It was just another night in the forgotten city. Families locked away in their homes, criminals raging in their clubs, and the occasional bum lining the streets. One such bum was Jason Moore. Prior to the quarantine Jason was a well-respected painter but in a world where survival is all that matters the arts have all but been forgotten. Jason had taken to the streets months ago, wandering and tagging anything and everything he could. He eventually took to creating massive graffiti murals on the abandoned buildings in New Terminus. Tonight, however, Jason picked the wrong building.
“Come on Matt! We gotta hurry this’n up!” Shouted Jason from the roof to his partner Matt
“I’m climbin’ as fast as I can J. This ladder doesn’t exactly scream “safety” you know!” Matt replied
The two of them had decided to use some climbing equipment they’d looted to paint the side of an abandoned apartment building.
“Almost there!” Matt screamed from the 9th floor of this 20 story building
As Jason was about to reply a massive quake was felt from within the building.
“The fuck was that?!” Matt screamed from below
“I don’t kn-“
Jason stopped speaking as he felt yet another tremor from within the building. Suddenly there was a massive crashing sound from deep within. The building was breaking apart. The shaking hadn’t yet stopped and it was only getting worse. Jason ran to the edge of the rooftop and grabbed the ladder.
“I’m going down! Hurry up!” Matt screamed
But he was too late. Jason wasn’t able to hold on as the building rocked and swayed. A golden light emanated from within the walls as Matt fell from the building.
“Jasooon!!!” Matt screamed as he fell.
“Damn.” Jason said flatly as he looked at his friend, unconscious but not dead.
He ran to the center of the building, thinking it would be safer than jumping off. He was wrong. The world changed around him as the roof became… higher? It was rising. Soon Jason realized that the roof had been separated from the building and was resting on some sort of larger mass. He looked past where he stood and saw hundreds of thousands of thick red wires. He began to walk towards them, slowly at first, but then, somehow, whatever this new structure was, it was moving.
“What the hell is this thing?” Jason wondered
He then saw something he couldn’t even begin to fathom, a hand. A massive pale hand with fingers the lengths of busses! It was approaching him. It was coming after… the roof. Jason put it together, as hard as it was to believe he was on a roof and that roof was on the head of a woman, a giant woman. He ran as fast as he could to the edge of the roof opposite of the hand. He jumped off and grabbed one of the wires, which he then realized were hair follicles.
“First the bomb, then the plague, now this. New Terminus is officially the worst place to live.”
Jason couldn’t get a good look at the giantess’ face but he could tell that she was definitely a ginger from her pale skin. He was able to drop down her hair enough to reach a black mass, her shoulder. Her clothes appeared to have grown with her and she was wearing a black short sleeved t-shirt. He looked down and was somehow able to see Matt from below, he’d begun to stir. Then she lifted her foot. Jason screamed as her massive converse sneakers fell down on his only friend in the city. He swore he would never forgive this massive beast for what she’d done to Matt. He looked up from the shoulder and was able to make out her face. Even at this distance he could see that she was cuter than any monster should be. Her cheeks and the bridge of her nose were dotted with freckles, her lips a perfect shade of pink, and her gigantic green eyes were like emerald pools. Emerald pools staring directly at him.
Jason didn’t have time to fear as her fingers plucked him up by his grey hoodie and he was brought up to her face. He stopped directly before her eyes and he could feel them exploring his entire form. From his long brown hair to his clean shaven face, from his grey hoodie to his blue jeans and red Jordan’s no detail went unnoticed. And then she spoke.
“Hey there, lil’ straggler” She said in an incredibly deep, yet still feminine, tone “how’d you manage to get all the way up there, sugah?”
“I… I was on the roof when you… grew.” Jason said apprehensively.
“You seem dirty. Tell me sugah, do you live around here?”
“Yeah, actually, I lived in the alley between this building and the next.”
“Ah see, you’re of them termites!”
Termites, Jason hated the name, ever since New Terminus had been quarantined and the homeless population had sky rocketed the privileged had begun referring to them all as the New Terminus Termites.
“Well that’s just not gonna fly lil’ guy. I can’t be walking around with bugs! Now tell me, were there any more of you up there?” she said
“Uhm… why?” Jason asked
“Because I need to set all of you down. I’ve got a big day ahead of me.”
“There… there was another. My friend Matt.”
“Well where is he?”
“You cr-crushed him under your sneaker.”
“Well darn. Sorry about that. Here” she said as she lowered him to the ground “let me help you JOIN him.”
The giantess then lifted her foot high above Jason. He couldn’t believe that someone who seemed so nice could be so evil. He was awoken from his stupor as he heard his name from behind him.
“Jason! Get in here you ass!”
Jason recognized the voice.
“Matt?!”
Matt had survived by entering a manhole cover!
“Hurry!” Matt screamed
Jason was able to enter the manhole and evade the ginger giantess’ foot step.
“Hmph, filthy little bugs.” She said from on high
“Damn, that was close.” Jason said to his friend from inside the sewer
“Tell me about it, what the hell was that girl?!”
Jason thought about his encounter and remembered the short time he’d spent in her presence.
“Trouble.”
The two of them climbed back up from the sewer and looked around from the manhole. The giantess was nowhere in sight.
“What the fuck?” Jason said aloud
“What? What’s wrong?” Matt said
“Dude, this girl was huge! There’s no way we wouldn’t be able to s-“
That’s when Jason looked up. He saw the giantess’ jean clad ass high overhead. Her legs spread out past the buildings on both sides of the street.
“Damn.”
The giantess was staring directly down at the two of them, smiling.
“Ya know, I thought it was kinda weird when I looked down and didn’t see any termite blood on my shoe. Saw the manhole an’ thought “s’only a matter of time”.” She taunted
“PLEASE! YOU DON’T HAVE TO D-“ Matt began
Jason grabbed his friend’s shoulder and shook his head. The giantess had toyed with them long enough. She stood fully and readied her foot. The two of them looked over to the manhole and thought about jumping but it was too late. She slammed her foot down on the street with such intense force that it obliterated their bodies, leaving blood and gore on both her shoe and the street, and causing a massive earthquake felt all across the east coast. The people of New Terminus were in for more now than they had ever been before.
Candace “Candi” Cain wasn’t your average stripper. After moving to New Terminus she’d begun working nights to pay for school. She was not only a very pretty girl (tall, blonde, and well endowed) but she was also as smart as she was beautiful.
When the quarantine went into effect the university she’d been attending shut down. Although she was disheartened Candi wasn’t about to quit her job. It was the only thing that seemed to matter anymore. That was until tonight.
The quake had shaken the city to its core and no one knew how or why. There had never been an earthquake of that magnitude on the east coast. Candi stopped dancing as patrons at the club ran into the street and began to scream like children. She looked to her fellow dancers and they all shared a simultaneous nod. They ran out the back entrance and didn’t look back until they felt another tremor. Candi was the first to look back and what she saw rocked her to her core. A red head the size of the Burj Khalifa stood before her dressed only in a black t, jeans, and some converse sneakers. The giantess’ freckled face was positively adorable; the look of malice on her face however was far from it.
Candi watched as this titan of a woman lifted her foot to stomp out the crowd of people that had amassed at her feet.
“AGHHH! Candi! What are you just standing around for?! We’ve got to go girl!” Said Beatrice, one of her fellow dancers
Candi stood stuck in awe as the giantess bent down to admire her handy work.
“CANDI!” Beatrice shouted
“What is it Bea? Can’t you tell I’m admiring!” Candi responded
“Well excuuuse me for trying to save your ass! Don’t blame me when you get squashed!”
And with that Beatrice ran away into the distance. As the giantess lifted her foot once more to stomp out the neon clad building that had once been Candi’s place of employment. Candi knew that she would never see her friends again; once you get separated in New Terminus you stay separated. The giantess bent down to observe the remnants of the strip club to see if she could find any bodies. That’s when her eyes met with Candi’s miniscule form.
“Well look what we have here” the giantess said towards Candi “what’re you supposed to be? The star-spangled stripper?”
Candi looked up in awe, confused by the giantess’ statement then looked down at her costume. She’d been wearing a modified version of Captain America’s uniform, it had the midriff cut off just above her belly button and was lacking the sleeves, the gloves reached her upper arms and the boots were thigh high’s. She then looked back up at the giantess and shrugged.
“I asked you a question short stuff.” She said to Candi
“SURE!” Candi screamed up to the giantess
“I can’t hear you. Here” the giantess lowered her palm down for Candi “get on.”
Candi realized that she’d lost her opportunity to run. The fact that the giantess hadn’t killed her instantly had given her some small hope. She walked onto the giantess’ palm and laid down spread eagle as she was elevated into the night’s sky. When she reached the giantess’ face she began to stand.
“Ah, ah, ah. None of that.” The giantess said as she pushed Candi back down “Let me get a good look at you first doll.”
Candi said nothing as the giantess looked her over.
“So, you’re a stripper, right?”
“Yes, I am.”
“Well go on then. Strip for me.”
Candi didn’t give it a second thought. She stood in her captors palm and began to dance as she removed her gloves, boots, top, and shorts. The giantess looked over her body and was visibly impressed.
“Like what you see?” Candi asked
“Not bad, not bad at all. In fact, you look good enough to eat.”
“Wha-What?”
“Did I stutter?”
“N-No.”
“Didn’t think so. Now lay back down.”
Candi did as she was commanded. The giantess opened her mouth and let her tongue roll out.
“What are you…? OH.”
Candi couldn’t finish her thought as the giantess began to toy with her nether regions. She let out a moan as her lower half was slurped into the titan’s mouth.
“WAIT!” Candi screamed
The giantess spat her out into her palm.
“What is it now star girl?”
“I just wanted to know, before you do what you’re about to do, what’s your name?”
The giantess let out a sigh of annoyance.
“Cassidy. Cassidy Kelly… and yours?”
“Candace Cain. But you can call me Candi. Everyone else does.”
“Candi huh? It fits. You’re sweet. Tell me Candi, what were you going to do with your life?”
“I’m going to be a doctor! I’m a med student… or, rather, I was before the quarantine anyway.”
“Ugh, I was really hoping you were a professional stripper.”
“Why’s that?”
“Because it would have made this less difficult.”
Cassidy dropped Candi into her mouth. As Cassidy’s tongue placed Candi’s head between her molars she couldn’t stop herself from screaming. Finally Cassidy couldn’t take it anymore and so she bit down, hard. Candi died instantly, she never felt any true pain. Cassidy on the other hand got to experience the sweet sensation of crushing a human skull with nothing more than her own teeth. She was in utter ecstasy as the blood mixed in with her saliva. She swallowed Candi’s lifeless corpse and rubbed her stomach as she absorbed the essence of the young girl. Cassidy looked onward into the city. Her day had only just begun.