Small lion cub paws leave prints in the sand. The paws of her companions are a bit less graceful as they occasionally drag on the ground. Tomi and Calyir cling to Ami's acid-filled gut as she toddles along at highway speeds.

Ami skids to a stop at the shoreline, stopping with her toes just barely touching the waves as they crash against the beach. Her passengers are quick to hop off.

"So, you're thirsty, you said? I'm not sure how much salt water will-" Calyir is cut off as she notices Ami on top of her belly in the water slurping it up with determined vigor.

SCHLLLRRRRRRPHHHH

The water level is visibly lower around the cub's head. Water rushes in from all directions to fill the void left by fluid displaced into Ami's gut. 

After a few seconds, though, with Ami's guts working overtime to condense the water into her bladder at the pace she consumes it, she's left with a thousand-gallon gut and a waterline that no longer reaches her.

"Hm?" Ami looks toward the retreating ocean. She pulls herself forward with her hands until she reaches it again.

SCHLLRRRRRRPPPP

Another few seconds of substantial sippage pass, however, the water level has again fallen the few inches it needs to in order to elude the cub's reach. This simply won't do; at this rate, she'll take months to reach the bottom.

The determined and somewhat frustrated little lion crawls a little closer. Tomi, meanwhile, turns to Calyir, who is watching this unfold more than a little amusedly. "Hold on a minute, I'll be right back. She's not getting anywhere this way."

Tomi is decidedly not Calyir's responsibility, and she's proven herself more than competent, so the daycare supervisor lets her go and stands her ground to keep an eye on Ami.

VRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Several minutes later, the waterline is a couple feet lower than what it was before the group arrived to the beach, and the sound of an engine fills the air. Tomi arrives at the helm of a modestly sized personal watercraft. She gives a big wave as she reaches the shore.

"Ami!" she calls, getting the thirsty pred's attention, "Come hop on. Let's see if this thing can hold you and your belly!"

THUD

The boat lurches backward as Ami hefts her belly aboard, but it doesn't sink. Calyir isn't the most confident in the safety of the expedition about to unfold, but she frankly would be shocked if Ami found a way to get hurt at this point with everything that's left her entirely unscathed. She hops on board with the children.

Tomi begins to sail them away from the land toward the deep, open seas, but Ami is not the kind of cub to have patience when she wants something in her belly. She leans over the edge of the boat as they travel and puts her maw in the water, catching it in her cheeks and swallowing it in big gulps as they glide along.

ULP GULP SLOSH

"This would've been a good day to bring a cooler and a stereo," Calyir comments as she observes the clear blue skies above, the warm air around them, and the endless waves surrounding the boat.

"Yeah, but Ami would probably eat them before we got to enjoy it much," Tomi responds half-jokingly.

"I'd have to put on appropriate music anyway," Calyir says, "I'm not sure how much ABCs and Baby Shark I could handle, even on a day like this."

They reach far enough out that the deepest part of the ocean is now below them. Or at least that's what Tomi says; Calyir isn't as confident in her navigation skills as the little mouse is.

SCHLLRRRP SCHLLLLLRRRRRRRP

Ami promptly resumes drinking up the ocean at her prior ravenous rate. The boat tilts over into the area of empty water Ami creates and drifts gradually in that direction but remains otherwise stable. 

Tomi and Calyir take the time to relax while Ami quenches her thirst. Calyir is content to recline in her seat and put up her arms behind her head, though between the sides of the boat and Ami's towering gut, she isn't soaking up terribly much sun. Tomi meanwhile clambers up the side of Ami's belly and lays on top of it. There's plenty of room for her with Ami rolled forward to lean over the edge of the boat.

SCHLLLLLRRRRRPH SLORSH

The waterline lowers further and further as Ami swallows up more of the ocean, and as she draws all the water to her maw, everything in the water comes with it.

ULP

A buoy bobs towards her; her stomach makes quick work of digesting it when she swallows it in an instant without slowing down her continual oceanic intake. A fishing trawler soon follows. 

GLK SLLRRK

To say devouring the whole thing rocks the boat she's on would be an understatement, but 
the trawler's own bouyancy keeps itself and its devourer afloat as it vanishes into Ami's ravenous, stretched out gullet. The bow is digested by the time the cabin makes it in, and in no time at all the whole of it is gone.

Smaller vessels like this barely register as crumbs to the hungry cub. As she swallows up more and more of the ocean, she finds herself swallowing several per minute in an endless stream of watercraft. Tugboats, motorboats, yachts, they all go down just the same.

Finally, something worthy of being called a meal appears on the horizon. An oil tanker gradually comes into view, and it involuntarily approaches at high speed in the intense current. 

NOMPHF-

It's a spectacular sight as the half-kilometer ship sails directly into the comparatively tiny vessel Ami and her companions are perched upon. The little boat is hardly disturbed, however, as the cub stretches her maw out wide around the oil tanker. It looks as if it were sailing behind a great invisible wall that cloaks it from view when it slides down Ami's gullet and each part of it that enters is instantly digested. Ami doesn't get to taste much of the oil inside it, but it's yummy regardless as far as she's concerned.

Calyir looks up from where she soaks up what sunlight reaches her when suddenly none does at all. The stretched out ship-devouring cub blocks out Solara's star entirely from view.

GRRRRGLE GROOOAN

The ship's stern vanishes down the hatch, and suddenly the ship is gone. Without a moment's hesitation or any comment on what just happened, Ami goes right back to slurping up the seas.

"...It's a lot more impressive up close," Calyir comments.

There's more than one giant ship in the ocean, of course. It's not long before more appear on the horizon. Container ships, cruise liners, and aircraft carriers gradually shift into view. Each one is swiftly devoured.

The container ships are like giant tossed salads as far as Ami is concerned; their assortment of exotic tastes in the priceless cargo they were intended to carry across Solara makes for a fine and novel arrangement of flavors.

Crewmen scramble for lifeboats on the sides of the ship. Others make for the deck to try to make out with some of the precious cargo on board. Others still move to the bridge and squabble over the controls that can do nothing to alter the stomachbound trajectory of the freighter's course. All are enveloped in darkness as Ami swallows and rapidly digests the massive vessel.

Cruise ships don't have the same variety of flavors as cargo ships, but they make up for it in having lots of perhaps Ami's favorite flavor: gazelles.

The screams can be heard from all the way down on the little boat the cub is leaning off the side of as the ship is overtaken by her. Hundreds if not thousands of vacationing gazelles are thrown into a panic. Parents try desperately to bring their children to the life boats, the boats themselves already swarmed by countless others or being prematurely launched with haste. Crew members make futile efforts to calm the crowds and direct them to follow evacuation procedure. Many grab flotation devices and jump ship in a last bid at survival.

When the cruise ship is entirely gone along with any passengers unfortunate enough to be caught inside, the scattered survivors are left stranded in the water. To their horror, the cub's appetite has not been sated and her thirst not quenched. Lifeboats carrying dozens and countless individual gazelles in life preservers are swept toward Ami's maw and devoured one by one, each vanishing in an instant.

One gazelle causes Tomi and Calyir to look up as he clambers aboard from behind Ami, having been tossed behind the boat in the chaos. "Fuck- Please- Please help me- I don't-"

OMPH GULP URP

Calyir watches in apathetic silence as Tomi grabs him and devours him in just a few seconds. She lets out a tiny, polite belch then clambers back up to her sunning spot on Ami's belly without comment.

Naval vessels are perhaps the most intimidating to Calyir as they sail into view. One hit from any of their massive guns could shred their tiny boat to pieces. Ami treats them like any other meal.

Gazelles in uniforms that vary in fanciness as their wearers do in rank march dutifully across the deck to their stations or bark orders into walkie talkies. A dozen guns turn to aim at the tiny boat the destroyer is bound for, and Calyir nearly jumps out of her skin with the deafening blast that indicates they've fired. 

A moment later, she opens her eyes. The three of them remain unharmed, spent ammunition sinking to the sea floor after bouncing off of Ami's belly, which covers so much of the little boat that it's a target practically impossible to hit.

Gazelles of lower standings break rank and run to either side, taking their chances in the waters below where they'll inevitably be swept up later. The higher ranking men stand solemnly and watch the world around the ship go dark.

GURRRRGGGLLLE GLORP SLOSH

Dozens upon dozens of these massive vessels, supplemented by countless smaller ones meet the same gastric fate in Ami's bowels. The open ocean goes barren, the seas run empty, and the water level continues to fall.

The navy is not the last bastion of the ocean, however. As quintillions of gallons vanish from the face of the planet and the ocean runs dry, something more primal emerges from the depths.

The surfacing of the creature its not quite its own doing, however; it is drawn toward the cub in a current even its own aquatic form cannot contend with. Its thrashes would make it an intimidating sight, and the immediate assumption of most observers would be that it is acting in aggression and attacking the tiny vessel toward which it is propelled. These motions are in fact of panic.

Giant tentacles as long as warships breach the surface and slam down blindly in all directions. A long, serpentine mass appears shortly thereafter when the body of the beast is drawn in. It's eel-like in appearance, in its head especially, and it's monumentally large. From around where its tail should be, dozens of enormous, squid-like tentacles emerge.

Presently, these tendrils slam down on the surface of the water while the creature's head is drawn forcefully toward the little boat.

OMPH-

Ami wraps her maw around the sea monster's snout. It doesn't take long for her to envelop its entire head. The beast has been feared for centuries and devoured hundreds of ships. Ami has been feared for less than a day and devoured hundreds more.

SCHLLLLLLRRRRRRPPPPPH

Ami begins to swallow down the creature like one giant noodle. Its head vanishes into her gut, and its elongated body begins to coil up inside with it. The cub leaning over the boat to swallow the creature soon falls overboard from the weight of the beast. Her belly is only so buoyant, and she promptly sinks. 

Her presence is clear even from beneath the waves, however. Giant flailing tendrils of the eel creature sway about in open air as they're dragged suddenly downward and vanish to the same abyss as Ami, though it's considerably less deep than it was before.

"Ami?" Calyir looks over the edge of the boat down into the sea. She doubts a lack of swimming ability will be the cub's undoing, but with the cub as her responsibility for the day she can't help but be a little concerned.

UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRPPPPPPH BLBLBLBLBLBLBLB

A belch that sends waves all the way to the surface answers the supervisor's question quite handily. The boat rocks violently back and forth as if caught in the throes of a powerful storm, though only for a few moments. Enormous bubbles form and pop on the surface of the water.

"I guess she's-" Calyir's comment is cut off with a yell as the ship lurches forward and begins to spin around. A whirlpool of continental proportion is forming, and they're caught right in the middle of it.

Down beneath the waves, an unbothered cub continues to drink her fill. The water level drops and drops from her unfathomable fluid intake, and soon, bright rays of sunlight are able to pierce through the water with so much less of it between Ami's perch on the ocean floor and the sky shining above.

SCHLLLRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRPPPP

Tomi and Calyir hold on to whatever they can grab as their little boat whirls around. In only a few minutes, the water level has dropped so low that they can see land in many places around them. Undersea mountains turn into islands, which turn into terranian mountains. Deeper basins of the ocean turn into giant lakes, and the deepest basin is running swiftly dry.

Just as the ocean is running empty and the boat swirls dangerously close to Ami's maw, the little lion cub grabs hold of it with her grubby little paws. The water falls shortly away, and she sets it down on the ground.

"Off, off!" she says. It'd perhaps come across as a little rude from someone older, but Ami's tone is a bit more innocent and playful. The vessel's occupants are more than happy to oblige.

GULP

As soon as the boat is clear of her friends, Ami swallows it in one swift gulp. The last ocean-faring vessel is lost to the girl's gurgling guts.

GWRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG SLOSH SLRRRRRSH

The cub's belly shrinks rapidly. Her digestive system had been working overtime to keep pace packing everything she was intaking away as waste, and with her done with her meal, her belly vanishes in mere moments.

GWWWRRRRRRRR

Ami's tummy rumbles, and there's only one thing that could mean.

Calyir grabs Tomi's hand and books it in the direction opposite the cub as Ami lets out a little grunt and...

FBBLRRRRRT CRK FFFSHSHSHSHHHHSHHHHHHHSHHHHHHH CRINKLE BLRRRFFFT FFFSHHHHHHHSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHSHHHHHHHHHHHH PFFFFFFFRRRRRRR

An overwhelming amonia smell fills the air as Ami begins to let loose her bladder and bowels into her pamp. Her mess begins to expand rapidly, promptly lifting her off the ground and stretching out wide beneath her in all directions. The pamp spreads out over the landscape, a great rolling crinkly mass of padding expanding from a planetary soaking.

Calyir jumps onto the enormous pamp as it reaches her and Tomi. The little mouse grabs hold as well. It's a bit of a frantic climb up the side before the pair are able to reach safety on top of Ami's diaper. The ground squishes beneath their feet; to say the padding was soaked through would be a cosmic understatement.

FFFSHHHSHHHHHHHHHHSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH CRINK FHSSHHSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH SLOSH

Ami continues to load up her pamp. She's already voided herself of the solid scat built up inside her, but her bladder is far from empty.

An audible sloshing sound comes from the diaper as the fluid splashes about between the folds of its thick padding.

FFSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHSHHHHHHHHHHHSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

After an extensive filling of her pamp, Ami is left seated atop the soaked mound, which fills out the greater portion of the sea floor and towers high above where sea level was before. 

Calyir and Tomi approach the cub, making no short trek across the surface of her pamp to reach her. "Goodness, haven't you made quite the mess?" Calyir says in a playful tone, "Let's get you cleaned up."

SQUELCH

The supervisor pulls Ami out of her pamp. She makes haste to wipe over the little girl's butt and waist with baby wipes. The smell of urine in the air is intense, and she'd like to get rid of the pamp she's stood upon as soon as possible.

CRINKLE

A fresh pamp is taped in place around Ami's hips. It's a little strange to think the landscape around them, everything they can see out to the distant horizon, is the stretched out form of a diaper just like it.

Calyir doesn't linger on the thought long before activating the disposal unit mounted on her hip. The continental diaper begins to vanish into its hammerspace opening, lowering them to the ground until it finally disappears entirely.

The supervisor lets out a sigh of relief, "Goodness, you. You've certainly had a lot to eat today." She should know better than to say the words that come out of her mouth next, "Well, there isn't anything to eat way out here in the ocean basin, now is there? How about I call back to the daycare and have them come pick us up?"

"Nuh uh," Ami says. She points downward.

Calyir looks at the former seabed curiously, wondering if the cub had found something on the ground. The ground itself is precisely what Ami was referring to.

"I'm hungry," Ami says, "Just one more bite before we have to go home, pretty please?"

Calyir lets out an affectionate sigh, "Alright, alright. I guess I should've seen this coming, huh?"

Tomi grabs hold of one of Ami's shoulders and looks to Calyir, "You might want to get a firm grip on her for what's about to happen."

Calyir clings on opposite her, "Right."

Ami bends over and puts her maw to the ground. She opens wide and opens wider. The flesh of her mouth stretches out and spreads across the barren landscape. The landscape of still-damp, drained sea floor is replaced in its entirety in a few moments by stretchy ravenous cub cheeks. 

Across the globe, the expanding reaches of Ami's maw begin to make landfall, or at least what would be landfall if there were still an ocean to reach land from. Humble farmland, great towering cities, lush jungles, dry deserts, the tropical heat of the equator, the frozen chill of the poles. Darkness overtakes all of it in one great cascading blanket of Ami's ingestive desire.

Across the planet, gazelles stop in place. Their gazes turn skyward as the sunlight vanishes forever from their views. 

A decorated general stares out a window as the world goes dark. He pulls out a lighter to illuminate his immediate surroundings, but with no light outside, only sees his reflection in the glass. Chips on his horns and scars on his face are proof enough of what he's survived, and the look of mingled defeat and anger overtaking his expression is proof enough he's failed.

He'd like to say he could maintain his long practiced composure anywhere, any time, die with dignity and honor. He rips a medal from his uniform and throws it hard onto the ground. There's a soft clattering of hooves into the darkness as he leaves the room. It doesn't matter now anyway.

Opposite the globe from Ami, a gazelle gazes skyward. She's no one too special, in the grand scheme of things, but those who are will become the same mush she will. Her thoughts run rampant from her home to her kids to her dreams, but her gaze remains fixated on where the light filters in above. A great open hole shrinks to a tiny point of light then vanishes completely.

Ami lets her maw settle flat on the landscape, all of Solara between her jaws.

GULP

And she swallows it in an instant.

GRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGLE GWRRRRRRRRFFFFFFFFG

Calyir and Tomi stand on Ami's belly, feeling the sandy ground that should be beneath their feet turn into a slurry as the cub churns it all up. There's no chirping of birds, no passive roar of distant engines, no shifting and settling of sands. The soundscape of the planet is nothing but stomach gurgles and howling wind from the atmosphere displaced around Ami's belly.

"Mmmm," Ami says, the wide range of flavors she'd sucked down in a mere moment still tantalizing her taste buds as they linger, "I think I'm full now."

Calyir lets out a small laugh, "Is that so? I was starting to wonder if you'd ever be satiated."

"Well, maybe we could stop for a snack on the way home," Ami suggests. She giggles and makes snow angel motions on her gut as she feels the world begin the gradual process of digesting down inside of her. It's a nice feeling that she's never experienced on a scale this large before. She could certainly get used to it.

Whirling in the sky, three moons spin around the celestial body Ami's belly has become. Tomi looks up at them and gets an idea. She certainly doesn't want to be left out, after all.

"I think I could eat," Tomi says, "I'm just a little peckish."

Calyir looks around, "We'll stop at a rest station on the way home, then, and you can get yourself some snacks or eat the cashier or something. There isn't exactly anything left on Solara."

"Hmmm... I'm hungry now," Tomi says simply, "Ami, could you give me a toss?"

GWWWWRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG

"Sure!" Ami rolls a little to the side, stretching out her gut a little more to do so, and opens her arms to Tomi.

Tomi trots eagerly across Ami's gut, the ground now soft and squishy underfoot. The little lion gets a hold of her and after a moment to line up her throw tosses her skyward. The throw on its own isn't quite enough to break free of the gravitational pull of Ami's full belly, but the bounce she gets on the rebound certainly is.

BOING

The mouse soars upward toward the first of the three moons, mouth open wide.

OMPH- ULP

All at once she soars into and engulfs it. For a brief moment as she passes over it her body stretches out to intake it, then it's gone. Solara's first moon now remains firmly inside of Tomi's hammerspace gut.

GRRRWWWWLLLLLLLLL

"Time for seconds!" Tomi kneads her hand over her belly, pushing around the moon inside. Accelerating its mass in this way causes it to propel her forward with similar force, and with this she flies toward the next of the moons.

GULP

It vanishes like the first, the tiny shape of Tomi now one of the two objects in orbit around Ami's gut. In similar fashion she flies toward the third.

GULP GURRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGLE

Tomi kicks back and puts her hands behind her head as she soars high above her friends. She relaxes in orbit while her stomach does its job of processing its celestial meal, gradually turning three giant rocks into one giant dump to shortly fill her diaper.

GWRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGG GLRRRRRRRPHHHHH

Ami doesn't bother to condense the planet down into her bowels before disposing of it like she had her previous meals. She doesn't have anything else she needs an unobstructed range of motion to run after and eat at this point, after all. When Solara has been reduced to nothing but a planetary mass of mush in her guts, Ami grunts and lets it all come out.

FBLLRRLBRLRRRTTTT CRINKLE BLRRRRRRRRRRFFFFT BLRRRRRT PPPPFFFFFFFFFFRRRRRRRRRRRRR CRINK BLRRRRBLLLRRRRRRT CRK BLORPT FBLRBRLRRRBLLLL

Ami basks in the pleasure of her galactic dump. She puts her arms out against her belly to feel it shrink as the mass of the whole planet and everyone and everything on it shifts into her apocalyptic-sized pamp.

The pamp she wears fills in more and more, blorted to the size of a city in less then a second, then to the size of a country, a continent, a moon. Her diaper goes from being worn around her hips to being the very ground she sits on.

The lion cub puts her arms out against her tummy until it shrinks down to where they can fit around it again, back to its usual 40 gallon size.

Calyir stands up and dusts herself off, having fallen down onto the growing pamp during Ami's messing. It has its own gravitational pull now, precisely that of the mulched planet that fills it.

The supervisor glances skyward to where a large moon forms in the sky, no doubt Tomi's work. Solara's three moons have become one.

Ami meanwhile giggles and lays back onto her giant pamp. After a few solid minutes of giddy squirming from the fun she's had today, she lets out a little sigh. "I think I'm sleepy now. Had big meal."

The cub falls asleep with Calyir sitting beside her on the crinkly ground. The supervisor gazes to the horizon, where the former planet's star sets slowly over the enormous diaper. It's about time for her to call Ami's parents to let them know where to pick her up.

It's been an eventful day.