a mile & a half to walk before she came back out near the parking lot where her car was parked. She regretted coming this way, but she was getting a lot of exercise & that was more important. She’d just have to ration what little water she had left. She had another bottle in her car she could slack her thirst with once she finished her hike.

Something caught her hazel colored eyes on the path ahead. There were dozens of spaghetti thin vines hanging down from the branches of a tree. They blocked the path from about 4 feet up from the ground. She recognized the vines as a pesky variety native to her home state of New Jersey. They were well known to cause people foolish enough to casually wander into them to get quite tangled up to the point that they had to be cut out of them. A friend of her’s had accidentally bungled into a patch of them before. They had gotten tangled in her hair & everything. Ann had to go back to her car & return with some snips. The poor girl looked like a dangling scarecrow when Ann got back. She had to avoid laughing at her friend’s predicament. Ann had no intention of getting her long brown hair tangled up like that & decided to walk in the brush to avoid them.

Suddenly, Ann heard a loud crash in the brush behind her. She turned quickly, but saw nothing. She could still hear something rustling around in the brush. Nervous, she began to back her way down the path, keeping her eyes on the direction of the odd sounds. She didn’t realize she was slowly moving toward the vines she wanted to avoid. She also had not looked up. Resting among the branches of the tree were the source of the vines, a large sack shaped plant. It was about 4 feet long & currently only about 2 feet tall. It was a hybrid of the normal plant that featured these sticky clinging vines. This particular plant was of the carnivorous variety only much larger & was known to devour deer & other animals. It would certainly find the slowly approaching pretty woman pleasing to it’s palate.

Ann finally saw the source of the frightening noises as a large raccoon strolled across the path, apparently heading to it’s sleeping spot after a long night’s hunt for food. Ann chuckled at her foolishness! Imagine being scared by such a cutie! She turned to continue her hike & ran right into the vines. “Oh crap!” she said as she tried to struggle to get free of them before she got too tangled up, but the harder she struggled, the more she became tangled. This is exactly what happened to her friend. “Help!” she yelled out. “Somebody help me please!” nobody answered. She remembered how few people she had seen out this morning. “Damn!” she swore.

Ann’s struggles had aroused the resting plant. It immediately knew it had something snared, something that it could eat to nourish itself. The vines began to move over Ann’s body wrapping her up for the coming meal. “What the hell?!” Ann yelled in surprise. The vines moved over her body & down her arms, pulling them toward her. She tried to fight them off, but more slithered down to wrap her up. Soon, her arms were forced up against her chest, pressing into her ample bosom. She began to thrash about as best she could, but no matter what she did, she couldn’t so much as loosen the vines that held her. She didn’t like this at all! She was beginning to panic, but tried to calm herself to avoid making her situation worse. “Help me!” she yelled out. “I’m stuck in some vines! Could somebody help me please!” she heard nothing but the sounds of her own struggles. She had been so focused on her struggles, that she hadn’t noticed the odd fact that the vines had almost cocooned her in a very purposeful attack for just this reason.

The plant was satisfied that it’s intended meal was well secured. It was time to eat her. It began to retract it’s vines. Ann was slowly being lifted off the ground. “Holy shit!” she screamed. She was becoming terrified now. She had never heard of these vines behaving like this before. Her booted feet were soon dangling in mid air. Ann looked up to see what was going on & spied the odd looking plant. She still didn’t know what was happening until part of the sack-like pod opened up. It became all to clear then what was about to happen to her! “Oh my God! It’s going to eat me!” she cried out. She began to scream hysterically. “Help me! Somebody help me! It wants to eat me!” her well muscled legs began to kick furiously in the air as she continued to try to break free of the vines holding her. She looked like she was pedaling an imaginary bicycle! Nothing she did worked! She was still held tightly & being lifted toward the plant’s open maw!

Ann’s head was soon lifted to within inches of the plant’s mouth. She stared into the black maw. “No! NO! Please don’t eat me!” she shrieked. “I don’t want to be eaten! NOOOOOO!” the plant didn’t heed her pleas. Her head was soon lifted inside it’s mouth. Her screams were soon muffled as her bound torso was also slid inside the plant. Vines now raced down her legs, gliding easily over the silky smooth browned skin. Her vigorous kicking soon became labored as the vines wrapped around her shapely legs. They forced her legs together, wrapping around both now, securing her & ending her kicking. She still wiggled, but that was all the fight she could muster. Her whole body was now securely wrapped. Even tho she was held tightly by the vines, she was still able to move a little. The plant gave her a bit of play as it didn’t want to bruise it’s succulent catch.

Ann was forced deeper inside the plant. The top of her head hit an inside wall. She was forcibly bent over so she would fit inside. Her hips & wiggling legs were all that was visible outside the plant. Ann’s booted feet wiggled about. They were about the only parts of her not wrapped in the vines. Ann continued to scream for help, but there simply wasn’t anybody on the trails to hear her. Her hips soon disappeared inside, followed soon by her shapely legs. She was being laid on her side. Her knees were forced up to her chest. She was still encased in the vines, trussed up like a Thanksgiving turkey. She began to cry as she realized she was done for! The plant had devoured her & she was helpless to do anything about it! She screamed “NOOOO!” as she saw the light disappear as it’s mouth began to close. The vines suddenly began to slide off her body, gliding out the mouth as they released her.

             She was free & tried to crawl over to the rapidly closing mouth. Too late! She tried to pry it open, but it was closed fast! It was small inside, not allowing her much room, but she began to punch & kick at the interior of the plant. She couldn’t get any leverage to put much force behind her attacks. As her adrenaline drained, she slumped down on her side exhausted! She curled up in a little ball. She sobbed at her misfortune. She hugged herself & rubbed her hands over her arms & legs, trying to get the feel of  encircling vines off her smooth supple skin. In time, the air began to run out inside the plant. Ann eventually lost consciousness. Soon, the plant would begin to secrete digestive fluids to break down Ann’s lovely body into nutrients to be absorbed into the pod’s walls to nourish the plant.

The only evidence that Ann had been there at all lay on the path below the plant. Her water bottle had fallen from her belt during the struggle. Perhaps it would act as bait for the next possible meal for the now satisfied plant?!