“Bye Mom! Bye Dad!” Safi waved eagerly at her departing parents, the pair of Pokémon trainers each sporting a full party of Poké Balls along their belts, out for another extended training session. Though Founder’s Grove was a small town and even smaller population, it produced its fair share of excellent trainers, and Safi’s parents were among them. As they left for their day’s journey, Safi returned to the breakfast table in the sprawling kitchen, where another girl sat and picked at a bowl of cereal. With a smirk on her lips, Safi spun a chair and sat backwards on it, arms ladled over the back. The blue-haired girl resumed egging her little sister on. “So what do you say, Rudy? Up to the challenge, or are you gonna sit inside playing with your dolls all day again?” Rudy peered up from her cereal, Safi fluttering her blue eyes mockingly at her. Rudy huffed and let her spoon fall to the bowl.

“Safi I dunno if we should…” Rudy repeated. She ran a hand through her shoulder-length red hair nervously, playing her fingers about the ends and biting her lip. “I really do wanna be a Pokémon Trainer but I’m too little! And you’re not old enough to start yet either!”

It was Safi’s turn to huff. “Hey, I turned 10 a week ago, remember? Plenty old enough!”

“But Mommy said–” 

“Mommy doesn’t give trainer licenses. Professor Camphor does.” Safi plopped her chin on her now-crossed arms along the chair back, rocking the furniture back and forth. “But we’re not talkin’ about me. I want to see you go out and catch a Pokémon! Already got a ball for us to use.” The elder sister rocked back and forth impatiently, with Rudy taking meek bites of her cereal (Safi had wolfed hers down, too excited to wait). “Let’s get going Rudy! Mom and Dad aren’t gonna be out like this again for weeks! It’s now or never!”

Rudy finished off her bowl and hopped out of her seat. She definitely wanted to go out and play, with her sister no less, so she seemed eager. As for the dare… “Okay let’s go outside!” she chirped ambiguously. While Safi pilfered a few of her parents’ spare Poké Balls, Rudy attended to the Talonflame casually dozing on her perch in the living room. The large fire bird gave a sleepy coo, feeling Rudy’s gentle pets over his feathers. “We’re going out, Tally, so keep home safe!” Tally nipped affectionately at one of Rudy’s fingers in response, and before long Rudy and Safi were out the door and making their way out of town.

“Sooo you gonna do it?” Safi chided when they reached the outskirts. “Never actually heard you take the dare.”

Rudy’s freckled face scrunched. “I dunno, Safi…”

“Come ooon lil’ sis I know you can do it. Already know a big fluffy Pokémon for you to try to catch too! Saw ‘em sleepin’ out here the other day. Probably still there! It’s cute and I know I could catch it but I wanna see you try!”

“Well… I guess–”

“Hey!” Safi and Rudy rounded to see a dark-skinned girl, green hair flowing behind her as she raced towards the sisters. “How’s it going you two? Out to snap some pictures of Pokémon again, or…?” she caught sight of Safi’s satchel, and gave Safi a knowing glance over the rim of her glasses.

“What? Oh come on Emma, we’re just gonna go do what we’re practically born to do,” Safi defended, “right Rudy? You’re gonna catch a Pokémon, right?”

“I… s’pose,” Rudy meekly agreed, looking up at the tallest of the three. “You wanna come, Emma? You’ll see me catch my first Pokémon. Safi dared me.” Emma’s red eyes narrowed at Safi, who folded somewhat under the glare.

“Don’t worry Emma we’ll all be right there in case things go south. The fluffy one I saw probably won’t even get up if she misses.”

“You don’t know that,” Emma stated matter-of-factly. “Any Pokémon when provoked could go into a frenzy.” She looked between the two and sighed. “But I guess you’re already dead-set on going out, huh?” One eager nod from Safi, and another much less-eager one from Rudy. “Alright. Shouldn’t egg Rudy on like that Safi, you know that.”

Safi sighed. “Fiiine I know I know but come on already we don’t have all day! We’ll catch a Pokémon and be back in time for lunch!” She gave Emma a look. “I totally promise I won’t dare Rudy to do anything ever again.”

“You said that last week!” Rudy giggled.

Safi winked. “And one day it’ll be true! Let’s go!” Emma sighed, but blushed at that wink after the two sisters turned and trotted out into the wild. She caught up to the pair a moment later, and the three were off, out of the town and into where wild creatures freely roamed. The wide open fields stretching between the girls’ town and the rest of the region weren’t overpopulated by any stretch, but one could find a Pokémon in short order given a little bit of patience. It was an ideal place for trainers wet behind the ears to get some initial experience, as the majority of the Pokémon population hereabout was docile and generally not a challenge. There was the occasional brute or less-friendly type that could be encountered, but by and large the relationship between the field Pokémon and humans alike were symbiotic and peaceful. 

Few trees dotted the open stretches of land. One a fair bit away from town, that Safi was leading the group two, had a large dozing creature lounging against its bark. He was clearly resting, flowing red hair tucked behind its big furry body against the tree. Large brown paws folded contently across a white-furred belly, with hinds splayed and limp against the ground. A wide bushy red tail occasionally twitched through the grass, droopy-eared hibani snoozing his morning away. He had no idea what was coming his way, until a Poké Ball whizzed by his face, tickling the dangling ahoge atop his head. Victor’s eyes snapped open and he tracked the ball scuttling along the ground.

This again? he thought while yawning widely.

“It’s waking up! Quick Rudy, try again!”

“B-but Safi it’s really big and might see us if I miss again.”

“Do it!”

Victor’s ears perked up and twitched, and he turned his head in time to see another Poké Ball whizzing his way. He easily caught the flying ball, which practically disappeared into his large paw. Victor spied three humans not-so-camouflaged several yards away, ducking ineffectively against the tall grass. He smirked, spiked wristband glinting against the sun as with a meek effort he crushed the Poké Ball to smithereens. “At least I’m getting an easy breakfast.” Victor calmly stood and stretched, wide tail flickering to life behind him against the tree.

As the hibani began a slow, steady march right towards the ‘hidden’ trio, Rudy glanced nervously to the others. “I-it’s coming for us!” she squeaked, shifting backwards.

“Oh stop worrying you big baby,” Safi scoffed, a Poké Ball in each hand. She bravely stepped out of the tall grass and chucked one after the other at the encroaching “Pokémon,” grinning. “I’ll catch you myself!”

Victor only licked his lips, letting one ball bounce uselessly against his chest and knocking the other one away. “Funny,” he spoke, the girls gawking at the plain English the supposed Pokémon was speaking. “I was just going to say the same thing about you three.”

Safi took a nervous step backwards herself, this creature – a Pokémon she’d never even heard of before, nevertheless seen – easily being twice the girls’ heights or better. “What do you mean, catch us?” Safi challenged, with just a bit of wavering in her voice. “You’re the Pokémon! We catch you as trainers!”

“Safi… We’re not…”

“Shut up, Rudy,” Safi mumbled from the corner of her mouth.

“Oh no no, that one is quite right,” Victor assured, pointing a big furry paw at the quite-shaking Rudy. “I’m no Pokémon, silly girl. And while you three aren’t Pokémon trainers…” Victor halted and loomed over Safi, a foot away from her. She heard the big white tummy grumble hungrily before her, and her eyes widened. “You’ll certainly make a fine breakfast!” The trio gawked at the large hungry bunny, who confirmed his words with a simple lick of his lips. That simple act made the three girls shriek and turn to run for their lives! Emma was faster than the other two but kept pace with them to help them along, with Rudy and Safi neck and neck their faces brimming with panic. Victor watched with amusement and slowly trotted after them, wondering which one to pick off first.

“S-Safiiii why is there a hungry monster out here?!” Rudy squealed, trying not to sob from the sheer terror.

“How should I know?!” Safi spat back anger bubbling up on top of all her fear. They were a way’s away from town and she didn’t even know what she could do if they made it there. This creature was ginormous! “It’s not like I’m a real trainer or whatever I’ve never seen him before! He– argh!” Safi suddenly tripped forward, face-planting in to the tall grass and vanishing from view. Something long pink and sticky had wrapped around her lower legs and snapped them together, rooting her to the spot! The other two girls stopped and turned, briefly confused and terrified not able to see where Safi went.

But the long pink tongue sticking out of the grass leading back to Victor’s open maw, retracting to reveal his snared prey, told them all they needed to know. Rudy squealed out her sister’s name, Emma clutching to her and doing her best not to cry herself now. Safi was beside herself, clawing at the ground and trying to stay away from the hungry predator slowly drawing her in.

“W-we can’t do anything!” Emma insisted, trying to drag a protesting Rudy away from the monster. “Run! Rudy, run!” Rudy was crying now, reaching out in vain for her trapped, struggling elder sister, but stumbled away along with Emma by her friend’s forceful tugs. Gradually she turned and ran, trying to shut out the sounds of furry lips sealing around the dangling legs of Safi, whose eyes were wide and voice growing hoarse from her cries.

“Let me go let me go let me go! I didn’t even throw the stupid Poké Balls I’m not the one you want!!” At those words, shockingly, Safi felt her legs slip out of the maw, ankles downward soaked in drool. She was caught by her hands, then dangled in front of the large hungry Victor’s face.

“I said I was hungry. I didn’t say I was out for revenge for your silly mistakes,” Victor corrected. He tossed Safi up and caught her in his large paws, brought her up to his mouth, and SCHLRRRRRP’d a big tongue up the whimpering Safi’s body few times, letting his taste buds alight with the delectable flavor.

“Ogh, ugh, stop!” Safi cried, trying and failing to push against the tongue, and soaked in Victor’s drool.

“Besides,” Victor commented offhandedly, “I heard you egging her on. So if it makes it feel better I guess you can say I’m eatin’ you for that.” A cruel smile spread across Victor’s lips. “But we both know that’d be a lie.” Then without a second thought he yawned his jaws wide open before the shaking Safi, tongue lazily sprawled to catch his meal, as he casually tossed her in.

“N-NOOO–” CRNCH! Victor’s mouth slammed shut around half of Safi, her still-protruding legs kicking for dear life. “Hmmff! Hllllp!” Cries of despair managed their way out of slurping, smacking lips, Victor delightfully dragging his tongue over and under Safi, pushing her every which way in the pitch-black maw. He allowed Safi to wear herself out kicking futilely, not a blow landing on him with the legs flinging through the air like that. He mumbled and murmured and was glad to have breakfast once again be delivered to him, hardly having to do anything to enjoy the fresh supple taste of the Pokémon-trainer-to-never-be. Safi whined more in the hungry hibani mouth, meanwhile, eyes clenched as she hollered out again and again for someone to come rescue her. “Emma! Rudyyyy! Help meeee!”

Victor fell back into a sitting position and let his bushy tail sway as he ate Safi alive. The other two wouldn't get far, so he had a moment to savor. Safi was gasping for air with fresh slobber pouring all over her, rubbing into her clothes and skin and hair, barely able to tell which way was up. Far too quick to right herself up and escape, however, Victor was done with her. He pressed a digit of his large fluffy paw into his mouth and up against Safi’s rump. He simultaneously shoved and slurped her still-kicking legs up between that digit, pulling his paw free when the girl was all balled up on his now-idle tongue. The vibrations from her cries made Victor purr in pleasure, and he tipped his head back and let his eyes flutter closed, swallowing the terrified girl whole and alive.

GLRNK!

Victor smacked his lips then stood and made to chase after the other two, Safi nothing but a simple starter to his breakfast. The girl messily plopped down into an active, now-bulging, stomach the walls pressing in on all sides with active stomach juices sluicing in from the walls and beginning to coat her. She squealed as loud as she could but her little body and voice couldn’t penetrate the thick belly walls Victor possessed. While she started digesting, clothes already sizzling away and skin itching terribly, Victor kept his eyes on the two girls already worn out from the chase.

Rudy was long-since out of breath, but terror kept her going. She and Emma both froze when they once again heard the thumping steps of the predator giving chase. They turned, seeing the strolling Victor eyeing them, licking his lips. Safi was nowhere in sight, unless the slight dent in the hibani belly counted. “Ohmygod… That thing… It actually ate her! Safi… Safi!” Rudy whined, blindly turning and reaching back at the last sight of her older sister. Emma had a bit more composure and managed to wrangle Rudy back and get the pair running again.

“W-we can’t do anything for her!” Emma cried, fighting back tears of her own. Her green hair whipped about when she snuck another glance at Victor, before turning back and running as fast as she could while keeping Rudy in tow. “We have to get back to town! It’s the only place we’ll be safe!” Rudy, tears streaking down her cheeks while they fled, nodded silently, thoughts still of her devoured sister. The pair made some headway but it was obvious they wouldn’t get to town in time: Despite his lumbering pace Victor would be on them in moments. “Damn it!” Emma cried in frustration, her own lungs feeling the burn. “We’ll never make it.”

Rudy’s mind, fraught with panic, had a brief moment of clarity, recalling what their parents always taught them. If a wild Pokémon ever got close, you only have to–

“Whistle!” she exclaimed. She halted, a confused Emma faltering a few steps ahead. Rudy put two fingers in her mouth and blew, a shrill whistle ringing through the area, both forward to town, and back to Victor, whose ears twitched at the sudden annoyance. He actually came to a stop not ten feet from the girls, looking to the pair incredulously.

“Why you… What exactly were you trying to accomplish doing that?” He didn’t wait for an answer, Victor reaching out with a large fluffy paw, extending to grab the now-cowering Rudy. “You can do that as much as you like, once you’re digesting away in my belly.” A smile reformed on Victor’s mouth when he grappled Rudy, Emma beating the large paw uselessly, trying to break his grasp.

“No, no! Let her go you big furry freak!”

“Emma, stop! ...Look!”

Somewhat perplexed by the girl in his grasp’s calmness, even Victor obeyed and followed Rudy’s gaze. He, Emma, and Rudy all saw the pretty form of a ferocious fire bird darting straight for them. “It’s Tally!” Rudy squealed in delight, the day clearly saved. “Ohhh you’re in for it now, you big monster! Talonflame do not mess around and Tally’s super duper strong!” Victor blinked, then smirked, callously dropping Rudy and standing up straight.

“Is that so?” he said, licking his lips, the silence only interrupted when a particularly loud gurgle sounded from his belly, followed by a muffled screech within. Victor waited patiently for Talonflame’s attack, tail swishing back and forth behind him, not bothered in the slightest by the encroaching assault. “What’s he gonna do, peck me to death?”

“Nu-uh he’s gonna roast you!” Rudy exclaimed, furiously glaring at Victor. “Then we’ll free Safi and you’ll be toast!” Emma could only pray that came true, noting Victor’s grin widening at the implication of fire. As the relatively-large Tally swooped in, Victor casually raised a large paw, palm outward.

“Better hope she can take it as much as she can give it,” he mumbled. His eyes glinted when Tally cut loose, a firestorm pouring fro her peak in a devastating Flamethrower attack, engulfing the entirety of the hibani on the spot! The girls flinched from the heat, peeking only when the brightest of the flames died away. They heard a rather sickening crunch through the smoke, the girls’ hopes dashing when they heard not the suffering of Victor, but the warbling, weakened cry from the bird Pokémon instead! The smoke cleared, and Rudy fell to her knees, seeing the precious Tally clasped in Victor’s large paw, digits massaging around her broken body, feathers falling to earth.

“NO!”

“Wimpy bird,” Victor scoffed, before his eyes narrowed and a super-heated blast of fire tingled to life in said paw, before blasting out everywhere at once! Emma and Rudy fell back on their butts, and Talonflame screeched from the much mightier fire attack. “That’s how you play with fire.” Victor held the barely-conscious, blackened Talonflame between her wings, and hefted her up over his head. “Thanks for the appetizer though, kids.” And without a second thought, he opened his mouth wide below the dangling Pokémon’s limp body. Tally peered down, made a pathetic squeak of a cry, her wings dangling past her twitching talons. Emma cringed and looked away, but Rudy couldn’t stop watching.

“Tally… Tally! STOP!” ...CHMPF… ULK! Rudy sat frozen, arm still outstretched, seeing Tally get dropped into the hungry maw and swallowed whole, robbed from her forever. She whimpered and let the tears flow, tracing a fresh path down her cheeks, cutting through the soot decorating her face. “T-Tally…”

“Rudy, run!” Emma commanded, the older girl practically throwing Rudy behind her. “Go, I’ll hold him off somehow, just… j-just go!” Victor just stood their, crossing his arms while licking his lips. He was amused at the pathetic attempt at self-sacrifice, but would let it play out. He could, of course, step forward and eat them both right then and there.

But what was the fun in that?

Safi heard none of the goings-on outside the roiling hibani gut. Her only clue as to what transpired dropped right in on her, a saliva-coated hot-to-the-touch Pokémon squeezed in from the end of the esophagus, splashing the pair into the burning acids. Safi, nearly nude with what little clothing clinging to her burning away, let out a fresh cry of agony as the gurgling fluids once more dug into her body. She pounded the walls, not caring who or what just fell atop her. Tally could barely stay conscious, and the churning waves of stomach fluids quickly engulfed the bird as she sank below the surface, a wing and talon limply sticking upward. “Help! Someone get me out! G-god I’m being digested aliiive!”

All the others heard, though, were more muffled unintelligible cries. Victor’s attention was stolen back when he saw the littlest girl tearfully fleeing, with the green-haired one standing bravely against her. “Let me guess,” he gloated, licking his lips and stepping up right next to Emma, who could now quite clearly hear Safi’s muffled cries for help. Victor was more than twice her height! The slightly-swollen stomach in front of her gurgled ominously. “Letting that one flee by offering yourself? I could nail her from here, you know. One fireball and she’d be a crispy snack.” Victor licked his lips at the thought, a spat of hot drool drizzling down over Emma, who flinched at the threat and the wetness.

“N-no!” she said quickly, shaking from head to toe. “I-I won’t let you! I can’t beat you but she’ll have time to hide from you. A-and you’ll j-j-just have to b-be content with…” Emma did let tears slip this time, staring right up at the looming, smirking beast. “G-getting past me.”

“Oh, is that all?” Victor’s smile widened, and he lifted a foot into the air like it was nothing. Emma screamed and began stepping backwards, but tripped up over her own feet. She fell onto her back and stared up just in time to see the large creature’s full weight come down on top of her. Pain rang out from all over as she was smashed between the soft soil of the earth and the heavy weight of Victor above. He quickly removed his paw and grinned, Emma unable to move, practically embedded in the dirt, and hoping no bones were broken. “Wow, you sure put up a fight.”

“Eugh…” Emma spat, trying to twitch at least one arm out of the dirt. Her eyes widened when Victor decided to help, peeling Emma out of the ground and gripping tightly around her torso. The paw was still brimming with heat, and it stung to the touch, making Emma whimper in pain.

“And just like that, your little brave stance is dealt with,” Victor sneered. Then he paused, and uttered out a belch slightly stronger than before. Emma winced against the heated stale air, and could barely hold back a whimpering cry when what remained of Safi’s shirt smacked her across the cheek, then fluttered beyond to the ground. Victor openly licked and smacked his lips, before dragging his big tongue up Emma and leaving her coated in his slimy slobber. “And it seems the dare-maker has gone to meet her maker,” Victor chortled, murring at the flavors of Emma now dancing about his tongue. “Your turn!”

“N-no…” Emma managed, seeing the monster’s maw stretch open before her eyes, tongue practically taunting her. She made a crying squeal of her own as Victor thrust his open-palmed paw straight into his mouth, Emma’s head, arms, and legs stuck out from jaws that clenched down immediately. “H-help meeee!!!!” Victor mumbled happily in response, wasting no time at all in slurping the rest of the crying girl inward. Her head managed in first, green hair schrlp’d in right after, arms and legs twitching, at too-odd of an angle to really flail. Victor coiled his tongue around Emma and yanked back hard, yawning his mouth open just enough to let her limbs tumble in with her. Emma’s last glimpse of daylight was through a lens of dripping hibani saliva, before Victor closed his mouth and shoveled the eldest of the three up into one cheek, bulging it out as he hummed to himself.

Emma was terrified, in the sweltering darkness of Victor’s maw, and effortlessly bundled up into a clump of meat for him to enjoy. He kept her squelched up against the cheek, tongue tip pressing her face against it, Victor mumbling happily when a fresh squeal rumbled against his tongue. He then casually let her slide away from the cheek, towards the center of his mouth, and with a tip of his head, encouraged her slippery path backwards towards his yawning gullet. The last cry to not be eaten cut off mid-way as Emma fell right into that expanding throat, the tongue chasing behind and pushing her right down. A-GLUNK! Victor swallowed her down and suckled on a paw while she made the one-way trip down to his belly, to meet the same fate of both the Talonflame and Safi.

While Emma tumbled into a terrible darkness and splashed into an oven-like belly, thrashing about in burning stomach acids barely enough room to breathe and nowhere to see, Victor looked to the horizon. The town wasn’t far away, and he could easily catch up with the last girl, but he sat back and enjoyed his feelings of fullness, bringing paws to his belly and massaging into the churning middle.

“She can wait,” he said to himself, grinning and looking down at the expanded white fluffy tummy he was coaxing and rubbing. “Can’t say the same about you though,” he taunted. Emma heard those words and wailed for her life, wave after wave of gurgling stomach fluids pouring over her again and again. And she kept bumping into two other lifeless forms, but she dared not investigate further into what she knew at heart were whatever remained of Safi and Tally.

Victor swished his tail about, idly pondering what his favorite meal of the morning was, as Rudy made it to town.

*	*	*

Rudy fell out of bed, her third nightmare of the evening ripping her from sleep and leaving her a disheveled mess of pajamas and blankets.

She’d made it home, too terrified to speak a word to anybody. Bolting as fast as she could, she’d ran inside, locked the door and hid under her bed. She’d ignored the empty perch, the empty house as a whole, and just cried and shivered, buried in blankets. Her parents had yet to return from their multi-day trip, and she didn’t dare answer the door for fear that he would be there to gobble her up, just like she did Safi, Tally, and Emma!

Victor had plagued her nightmares, and despite how exhausted she was, Rudy couldn’t sleep. She started to cry again, clutching to her favorite doll as she lay in a fetal position, striped pajamas sticking to her (she’d barely managed out of her clothes).

“I just want this nightmare to end!”

“Well, why didn’t you say so?” Rudy looked up, and let out a shrill shriek that halted only with a big fluffy paw covered her head. Victor removed his paw only when she stopped. Victor flicked on the light, and there the hibani was: Crouched down with his ears grazing the ceiling, looming over Rudy and the bed she’d fallen out of, belly growling in hunger. “You didn’t think you actually escaped, did you, little one?”

Rudy was stunned into silence and shaking like a leaf. She looked from face of the hibani licking his lips, down to his quivering stomach, whose growls filled the room. She uttered a hiccuping sob when Victor reached for her much like before, snagging her by an ankle when she tried scampering out of the way, and was hefted up with ease. She managed a shriek that was cut off when a thick tongue slurped slowly across her freckled face. “Mmm… Prey really does taste better when they baste themselves in fear.”

“L-l-leave m-m-me alone! D-d-don’t… e-eat meeee!” Rudy flailed her three free limbs and Victor chuckled, sampling her again with another lengthy lick up her body, leaving her in a mess of drool. Just like in her nightmares, Victor opened his mouth wide. The fatal trip that Rudy’s sister, friend, and pet Pokémon took earlier that day.

“Aaaaahh,” Victor vocalized, fresh slobber drizzling down the roof of his mouth, starting to swing the girl in his grasp back and forth. Rudy’s squealing was constant now, each fling forward edging her closer to the maw. Then on one forward motion, Victor released Rudy, and she went flying right in between those jaws. Her kicking and squealing body was devoured up to her hips instantly, the youngest of the three girls splattered against the maneuvering tongue and tasted to Victor’s content. “Mmmph! HLLLLLP!” Rudy cried, nightmares coming to life as Victor ate her alive.

Victor didn’t spend too much time enjoying his midnight snack. He wanted to sate his growling belly more than anything at the moment, only sparing a minute or so licking and tasting the delectable horrified girl he was eating. Victor sprawled out in Rudy’s bedroom, laying on his back and tucking his paws behind his head. Rudy’s flowing red hair draped past her head down into the depths of the gullet, and Victor watched with amusement as the protruding rear and legs flailed and kicked desperately. A fresh, muffled cry emanated from between sealed lips when Victor swallowed, pulling Rudy by the hair down into his throat, headfirst. A bulge formed in the tip of Victor’s neck, while Rudy’s struggling backside and legs were noisily schrlp’d up in an instant. Trapped from the shoulders up, Rudy couldn’t resist as Victor tossed her body back and forth in his maw, before finishing his tasty girl midnight snack, dooming Rudy to her fate.

GLK ULP GLOURRRRK!

Victor sighed deeply, feeling and seeing Rudy’s form bulge down his body, and slursh into his stomach. The girl’s voice was raspy, yelling out again as she was mercilessly dumped into the growling, hungry stomach. The walls immediately compressed around her, forcing her into that same fetal position she was in mere moments ago, walls oozing stinging, burning acids that got to work right away on her pajamas. “S-Safi! Emma! Please still be in here…!” she wailed, feeling about what little she could in the black confines of Victor’s stomach. She heard a rumble from outside, the hibani uttering a very satisfied URRRP of a belch, and a great weight plunged Rudy’s face down into churning stomach fluids as he rubbed his own gut. Rudy wailed and just managed to pull herself out of the burning enzymes, coughing, sputtering sobbing, feeling about… Until her hand clasped around something hard and somewhat-malleable. She felt a few similar things floating about, then had a dreadful realization. Bony remains of Victor’s previous meals, still sticking around his belly, all that remained of the most efficient hibani digestive system.

Victor purred as the loudest muffled squeal yet roared from his gut, followed by a series of churns and gurgles that enveloped those cries, and the girl making them. “Delicious,” Victor grinned, running soft paws over his bulging stomach, and letting the throes of digestion lure him into a comfy rest. He propped his head up on Rudy’s bed, and sprawled out lazily in her bedroom, yawning and smacking his lips. Victor knew if someone – whether it be more family, or curious neighbors – paid a visit, that just meant another meal for him. Without a worry in the world, Victor fell asleep. Cozy and content, while his belly slurshed and groaned around the barely-conscious Rudy, who was neck-deep in stomach acids with more pouring in all around her. The girl’s last thoughts were of Safi, and how she knew she should never have taken her up on the stupid, deadly, dare.

GLORRRRRRRRUUUN...