67 Training Simulation 4(18+)

Back outside, Naruto couldn't help but wonder what the plant was saying. The plant was psychic, but understandably, the blond had no idea what the flora was saying to Galatea since it was talking to her directly into her head. It could be anything really.

Teresa and Clare were long gone, and were stuck in suspended animation. Galatea was close to being reduced to flower chow. Irene, Priscilla, Sophia, and Noel were in their own groups of two, though the latter two were closing in on the plant Team Miria had lost to. Irene and Priscilla were farther north, still exploring. The flower they were closest to was the very same one that had just eaten Teresa and Clare, but for the moment at least, it was hard to say if that would be the one they'd end up meeting.

They could easily end up meeting the flower Galatea was with, though. It was closer to them than the flower in the clearing. They seemed to stop and from the sounds of it were wondering on where they should go.

Well, he'll get back to them later. Right now, he has a naughty nun to watch.

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Said nun wailed around the tentacle in her mouth in unwanted pleasure as an orgasm wracked her frame. As her juices ran down the tentacle, her cunt lewdly squelshed around it as the limb kept on fucking her cunt silly. The one in her ass kept wiggling and squirming around in there as it fucked her.

"Such a deliciously lewd nun," the plant cooed, "This was what you've been waiting for, isn't it?" The flora let out a gurgle as it shivered pleasantly, "Oh, this feels sooooo gooooood~! I really hope the rest of your 'team' comes here. I want to do this on them next, hehehehe!"

Galatea whimpered pathetically in utter shame as she went limp, utterly defeated. She simply didn't have the will to fight back, anymore as tears streamed down her cheeks.

"Oh? Is that it?" The flower sounded almost disappointed, "Is the 'all powerful' warrior turned nun, God-Eye Galatea giving up?" The woman didn't reply, mentally or physically. She had given up, entirely. The only thing worth waiting for right now is either Irene, Priscilla, Sophia or Noel to show up and hope beyond hope they would be able to get her out of this mess. The chances of that happening were minimal at best, though.

The sunflower seemed to shrug at her lack of a response. Oh, well, response or not, it was time to finish this. It was hungry. Then it brought the limp and unresponsive Galatea down to it, as a wide maw opened up in the middle of its 'face' revealing its fleshy-orange, mucus dripping insides. It turned the woman around so her head was facing its mouth, and giggled impishly.

"Oh, Gala-tea~!" The flower sang and it pulled its tentacle out of her mouth. "Dinner time~!"

The woman blinked at that and looked back. She saw a gaping, orange pit with mucus dripping off the walls that led to utter darkness in front of her. "What-"

Without warning, the flower enveloped her head, binding her arms to her sides while lifting the woman up to let gravity help with sliding her in. Galatea started squirming once more, her natural instinct to survive kicking in. The flower giggled and slurped away, gulping down the warrior-turned-nun with gusto as it enjoyed her taste.

"No!" Galatea struggled even more as her shoulders were now in the flower's mouth, "Let me go! I don't want to be eaten!"

"But you're so delicious~!" The flower cooed. "Oh, I am not disappointed~! The first taste of a real woman… I want more! I want to devour them all~!" The flower greedily gobbled Galatea down, stretching to comical proportions as her writhing form stretched out its stem. Unlike the other flowers, it didn't bother stopping half way. If it was going to hunt down those remaining four 'guests', then it needed to get to them before the others. The flower cooed as it fully swallowed Galatea, shrinking down upon her form like a second skin and the blonde's consciousness left her body right then and there.

The flower didn't know or care about that, however, as the body inside it writhed and screamed as if that hadn't happened - the struggles doubling in vigour as it started digesting her. Soon enough the wriggling female bulge within the stem stopped moving entirely and melted into an amorphous blob. The flower greedily and almost orgasmically gulped and slurped down what remained of Galatea, a lone tentacle writhing as if the flower was licking its nonexistent lips as the bulge in its stem shrank down to nothing.

"So good~! That was simply-" A massive belch erupted from the flower. "Oh! Pardon me!" It giggled. "Well, so much for 'God-Eye' Galatea. Now," the stem began to wriggle as the flower sunk itself into the ground. "Let's see if I can't get to the other four first…" After that the sentient flora had left the meadow in search of more prey.

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Not privy to Galatea's fate, Irene and Priscilla were still further North - still trying to decide on where they should go to next. The woods seemed like where Clare would have gone, but if most of the disappearances happened there, then it was clearly the least safe. There were also the rocky hills a little further down, but they were a good distance away and looked rather troublesome to traverse from here.

"What about that meadow we saw a while back?" a much younger looking, short blonde-haired Priscilla asked Irene as she looked up at her with her now silver eyes. The former brunette, looked like she was now in her middle teens rather than her late. "It'll only take us about… thirty or so minutes to get there." Priscilla pointed out to her elder.

Irene hummed in thought. That seemed like a good idea… but it was also wide open. What if this 'experiment' spotted them?

"What about this 'experiment' that is said to lurk within this forest? Would a wide open space not allow it to see us coming from several miles away?" The long haired woman had to point that out to her companion. It seemed Priscilla reverting in age had lessened her judgement somewhat as well.

"Have you seen anything weird here that could be this so called 'experiment'?" Priscilla asked with a roll of her eyes, "We've seen nothing out of the ordinary so far. And there are no 'clothes' of the previous people who were its 'victims' to be seen either. It's just one massive hoax!"

"Or we've yet to find its hunting ground," Irene pointed out.

Priscilla scowled at that. It was true, that was most certainly a possibility. Neither women saw the sunflower that was beginning to bloom nearby, though the younger blonde's scowl deepened as she felt a sudden urge to… strip naked, of all things?

Still scowling Priscilla looked up at the much older woman and asked, "Irene, do you have an urge to… strip naked?"

"Wait, what?" The elf-eared woman stared at Priscilla in utter befuddlement. That was an unusual question if ever she'd heard one.

"I have this urge to strip naked. I have no idea why." the younger girl clarified for the befuddled woman. "Do you have it too?"

Irene frowned and looked around to see if there was anything else out of the ordinary. Her eyes glazed over when she reached the sunflower, and they came back into focus when she passed it. "Let's... leave the area and ignore that urge," she said. "It might have something to do with this experiment."

Priscilla looked at Irene with an inquisitive frown, "Do you have it too, then?"

"I don't, but I would rather not take any chances," Irene said, gently urging the younger blonde to start moving. Her eyes roamed the area once more, and they glazed over upon seeing the sunflower once more, and came back into focus when she passed it. "Come on," The platinum-blonde urged Priscilla to head back to the direction they came from. "Let's go back the way we came. Maybe we can find Clare in that meadow, or something."

The blonde did as she was told, but scowled in annoyance as the urge to strip down intensified. Suddenly she jumped when a giggle vibrated through her head. "W-what?!" She exclaimed, startling Irene at the suddenness of it; Priscilla stopped walking and wildly looked around for the source. "Who's there? Show yourself!" she called out demandingly.

"Priscilla, no one but us is here." Irene pointed out to her, and blinked owlishly when she had this sudden urge to strip out of her sleeveless brown leotard. "What the…?" she looked around herself while resisting that urge as best she can. "Now I feel that urge to strip." Irene gave the blonde an urging look, "Priscilla, we should get out of here."

Unfortunately for the reserved woman, said urge was beginning to get the better of her companion. Priscilla simply couldn't resist anymore. Fortunately for the younger blonde, Irene was there to stop her from pulling the hemline of her summer-dress up and over her head.

"L-Let's go, now!" Irene told her with a pointed, yet, urgant look.

Priscilla looked at her, confused and dazed, then she blinked and shook her head. "Y-Yes, let's go!"

Without a second thought, Irene scooped Priscilla up into her arms and bolted the hell out of there. Whatever was here is most likely responsible for the missing people. This must have been how it lured its prey to their demise. They cannot allow that to happen to them! Being the oldest of the two, Irene decided they should locate Noel and Sophia, before looking for Galatea or Clare.

Knowing Teresa, Irene assumed that the former Number One found the newly shrunk woman and was making her way back to their meeting point. As for Galatea… she hoped that nun was making her way to their rendezvous. If not then they were going to have to group up and search for her.

Behind them, the plant slunk back into the ground and followed after its new prey. Now that they were on the move, all it needs to do is get them to a place where the flora can have its way with them. As it pursued, it kept toying with them, trying to get the much older woman in particular to strip. Alas, she had a much stronger will than anticipated. That didn't mean the flora stopped trying though; it just had to… think of another method. Maybe it should do the same thing it did to God-Eye Galatea? Oh! Or maybe, it can use the younger one! So many decisions!

It went past them underground and went to an isolated area very similar to what Clare found. Three tall and wide slab of rocks on all sides with one way out. There it would wait for their arrival, but didn't blossom out of the ground just yet. Then the flower… gave Irene a few harmless 'nudges' that would end up bringing her and the girl to it. It didn't have to wait for long.

Irene was unknowingly, and through no fault of her own, making a beeline for the cause of her worries, with Priscilla still in her arms. When she diverged from the path they took, the woman got an odd look from the blond she's carrying. But she didn't comment on it, thinking it was a shortcut of some sort. Irene kept on following this new path she was unknowingly being led down, stepping over logs and crushing twigs beneath her feet as she did so. Then they were eventually lured to the isolated, but small clearing with the strange enclosed rock formation in front of them.

Irene had this very strong urge to walk in the middle of the rock formation. And despite herself, she did so with Priscilla in her arms.

"Irene? What are you doing?"

"I… don't know." Irene frowned in confusion. Neither she, nor Priscilla, had noticed the flower that was beginning to grow out of the ground behind them… and directly in front of their only exit. "I felt like… I was being guided here. But, that's ridiculous."

"You were… by me~!" Irene nearly jumped out of her skin upon hearing a voice that sounded like it was coming from inside her head. "Don't worry your pretty, little head, 'Quick-Sword' Irene," the voice giggled. "I will take good care of both you and the girl~!"

Almost immediately Irene dropped Priscilla to her feet and looked around. She recoiled in surprise at seeing the sunflower that was clearly not there before. "What the hell…?" she squint at it. To her shock it started to move, almost like a woman trying to seduce a man as it… cooed at her?

"I am pleased to meet you both~!"

Now both blondes could hear it talking to them. Looking very uncertain, Irene and Priscilla both exchange looks with one another. Then they looked back to the plant. "Uh… p-pleased to.. Meet you too?" Priscilla replied with an awkward look on her face.

The… suddenly-unsettling plant giggled and both blondes were both assaulted with the urge to strip down. "Oh, you have no idea~! Since meeting Galatea, I simply had to find some more real women. All the others I 'met' before were apparently nothing more than a fabrication."

"You've met Galatea?" Irene asked the flora with squint eyes. "How… how is she? Is she alright?" She and Priscilla resisted the urge to strip down though; this plant was friendly, right…?

"Oh, she was utterly delectable," the flower cooed. "That morsel's company… I will never forget it~!"

"Morsel…?" Priscilla narrowed her eyes dangerously at the flower. "Why'd you call Galatea morsel?"

"I've been alone for a long time in this fabrication of reality." the plant explained smoothly, and naturally. It didn't want that young morsel to think anything was wrong… well, anymore wrong than it already is. "My 'aptitude' for conversations is not as it should be. Forgive me."

"You never did tell us if she's alright," Irene pointed out.

"Oh, she was more than alright~!" The flower moaned almost sexually. Several long, orange tentacles slipped out from the center of the bloom as it continued, "If I could, I would have been brought to orgasm by my first taste of a real woman~!" Then the tentacles slipped back into the bloom and the flower giggled impishly.

"Okay… that's disturbing." And that was coming from Priscilla of all people!

"I agree…" Irene muttered. "Time to run."

"Oh, I have a much better idea," the plant giggled, "Strip for me~!"

Priscilla squawked as Irene lugged the blonde over her shoulder like a sack of wheat and made a beeline for the rocks, yelling, "NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! NOPE!" The former Number Three was having none of that! As a direct result of her actions, everything for her faded to white as her consciousness left the simulation, stored away for later as it was essentially replaced by a replica.

"Oh my dear Quick-Sword… that wasn't a request." the flower told the pointy-eared woman. "Drop that morsel and strip naked!"

Irene, or rather her doppelganger, staggered, still trying to resist. Alas, the flower was focusing entirely on her, now and thus the compulsion proved too strong. Irene fell to her knees, panting as she put Priscilla down.

"Strip… Strip… Strip for me~!" the flower sang joyously. "You too little one~!" it said, directing its attention briefly to Priscilla. "Strip, strip, strip for me~" the flora sang joyously again.

The younger blonde was made of stronger stuff than that however, and she gave the flora the most scathing glare ever, before looking down at the still panting Irene. "Irene!" Priscilla pulled at the woman's arm, prompting Irene to look up at her, "We need to get out of here! Let's go! Hurry!" she urged.

"Oh, she's not going anywhere," Priscilla heard the flora say with a childish giggle, "Isn't it stuffy in that dress of yours? Why don't you take it off, hmm~?"

The flower was now focusing more than half of its attention on Priscilla now, and thus the compulsion was too strong to resist. The blonde fell to her knees, panting deeply as her hands trailed down to the hemline of her summer dress.

As Priscilla pulled her dress up and over her head, Irene was in the process of taking off the shit ton of belts and leather straps. Once they were removed, she went for her garters and knee-high boots next, followed by the boiled leather reinforcement. Once those were discarded, Irene reached behind her and undid the laces that was holding to together - a recent addition to her outfit - and had to stand up in order to slide out of the brown leotard. As it dropped to the floor the woman stepped out of it and fell to her knees once more.

She felt… oddly liberated. Looking to Priscilla the woman found that she was in a similar state of dress. That is to say, she wasn't dressed at all. The younger blonde was stark naked. And she looked as relieved as she did.

How… weird.

"Oh, very nice you two~" The plant giggled, "Now, strike a pose - and make it sexy!"

Priscilla and Irene didn't know what came over them, but they did as they were told; they even briefly exchanged astonished looks from the corner of their eyes as they did so. They both took similar poses, sitting down on their knees with their spread legged open, with Priscilla having her hands tightly clenched just under her collarbones. Irene, on the other hand, had her arms raised and hands behind her head.

The flower cooed. "Oh, lovely~!" A single tentacle shot forth and caressed Priscilla's little cunny, curving upwards as it withdrew, as if it was licking her.

The younger blonde yelped at the sensation, falling on her ass. She looked at the sunflower with wide eyes, though she soon got distracted by the orange tentacle that wiggled in front of her face before it withdrew, but not going back inside of the bloom.

"Magnificent~!" The flower moaned. If it had lips it would be licking them ravenously. "You will be so delicious, I'm sure~!"

"U-uh…" Priscilla didn't know what to say about that. She didn't even know if she would be creeped out or not either. She was more for the former, though.

Then the sentient flower sent its tentacle to Irene and slid it in between her rocking tits and started thrusting it back and forth. "I bet you will be, too~!"

Irene gasped and leaned away, causing the tentacle to slip out between the valley of her bosom. Instead of being deterred by that however the flower sent its tentacle between her legs and careesed the woman's cunny in the same manner as it did Priscilla's, and curved upwards as it withdrew drawing an embarrassed yelp out of Irene.

"I wonder if you'll be as good a fuck as Galatea, though~?" Both blonde heard it giggle inside their heads, before gasping as if an idea had came to it. "Oh! I know! Let's find out~! Present yourselves to me!"

That got Priscilla to snap out of it as the blonde shook her head and glared defiantly at the flower. "Wh-what? No! Only one person's allowed to do that with me, and that's Naruto!" She growled upon feeling the tentacle caressing her cheek.

"Oh, silly girl~!" it cooed. "Your Naruto's not here, right now~!" It then giggled. "But if you insist on being a naughty, naughty girl, I'll be glad to give you a spanking~!"

"Do your worst!" The blonde growled at it with defiance. "Anything you dish out, I'll take it head on!"

The flower had no objections there. Several more tentacles shot forth and snatched her up, restraining the young-looking blonde, before turning her around and giving her ass a nice, hard swat. It didn't stay with just one tentacle though - the sunflower sent out one more and all eight of them joined in with the spanking.

"Ha! M-My Breeding Stud can d-do better than… than that!" Priscilla said, looking back at the flower with a strained smirk she tried to pass off as cocky.

"Oh, I know all about him and the naughty things you'd been planning~!" At the wide eyed look from the transformed blonde, the sunflower cackled in her head, "Oh, yes. I know all about your plans to make an army of super-minions to take over the world and make yourself this world's goddess~. You are very ambitious, hehehe. Oh, I hope your 'Breeding Stud' doesn't know about it."

Priscilla didn't say anything in response to that, but her expression conveyed her unasked question: "How does it know that?"

"I can read your mind silly~!" the sunflower giggled in its androgynous voice. "It's how I found out about you and that brainless bimbo beside you, hehehehe~!" It stopped spanking her and turned Priscilla around. Then a few more tentacles coiled around her thighs and forced her legs open and her hands above her head. "I'm going to enjoy giving you the same treatment as I gave that dumb nun." Its giggle was impish, yet cruel.

"J-just try it, bit-Gluck!" Priscilla was interrupted by having her mouth suddenly filled with a girthy, orange tentacle with throbbing veins. Her silver eyes grew wide with outrage as the girthy limb started thrusting in and out of her mouth. Then, she felt drowsy, and the bound blonde started suckling against the tentacle's bulbous head out of instinct.

"If you insist~!" The flower giggled, sending two more tentacles forth to tease her folds and anus. Priscilla felt her cheeks burning up, while mewling with arousal; she shuddered at the feel of her cunt and ass being teased and probed by the equally girthy tentacles from the damn flower.

As for Irene - or rather the doppelganger, she was just staring at the younger blonde wide eyed and her mouth agape. She simply did not know what to do. It would have been easier to just leave her there and try to run… but something told the woman the flower would stop her. The platinum blonde had no idea what the hell she was thinking running at the walls, thinking she could climb out. There was nothing for her to latch on to. The edges was too high for her to grab hold of, and the rocks were smooth as well so she wouldn't be able to get a good grip on it anyway!

But seeing Priscilla retrained like that, it made the doppelganger want to retaliate… so, she attempted a retaliation. The key word being, 'attempted'. Irene's doppelganger didn't get as far as getting up part way, as she was assaulted by tentacles the second the flora noticed her moving. Irene squawked and started squirming in a futile attempt to break free of its grasp.

"Let us go this instant!" Irene demanded the flora while she did her damned best at making herself look as emotionless as possible. The woman got a tentacle in her mouth for her troubles, while five more went over and teased her nipples, cunt, clit and anus. The doppelganger was reduced to a pathetic mewling bitch as the plant found all her weak spots in a matter of seconds.

"Nope, nope nooooope~!" Both blondes heard the sunflower singingly say, with a downright menacing giggle that somehow came off as childish. "You're all mine to do with as I please. And I want to have some fun with you two before I gobble you allllll up~!" As the plant spoke, Priscilla mewled around the tentacle thrusting away at her mouth when she got three tentacles to tease her nipples and clit too.

Irene came almost immediately, her juices dripping to the ground as she squealed around the tentacle in her mouth.

"Good girl~!" the sunflower cooed with a giggle, "Good girls like you, get this!"

Irene's doppelganger threw her head back and mewled around the tentacle in her mouth, as she felt herself get penetrated in the ass and pussy by the throbbing orange tentacles. Then they started thrusting away at her snatch and ass with wild abandon. The tentacles teasing her nipples coiled around her breasts and started kneading them as she was being fucked silly. Again, she was brought to orgasm, almost immediately, the sensations washing over her were nearly too damn much to bear.

"Good girl! Very good girl! You like this don't you~?"

Irene only groaned around the tentacle in her mouth and closed her eyes as she tried to endure the three way fucking. The doppelganger snapped her eyes open once more upon hearing Priscilla squeal around her own tentacle; a quick glance at the younger blonde from the corner of her eye revealed the reason: Priscilla was being fucked in her ass and cunt now as well.

Irene glared at the plant when she heard the thing giggle inside her head. It was a real unsettling one. "Oh, I can't wait to make you lovely morsels into my next meal~ God-Eye Galatea was simply scrumcious." The flower growled hungrily, and it gurgled as its tentacles began to utterly fuck both blonde's stupid.

"W-What?!" Priscilla and Irene both shouted in their minds, even as they mewled and whined like a pair of sluts as the plant fucked them silly. "This thing was going to eat them?!"

"Of course, I am a man-eating plant." the flower told them in a blunt, no-nonsense manner; and if it had a face the sunflower would be giving quite a frightening grin, "Galatea was so delicious; I gobbled her right up~!" it giggled at their panicked expressions, and it made the flower all the more frightening to them. "I'm still hungry, though, so I'm gonna eat you both, right now. Please do struggle with all your might; it's more fun that way~!"

Irene and Priscilla's eyes grew wide open when they saw a gaping, hole opening in the middle of the flower's bloom. The 'head' of the flower went absurdly wide and showed them the orange, fleshy insides that was dripping with mucus. Irene and Priscilla gasped when the tentacles in their mouths abruptly withdrew. They both took in deep breaths and while they did try and struggle, them still being fucked in the ass and cunt had weakened their ferocity.

"Now, time to eat~!"

Irene was first on the chopping block. The flower wanted to encourage Priscilla to fight back with all her might so it decided to let her watch it devour the older woman before eating her. The elf-eared woman squirmed with all her might as she was slowly brought closer. Several vines shot forth and pinned her arms to her sides and bound her legs together as she was tilted at a downward angle and the flower let gravity assist with ingesting Irene.

It was like a trainwreck; Priscilla couldn't take her eyes away from what was happening no matter how hard she tried. The blonde stared on in horrific fascination as the struggling and defiant screaming Irene was taken in the plants mouth head first. Then it clamped its mouth around her head, muffling the woman's screams. The sunflower moaned orgasmically at being able to taste another human; then it began to lewdly suck and slurp Irene inside of its gob. Slowly but surely, Irene slid down kicking and screaming with all her might. For what felt like a horrific eternity, Priscilla watched her ingestion.

The plant's stem bulged out almost comically as it stretched to accommodate the elf-eared woman. It was both frightening and intriguing for the younger blonde to see. This was something she had never ever seen before. Irene kicked her feet and legs as she was crudely slurped in inch by inch by the flower who was using the gravity against her. Soon, her legs and feet were gulped down into the stem and the bulge wiggled around. A clear sign that Irene's doppelganger had not given up, despite the hopelessness of her situation.

"Oh, she's a feisty one~" the flora moaned orgasmically. "She tastes so good, too~!" It giggled. "Not quite as good as Galatea, though. I wonder if that has to do with her consciousness leaving prematurely…? I certainly wouldn't mind testing that with the other two… Sophia and Noel, I believe?"

The bulge containing Irene started to stretch out rather comically as the woman aggressively pushed against it with her hands and feet. It was quite a sight to behold. The flora just cooed and moaned in pleasure. Then with a menacing giggle, the stem suddenly shrunk around Irene before Priscilla's silver eyes and formed a second skin for her. The younger blonde could see Irene's face in a scream, her big tits squished, her stomach and thighs. Everything about the woman was visible for her to see.

Then, Priscilla heard a muffled scream as the feminine bulge squirmed with all its might. But then the sound was abruptly cut off and Irene stopped moving just as suddenly before the human shaped bulge melted into a shapeless mass with the consistency of a water balloon. Immediately after she had been dissolved into a sack of goo, the flower started crudely gulping down what was left of Quicksword Irene. The sight churned Priscilla's stomach and she screamed, squirming with all her might as the flower brought her closer to it.

"That was so delicious~!" The flower giggled. "Though I must wonder if a… fresher morsel would prove tastier."

Priscilla roared in exertion as she struggled with all her might. Then, as her head was enveloped, everything faded to white as her consciousness faded and was stored away for later. Her consciousness was promptly replaced with a doppelganger, just like Irene had been, but the girl was essentially the same person.

The flower cooed and giggled as it lewdly slurped her in. The blonde kicked her legs, screaming in defiance as she was sucked in, inch by inch. Priscilla felt her shoulders being taken in and would have tried moving her arms, but the flower had them pinned to her sides. Now it was more… active. Being more obscene and loud as it sucked and slurped her into its mouth.

"Eeeek!" the blonde cried out in disgust when she felt one of the tentacles 'licking' her face, neck and shoulders.

"Oh-ho~! You taste muuuuch better than Quicksword Irene~!" the flower laughed, then it sighed almost with disappointment "A shame your consciousness left the moment I took you inside my mouth though,"

"The hell do you mean by that?!" Priscilla demanded.

"The flower slurped and gulped her down even more as it said, "I assume it has to do with your 'precious breeding stud'." With every second the blonde slipped farther and farther down as it continued. First her breasts, then her waist, and then her thighs. "A safety measure, perhaps? He clearly doesn't want you girls to experience being digested. How sweet of him~!"

There was one more crude gulp and Priscilla's feet slid right in, with the circular mouth in the middle closing behind her and bloom going back to its normal size. The flower didn't stop there, though. Its tentacles kept licking her, a few of them even slipped between her thighs and slid into her folds and anus once again. It wanted to savour the taste of its victim while raping her some more at the same time. Those last two women, Noel and Sophia were fairly close to that clearing; it can easily plant suggestions and get them to go another way.

"I-If I could transform, I would murder you so hard!" Priscilla growled viciously.

"Oh, but you can't." the flower taunted the blonde with a downright evil laugh, "And your loss is my gain~!" it moaned erotically, "You taste so divine too~!"

Priscilla roared, squirming with all her might against the fleshy insides of the modified experiment she was violated in so many ways by it. The plant just cooed orgasmically; the blonde's struggles in the stem just made it feel so good~!

"It's a darn shame I didn't get Clare or Teresa. I would have loved to get my tentacles on them. And with Clare as a little girl? Oh I would have adored getting my tentacles in her, hehehehe!" The plant then sighed in near disappointment. "Oh well, I will take what I can get… That said, I will unfortunately have to cut this short. Sophia and Noel are getting a little too close to that other, less intelligent flower for my liking."

As Priscilla felt the stem starting to tighten around her, shrinking down on her physique and restricting her movements, the blonde let out a frightened cry and said the first thing that came to her head, "Ah! Wait wait wait! C-can't we work something out?" she frantically asked.

Maybe she can barter with the plant? Y-yeah, she can probably try and offer it a deal, any deal! Anything to get out of this mess! Hell, she'll gladly sell out Sophia and Noel in exchange for her life! It hurt her pride to be reduced to this, bartering for her life, but desperate times call for desperate measures!

"Oh, but I'm just so hungry~!" it whined, at the very least it stopped the stem from shrinking down on her. So at the least the plant was willing to listen.

Priscilla grit her teeth with frantically wide eyes, "I-I know that, but, uh… o-others are going to be coming to take this simulation after we do!" which was the truth, thanks to Helen and Deneve spreading word of Team Miria's failure more and more people are getting interesting in trying this simulation out. "If you let me go, not only would you get to eat more people quicker you'll also have two other people here to eat as well!"

"...Oh?" That certainly got the plant interested.

"Y-Yeah! Since y-you know about Irene's nickname, then you know this is all a simulation! So the quicker this goes, then the faster you'll have more people to eat show up!" To Priscilla, letting one person go, just so the simulation ends quicker made complete sense to her. It would serve its purpose in her getting out alive, it would also serve in the plant getting more meals quicker since there was one less person for it to eat.

"This… interests me," the flower cooed. "Too bad this is not the real you; I'd gladly take you up on that, but it's safe to assume the real Priscilla would not remember making this deal or have any real reason to honour it, because she's not the one who made it."

The poor girl was grasping straws by this point, "B-But I-"

"Goodbye, my tasty, little morsel~!" The flower was simply too hungry to be polite, so it cut her off and went straight to work. Priscilla cried out in discomfort as she felt the insides tighten up around her, immobilizing the blonde and rendering her unable to move. Outside the stem tightened around Priscilla, and like Galatea, and Irene before her, the stem had shrunken down so much it resembled a second skin, showing the poor girl's figure and discomforted facial expression.

Then Priscilla let out a muffled scream as the feminine bulge squirmed with all its might. The sound was abruptly cut off and Priscilla stopped moving just as suddenly, before the feminine bulge started losing it shape - the stem becoming a water balloon of human goo, once more. Then, the flower started crudely gulping down what was left of Priscilla to its roots.

"Ahhhhhh~! That hit the spot!" The flower hummed thoughtfully as it quickly sank down into the ground. "Now it's time to hunt for the remaining two!" And with that, it was gone. The only evidence that Irene and Priscilla was there, were their clothes, now they were just another set of faceless victims that had fallen prey to the failed experiments.

Five down.

Two to go…

----

Completely unaware that they were the last ones standing and a sentient, psychic flower was coming for them, Sophia and Noel were completely and utterly bored. They had been walking around for what felt like an hour, maybe more, and they hadn't seen a hair from Clare.

Noel was wearing a brown frilly cloth shirt, and leather trousers that was dyed black with matching coloured leather padding. Completing her outfit was a pair of loafer shoes.

Sophia was wearing a sleeveless jerkin with long armlets, and a skirt that showed off a lot of leg. Completing the outfit she wore was a pair of mary janes.

"Ugh," Noel sighed exasperatedly, throwing her hands behind her head with a bored look. "We should probably head back to the meeting point. It's been what, an hour? And we haven't run into Clare yet."

"It's been nearly two hours," Sophia corrected her with a sigh. "And you're right. We should be heading back right about now."

With that, they turned around, not noticing the flower sprouting behind them.

"Hello you two~!" Both women jumped in surprise when they heard a gender neutral voice talk to them in their heads. "I take it you two are Noel and Sophia?"

Both women jumped, crying out in surprise at the sheer unexpectedness of having a voice suddenly in their heads. They quickly looked around for the person responsible, only to pause when they saw the sunflower.

"Noel…" Sophia began.

"Yeah?" Noel asked keeping her eyes on the sunflower.

"Was that sunflower there before?"

Noel slowly shook her head, "No. It wasn't."

Sophia took a deep breath and nodded, "Okay. Then let's go before something bad happens... "

As soon as she and Noel turned around, the flower sprouted from the ground before them. They stopped in both surprise and shock when they heard the voice playfully say, "Oh? But I came all this way, just to meet you~!"

"That voice… it's coming from you?" Sophia questioned, looking at the flower with a cautious look; this must be the 'experiment' that had gone wrong they were told about.

"Indeed, it is~!"

Noel and Sophia slowly edged away from it. "... in that case, we're definitely leaving," the former said in a deadpan.

"Oh? And I came all this way because Galatea said you were looking for Clare!" the plant wiggled in distress, "There's something dangerous in here you know, making people disappear! It's way past the double digits too! You were heading directly towards its hunting grounds, I simply had to warn you before it got to you!"

Sophia and Noel cautiously exchanged a glance and the former asked, "how do we know you're not what's causing the disappearances?"

"Because I was sent here by your lover, Naruto to assist you on locating Clare," the flower claimed. It was a convincing lie, too. "I am Himawari, your guide in this simulation. Pleased to meet you and I deeply apologize for my tardiness. You two have been moving around so much it was hard for me to catch up."

"Naruto sent you to help us?" Noel and Sophia exchanged brief looks again before they stared at 'Himawari'. "Strange, he didn't say anything about this." Sophia said.

"To be fair this is meant to be a threat assessment," Noel pointed out, "He can't tell us everything otherwise the purpose of this simulation is null and void. Himawari could be a secret 'helper' that Galatea unlocked… Galatea did find you first, right?" the short haired blonde asked, looking at the sunflower directly.

"Indeed, she did~!" The flower giggled playfully. "She stumbled across me in the fields, and after introducing myself as a helper, she told me what you all were here for. So I came here, as you two have not yet passed. She is no longer here, though, because she passed the simulation on accident along the way."

"Have you found anyone else before finding us?" Sophia asked.

"Yep, yep! Two others called Priscilla and Irene, I came across them a while ago. They're no longer here, though, due to having passed the simulation themselves. But they were delicious company, for the brief time they were around." The flower heaved out a disappointed sigh as it seemed to slump down, "Unfortunately, I have not discovered Clare's location yet. Nor have I discovered Teresa's. And this simulation is pretty big. I'm suspecting the worst has happened and they came across one of the three antagonists of this simulation."

"Wait, there's three?" Noel started looking a bit nervous at that.

"Mmhm, and in the direction you were walking towards is a clearing with one of them right in the middle. You're so lucky to have changed your minds before I got here."

"If you're part of this simulation, does that mean you know what these antagonists are?" Sophia asked, she'd might as well get the most important question out of the way first.

The flower seemed to shrug haplessly, "Sort of? I do know the one in the middle of the clearing a few minutes behind you is some manner of flora, I believe? I get the impression that it's something along those lines and less intelligent than yours truly, though I haven't the foggiest clue as to why. I had never seen it myself, so that is just a guess on my part, I could be completely wrong. As for the other two, I have no idea."

"That's… worrisome." Sophia said with admittance. "In that case we should head on back… do you know of any shortcuts we can take to get out of here?" she asked the flower.

A little, orange vine poked out from the flower's bloom and then it turned around, pointing to the right with it's tentacle. "That way," the flower said.

While they were understandably weirded out by the tentacle the two silver-eyed women slowly nodded their thanks to the flower. Without taking their eyes off it they slowly walked in the direction it pointed in before taking off.

As for the sunflower, once they passed by, the flower giggled evilly - careful not to let them hear. Then, it slipped underground to follow them. After a minute or two of following them the two women came to a stop and looked around. It was a fork in the path.

"Where to now?" Noel asked, looking to Sophia.

The short-curly haired woman hummed thoughtfully, before she felt a compulsion to take the left. She didn't think anything of it. "Let's take that one." She declared, pointing at the left fork in question.

"Alright," Noel sighed and she followed after her comrade. "So do you think that flower is telling the truth? That the others found a way out?"

"It's possible?" Sophia shrugged, "We haven't run into them yet so there is a chance that Himawari is being truthful." she pointed out to her friend.

"And there is a chance that the voice is lying," the short haired blonde sighed yet again. "We should stay close, just in case, then," Noel decided and Sophia was all for that suggestion. While they were unarmed and are unable to use their yoki - they had no idea how to use chakra yet, since the women had not been trained - that didn't mean they were defenseless. Sophia was still remarkably strong and Noel was athletic. If they encounter this experiment Naruto had warned them about, then they can simply use their strengths to their advantage and hopefully wear it down.

"Exactly, you're still athletic and I'm still strong. We can beat this thing." Sophia said with confidence.

Her optimism was infectious Noel had to admit. The woman was confident in their prowess, so, she should be too, right? Right. Eventually after much traversing, the two women had walked up to a cliff with thick foliage on either side. Some of the branched were low they had to bent down to avoid walking into them. But once they got out of the foliage, and into the clearing the two women came to a stop and looked around for the supposed exit.

"...I have a bad feeling about this." Noel muttered.

"Oh, come on," Sophia teased the woman with a sultry smile. "That guide led us here for a reason. Maybe the exit is around here and we have to find it. We are grown women, so it's not like we need coddling."

"But, it wouldn't hurt to ask again," Noel pointed out with a smile. "Every little bit helps, after all."

Sophia looked at the woman from the corner of her eye, then let out a sigh. Noel had a point. With another sigh, Sophia looked around and called out, "Himawari - are you here?"

Said flower spouted out of the ground, like a flower blooming out of the snow. It was right in the path they'd used to get here, too, though they paid that no mind at the time. "I am, what is it you need?" the androgynous voice of the flower asked in her head.

"Do you know where the exact location of the exit is?" Sophia asked.

"Of course, of course~!" the sunflower started swaying to the left and right excitedly. "I know exactly where it is~!"

The women were both bewildered, and amused, by the flora's antics. It was like a hyperactive child, if they were honest to themselves.

"Can you point us in its direction, then?" Noel asked as she began to tap her foot against the ground with a little impatience.

Himawari giggled mischievously, with a creepy undertone. "I'm standing in it~!"

Both women suddenly got a baaad feeling. They squint at it with suspicion, "What do you mean by that?" Noel asked as she and Sophia slowly began to approach the sunflower. They had no idea they were walking to it, thanks to the flower making them think they were nowhere close to it in due to its psychic powers.

"I mean that you're trapped, my scrumptious, little morsels~!" Himawari laughed nastily. Suddenly the illusion around Noel and Sophia was dropped and the women found they were standing in front of the flower… who proceeded to send several tentacles to grab on to them!

"Gah! What the hell?!" Noel cried out indignantly.

"Himawari, what the hell do you think you're doing!?" Sophia demanded with an indignant yell.

"I'm going to eat you, of course~" the plant giggled in a polite, but sinister manner.

"WHAT?!"

"Yep yep. The others, Galatea, Irene, and Priscilla were so delicious~!" The flower cooed, then it let out a disappointed sigh. "Oh, if only I could have gotten to Teresa and Clare sooner, but they'd stumbled upon one of my lesser-intelligent brethren." A thick, orange tentacle slipped out of its bloom and flicked around in the air, like it was licking its lips. "Oh, but Galatea more than made up for that~ she was a tasty morsel, hehehehe~!"

"Y-you bastard!" Noel hollered, thrashing about in the flower's grip. "You won't get away with this! I swear to the Twin Goddesses, you will pay!"

"That was what Galatea said, before I fucked her stupid and ate her." Himawari shot back in an uncaring manner. "She even said something dumb: 'calling the power of the Twin Goddesses to strike me down'," the flower shrugged and added with a tone of complete boredom, "well, nothing happened and she became plant food."

Sophia was using her remarkable strength to forcibly move her arms and legs. And it was working. Himawari on the other hand still didn't show any type of concern. The plant was rather impressed of her strength, actually.

"Oh… you're pretty strong! I think I'll eat you before the other one… but first~" Himawari sent several tentacles to Sophia and Noel, and they let out disgusted screams as the limbs slithered under their clothes and started pulling them off piece by piece, until they were stark naked. "I'll tenderise you before getting to the main course!"

"W-what the hell do you mean by-ACK!" Sophia shrieked indignantly mid-sentence as she felt two of the grabby appendages plunging right into her folds and anus without warning. Then, her scream was rendered silent by a third one plunging into her gob and serving as a gag.

"Sophia!" Noel cried out in distress. Then she shrieked indignantly when two grabby limbs plunged themselves into her folds and anus. Her scream was rendered silent as well by a third appendage that plunged itself into her mouth.

"Much better~" Himawari cooed, its voice low and creepy. "This is a much better look for you morsels…" The way it spoke, just showed how the plant saw them. It didn't see them as people; it saw them as food; as nutrients.

Both trapped women let out lewd moans and mewls when their cunts were suddenly getting pounded by the tentacles. Their assholes and mouths were receiving the same treatment. Himawari giggled menacingly; it found the sound of their slutty moans and mewling music to its ears. Using its mental prowess against them, the sunflower made the women more aroused; it's goal was simple: making them more aroused would get them weaker. Getting them weaker quickly would in turn, enable it to eat them sooner. And so, with that thought in mind the flora added three more of its orange tentacles to caress their nubs: the nipples and clit.

It wanted them weak enough to be unable to struggle when they go inside of its mouth… it was still hungry.

Because of its manipulations, it didn't take long for the two women to reach their limit. Within three minutes the two women's silver eyed rolled to the back of their skull and shuddered orgasmically as they came. Then a circular gaping maw opened in Himawari's bloom, and turned the women around on their heads as it prepared to eat them.

Sophia was the first to go, the bloom stretched open comically before her head was engulfed with an eager hiss from the plant. Having gone limp in the wake of her mind numbing orgasm, she didn't start struggling until her sexy breasts were crudely slurped down into its gullet. And even then, her struggles were weak; her arms from the shoulders down were restricted and her ankles bound by the tentacles. And not only that the woman was still being fucked!

She didn't have a ghost of a chance of fighting back but the woman didn't give up though. Even as Himawari was crudely slurping her down into its gullet, she kept on fighting. Then her stomach was the next to be slurped on in, followed by her waist, the tentacles withdrew from her cunt and ass before her thighs were suckled in.

Noel's eyes went wide at the spectacle as her best friend was devoured by the plant, its stem stretching out in an absurd fashion as it gobbled down Sophia's legs and feet with one last, lewd sounding slurp and gulp. Then, when Sophia sank down to the middle of its internode, it constricted around her, becoming like a second skin to the still-squirming female. Then, she stopped moving. Noel could somewhat make out her best friend's expression, she had her mouth open… was she screaming? Or was she being squeezed so much that her cheeks was pushing her lips open like that?

"S-Sophia! Say something!" Noel frantically cried out. She was hoping beyond hope that the woman could hear her. Or do something to let her know that she is still alright! Then, to Noel's horror, the feminine bulge started losing its shape, melting into an amorphous blob as the flower slowly digested her.. "Sophia? N-no… no… no, no, no, no, no! SOPHIAAA!"

Noel's struggles returned with twice the vigour as she heard the flower gulping down her friend's remains. Tears streamed down her cheeks as she screamed in horror. "Let me go! Please! I beg you! P-please don't eat me!" she wailed crying like a scared child. Then, her pleading was muffled by Himawari engulfing her head.

Her vision faded to white like all the others before her as Himawari crudely slurped her down. The struggling blonde didn't stand a chance. Straightening its prey's arms and legs, the plant reared back, lifting the struggling blonde with it and let gravity take the reigns as it crudely, and lewdly sucked and slurped the woman down into its gullet. Himawari's bloom, sepals, and ovary had stretched to absurd proportions just to accommodate Noel's torso. Her shoulders were sucked in first, followed by her nice rack, then her torso, followed by her waist. Himawari paused there for a moment in order to pull out two of its tentacles from the sobbing woman's snatch and asshole before continuing. Her nice ass was swallowed, followed by her thighs and lastly her legs and feet.

Noel frantically squirmed with every ounce of might she could muster but it was all for naught. Soon, the flower constricted around her and soon, her struggles ceased, as did her sobbing. Then, the feminine bulge started losing its shape like every last one before it and the simulation ended as Himawari greedily gulped down Noel's remains.

Ultimately, the only one who'd passed was Irene…

But the entire team had suffered a party wipe, nonetheless.

----

When the barrier vanished Naruto took a deep breath and prepared himself for their retaliation. He didn't have to wait long, as a furious Priscilla leapt at him the second she saw him.

"YOU ASSHOLE!" the brunette had attempted to fly tackle him to the ground and would have succeeded had he not casually sidestepped, causing Priscilla to miss her target and to flail her arms around before gravity took hold.

"To... to be fair," the nervous blond began as he slowly edged away at the now, golden eyed blondes and brunette, "I said you had to survive, not to kill."

"You had a goddamn flower of all things, strip us down, fuck us, and then eat us." a dangerously stoic Teresa narrowed her eyes at the blond, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't beat you black and blue?"

"Uh…" Naruto tried to think of one as he chuckled sheepishly. "I'll... make it up to you if you don't…?" She just looked at him, unmoved. Then Naruto yelped when Sophia and Noel appeared beside him with their hands tightly holding onto his shoulders, "It... could have been a lot worse," he pointed out.

"And how could that have been worse?" Sophia asked in perfect deadpan.

"You could have been conscious when the plant was digesting you." the blond told them, "I put in a safety measure to make sure you didn't have to… experience that." he made a thoughtful sound, "Hmm… I'll implement a 'child friendly' safety measure, while they would get stripped naked, they won't get fucked by the plant's tentacles."

Teresa huffed. She was pissed off as all hell, but he was right that it could have been worse. But, still, her pride was still wounded and she was going to get her pound of flesh. When the rest of them closed in on him with equally pissed off looks, Naruto gulped nervously; he was not going to like what they were going to do, was he…?

He inhaled sharply and tightly closed his eyes, and braced himself.