HZD: Aloy the Naked Nora | By : KajiraGames Category: -Misc Video Games/RPGs > General Views: 41575 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 2 - The Naked Proving
[BIG spoilers for Horizon Zero Dawn in this chapter]
"What will it take to get you out of here?" Resh, the warrior in charge of the Proving sneered at Aloy's clothes, which marked her as an outcast among the naked participants. His bias against her was obvious. The first test was to bring down a grazer robot, one of a herd running around on the plateau. A trophy from it must then be taken to the top of the mountain.
Aloy felled one of the machines quickly, but as she picked it up another of them charged her and it's horn snagged in her clothing. She was dragged along as the other candidates laughed. "I knew I'd be hampered by clothes" she moaned. "It's not fair".
Finally, her garment tore completely and she dropped out of it and rolled naked on the ground. "At least I'm free of it" she said and headed for the climb, running nude after the others.
But Resh wasn't having that. "Stop, girl. You are an outcast and will wear an outcast's clothing until you pass the proving and become a brave. Not before. You will recover your shameful garment." Aloy had to bring down the mechanical beast that had her clothes hanging from its horn. Only then could she begin the climb, far behind the others. She started up the path with the torn garment half-falling from her, even more of an encumbrance than before. Resh laughed. "You may as well walk from here."
But Aloy was determined to win, because the winner could demand a boon from the matriarchs, and hers would be to demand details of her birth, and who her mother was. Despite warnings from an old brave conducting the trials, she took a dangerous disused shortcut. It was a gruelling climb full of daring leaps. At one stage it required sliding down a zipline. Something was needed to protect her hands from the friction, and she dare not risk breaking her trophy. Her bow was too fragile as well.
She was on the far side of the mountain, out of sight of the others. She stripped off her torn garment and threw it over the wire. Then holding its ends she slid naked down the line, her bare legs kicking in the air. As soon as she reached the bottom she put the clothing back on, rounded a corner and saw that she was now neck and neck with the others.
Aloy beat Bast and Vala by less than a second, but she won the Proving. A woman warrior declared her a brave. But as Aloy reached to remove her clothes, an arrow struck the woman. The Proving was under attack. There was no time to undress.
Enemy warriors were shooting arrows from a ledge. Aloy went around them, climbed up behind them and took them out one by one. Helis, the leader of the attackers, began shooting projectiles with a strange heavy weapon, killing many of the new braves. Others escaped down a zipline. Alone with Helis, Aloy grappled with him but he was too strong.
Helis held her up by the throat and said "So this is the beautiful body I saw through Olin's focus. I have orders to kill you, girl. But I shall take my pleasure first." Due to a gap in the education Rost had given her, Aloy didn't know what he meant. "Turn your pussy towards the sun, child" he said as he slammed her onto her back. The Nora didn't use the word 'pussy', so this was still mystifying. Helis tore aside the tattered clothing leaving Aloy naked and still choking.
He didn't get to carry out his purpose. An arrow struck his shoulder, and Rost appeared over the rise. The two men struggled, with Aloy helpless and gasping. Helis defeated Rost with a deep knife-thrust and arose, but Sun priests arrived at that moment with a cart full of explosives. Helis was no longer in private. He ordered them to destroy everything, including the 'bodies' of Rost and Aloy. They lit the fuse and departed.
Rost crawled over to Aloy and gasped "So, the All-Mother has decreed that I see you as a proud naked brave after all. Survive, Aloy." He rolled her nude body over the edge of the rise and she began to fall, while the explosion engulfed the only parent she had ever known.
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Aloy awoke in a metal chamber, wearing a cloak. Matriarch Teersa was beside her. "Why am I wearing this?" the younger woman demanded. "I'm a brave now, I can go naked."
"When we carry out the ceremony declaring you to be the winner of the Proving, your disrobing will be part of it. And we have decided it should be done in the presence of your mother." Aloy was so glad she would finally find out about her birth, she endured the irksome cloak as she followed Teersa from one metallic room to another. They must be inside the holy mountain.
They came to a metal door where other matriarchs and warriors were waiting. "This is where we found you, Aloy" said Teersa. "This door opened for the only time in anyone's memory, and there you were, a newborn baby. Your mother is the mountain. And now I declare you a Nora brave, and winner of the Proving".
She took the robe from Aloy's shoulders, leaving her nude and facing the door. A slight breeze moved through the chamber and as Aloy felt it on her bare skin she thought "At last!".
A beam of blue light suddenly burst from the door and a loud but distorted female voice said "Hold for identiscan". A pattern of blue lines passed across Aloy's bare body. It traced her hips and the contours of her breasts, then changed to a finer gradation of squares and scanned her nipples carefully. It even dwelt on her pubis for a few seconds.
A blue image of a woman, also naked, appeared in the air next to Aloy. The image had shorter hair, but their faces and bodies looked identical, except that there was a gap in the hologram - the pubic region was missing. The network of beams scanned the blue image in the same way as it had Aloy, comparing everything down to the nipples. But when it scanned lower, a sour crackling sound was followed by the words "Database corrupted. Cannot compare vulva. Access denied."
"The All-Mother spoke to you, child" gasped Teersa. "You are truly blessed".
"No, I'm not" said Aloy. "Didn't you hear? I can't get in. Who is that other woman?"
"She must be a great priestess from the machine age" ventured Teersa, "and you were made in her image".
"Then why is she naked, if the Old Ones wore clothing their whole lives, as we've always been taught? And it looks like I failed a test because it couldn't compare between our legs. Somewhere, somehow, I've got to find an image of this woman's shlugti."
"The All-Mother bless you, as you seek the sacred womb of the ancient priestess" declaimed Teersa. "We give you leave to travel the world as you will - naked, as a great warrior of the Nora should be."
And so it was that Aloy stood at the doors of the temple, spear in one hand, bow and arrows on her back, Teb's pendant dangling between her breasts, and wearing nothing else. Despite her sadness for Rost, it was her proudest moment yet. Her tingling pride and the chill breeze made her nipples harden in excitement.
Next Chapter: Teb tries to teach Aloy what she doesn't know.
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