The Mystery of Laughing Hill.
*Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfic*
Chapter 1 (VT)
A short distance away from Sunnyvale a stream flowed in an overgrown area next to a hill. It was night time and in this unassuming place in the middle of nowhere a vampiress was foraging through the vegetation for anything edible to rodents.
For the past 150 years this particular Vampiress had foraged these shores for food for her rodent livestock, shunning humans and having very little to say to other vampires that happened by. She was surprisingly peaceful to humans for a vampire, wanting nothing to do with them and never biting anyone.
The vampiress was a small Filipino woman named Maria Santos, and as far as the outside world could tell she was completely harmless and never hurt anyone. Maria Santos had deliberately cultivated this reputation so that she would be left alone, for she had a terrible secret that would anger both her fellow vampires and also anyone with a conscience.
When her bag was filled with rodent foodstuffs Maria made sure that the coast was clear before silently slipping away under the surface of the water.
Maria swam submerged for quite some time, not needing to breathe due to being undead. She swam down to the bottom of the deepest part of the stream, down past where the murky water hid the stream bottom from sight, and swam into a narrow tunnel that only she knew was there. 150 years ago she had dug this tunnel and had shared it with no one.
The tunnel was narrow on purpose, so that a small woman could fit but nothing much larger than that. For 5 meters it continued straight down before then gently sloping to horizontal. For over 100 meters this tunnel continued straight, before then banking upwards up into the bedrock of the hill beside the stream.
Maria Santos swam to the surface of a subterranean pool and clambered out with her bad of rodent food in hand, her tattered rags clinging wetly to her body. She sauntered into her secret torture cave with a cruel smile on her face, grinning evilly at her 4 lovers/victims.
4 wretched naked Filipino women vampires looked at their torturess fearfully, they were all strictly restrained in thick iron frames that held their arms and legs totally spread wide and completely immobile. They all had names but Maria the Torturess had never bothered to remember them, they existed only for the Torturess's pleasure and didn't require a name anymore that a favourite sex toy needs a name!
Maria had been in a "relationship" with her 4 miserable wretches for over 200 years and in her own sadistic insane way Maria loved them very deeply. It had taken a lot of torture but eventually the 4 women had confessed that they loved Maria too, sometimes it just takes torture for people to admit to loving her!
Maria carried her bag of rodent food to the crude rodent "farm" she had constructed to keep her and her lovers fed on blood. She had rats, mice, rabbits, squirrels and every other type of rodent she could find, bringing them all in over the years through the underwater tunnel inside airtight containers. These fast breeding creatures did not taste nice but they bred very fast and were easy blood, certainly enough to keep the 5 vampires fed adequately.
The rodent farm was basically a massive number of metal cages, some new and some ancient, stuffed to capacity with fast breeding vermin. The cage area was right next to the tiny heavily soundproofed air holes that Maria had painstakingly bored to the surface with long bits of wire over 100 years ago, the only ventilation in the stuffy torture chamber.
Having fed the rodents Maria sauntered over to her beloved torture toys, stripping naked out of her wet rags to enjoy some "quality time" with her lovers.
Without preamble Maria grabbed the closest vampiress by the belly and started energetically tickling the screaming woman. Maria was an extreme sadist with a tickling fetish and she spent as much time as possible tickling her 4 lovers.
After over 200 years Maria knew these women's bodies very intimately, she knew their every weakness and she ruthlessly used this experience to make everyday a living hell of tickling for these wretched vampires. Every one of Maria's girls got an equal amount of time and they all knew their routines by now.
Screaming hysterical laughter echoed through the hidden torture chamber for hours as Maria tormented these very ticklish women.
Maria had deliberately chosen each of them from among her own native people, choosing only women who were both stunningly beautiful and insanely ticklish. She had personally turned each of these women into a vampire, heavily restraining them when they were still dead so that they started undeath in strict bondage. In the rare occasions that she had to untie them, Maria starved them almost to death first so that they were too weak to fight, only feeding them again once they were safely restrained once more.
The place had changed a lot in the last 130 years since these women had last been untied, the area around the river had gotten WAY too crowded for Maria's liking! Maria had chosen this place 150 years ago precisely because it was so deserted yet at the same time close to the strangely comforting presence of the hell mouth!
Maria had left the Philippines with her lovers 160 years ago when it got too crowded for her liking. She had loaded her heavily restrained lovers into a wooden crate with their mouth and nose glued shut so they couldn't make a sound and had booked a passage to America on a ship with her crate of precious lovers. She had then put the crate in a horse drawn wagon and disappeared into the wilderness, eventually settling on this spot to give herself and her lovers the privacy they needed.
Maria had then spent the next 20 years and a lot of explosives to dig out this hidden torture cave. For 20 years she had kept her lovers buried in dirt to keep them safe from being found, only digging them up occasionally to feed them. When the new home was ready Maria starved her lovers down to near skeletons so that they couldn't even move their limbs under their own power and then dragged them through the underwater tunnel one at a time behind her with a rope.
Maria had been so proud to show her lovers the fruits of all her hard work, and had carried them through the entire place before taking them to their new permanent homes in the heavy iron restraint frames and bolting their limbs with inch thick iron bands, all the iron lovingly oiled up to prevent rust! Maria had then fed her beloved lovers back to full health and they had enjoyed the last 130 years of torture without being disturbed. Well at least MARIA had enjoyed the last 130 years, her "lovers" had rather different views on the subject!
Maria gazed lovingly at her lovers, oh she loved them so much! 200 years of wonderful fun together!
Maria was deeply protective of her unwilling lovers, she HAD to keep them safely locked away so that they could keep having fun forever! The outside world would only take them away from Maria!
Maria knew that her lovers wanted to stay with her, they had all insisted under torture that they enjoyed their play times and wanted to be her's forever! Maria found it so touching the way they screamed oaths of loyalty and devotion to her during the funnest parts of torture play time, it really did make her sadistic heart feel so special!
The girl Maria was currently tickling pouted for a kiss and Maria lovingly kissed her lover. Her lover moaned the way that Maria liked and Maria got excited and made passionate love to the woman.
Maria was so glad that the women had eventually dropped all the silliness about not being lesbians, of COURSE they were lesbians! Maria had been born a strict lesbian back when she was human and becoming a vampire had not changed her sexual orientation. At first all 4 of Maria's lovers had INSISTED that they were not sexually interested in women, but Maria had tortured the truth out of them. Days of torture had them SCREAMING that they were indeed lesbians just as Maria had hoped!
Maria spent the next 6 hours tickling her lovers mercilessly in between making love to them, enjoying their shrieking desperate laughter. Life really was PERFECT! Maria was living the dream and perfectly content. She had enough blood to eat and 4 gorgeous ladies to torment for the rest of eternity, life doesn't get any better than this!
It was perfect EXCEPT for the worrying rumours of a SLAYER of all things moving into the area! This was a DISASTER! The slayer might kill her lovers!
Maria hugged her lovers frantically, no slayer was going to take them away from her!
***...
Buffy Summers the Vampire Slayer and her class were on a field trip to "Laughing Hill", a local hill beside a river that was said to be haunted by ghost women who could sometimes be heard shrieking with laughter.
"Is this for real?" Xander Harris asked Buffy's group of friends.
"Well I don't believe it but 130 years ago people who camped on the hill started reporting hearing women laughing. Every since then the books in the library have accounts of people saying the same thing, always hearing distant laughter of women. I think it's really quaint." Willow Rosenberg said cheerfully.
"Laughing ghosts huh? That sounds... spooky." Buffy said in her deadpan wit.
The class explored the deserted hill. It stories about ghosts had scared off property developers so this entire hill was undeveloped vacant wilderness. It had obviously been well trodden with very old looking dirt walking tracks leading down to the river and going all through the dense vegetation.
It all looked perfectly boring and not even slightly spooky or haunted, and the class quickly got bored. Buffy certainly couldn't hear any ghostly laughter, especially not with all the background noise of the class. She shrugged, nothing exciting here.
The field trip ended without incident and they all went back to Sunnyvale high school.
The gang met up in the library after school like they always did, talking to Giles about what was happening in the world of darkness lately.
"It's thankfully pretty quiet right now, let's hope it lasts." Giles said in his distinctive British accent.
"That's a relief." Xander agreed.
"What about Laughing Hill? Any truth to the ghost rumour?" Buffy asked.
"Laughing Hill? Well there certainly are a lot of accounts of hearing women's laughter but no one was ever attacked or harmed in those incidents. Maybe it's haunted but the ghost certainly doesn't seem to be hostile if it is a ghost." Giles said in his trademark encyclopaedic knowledge of seemingly everything in the entire supernatural world.
"Think I should check it out tonight?" Buffy asked.
"It can't hurt, I will do some more research on the topic in the meantime, it can't hurt to be prepared." Giles agreed.
***...
Maria snarled sadistically as she stroked the armpits of two of her lovers at the same time, making both women scream with tormented laughter. Maria was having a WONDERFUL time!
"Hasn't the last 130 years been FUN! The next 130 years will be JUST as fun!" Maria told her lovers delightedly in their local Filipino dialect.
"130 YEARS Torturess!? This will continue for ANOTHER 130 years!" One of the lovers wailed in damnation.
"Why do you sound so sad my love? Maybe I need to teach you to appreciate me once again?" Maria asked suspiciously, feeling hurt that her lover thought this was a BAD thing!
"NO! No my love I LOVE YOU SO MUCH TORTURESS! I love you and want to spend ETERNITY with you! PLEASE! I PROMISE THAT I APPRECIATE YOU MY LOVE!" The lover wailed in frantic terrified desperation.
Maria cocked her head suspiciously. She looked into those desperate broken frightened eyes and felt reassured that the woman indeed loved her. Maria smiled and generously tickled the woman in reconciliation, accepting her proclamations of love and rewarding her with the torment she insisted that she enjoyed.
The lover screamed in ticklish torment as Maria played with her soft underarms. The lover thrashed uselessly in her thick iron bonds, Maria LOVED watching them struggle like that, it turned her on so much watching her lovers squirm! Maria had a truly wonderful time making the lover thrash desperately and shriek with high pitched laughter.
The other 3 vampiresses in their iron bondage didn't make a sound, all of them secretly hoping that the one currently being tickled would continue being tickled for as long as possible so that they themselves would be spared. They all HATED Maria Santos, hated the forced lesbian sex when they were all straight, and most especially they UTTERLY HATED BEING TICKLED!
The sadistic monster barely slept, and as a result THEY barely slept either. She spent at least 4 hours per day tickling EACH of them, and sometimes more than just 4 hours! Their lives were a living hell and they would all commit suicide to end their misery if they could!
With the multiple thick iron bands securing their limbs to the thick iron frames they had been unable to so much as change the angle of the bend in their elbows in 130 YEARS! The iron was all meticulously oiled to keep it rust free and it was just as strong now as it was 130 years ago. They weren't going ANYWHERE!
The 4 torture victims had all given up all hope of escape over a century ago, they still struggled and thrashed when they were tickled but that was an involuntary reaction to the unendurable sensation that drove them all mad with torment.
As evil as vampires are by nature, these 4 vampiresses had never even had a chance to do anything evil, they had started undeath like this and had NEVER been given even a moment to enjoy being vampires. Their entire lives revolved around being tickled against their will and sexually taken advantage of, and given that they had never even DONE anything evil yet it was totally unjust what was happening to them!
Whether just or not, Maria just kept tickling her shrieking victims, just as she always had for over 200 years! The vampiresses could scream all they want, NOTHING was EVER going to rescue them!