Goblin Kingdom (Part 1)

Chapter 1: Parturition

...Where?

When I opened my eyes it was darkness that greeted me first, followed by a stabbing pain in my gut.

It was hunger, I realised. A hunger so great it's pull was like that of lust.

"Gigi."

I'm hungry, I tried to say. But what came out instead was a cramped, blurred shriek.

I closed my eyes to run from that hunger, but it wouldn't leave.

I kept my eyes closed. I didn't want to open my eyes. It was too much effort.

"Gagururu!"

But then I heard... something. Some kind of noise... from somewhere nearby.

"Gi?"

That noise gradually drew nearer until it stopped before me. Then I felt something hit me. Something soft and tender with a disgusting smell... Meat. It was meat!

Delirious from the hunger, I didn't ask what kind of meat it was. Greedily, I put the meat into my mouth and sunk my teeth into it.

Delicious!

Hahahaha! It's delicious!

I don't know what kind of meat this is, but it's delicious! More than anything I've ever tasted!

"Gigi–––gigigi!"

Before I knew it, I'd eaten everything.

–––More! I want more!

It's not enough! I want more! More! More! More!

The craving within me, unsatisfied, grew fiercer within as it lusted for more.

Then all of the sudden, something grabbed at me. It took me from the back of my neck, and lifted me up.

"Gi?"

If I could look up now, then I would know that it was some creature's giant hand holding me up.

Not long after, I felt the wind caress me, and light filled my sight like fire, scorching my eyes in its brightness.

I had to close my eyes, it was simply too bright.

If I let them get used to it first, I should be able to open them though.

And then–

"Gigi?"

When I could finally open my eyes, what greeted me was a great, thick forest, followed by the realization that my field of vision was shaking.

I wonder how long it's been, since I last carried something like this. 20 years? No, even as a baby, I would've carried things in a more... normal way. I mean humans from the start are... As I wondered who it was that was treating me so roughly, I turned my head. But what I saw shook me to the core. What had been dangling me around like a club was something that I could not have thought to be anything but a joke. A creature with a wide, green frame.

"Gi?"

No... No matter how you look at this. This...

This isn't human.

In other words... it's that.

Maybe it's because of my lack of vocabulary, but I can't think of a word more fitting than...

Goblin. Yes, a goblin.

That hideous face. That bulky, wide, frame with green skin.

Yes. A goblin. It must be a goblin.