“Oo oo oo, I know where I can take you. Follow me.” With some acrobatic flips she quickly jumped up the surrounding trees and disappeared in the foliage. You stared at that spot for a moment, before CJ’s head reappeared again upside down. “Oh… riiight… guess we'll have to take the long way.” After that she came down and began leading you forward.
Aside from the sounds of the jungle assaulting you from all sides, nothing particular happened on your way. Soon you noticed the greens around you thinning, trees becoming less and less, until the monkey girl led you to the edge of a massive cliff. She gestured for you to look down, where you spotted a sprawling wasteland (seriously, how big was this park?) with the occasional large animal skeleton or skull lying around, which you really hoped were just decorations. The main draw though were the many pools filled with some thick, pitch black, bubbling fluid.
“The others don't like me leading visitors here or just me being here in general, but I find this place so fascinating,” CJ explained.
“But what is this place?”
“These are the Latex Pits,” CJ properly presented the chasm before you. “It's where the Guma, the monsters we regularly defend ourselves from, come from.”
As she said this, you saw a shape rising out of one of the pits and clawing its way out. It was hard to make out any details from the distance, but after it shook off the excess latex like a wet dog, you could see it being some kind of anthropomorphic wolf. It was definitely more animal-like than CJ besides appearing almost feral. Its figure appeared female with a thin waist and big, round breasts, but still left a powerful impression. The body was mostly black, like the pit it rose out of, the exception being several purple markings that looked like tribal tattoos across its body and the eyes, which unnaturally glowed in the same color. The wolf guma let out a loud, feminine roar before walking away.
“We really don't know much yet about the Guma,” CJ continued explaining. “Only that they come in various shapes and sizes, spawn out of these pools and we have to defend the jungle temple from them. I always come here in hopes of learning something new about them.”
Meanwhile your eyes were fixated on one of the pits beneath you. You couldn't really explain why, but somehow you just couldn't tear your gaze away from it. The bubbles had an almost hypnotic quality to them, as if they were calling out to you. Unconsciously you shuffled ever closer towards the edge of the cliff.
“So, what do you say? Isn't this place interesting?”
What was meant as a friendly clap on the back unfortunately managed to be enough to push you over the edge. You didn't even register CJ shouting your name as you fell right towards one of the latex pits. Your last thought before dunking into and being enveloped by the thick rubber was you wondering what was going to happen to you now.