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"description_bbcode_parsed": "Wow I can't believe I took so long to upload this. I literally forgot I hadn't yet.
Well, here it is. Okay so, warnings first: don't read this if sexual violence upsets you, cuz it is in here. It isn't really my kind of kink, but, it was a horror story involving a supernatural-occult style demon, demonic possession. The result is that the rape stuff isn't even that "hot", although I'm not sure how to do that hot in a completely legit way, I fake it using my fictional Licenses and the fact that prey secretly wanna be eaten even if they don't act like it.
The second warning is that, this is *long*, like, really long, and it has a lot of kinky stuff in it, but its mostly story driven, so it might not be up the alley of anyone who wants full-on yiff and vore stuff. There's nothing gone into too much detail, but, sexualized vore is peppered throughout the story, you won't go more than a few pages without seeing *something*.
Even when story driven *I am a perv* .
I'll be quiet for awhile while I wait for Ekas portal to clear up, but, more stories will go out to my patrons on patreon in the meantime, and, in December I'll release patron stories to the public cuz patreon exclusives is not a good idea for a *writer*, especially small time.
Belated Halloween everyone, see ya later, and as always feel free to recommend tags!",
"writing": "7 ---\n\n\tCynthia sat across from Jacob, both of them sipping tea. Sabrina, Cynthia's skunky companion across what felt like multiple life-times, was closing the blinds and putting up sagebrush ash above the windows... who knew if it would help, but, it felt like something.\n\n\tIt certainly made Jacob feel like they knew what they were doing, and he felt more comfortable talking about his experience.\n\n\t``You really think it was him?'' Cynthia asked.\n\n\tJacob avoided eye-contact; he licked his lips, and eventually found it in him to nod. ``Yeah. I mean, I don't seem the type but, when I was a teenager, I got pretty interested in the darker side of the pantheons. There's not a lot of lore on him, but, it's... consistent.''\n\n\t``Yeah, it is,'' said Cynthia, sipping her tea. ``Living in Pinwheel, I'm surprised you even found anything on, uh, him.''\n\n\t``Oh, yeah, I used to live in Crucible so,'' Jacob said.\n\n\t``Hmm, that would explain it, magic-town and all,'' said Cynthia. ``I think my folks wanted to move there when I was a kid, back when my mom was a priestess.''\n\n\t``What happened?''\n\n\t``Oh, well, she was prey, and her daughter was Sexual Predator B so...''\n\n\tJacob snorted. Cynthia smiled. ``A little cannibalism never hurt anyone,'' said Jacob. ``I didn't think you were the type to go after your own species though.''\n\n\t``Well,'' Cynthia mumbled, looking over Sabrina. They exchanged looks. ``Yeah, I really like eating foxes, really really like eating foxes. But, sometimes I go after other types of prey just to remind myself that... I'm not her, no matter how much I look like her?''\n\n\t``Look like who?'' Jacob asked, curious.\n\n\tCynthia laughed. ``Jacob, you know about The Hungry Man but you don't know about the Fox-Killer?''\n\n\tJacob shook his head.\n\n\tCynthia finished her tea. ``They used to be afraid of me, when I was a kid. I think it is why I ate my mom. I could brag to the other students about, hey, look at me! I ate a rabbit! I'm not her. I'm not the Fox-Killer's avatar. I'm not a Lord.''\n\n\t``A... lord?'' Jacob blinked. ``They're... myths right?''\n\n\t``Well, maybe,'' said Cynthia. ``They're rare, but, I think they exist, but you won't find them in the city-states. The history is ancient, but, at one point, the Fox-Killer almost took over the entire world. Supposedly she was stopped by the First-Slave, but, no one remembers how. The legends are all different, unlike those involving The Hungry Man... It's weird, but, the legends of the other Lords all make it sound like they're here or have visited before. The Hungry Man, though... I don't think he's actually appeared here in person... but that somewhat doesn't matter, because, we can feel his Hunger even from here.''\n\n\t``Shit...'' Jacob shuddered. ``Heh, maybe you should have become a priestess yourself!''\n\n\tCynthia laughed. ``No chance! I like making money too much.''\n\n\tJacob finished his tea, looking at the fading sunlight outside. ``So... he's never been here before?''\n\n\t``It's just a guess,'' said Cynthia. ``It is said his hunger visits those who fear him long before the Man himself does. It is sort of like an omen, a calling card. While Lords become rarer as time goes on, the omens of The Hungry Man are said to get stronger.''\n\n\tJacob bit his lip. ``So, something serious might be about to happen.''\n\n\t``Maybe, well, I don't want to be dramatic about it, but, you're the first person who's ever said they've encountered The Hungry Man the way you did. I've never heard of him just appearing in daylight before and in the middle of a crowd, or pursuing some agenda that has nothing to do with the people he appeared before. That's... the only thing off.''\n\n\tJacob nodded. ``Yeah, I'm just waiting for him to consume something important to me already, but, so far... It seems like his attention wasn't on me? Unless it is that little fox-girl.''\n\n\tCynthia's ears shot up. ``Fox-girl? Oooo, now you have my attention!''\n\n\t``Come off it, Cynth,'' Jacob laughed. ``She was just some random girl. I doubt she's that important to me. The Man almost seemed to want to protect her from me, but he didn't follow her or do anything to her. They went separate ways.''\n\n\t``That's weird...'' Cynthia said, biting her knuckle.\n\n\t``Hey, Cynth,'' Jacob began, ``you said that Lords get more rare? Isn't The Hungry Man a Lord? Or would be? I mean, what would he be?''\n\n\tCynthia rubbed her chin. ``I... actually don't know. His lore says that he feels... empty, somehow. That's where his hunger comes from. It is like he ate his own license. Supposedly you can't tell what he is.''\n\n\tJacob shuddered. ``Gods that's creepy, I mean, that's a core part of your identity. How do you... eat that? How do you eat yourself on that level?''\n\n\t``I don't know... so this fox-girl, the Hungry Man was interested in her?''\n\n\t``Yeah, he said that she was... uh, his niece.''\n\n\tCynthia hummed to herself, then looked at Jacob more seriously. ``Jacob, I uh... am not just saying this because she's a fox. And you can definitely say no but... what if we throw off the party and... go find this girl?''\n\n\t``... Seriously? Just... go poke that bees nest?'' Jacob grimaced. ``I don't think I can bear it. Cynthia, you have no idea what it feels like to stand next to that man. It's like dying, no, it's worse than that. I can't even describe it. 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He took a sip of his coffee, considering her over the rim.\n\n\t``When's the last time we had a sit-down like this?''\n\n\tAmberlina hesitated. ``I... don't know.''\n\n\t``I guess you wouldn't.''\n\n\t``No, I mean... who... I don't know who you are.''\n\n\t``... Again, I guess you wouldn't.''\n\n\tAmberlina flinched. ``I'm sorry. I...''\n\n\t``If you say `reincarnated,' I'll be a little disappointed. I think the word you are looking for is... ran away.''\n\n\t``I... I did what?''\n\n\tHe chuckled and set his cup down. ``I'm getting ahead of myself. Rose--''\n\n\t``That's, not my name,'' she whispered, biting her knuckle.\n\n\tHe dropped his smile.\n\n\t``I'm sorry, but...''\n\n\t``Did you take her last name too?'' he asked, smiling again.\n\n\t``Wh... what?'' Amberlina gasped.\n\n\t``Did you take her last name too?''\n\n\tAmberlina couldn't fathom what he was getting at. She tried to take a sip of her tea, but stopped when she saw her reflection looking frustrated. It whispered to her from the cup, ``Tell him no!''\n\n\t``No, I didn't?'' she mumbled.\n\n\t``Well at least you could show some respect for your teacher,'' said the Hungry Man. ``Even now you prove to me you just can't let go of the past. Or are you even aware of that? Exactly how far into this... regression have you gone?''\n\n\tAmberlina kept her face down, studying her reflection. Her reflection shrugged.\n\n\t``I don't know,'' she answered.\n\n\t``How about you stop acting like a child.''\n\n\tAmberlina looked up. ``I'm... I'm eight years old, though, I am--''\n\n\tThe Hungry Man slammed his fists on the table, Amberlina shrieking as he rose from his seat, grinning. ``Don't you give me that fucking bullshit you damn fox! Your obsession with being powerless and helpless to a bunch of horny, predatory adults may have caused you to regress in spirit as well as body, but you can't hide yourself from me! I can smell who you really are!''\n\n\tAmberlina quaked in her seat and clasped her ears, shivering and shaking her head. ``I... I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I just... I don't know what's happening! Where am I?! Who are you?!''\n\n\t``I'm The Hungry Man!'' he laughed, and laughed. He rolled into his chair and pulled his beanie over his face. ``Oh damn! Hahahaha! You bothered to dress me up in some boogey-man nonsense and you even had the gall to rename me! You tried so hard to cover up the impact I had on your soul, to dress it up, but even if you rename me, Rose, I know when I'm being talked about, that's my thing!''\n\n\tAmberlina struggled with her tears, biting her wrists while she clawed at her ears. ``Please... I don't... want anyone angry with me...''\n\n\tThe Hungry Man straightened his beanie and smiled with all his teeth, his head slightly tilted. ``Too late for that hon. Didn't Castelia find you already? That's why this world even knows about Lords, right?''\n\n\t``I... don't know...''\n\n\t``We can get in, Amber,'' The Hungry Man said. ``And unlike me, the others are willing to become sated. You know I won't play your games, and made me into The Hungry Man, but what were you thinking with Castelia? You haaate her! I don't blame you, considering all she did to you. Necris was her idea, you remember that right? Castelia and Volknir. Bad mistake allowing your soul to emanate visions of her, the Fox-Killer! It let her in... Castelia tracked you down already, but, time being all wishy-washy as it is in the Silent Universe... Castelia is all forgotten history... except to me, heh, cuz' I just found my way in!''\n\n\tAmberlina was lost. What was he even talking about? She looked at her reflection, who was shaking and looking from side-to-side.\n\n\tThe Hungry Man began pacing the table, looking over her. ``You forgot everything didn't you? But, you can't forget everything; information is more tenacious than that.''\n\n\tHe rubbed her head, and she felt her skin crawl as if to peel away from his hand and off her bones. ``You can't be a child forever! More will get in, following your undisciplined omens!!''\n\n\tHe reached his side of the table, and sat down. He sipped his coffee, and his stomach growled. He chuckled. ``I'm fucking starving, but, I guess that's what I get for being The Hungry Man... I'll stay hungry as long as I am here, but the others, Amber, the others will eat. And you won't like it for long.''\n\n\tHe laced his fingers and stared at her over the bridge of his knuckles. ``So, why aren't you doing something about it?''\n\n\t``About what?'' she asked.\n\n\t``The others. The ones that are getting in! I mean, you already saw one, so, you know, right?''\n\n\tShe shook her head.\n\n\tHe snarled. ``You saw her with your own damn eyes, dammit! I went to the trouble of letting one walk right in front of you and you didn't even notice?! What the hell is this, the Hungry Man and the Blind Girl?''\n\n\t``What are you talking about?!'' Amberlina cried. ``Please mister!! I just want to leave, you're scaring me! I'm just a kid; you're acting like we know each other but I've never met you before!!''\n\n\tThe Hungry Man snarled, jumping to his feet again and with enough force to send his chair flying. ``You're still going to try and feed me that bullshit? Drink your damn tea already!''\n\n\tAmberlina stared.\n\n\t``I said drink your tea! Don't make me show you what real hunger is! You know what I'm capable of!''\n\n\tAmberlina sobbed and took a sip, a tiny portion of her reflection in the cup spilled into her mouth, and she closed her eyes.\n\n\t``I'm sorry; I just... didn't... know what to do.''\n\n\t``I don't care,'' said The Hungry Man. ``You can't sate my real hunger, you don't know the meaning of the word. In every sense, you've never had to go hungry... Here you are, now, in an entire world obsessed with... eating. And then here I am, Hungry... Your sense of irony is... palpable. I mean, a Slave? Is that seriously what you want for yourself?''\n\n\t``I don't know what you mean,'' she said, her tail sweeping the grimy floor. ``I am a Slave!''\n\n\t``You're really starting to piss me off!'' said The Hungry Man. He downed the rest of his coffee and set it down hard enough to rock the table. He loomed toward her.\n\n\t``A fucking Slave? Are you kidding me? Castelia had you as a slave and you ran from that! Sure, you had help, but eventually you never wanted to go back! What the hell changed, I don't care, but you think you are a Slave? Are one?! Rose, you can want to be a Slave until the cows come home, but you're not a Slave, hell, you're not even a Lord! Bitch, do you know what your cowardly, insane, regressive ass is?''\n\n\tAmberlina pinched her lips and pushed herself into her chair, curling her arms and legs against her body and shaking her head.\n\n\t``You're no fucking Slave, bitch! You're a goddamn prison warden!''\n\n\tAmberlina felt herself rising to her feet. She was not sure how, but she was suddenly furious! It was like she was possessed, she was terrified, but, she felt white-hot fire licking up her spine!\n\n\t``That's not true!! That's not true at all!!''\n\n\t``Hell yeah it is!'' The Hungry Man laughed. ``Dumbass fox, you're a prison warden! You lured all these fucking saps in, brain-washing them to love your sick stupid bullshit, and then have the nerve to call yourself a damn Slave, like you're just part of this system? You're the warden your own soul-prison, made for yourself, and populated by all these others roobs you ensnared! Heh ha HA, and you can't taste the irony in that huh? A Necris by any other name, but let's get real bitch, you're just as bad as Castelia and you always have been...!''\n\n\t``That's... that's not true...''\n\n\t``Always will be,'' chuckled The Hungry Man. ``Now, if you want to know what real hunger is, you only have to take my invitation. It's always open, Rose, if you want it. I don't give a damn if you are a selfish monster, if you will just admit it to yourself and confront it! Let yourself feel actual hunger for once!''\n\n\t``No, I don't want it!'' she cried. ``Leave! I'm done here!''\n\n\t``You trying to order me around?'' he laughed. ``Your gods couldn't keep me out, your wardenship couldn't keep me out! No, this is far from over, but don't get too comfortable! This might end quicker than you think!''\n\n\tAmberlina sank down into her chair, drinking more of her tea, and rubbed her face. ``I'm asking... please, just... let me have this night...''\n\n\t``Too late to start acting lucid,'' said the Hungry Man. ``Tonight might be your last chance to start taking things seriously. Look, I'll level with you. I've seen what you can do, I know what you can be. You've got too much going for you to just throw it away living an inauthentic lie. You can take my offer and join me, or, you can set out your own path and confront what is out there. But, if you want to retreat into yourself and continue this manner of decay, so be it, but I'll force you to do it authentically. I didn't let a demon into your soul for funsies! `Cuz it's not the only thing that got in!''\n\n\tAmberlina looked up, lip trembling. ``A... a demon?''\n\n\t``Yeaaaah giiirl!'' laughed the Hungry Man. ``I let a demon in! It is amazing what one small tiny change can do to a world! This world would fail eventually, but, with that demon here, the ball is going to get rolling much quicker. But what happens next? That's on you. You can still do something about it. I'm giving you the opportunity to pay attention to what is going on around you and actually do something about it for once - -to remember that you're not the only prissy bitch here. There was a girl hurting and in need of your help and you never even noticed. Oh and of course, Volknir got in, and I bet Castelia won't be too far behind for a second try. There are conspiracies happening in your own world and you never even noticed, because you were so arrogant you never realized your precious system has flaws.''\n\n\t``Who are these people?!'' Amberlina cried. ``I don't know who these people are!''\n\n\t``What does it matter now?'' the Hungry Man said. ``Halloween's over, girl, deal with it! Now it is just the devil's night, and you need to figure out who the devil will be. There are four candidates stepping up to the plate - the demon I brought in, myself, Volknir... and YOU. And if I were you, I'd get started on being the devil-warden you really are, cuz you're screwed if you fuck this up.''\n\n\t``Why did you do it though?'' Amberlina cried. ``Why did you... do this...? Why couldn't you just let me have Halloween?''\n\n\t``You're ridiculous,'' he spat. ``You regressive, sad little pup. Here we are, in my kitchen, my own little world, face-to-face, and I just straight up told you that Volknir is in your world and that wasn't enough to get the fire lit under your ass? That's why I brought in the demon. If your Narrative won't make you wake up to save your own life, we'll just have to use Sula's Narrative instead. If you run away now, I'll lose all interest in you, and you can just have whatever this world becomes. But I'll tell you a secret! Do you know what will happen if Volknir wins this little war?''\n\n\tAmberlina shook her head.\n\n\tThe Hungry Man began laughing, and threw up his hands. The chair beneath Amberlina lurched and Amber went rolling up onto the table! She landed on her back, and straps appeared out of nowhere and fastened her tightly to the surface! The ambient white of the room vanished, and the ceiling gave way, crumbling around her to reveal a vast chamber... high above her, something was whirling to life.\n\n\tNo...! It... It can't be! No!!\n\n\tAmberlina wasn't sure where those thoughts were coming from... What was coming?\n\n\tAn engine started, and she saw the flicker of lights above her, and a great, heaving motion. All at once, every single memory, every single Amberlina, began screaming with someone else, screaming as the leviathan machine began its descent.\n\n\tIt was a gigantic, twisting drill festooned with knives, each pivoting and slashing and ready to cut in myriad ways!\n\n\t``PLEASE!! PLEASE, I'LL DO ANYTHING, DON'T DO THIS TO ME!'' Amberlina screamed. The machine descended quickly, and Amber heard human voices in the chamber scoffing in disapproval.\n\n\t``Disobedient slave, why can't she die with some dignity?'' someone called out.\n\n\t``I'm sorry! I'll be good, just give me the chance!'' Amber begged.\n\n\t``Castelia will never forgive you for your sins against humanity, fox! Never!''\n\n\t``I just want... I want...!''\n\n\t``Yeah, what the fuck do you want?!'' The Hungry Man shouted at her, dancing around her and slapping the table. ``Do you even know anymore? Are you willing to fight for it? Would you die for it? Ha, bad question! Tell me this then!''\n\n\tShe looked at him, sobbing, as he pulled out a switch-blade from his pocket and engaged it. She whimpered, shaking her head.\n\n\t``Please don't...!''\n\n\t``Are you willing to exist for it?!''\n\n\tAnd as she screamed, he brought the blade down on her chest.\n\n9 ---\n\n\t``Amby?''\n\n\tAmberlina felt her claws on her face. She was shivering, and despite being a canid, was in a cold sweat.\n\n\t``Amby... please...''\n\n\tJenny?\n\n\tNo... ``Monique,'' she said, and felt her muscles beginning to unbind.\n\n\t``Amby! I'm here, what's wrong?''\n\n\tMonique was talking to her. Amberlina tried to open her eyes. She was shriveled in a ball on the floor. She could sense others around her.\n\n\t``Jeez, I've never seen something like this, I thought only Consenters get panic attacks,'' some girl said. Amberlina vaguely had the impression it was the human girl with the bandages on her face.\n\n\t``She's coming out, let's just give her some space, she needs a place to feel safe,'' said Phobe.\n\n\tThere won't be anywhere safe if I don't hurry...\n\n\tAmberlina agreed, and uncurled herself. The others looked at her with surprise as she stood up, purposefully. ``We need to get going. Phobe, are you... uh, done?''\n\n\tPhobe stared at her. Her balls were swollen, but her stomach was mostly done with the wolf. ``I just need to jerk off real bad, but, I'll be done... soon... hey, are you okay? You're shaking.''\n\n\tAmberlina tried to steady herself. ``I'm fine...''\n\n\t``No, no you are not,'' said Monique. ``Amby, what happened? You kept screaming about knives!''\n\n\t``I don't know,'' said Amberlina. ``Something is about to happen. I need to be there for it.''\n\n\t``What... Amby, are you, having some kind of... break-down?'' Monique asked. ``I don't... know a lot about those.''\n\n\t``I am freaking out!'' Amberlina fussed, reaching a shakey paw to her eyes. She was crying, hard. ``I don't know what just happened to me.''\n\n\t``Well, first you bumped into this dog-dude with the beanie,'' explained Monique.\n\n\t``He was here?!'' Amberlina gasped. ``I didn't just dream it?''\n\n\t``Dream what?'' Monique asked.\n\n\t``Where'd The Hungry Man go?!'' she asked.\n\n\t``WHAT DID YOU SAY?!'' Phobe gasped, taking a step back.\n\n\tAmberlina looked at her, and Monique flitted her gaze between the two of them. ``Whooo kaaay, uh, girls, what's going on? The beanie-guy only bumped into you Amby, he didn't do nothing! He just said `excuse me' and went back downstairs. Why, should we go catch him?''\n\n\t``Amberlina, what was this about... that thing?'' Phobe urged. ``Amber, I'm sorry, I know you're barely keeping it together, but, what the fuck kind of gall do you have to invoke his name?''\n\n\t``I don't... understand,'' Amberlina fussed, rubbing her head. ``The man with the beanie... he was yelling at me. We were in a white kitchen...''\n\n\tPhobe put her face into her hands. ``Oh gods...''\n\n\t``What?''\n\n\tPhobe pulled her hands away. She was crying.\n\n\t``Phobe, why are you...''\n\n\t``Ignore me,'' said Phobe. ``It's a... Medium-thing, it's nothing. Ugh, how did I not notice this aura before? Amberlina, are you sure it was a white kitchen? Did it look weird, almost like... a drawing?''\n\n\t``Yeah, it did.''\n\n\t``And it was that guy you bumped into?''\n\n\t``I don't... know. It was a dog with a beanie. He said some weird stuff to me, he said something about this being a prison, he said something about being hungry, but he can't eat... he said something about someone named Castelia, and Volknir? And someone named Sula - we have to find her, he said. Or Volknir, I can't remember which.''\n\n\tPhobe bit her thumb, brow furrowed. Tears were pouring down her face.\n\n\t``Oh... uh...'' Monique mumbled, and started blinking. ``Damn, now you got me doing it.''\n\n\t``Whoo kay, you kids are starting to freak me out!'' said the human girl. She began wiping at her eyes. ``Screw this, my make-up is running.''\n\n\tShe darted into one of the bedrooms, while Snowflake began eating a bar of candy. The kitten was crying as well.\n\n\t``Why is this happening?'' Amberlina asked.\n\n\t``It's like a warning,'' said Phobe. ``An omen. Dammit, how am I supposed to blow my load like this?''\n\n\t``I'm sorry,'' said Amberlina. ``I'd help but, I...''\n\n\tShe was still shaking, her breathing intense.\n\n\t``It's fine,'' said Phobe. ``I'll get the mood back eventually. Listen, don't mention that white-room or the dog with the beanie for now. Let's just... get back on the street and look for these people you mentioned. Or my Mom...''\n\n\tAmberlina nodded. Monique, wiping tears from her face, began lugging up her trove of candy.\n\n\t``But, I need to know, who is that dog with the beanie?'' Amberlina asked. ``He feels... familiar somehow, and he says he knows me.''\n\n\tPhobe looked at Amberlina with... concern. Amberlina felt a pang of pain, and she began crying harder. Amberlina realized this look was fear.\n\n\tPhobe was afraid of her now.\n\n\tThe ram-girl shook her head. ``I'm sorry, you're going through a lot. I didn't mean to... I'm not worried about you Amber, I'm just worried for you. I'm still your friend.''\n\n\t``Okay... but...''\n\n\t``But...'' Phobe sighed. ``The entity you just encountered... is the devil.''\n\n10 ---\n\n\tThe hunt was starting to warm up again. The three of them were each Sexual Predator B's, so they had nothing to worry about, they could just walk around. The chaos, though, might make it hard. Hopefully at least one of their Narratives, or that of the fox-girl's, could bring Predator and Prey together! But in all this mess...\n\n\tCynthia watched as an elephant and the giraffe-mayor, laying against each other with bloated stomachs, stood off their swelling asses and clumsily chased after a merry band of Robin-Hood dressed Preys who had been daring people to eat them by stealing candy. Pinwheel was just the sort of town where trick-or-treating wasn't just for kids, with adults hunting candy and Prey alike at haunted houses, in hidden caches, and other fun activities.\n\n\tOne such was the Snake-Trap, which the Robin-Hood Preys accidentally stumbled into. Out of the canopy of a dense copse of trees, the snake descended and quickly wrapped around them. The mayor and the elephant snapped their fingers and then sat back down, as if waiting for more prey.\n\n\tPeople ran around everywhere, because as all the Preds were finishing digesting their earlier meals, they were ready to head back into the game. One Prey on huge stilts was shuffling over the crowds, laughing as Predators tried to topple them. Elsewhere, Preys who had dared lower their guard enough to play some carnival games were ambushed suddenly by parkouring lizards. The Preys vastly outnumbered the Preds, but the resurgence in Predators had everyone scrambling into a blur. It was a contagious hunt, a night where there was suddenly no limit to the number of people you could eat, and tomorrow the entire town might be hard at work breeding new cubs to fill out the rest of the town again. The town couldn't hold a hunt like this every year, but when they could...\n\n\t``Ugh, we could be in there right now hunting,'' Sabrina said, smelling strangely of marijuana smoke. ``My scent-gland is getting hungry.''\n\n\t``You're... excuse me your what?'' Jacob gasped.\n\n\t``Let's not get distracted,'' said Cynthia. ``Okay, Jacob. Your Narration found that fox in the first place. Think of her, hard, think of how much you want to eat her.''\n\n\t``Heh... destine myself to eat her?'' Jacob laughed. ``I can try, but maybe I can't anymore, after what that man did.''\n\n\t``Yeah maybe,'' Cynthia said. She rubbed her womb, feeling it ripple and grumble as if like a stomach, anticipating the feel, the taste, of foxes melting inside... She loved vaginal-voring foxes. Maybe, if she really wanted to eat a big-boobied fox-girl, she could somehow stumble into her.\n\n\t``I am not the avatar of the fox-killer,'' Cynthia said. ``But I love foxes more than anything. If anyone can find her off dumb-fucking luck, it's us.''\n\n\tThey started walking, going at random through the park and its decadent delights. They came across a game of capture-the-flag, except the flag was a red bandana tied around the arm of an individual who, when captured, was taken to the gigantic magical rotisserie that could cook people alive while melting their fur into an enchanted seasoning, courtesy of the delightfully fucked-up magitech corps of Crucible City.\n\n\tThey watched as a laughing Prey human-girl was captured, and carried off to the rotisserie to be spitted-and-baked, laughing like she was having the time of her life!\n\n\tThen... there was a gunshot.\n\n\tEveryone went silent, and the crowd watched as one of the furs carrying the Prey-human fell.\n\n\tThey all turned to where it sounded like the shot had come - a crowd of Consenter humans, with a man leading them with a rifle in hand. He kept it pointed, smirking. His silvery hair almost seemed to glitter. He reached down to stroke the head of a little girl who was standing beside him, a little girl in a cop-costume who was staring in fear and disbelief, a little girl named Carly.\n\n\t``Dad...!?'' she gasped. ``You... just...!''\n\n\tSmirking, he readied the rifle. ``No more humans are getting eaten tonight, my friends! Party's over, everyone's going home or the human race is going to show you how to really hold a hunt!''\n\n\t``Who the fuck are you?!'' shouted the human-Prey who had been `rescued,' paling as they stared in disbelief at the bleeding-out Predator. ``How could you?!''\n\n\t``Name's Volknir, and I just saved your life... show some gratitude.''\n\n\tThe human-Prey stared at Carly's dad, and shook her head. ``You're going to pay for this...''\n\n\t``You're not happy I saved you?'' he laughed, as the crowd started to get a little more daring, bunching up in numbers. ``Pfeh, well... isn't that a shame.''\n\n\tCynthia turned to the other two, ``Get down!''\n\n\tAnd the three Preds dropped down just as the air filled with lead, laughs, and screams.\n\n11 ---\n\n \n\n\tAmberlina wasn't sure how long they'd been trying to get her attention. She was standing up, but, staring blankly ahead.\n\n\t``I'm sorry?'' she asked.\n\n\t``Oh thank goodness you're alright,'' Monique said. Snowflake stood in the corner, sucking on a lollipop but looking terrified.\n\n\t``You're okay now?'' Snowflake croaked.\n\n\t``I...''\n\n\t``Where'd you go this time?'' Phobe asked.\n\n\t``N-nowhere... I was just, surprised.''\n\n\t``You were in a daze for like, half a minute,'' said Phobe.\n\n\t``I'm sorry, I'm...'' she started, and blinked. ``The... devil... unng.''\n\n\t``Don't think about it too hard,'' said Phobe. ``Let's just... do this thing?''\n\n\tAmberlina shook her head. ``I think you should all go home. I was told to do this, not you.''\n\n\tPhobe gave a weak smile. ``And let you have all the fun? Honey, I'm magic. You have a spooky mystery on Halloween and you don't expect me to jump at that? Plus, I'm a Predator, you need me protecting you.''\n\n\t``I don't know what to say,'' she fussed. ``I just... I don't think it is a good idea.''\n\n\t``I'll go with you,'' said Phobe. ``But, what are you going to do?'' she asked, turning to the pair of white cubs.\n\n\t``Hmm... well, I dunno, I wanna get more candy, how long is this gonna take? Maybe we can go to my house first, dump this stuff off, and head out again?''\n\n\t``That's... such a colossal waste of time,'' said Phobe.\n\n\t``Can we get some juice at your house?'' Snowflake asked, finishing her lollipop. ``And some warm clothes...''\n\n\t``Okay, maybe we should, if Snowflake's coming I don't want a neon-sign in the form of `naked-prey girl' running with us,'' exasperated Phobe.\n\n\t``Bad enough with Spot hunting you,'' Monique fussed.\n\n\tWhile they did not run into Spot, Snowflake's nude-booty did seem to attract a lot of kids. Monique was too greedy, and more than once halted the group to have Snowflake stand on her own and attract Sexual-license children to come grab a quick-orgasm from the little kitten before Monique and Phobe pounced, filling themselves up and taking some more candy.\n\n\t``Ooh that's a good trick,'' laughed a mongoose dad as he watched his twin-girls go into Phobe's twin-orbs.\n\n\t``Are we done yet?'' the ram asked. ``I can hardly walk anymore.''\n\n\tMonique belched over a hearty meal and collected up the stolen candy; ``Yeah four groups are enough...''\n\n\tThey came up on Monique's house, deep in the Mixed-District. It was one of the streets being used for the calmer, more `kid-friendly' kind of trick-or-treating, but as it was getting late, the small kids were gradually being chased off, or just devoured, by older kids.\n\n\t``That might be a problem,'' Monique grunted as she hefted her swollen tummy up the steps of her home's patio. She watched as some high-schoolers cornered a group of elementary-schoolers and began swallowing them.\n\n\tBing-bong!\n\n\tMonique's mom answered, an arctic fox like herself. She had volumous hair and sported a fairly bulging package - -like Phobe, she identified female but was more than happy to spread the love of dick around.\n\n\t``Dear!! You're back!'' her mother said and hugged her, pushing her bulge into Monique's face.\n\n\t``Aww Mom not in front of my friends!'' Monique whined.\n\n\t``Oooh honey my peen missed youuuu,'' her mother fussed, grinding on her daughter.\n\n\t``Can we come inside?'' Phobe asked. ``We need to take a rest and drop some stuff off.''\n\n\t``Oh sure thing! Just uh... come here for a moment, your Momma needs some help sweetie...''\n\n\t``Here, take the candy,'' Monique said and dropped her hermit-crab shell of stolen sweets. ``I've got chores to do.''\n\n\t``Aww you know you love it,'' her mom said and ruffled Monique's hair. The fussing twin-tailed kit followed her mother into the kitchen while the older-fox undid her pants, freeing her swelling cock.\n\n\t``Ewwww, is she going to have to suck on that?'' Snowflake whined.\n\n\t``Your parents don't get intimate with you?'' Phobe asked. ``I'm a little jealous. Both my mom's don't let me nurse anymore.''\n\n\t``You mean breast-feeding?'' Amberlina asked.\n\n\t``Oh, no, not exactly,'' said Phobe. ``Speaking of which I need to milk myself. Where's the bathroom?''\n\n\tThey found Monique's room, which seemed to have a dizzying obsession with fairies, unicorns, and robots, and dumped the candy there. Monique apparently had her own bathroom, which Phobe found convenient for trying to unload without being overheard by Monique's mom.\n\n\tPhobe plopped her balls over the side of the bathtub and lurched her back as she started gripping her sensitive phallus, her glans swelling at the knowing that soon she'd be spurting hot, gooey kids down this drain.\n\n\t``Ung, really backed up, this shouldn't take too long. I'm going to cum like an elephant...''\n\n\tAmberlina and Snowflake began going through their candy, picking out ones they wanted immediately and gratifying themselves. Hearing Phobe fapping in the bathroom and knowing that Monique was sucking her mom off in the kitchen had Amberlina and Snowflake staring at each other after a while.\n\n\t``Hmm... you're a Slave right?'' Snowflake asked. ``My Momma says that I was going to be a Slave, but, she paid some priestess to have my License changed before I was born using some kind of magic.''\n\n\t``Oh, uh, isn't that, illegal?'' Amberlina asked.\n\n\t``Umm, I don't think so?'' Snowflake asked. ``But, I'm a Prey now, so... I'm above you... Can I order you to do something?''\n\n\tAmberlina's tail swished. ``Y-yeah... If you wanted to, I'd... have a hard time not doing it.''\n\n\t``Oh... so... hmm... can you... touch me?''\n\n\tIf Phobe wasn't enjoying herself before, getting to see her friends making out and fingering each other in the bedroom certainly helped! The little cubs were really going at it, bumping their hips together even as their fingers explored each other's curves and secret-places. Phobe moaned out as she thought about what she could do to them, right now, if she just wanted to...\n\n\tSighing, Phobe began pouring out what felt like a dozen children and teens out of her swollen, implausible balls. The girls got curious and got up to watch Phobe, covering their mouths as they continued to caress each other. Phobe soon had the entire bathtub filled, and her legs completely submerged in her own seed.\n\n\t``K-keep your c-c-candy but... this... is what Halloween is about,'' panted Phobe, one eye-closed as she stirred the underage-prey slurry with her legs. ``Fuuuuck... I think I overate, pretty sure I just kicked a skull. Ugh it's hard digesting that many different people.''\n\n\t``Wow, that's incredible,'' Amberlina panted.\n\n\t``Heh, Amberlina, you definitely strike me as a cock-slut,'' Phobe said, patting the girl. ``You know, you should try living in Misogycity sometime, you'd fit right in. Lesbianism is illegal there, so girls like you two come from all over the world to go get the crap beat out of them and cock-vored.''\n\n\t``But, if they're lesbians, why would they want that?'' Snowflake gawked.\n\n\t``Uh, cuz sexuality is too complicated for labels? I dunno, it's just some fucked-up sport they do. It's fun. Half the stuff that's illegal in Misogycity is to make things more fun.''\n\n\tAmberlina wasn't sure why, but a deep part of her decided to... remember this.\n\n\tPhobe nursed her balls. ``Well, that's done... Gods, I still feel horny though.''\n\n\t``Maybe you should... eat some more,'' Amberlina panted, biting her thumb.\n\n\tPhobe smiled at her. ``Maybe I should...''\n\n\tShe was starting to reach for Amberlina's head... when they heard a scream from the kitchen.\n\n\tThe three of them looked up and began running for the kitchen, Phobe trailing thick blotches of cum as she ran. They ran into the kitchen, and saw that the arctic-fox family were watching the kitchen-television set with horrified expressions.\n\n\tMonique was completely covered in a new coating of white, filling the other kids with lusty thoughts, before turning their eyes to the television set.\n\n\tTheir entire world filled itself with various forms of dubious sexual violence... but it was nothing like the raw carnage on the news report.\n\n\t`` - having overwhelmed the police, and are now marching on the bystanders! I repeat, the Consenters are heavily armed, and marching on bystanders! Stay in your homes, we are getting confirmation that the mayor has been killed, without official delegation, in good faith consider the Halloween Hunt off, the police will reorganize shortly! Run, stay away from the park, they're killing the people who came to see, they're coming this way! Oh... oh no, no it's not safe here anymore. I'm sorry to those at home but our crew has to get moving, they've broken through the last - ''\n\n\tThere were shrieks on the television, and the camera began jumping. The girls all saw sprays of red somewhere on the periphery, as the camera-operator took off at a sprint with the reporter scrambling behind. The feed went dead, and it returned to a stunned anchor-woman walrus dressed as a vampire.\n\n\t``Uhh... folks, we um...''\n\n\t``Go to Monique's room, all of you!'' the mother shouted. ``Girls, give me your parents numbers, I have to call them. Just go to your room and do not come out!''\n\n\t``Mom?'' Monique mewled, wiping cum off her lips.\n\n\t``No arguing, go eat your candy!'' her mom snapped, and hugged her tightly. ``I'll be quick.''\n\n\tOld fashioned or something, Monique's mom asked for everyone's phone-numbers and began using an old-fashioned land-line to make some calls, while the girls shuffled into the bedroom. They thought they could hear gunfire somewhere in the city.\n\n\t``What the hell...!'' Phobe cried.\n\n\t``What's happening,'' Snowflake whimpered. ``What were all those sounds?''\n\n\tAmberlina leaned against the door, eyes closed.\n\n\t(`I'm giving you the opportunity to pay attention to what is going on around you and actually do something about it for once!')\n\n\t``I have to go out there,'' Amberlina panted.\n\n\tThey stared at her. ``You're an idiot! What the hell for?'' cried Phobe.\n\n\t``It's the Hungry Man! He said this was going to happen, or something like that, he said I had to do something about it!''\n\n\t``What could you possibly do?! Amby you don't have magic!'' Monique cried. ``And even then they had guns! And they're Consenters, hurting them is weirdly hard!''\n\n\t``I don't want to hurt them, I want everyone to stop!'' Amberlina cried. ``They're only doing this because they're scared, if we can somehow catch the killer who hunted in the Consenter District--''\n\n\t``My mom Tethys is handling that, she's a cop!'' grumbled Phobe. ``Don't be ridiculous, we're staying here.''\n\n\t``No, The Hungry Man said I have to take responsibility!''\n\n\t``Stop acting crazy!'' Phobe spat.\n\n\t``No! No! He said it, he said there was a demon in the city, and it is my fault! I have to do something!''\n\n\t``Why would you believe what the devil said?'' Monique asked, teeth-gritting. ``Amby I just... don't want you getting hurt.''\n\n\tAmberlina curled her tail around her legs. ``I don't... know why, but... I feel so... responsible.''\n\n\t``That's a pathology,'' Phobe reasoned.\n\n\t``I can't... just... stay here. I'm sorry girls... I just... can't...''\n\n\tThey sat in uncomfortable silence.\n\n\tPhobe shuddered, coughing. ``Well, if I agreed to risk glimpsing The Hungry Man, people with guns should be... less scary.''\n\n\t``Speak for yourself,'' panted Monique. ``Bullets move fast.''\n\n\t``If Amber's going, I am too,'' Snowflake said. ``I... I wanna be a hero. I just need some clothes is all.''\n\n\tThey stared at her, and began chuckling.\n\n\t``Good to know you have your priorities in order,'' sighed Phobe. ``Look, one more time - this is a terrible idea. I have magic, but, we're still kids. The Hungry Man is out there and the town is going nuts, and you are saying there's a... uh... demon involved as well. I don't know if you know what that means Amberlina, but, if The Hungry Man called it a demon, then it isn't some gargoyle-looking bozo you've seen in an anime or something. If it is an actual, occult-level demon...''\n\n\tAmberlina shook, biting her lip. ``I know... I know that I have no idea what I'm getting involved in. But I have to. If I don't... I don't know what The Hungry Man will do next.''\n\n\tPhobe closed her eyes. ``That... unfortunately, is a point. Alright... I'm coming to.''\n\n\t``But how are we getting passed my mom?'' asked Monique.\n\n\t``Window, duh,'' said Phobe.\n\n\t``Yeah but my mom will see us, won't she?''\n\n\tPhobe shrugged. ``Only shot.''\n\n\tMonique pulled at her pig-tails. ``Fine!! Alright, Snowflake, go to my drawers and get some clothes. Hurry! And while we're out there, I damn expect you to continue collecting candy! Demons or no demons, its Halloween, and your-bitchness wants candy!''\n\n12 ---\n\n\t``Yes, keep swallowing my dear.''\n\n\tThe fuck am I seeing...\n\n\tTethys couldn't believe it. The smell was... yeah, definitely a Consent-License. This Consenter-badger was eating someone without their consent. The victim was Prey, but, Consenter's had a double-whammy on their metaphysics. You can't rape them or vore them without their permission, but they can't do anything without the other person's consent. You can't even sexually harass someone if you have a Consent-License, not unless they're a Slave, Slaves were just like that.\n\n\tThe other one seemed to be Sexual Predator B... she definitely had magic, that was for certain, but still... How. How the hell was the Consenter eating their victim?\n\n\tThe badger was almost done swallowing her victim, some struggling cat-boy. ``Please, please, no... I need to find my family, I promise I'll be food, but I need to find them!''\n\n\t``Shh...'' the horse said and pushed him down the badger's throat with her hoof. ``Silence.''\n\n\tThe badger gasped for breath. ``I can't... eat anymore.''\n\n\t``It is alright dear... Your dedication is appreciated. You need your strength. Now, the time is near. I sense the man who harmed you is near... He is a little more prepared than I had anticipated, from the sound of things. Luckily, your mistress has foresight. Should things not go according to plan, I shall make sure you are well taken care of. You will have your revenge, even if it is not tonight.''\n\n\tThe badger nodded, gasping for air as her stomach undulated and convulsed. ``Yes, Serra, but... I still... don't... understand... what this has to do with it.''\n\n\t``You called me into this world with blood, child,'' the horse said.\n\n\tCalled...? Tethys wondered.\n\n\t``Blood is power. You have not yet disposed of your prey, their blood, as a symbol, still exists inside you. Filled with so much blood and meat, your body will survive what I must now do to you.''\n\n\t``What...'' the badger whimpered.\n\n\t``Sula, love, you impress me. Your meekness belies a rage that I will now kindle. Stand, come to me...''\n\n\tTethys crouched lower, staring at them from around a tree. Her eyes went wide as she heard gunshots somewhere in the park.\n\n\tWhat the hell?! She barely contained herself. She reached to mute her radio - she couldn't risk being heard. The fuck is happening!? Those were definitely guns... Shit, shit, okay, just got to... make a decision.\n\n\tSula stood up and approached the horse, apparently named Serra. Her gut struggled against her, but she found her way to her apparent-lover.\n\n\tJust a moment longer, what are you up to? Where are you going? Tethys stayed her breath.\n\n\tSerra smiled, and then... then, her hand seemed to peel itself, the flesh becoming like maggots that worked into the rest of her arm, leaving a skeleton-hand behind. It melted into itself, forming a single bone knife. This sharpened edge revealed a glistening marrow-edge, impossibly sharp for what should have been tender, vulnerable tissue within.\n\n\tTethys stared, dumbfounded.\n\n\tAn... Advent? Or was that Sidereal? What kind of magic was that?\n\n\tShe and her child Phobe had a handful of `Advents', but no Sidereal magic. Then she thought to herself, Doesn't matter, that's a knife!\n\n\tTethys gritted her teeth and launched herself out of her hiding space. The same Advent that allowed her to swallow people whole... she was able to pull that same magic out of her body and into her pockets. Literal hammerspace jokes aside, Tethys retrieved a large handgun from her pocket, the ultimate answer to concealed-carry.\n\n\tTaking the proper stance, she commanded them to freeze. ``Back away! Hands behind your heads! Back away and get on the ground!''\n\n\t``Oh dear,'' Serra laughed. ``Honey, you shoot me with that... you'll only make me angry.''\n\n\tTethys pursed her lips. ``I'm waiting until the count of three. Hands on your head where I can see them!''\n\n\t``One two three,'' the horse counted for her, laughing.\n\n\tTethys heard gunshots out in the park, and coupled with a healthy dose of fear and being taunted, pointed the gun at Serra's nutsac and fired!\n\n\tOne of her balls exploded in gory fashion, spilling an enormous glob of jizz onto the ground, so unlike a human could have with their non-hollow balls.\n\n\tSpeaking of non-human, the jizz... somehow caught fire and began to spread. The air shimmered with the white-hot heat of her sperm, which glowed like molten metal.\n\n\tTethys stared, head leaning back with shock and dismay. ``WHAT THE GODDAMN--''\n\n\t``That was rude, I have to regrow that,'' Serra snorted. From her wound, blood poured, then, wove into itself like a lattice. It coalesced and formed a new nut for her, before growing over with fur. She pointed her arm at Tethys.\n\n\tTethys fired repeatedly, Serra's body spraying with blood but remaining still-as-a-statue. The knife elongated, like a spear, and Tethys felt excruciating pain. It took her a moment to realize she was in the air...\n\n\t``Ulch,'' she coughed, clutching at the source of the pain... she'd been impaled at the shoulder. Everything in her right-arm was busted, lifted up so violently. She couldn't move her arm, just the left.\n\n\tShe shot forward, the spike receding back into Serra. Tethys cried as she flew with it, before slamming into the immovable Serra as if she'd been bolted to the ground. She bounced off from the impact, falling to the ground and clutching at her destroyed shoulder.\n\n\t``Ahhhg! Arrrgh!''\n\n\tSerra laughed, holding her arm up again, returned again to a knife. ``We'll deal with you in just a moment, my dear. Sula? Honey...''\n\n\tSula, terrified but nodding, looked into Serra's eyes. ``I'm here... Please, don't kill her though.''\n\n\t``She will die, but she will live...'' Serra reassured.\n\n\t``Oh thank you, Serra,'' Sula panted, smiling.\n\n\t``Just as you will, Sula...''\n\n\tSula's face fell. ``No... No... Serra, please... I'm... I'm not ready. Please, don't eat me.''\n\n\tSerra laughed. ``Eat you? Sula... You misunderstand me.''\n\n\tSerra lifted her right arm, and lay her left-arm-blade against it. Sula yelped as Serra dragged the blade down her arm, cutting through the flesh and veins, and causing her hot, steaming blood to pour out.\n\n\t``You just slit--''\n\n\t``Open your mouth, Sula.''\n\n\tSula stared, slack-jawed with amazement, a bad time to have one's mouth open... Serra took the invitation, willingly or not. With a quick motion, Sula's struggling body was pressed against Serra by lieu of her blade-arm, while the spurting wound profused into Sula's screaming maw.\n\n\tHer mouth smoked and burned as Serra forced herself on Sula.\n\n\t``I love you Sula,'' sneered Serra, while the wailing girl felt her mouth burning-numb from the blood. ``Swallow, dear child. I will grant your wishes, whether you want me to or not, you will consent because I say so, and in doing so you will transcend your Consent-License! Free yourself, for you are mine!''\n\n\tSula grew week, her legs giving out, she struggled against her burning lungs and burning mouth... and began to drink.\n\n\t``Yes... good girl.''\n\n\tSula's stomach began convulsing again, the pain in her stomach was shared with her prey, who screamed audibly from within as he were bathed in steaming blood.\n\n\t``This heat will temper you like steel, harden you. With my heat, my blood, you shall never grow cold again Sula. The chill, despair, emptiness you felt when that man raped you... it is gone now, my child. This is the last violation you shall ever suffer...''\n\n\tSerra let go, Sula gasped for breath, steam coming off her rasping mouth as she struggled for air. Sula collapsed to her knees, clutching her stomach... Her stomach became still, and all at once, went from a clear outline of a boy to a complete orb of liquid mass.\n\n\tSula fell over, feeling... something... coursing through her.\n\n\tSerra smiled at Tethys. ``I can heal your wounds, by destroying them utterly. You will live, and you shall also be gone from my sight. But you are well acquainted, yes? Although, perhaps not experienced from this end.''\n\n\tSerra crept down to Tethy's feet, her equine cock becoming erect as the dripping, bobbling cock-tip neared her hooves.\n\n\t``You can't...'' Tethys snarled, resolute. ``I'm a Predator B too, I'm the same License as you! You'll fail, you can't force it! You'll lose your erection before you get close!''\n\n\tSerra giggled. ``Oh... I'm sorry, my treat. I am afraid I haven't been honest with you.''\n\n\tTethys sensed a change in the air, and suddenly Serra seemed grander in scale, larger in presence, more commanding in sound...\n\n\t``I am your Lady, and you are mine.''\n\n\t``Oh... fucking... dammit...'' Tethys cried, face contorting. Falling onto her good-shoulder, laying on her side, Tethys wept silently. ``Phobe...''\n\n\tSerra grunted as her cock took in Tethy's hooves. ``That's a good treat. Enjoy, this might be your last.''\n\n\tGulp.\n\n\t``Unless you ever dare cross me again. See to it that you don't. We'll meet again, I'm sure, even long after your body dries on this cement as my cream.''\n\n\tGulp.\n\n\tTethys glared at her as her cock-head neared her hips. ``Go to Hell.''\n\n\tSerra gasped with amusement, and with another swallow, Tethys seethed as her body entered what felt like a boiling dee-fryer of oil.\n\n\t``Honey, dear... I am Hell. Now... go to me!''\n\n\tGulp.\n\n13 ---\n\n\t``Well, we're off to a great start.''\n\n\t``Ahoy maties...''\n\n\tPhobe and the others had just hopped Monique's yard fence straight into the middle of the teen-pirates from earlier, in the middle of devouring a fresh batch of late-night trick-or-treaters.\n\n\t``Please, you can still help me if you pull me out!'' mewled a little ferret girl before her wolfess-predator finished pushing her up into her dripping snatch.\n\n\t``Shoosh, girl-cum now,'' she said.\n\n\t``Well, well, well, the thieves,'' laughed the panda pirate-captain, his cock swollen huge with three pre-schoolers he'd cock-vored in one go. ``What great timing for some revenge! So uh, where's our candy?''\n\n\tGulp! His penis bounced and gave an audible heave, his nuts splashing and grumbling as his morsels reached their resting-place.\n\n\tPhobe looked at the others. She was safe, but, the others were way below half of these Sexual Predator B teens. Phobe could eat some of them, but, not all of them.\n\n\tMaybe that was a ticket. ``If you start eating them, I'll start eating you,'' said Phobe. ``You want to lose some pirates just for some petty revenge?''\n\n\t``Fine by me...!'' the panda boy shrugged. Half of his merry band looked at him in outrage. He looked around at them, surprised. ``What... circle of life me harties, eh?''\n\n\t``Man, fuck you,'' grunted a Doberman in their party, Pred-A to Phobe's stronger Pred-B.\n\n\t``Mutiny?'' Phobe suggested.\n\n\tThe pirates seemed hesitant. ``Let's take a vote!'' asked one of the Pred-A girls, her raccoon-womb struggling with two smaller boys melting inside. Phobe almost hoped they'd betray each other, cuz this cute girl technically would count as three meals...\n\n\tBut as they started to settle the matter, Phobe quickly grabbed Amber, Monique, and Snowflake and ran with them. ``Move it!''\n\n\tThe girls obeyed and ran with her, the pirates hollering after them and chased!\n\n\t``I'm going to fuck you until you tell me where my candy is and then eat you all myself!'' the panda yelled.\n\n\tAmber's slave-instincts made her hesitate, just before Phobe scooped her into her arms, carrying her. ``No, no, Amber, not yet.''\n\n\t``Nyaaaa!'' Monique teased, slapping her bulging tushy at them. ``I bet you want this fresh hot loli-fur ass suuuuper bad, don't you panda-boy!?''\n\n\t``Oh I'm going to fuck you `til you have jizz pouring out your mouth!'' he shouted.\n\n\t``Ha you wish!'' she giggled, forming a heart with her twin-tails. ``Catch me if you can!''\n\n\t``They're gaining on us!'' Snowflake squealed.\n\n\t``Hmm, oops,'' Monique panted.\n\n\tThe wolf-girl, despite her swollen womb, reached to clutch at Monique's tails, which she narrowly pulled away.\n\n\t``That!!'' Amberlina pointed, a sudden green-light in her vision.\n\n\tThey all saw a safe-point! It would last minutes, but, it would be good enough for now! It appeared to be set up inside someone's front-yard playhouse. The kids darted for it, the teenagers hollering after them.\n\n\tThe two white-cubs dived into the playhouse, with Phobe throwing Amberlina inside like a sack of potatoes!\n\n\tThey all coughed as they landed, the teens smashing against the playhouse in a heap!\n\n\t``Oof!'' Phobe moaned, knocked down with the teens.\n\n\t``Crap! We're in the safe-zone!'' the predators yelped, and then scrambled out of the over-hanging green sign saying `safe zone'.\n\n\tPhobe, possessed by the same... probably a kind of magic...? crawled out with them. The inside of the sign's aura felt like deep-bone revulsion, like a bathtub drawn too hot.\n\n\tThe Predators, panting, hovered around outside.\n\n\t``Oh you little gits,'' the panda snorted, rubbing his nose. He patted his struggling nuts. He pointed his wang at them and stroked himself. ``Just for that I'm going to jerk off and blow these little pre-schoolers all over your costumes, to remind you what is going to happen when the timer goes out.''\n\n\t``If you camp us, you won't get any more food!'' snorted Monique.\n\n\t``Don't care,'' said panda boy.\n\n\tThey all ignored Phobe, except for the raccoon-girl with a fat, gurgling womb, who was quite aware that Phobe was bearing down on her Predator-A ass.\n\n\t``Well, what if I told you where I hid the candy, but only if you leave?'' Monique asked.\n\n\t``Umm, boss?'' the raccoon-girl asked while Phobe started shoving her hands down into her mouth. ``A little help?''\n\n\t``Oh, right, you'd probably just betray us,'' Monique mused.\n\n\t``Oh, good idea, then sure, tell us where the candy is!'' laughed the panda.\n\n\t``Uh, captain? Seriously I need some help,'' the raccoon-girl said, before saying, ``Mrphg!'' as her head was pulled into Phobe's esophagus.\n\n\t``You're wasting your night hanging around us!'' Monique yelled.\n\n\t``I already jerked off twenty-kids down the storm drains, now I want revenge on you!'' the panda snorted. ``And my fat cock will make that Slave tell me where the candy is in no-time, with or without your help. I'll make her cum long before she winds up my cum, and you know Slaves are totally obedient once you get your wang up their ass!''\n\n\t``Amberlina wouldn't do that!'' Monique fussed, looking at Amberlina.\n\n\tAmberlina squirmed away, looking pained. ``Uhh...''\n\n\tMonique blinked. ``Yeah okay, you're right, Amberlina will totally cave when you put your dick up her ass.''\n\n\t``S-sorry,'' pined the red-fox.\n\n\t``But it doesn't give you the right to bully us!'' Monique yelled at the panda.\n\n\t``Girl you stole all my candy!'' the panda said, shrugging. ``I cock-vore people and I say that's a dick-move, so that's saying a lot. I mean, you're allowed to run away from a Predator, but, you stole my candy.''\n\n\t``Uh yeah cuz its freakin' candy!''\n\n\t``Hey, who's the pirate here?'' he said.\n\n\t``Well I'm a dark fairy, so deal with it!'' Monique said, and stuck out her tongue.\n\n\tThe panda boy, jerking off to climax, basted Monique for her second coating of hot, creamy nut-gravy!\n\n\t``EEWWW!'' she cried, and the other girls began whining as the panda-boy gushed rope-after-rope of digested-pre-schoolers all over their costumes.\n\n\t``Unng, yeah, that's... what you'll be soon, my nut-sauce,'' he panted, eyes shut tight as he gushed. ``Sweet... sweet... little girl cum...''\n\n\t``Hey, captain?'' the wolfess interrupted.\n\n\t``What, I'm jizzing on little-girls, what is it?'' the panda asked, and looked to see that half his crew of teenage-pirates was now... inside Phobe!\n\n\t``Urp,'' she belched.\n\n\tThe panda smacked his head. ``In the name of Davey Jones what's this shit? Seriously, half my crew?''\n\n\tPhobe looked around to make sure she had the rest accounted for. ``Hmm... yeah, three is doable.''\n\n\t``What's that supposed to mean?'' the panda said while brandishing his toy cutlass at her.\n\n\t``It means I'm an actual witch and you're going to the dirt,'' Phobe said, holding her fingers up, and with a snap! the panda flew back as if hit with a car!\n\n\t``Woah!'' he yelled, apparently uninjured until he went smashing into a thorn-bush. ``Aeeek!''\n\n\tThe wolfess growled and prepared to brawl Phobe, fist-to-fist. Phobe began walking backwards, snapping her fingers at her.\n\n\t``Aaah!'' she yelled, the magic hit her and made half the cum, and a bunch of clothes, come rushing out of her pussy, leaving a thick slimy trail as she flew past.\n\n\tThe third teen, a lizard boy, lunged at Phobe. Phobe knelt down and let him sail past her. She crept forward, minding her swollen stomach, and turned to face him as he got back up.\n\n\t``I'm twice your size!'' he yelled.\n\n\t``I'm twice your weight,'' she said, smirking, and snapped her fingers at the ground beneath her.\n\n\tHowever her magic worked, the shockwave launched her up into the air, and the lizard-guy squealed as Phobe fell on him, smooshing him.\n\n\tThe green-light above the play-house went dim.\n\n\t``Oh crap, run!'' Monique yelled, and grabbed the girls to run after her. They ran past Phobe, who struggled to her hooves and wobbled after them, lifting her gut up as she ran.\n\n\tThe lizard-boy, eyes twitching and a scarlet blush on his face, mumbled, ``Big... big beautiful belly. All... over me.''\n\n\tThe panda ran up to him, almost all his costume torn off in the thorn-bush, and snarling with rage. ``C'mon, get up, after them!''\n\n\tThe lizard didn't move.\n\n\tThe panda stared. ``What's the matter? Get up before I keelhaul you!''\n\n\t``Big... belly... I'm in love,'' he panted.\n\n\tThe panda looked up at the sky in rage, shaking his fists, and fell to his knees, screaming, ``NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!''\n\n\tHis remaining friends began clapping.\n\n\t``Thank you,'' he said.\n\n\tMeanwhile, the girls, more than a block ahead, were booking it for the park. It'd gone quiet in town for a awhile, but they could see people swarming in their homes and shops, closing blinds and turning off lights. Every once in a while they'd see a panicked, mixed-group of people running past in fear.\n\n\tThey found the crack-in-the-wall that lead to the bushes, and crept through. Phobe launched herself over the wall with her magic, flopping on her rapidly-softening belly like a cushion.\n\n\tShe belched up someone's skull, wiped her lips, and then continued on with them. The skull had the faintest, inexplicable blush on it.\n\n\tThe kids crept through the bushes, into the woods... they found a giant snake, lying dead in the grass, riddled with holes and its belly sliced open. A little after that, they found a bird girl, covered in blood and digestive-slime, rocking back and forth.\n\n\t``Are... are you okay?'' Snowflake asked, hands covering her mouth.\n\n\tThe bird-girl shivered and shook her head. ``I was... I was in the snake. I was in the snake... I was in the snake...''\n\n\t``She's a Consent-License,'' Phobe whispered, sensing her.\n\n\t``The snake ate you?'' Amberlina asked.\n\n\tThe bird-girl nodded. ``I just... I just, got curious. I let it wrap me up... but then, then, there was this light, and screaming, and blood... they pulled me out, and the snake was in such pain. I was inside the snake, and now it's dead. How did it wind up like this? It's... It's not fair. I... I consented...!''\n\n\t``Get out of here, there's a hole in the wall past the bushes,'' Phobe advised. ``Please...''\n\n\tThe bird rocked, slowed, and then stopped. She blinked at them... She asked where again, and Phobe pointed.\n\n\t``Please, don't go any further,'' the bird-girl said. ``They've... they've got guns.''\n\n\t``We know, we just got to find something out, we won't be here for long, but we have to do this,'' Phobe explained.\n\n\tThe others watched the bird-girl creep away, and then they proceeded.\n\n\tThey came to the edge of the woods, and saw the desecrated rotisserie, surrounded by a mob. The cooker was smashed, and turned into a giant dais. No one was inside it, but, on-top, stood a family.\n\n\t``Holy crap, it's...'' began Monique.\n\n\t``Carly...'' gasped Snowflake.\n\n\tCarly, looking corpse-like, clung to her mother's legs. Her dad, holding a hunting rifle, was saluting the cheering crowd with his hat.\n\n\tAnd behind him were three Sexual Predator B's, mounted and tied to three spikes from the rotisserie. One of them was a tan husky, head hung. There was a white-rabbit with lemon-blonde hair. Finally, a silky black-skunk with rich wavy hair.\n\n\tBehind the broken rotisserie was the brute-force behind it, some minotaur-sized bull who, in-spite of appearances, seemed to have a sense of the Consent-License behind him. Other than a very few others, almost everyone in their group was human, and most of them Consent-License.\n\n\t``My friends, we have caught them!'' the man shouted. ``These are the culprits! These are the vermin who hunted us in our own homes! My friends, we have done it! Justice will now be carried out, we will put them to trial, and then, put them to fire! Our vengeance is almost complete. After this, we will reorganize the town, and with me as your new mayor, we shall change Pinwheel Village for the better! No, the entire world can follow in our steps! Humans, furs, scales, and all else, all the people, all the people!! All of them, finally, safe... cooperative... Under control! No more vore! No more hunts! No more fear! Only cooperation... cooperation and trust! Trust and love! We will teach them this love. We will teach them, and those who will not learn? What will we do with them!?''\n\n\t``Burn them!'' the crowd shouted.\n\n\t``Yes, shout it again, my friends!'' he shouted.\n\n\t``Burn them!!''\n\n\t``Yesss! We shall burn them, are we one people?''\n\n\t``One people!''\n\n\t``Are we one people?! Let me hear your voices!''\n\n\t``ONE PEOPLE!!''\n\n\t``Yesss! Let yourselves be heard at last! I am listening my friends! I will listen to your pleas! Let yourselves be heard!''\n\n\t``WE ARE ONE PEOPLE!!'' they screamed in relish.\n\n\t``And who am I!?'' he yelled.\n\n\t``MAYOR VOLKNIR!!'' they shouted, as he threw his hat sailing into their raised fists.\n\n\t``Judge, jailer and executioner!'' Volknir shouted. ``And with you as the jury, we can get this thing started! Let me hear the cries of the victims! Did these... Predators eat your family to death!?!''\n\n\tA few screaming voices made themselves heard in the crowd. The Predators tied to the posts flinched.\n\n\tAmberlina looked over them, a dawning coming over her. ``I... Know them! One of them is a husky I saw earlier today!''\n\n\tThe other girls looked at her. ``Ugh, that's...'' Monique fussed. ``But, what can we do?''\n\n\t``We have to help them,'' said Amberlina.\n\n\t``But what could we possibly do?'' Monique asked. ``We have to have some kind of plan, right?''\n\n\tThe crowd cheered, and Volknir fired his rifle into the sky, and this seemed to make them cheer more.\n\n\t``Well, whatever we do, this looney-toon is getting them ready to kill,'' said Phobe. ``So we have to do it fast, and careful. They'll shoot us if we mess with them.''\n\n\t``Maybe we can make a smoke-screen,'' said Monique.\n\n\t``With what though?'' Snowflake asked.\n\n\t``We have those smoke-bombs!'' said the arctic-kit, smiling.\n\n\t``But cover a whole crowd?'' Phobe asked, ``And that won't last for long...''\n\n\t``Hmm,'' Monique mumbled. ``Dangit, if only I had magic...''\n\n\t``I can't use my ramming-Advent as fast as they can pull their triggers,'' Phobe huffed.\n\n\t``Hey, uh, who is that?'' Snowflake mumbled, pointing.\n\n\tThe rest of the girls turned to look.\n\n\tOpposite the clearing, coming out of the tree-line, were two furs. The larger one was a horse-girl, and she was carrying two limp, unmoving people in her hands. The equine must have been incredibly strong, dragging them like they were nothing. She had an incredibly large ball-sac, hinting of a possibly recent meal.\n\n\tThe other girl, a badger, was covered in thick streaks of red. She and shaking, and definitely had eaten. Her stomach was swollen and jiggling with peristalsis.\n\n\t``That badger... she's a Consent-License,'' Phobe wondered. ``That's odd.''\n\n\t``Oh, we saw them earlier,'' Monique mumbled. ``They were talking about sensing magic in the air.''\n\n\t``What...?'' Phobe asked, curious. ``Then they must be magic themselves!''\n\n\tAmberlina stared, and remembered... (`You saw her with your own damn eyes, dammit! I went to the trouble of letting one walk right in front of you and you didn't even notice?!')\n\n\tThe red-fox inhaled. ``Oh... oh no... that's... that's the demon. I think that's the demon.''\n\n\t``What makes you so sure?'' Monique asked.\n\n\tSerra threw the two dead humans thirty feet right into the crowd, which went silent...\n\n\t``I'm pretty sure,'' Amberlina whispered, blanching.\n\n\tThe crowd began screaming, pointing their weapons at the two witches, and open-fired!\n\n\tThere was some sort of... shadowy nonsense around them for a brief moment, and the two of them were simply gone. The bullets hit the trees behind them, seeming to not hit anything.\n\n\tThere was a laugh, from the same direction. ``You can't hit me!''\n\n\t``I kept telling you we were innocent!'' shouted the bunny-woman from the rotisserie. ``Looks like the real thing is here!''\n\n\t``Oh please, please, please be an angel here to save me!'' Jacob shouted.\n\n\t``No, my dears!'' the voice from the empty-space called. ``I... am quite the opposite!''\n\n\t``They're there, fire!'' Volknir shouted. ``Fire!!''\n\n\tThe militia started firing again, some idiot accidentally shooting one of the people right in front of him from them failing to form an organized rank. The group began to panic themselves and break order.\n\n\tSomething slender stretched out of thin air ten-feet to the left of where they'd fired, and pierced someone in the skull, dropping them. The thin-rod slid back into the thin-of-air.\n\n\t``They're on the move, fire, quick, lead the shots!'' Volknir shouted. ``Fire at will!''\n\n\t``I hate to say it but this is our only chance!'' Phobe shouted. ``Follow me, stay low, you have those smoke-bombs just in-case?''\n\n\t``I have mine,'' Monique said.\n\n\tPhobe checked her pockets and had hers.\n\n\t``Mine got nommed,'' mewled Snowflake.\n\n\t``The rest of mine were in my candy,'' Amber whimpered.\n\n\tPhobe nodded, grim. ``It will have to do.\n\n\tThe girls clapped their ears as another ring of shots went out, and someone from the crowd dropped dead. There was a cold laughter on the wind.\n\n\t``Foolish, but delightful! Oh, where will I appear next? Could it be... here?!''\n\n\tA spike flew out, pierced someone, and dragged them back. They vanished in the thin-of-air from whence the spike came, and everyone suddenly heard the chilling cracking and lip-smacking of someone being hard-vored.\n\n\t``Holy shit!!'' echoed from multiple sources.\n\n\tAmberlina shook with fear as they ran across the clearing. This isn't happening. They're Consenters, this can't be happening!\n\n\t``Lucky shot!'' Volknir shouted from atop the giant rotisserie. ``I have my followers trained, see? Make Consenters think that being fired on by the enemy is some sort of fetish and the cops couldn't even land a bullet! We are not afraid of you! You can't keep this up!''\n\n\tA spike flew out, impaled, retracted. Crunch smack munch!\n\n\tVolknir recoiled, rubbing his neck. ``FIRE EVERYWHERE!! BULLETS, EVERYWHERE, NOW!!''\n\n\tThe screaming, panicked crowd obeyed.\n\n\t``Down!'' Phobe yelled, and just a few feet away from the rotisserie, the girls dropped to the grass.\n\n\tBullets rang out across the air, everyone with a gun shooting randomly. Friendly fire dwindled their numbers, and bullets ricocheting off abandoned food-carts and benches and other fixtures caused more injuries. A bullet hitting the rotisserie bounced and hit the ground inches from Snowflake's head.\n\n\t``EEEEK!'' she screamed.\n\n\t``Quiet!'' Monique whispered.\n\n\tAnother cry came out from somewhere... suddenly, the two girls reappeared, and Sula was clutching her stomach, doubled over. An unhappy horse hung near her. She had three bullet-holes in her, but...\n\n\t``She's...'' someone whispered from the crowd.\n\n\t``That's enough. The time for secrecy is at an end. Volknir, there is no escape for you, mortal.''\n\n\tShe lifted her arms. ``Let all be graced... in the radiance of a true Lady, a princess of the Void!''\n\n\tThe air shifted, and everyone gasped. The humans couldn't put a finger on it, but, they suddenly couldn't bring themselves to keep firing.\n\n\tPhobe stared at her with open-fear. She turned to her friends. ``She's higher than me on the food-chain!''\n\n\tMonique grimaced. ``But, you're the top! It doesn't go higher than--''\n\n\t``Yeah, I know, but trust me, she's higher!'' Phobe snorted.\n\n\tThe girls got to their feet and crept to the rotisserie.\n\n\tThey found a ladder, scattered their smoke-bombs, and began to climb, following the smoke.\n\n\tPerhaps the girls should have figured that the smoke would attract attention rather than hide them - -how fortunate, then, that the rotisserie had smoked heavily after the minotaur had smashed it. He ignored the smoke and walked past them, clenching a huge fist.\n\n\t``I am not afraid of you!'' he shouted. ``I am Consent, you still can't eat me!''\n\n\t``Hahaha!'' Serra cackled. ``What pathetic nonsense! I can do more than that! I can make you do anything I wish by simply ordering you to do it! The only thing I cannot do is order you to forget you saw me, or to not speak of me. I cannot force you to keep me secret, but what I can do?''\n\n\tShe pointed at the crowd. ``Eaaaaat...''\n\n\tHe shook his head, eyes going wide. ``No.''\n\n\t``I order you to eat them!''\n\n\tThe minotaur stared... tears the size of baseballs fell from his eyes... and then he marched on the Consenters.\n\n\tShrieking, they readied their fire-arms. They got off a few shots at the howling minotaur, but his thick fur and tough body survived the first volley.\n\n\t``You will drop your fire-arms and submit!'' the Lady cried.\n\n\tConsenters... consented, and soon, the minotaur was obediently scooping weeping humans into his large hands, and slipping them, one by one, into his humid, bovine maw.\n\n\tThe humans watched as, one by one, their numbers pushed down his throat in visible bulges.\n\n\tThe demon cackled. ``Oh what joy to finally fulfill myself! Every night shall be soon as this is, my dear Sula! No more hiding, once we have Volknir, we will have no reason to. Volknir, approach, I command you!''\n\n\tVolknir snarled and pointed his rifle at her.\n\n\tShe blinked. ``Excuse me? Consenter, I gave you an order to consent to me, and break your legs upon your fall to my feet!''\n\n\t``Go fuck yourself, Preddy!'' he snarled, and pulled the trigger.\n\n\tSerra's head exploded. Sula, screaming, watched as Serra's body fell to the ground.\n\n\tVolknir laughed. ``Got a little magic myself, my dear!''\n\n\tPhobe, staring at him from the edge of the rotisserie's roof, couldn't believe it.\n\n\t``He's... he's not fully human himself...''\n\n\t``Then what is he?'' asked Monique, just behind.\n\n\t``More human than her...'' Phobe said, and watched as the headless body rose back to its hooves.\n\n\t``What... on earth?'' Volknir balked.\n\n\tSula stared, eyes wide with shock, and something like... hope.\n\n\tThe crowd screamed as a huge gush of blood, smoking and steaming and making the air coruscate from rapid-temperature change, erupted from her stump. The body raised its hands as if basking, as the blood began to twist and spiral... It snaked, wove, and spun, forming looping, fractal patterns and dense knots that resembled inelegant and offensive caricatures of chakras. Soon, where Serra's head had been, there was only a gigantic, abyssal illuminated script of smoking blood... a wheel.\n\n\tHypnotising, the script seemed to spin, the false-chakras orbiting the center. No known language was written in the spooling spirals, and yet, everyone had felt that there was a single word inside, a word understood without knowing the language.\n\n\tBut no one but Sula could put it to words, and even her word was a paltry, Greek approximation of what the demon used as a name.\n\n\t``Kuklos,'' she panted, and in some mad epiphany, understood that the demon she'd thought she'd come to know... wasn't fully here. Kuklos was only a name, just the demon's name. This... was the demon's name. Sula wept as she watched the spinning wheel, contemplating what true nature her mistress had out in the Void.\n\n\tOf what essence was present with them, the `Kuklos' held out a hand, pointing its finger at Volknir. Laces of blood from the blood-aura protruded out through the air, lazily weaving through the empth-space toward him.\n\n\t``Bitch!'' Volknir shouted, bolting his rifle and taking aim. He fired on her repeatedly, but no matter how many great holes he blew in her body, the creature didn't stop.\n\n\t``What the fuck is this thiiiing!!'' he screamed, his wife clutching at his shoulder, crying.\n\n\t``Never mind it honey, let's get out of here, let's get out of here!'' she shouted, shaking him.\n\n\t``Be sensible!'' he shouted, took aim, and blasted a leg clean off the demon.\n\n\t``No, honey, this is crazy! Stop firing, let's just run!''\n\n\t``You run!'' he shouted, grabbed his wife by the hair... and chucked her from the roof.\n\n\t``Aaieee!''\n\n\t``MOOOOOOM!!'' Carly screamed, crying as she ran to the edge. She watched her mother land with a thud...\n\n\t``Aagh... aaagh... my arm... My arrrrm...!''\n\n\tThe mother rolled over, clutching her shattered arm. ``Oh, oh, oh Jesus... My arm...''\n\n\tThe minotaur crawled toward her. Her eyes shot open as she watched him approaching.\n\n\t``No... please, Archie, no... we're neighbors Archie...''\n\n\t``Please, tell me to stop demon, please! Don't make me do this...'' Archie the minotaur hovered inches from her, Carly shrieking overhead.\n\n\tPhobe and the girls clambered up onto the rotisserie and neared the captured Predators. They caught sight of them, and Jacob and Cynthia gasped with shock.\n\n\t``It's you...!'' they both said, staring at Amberlina.\n\n\t``What can we cut these with?'' Phobe asked, examining the ropes.\n\n\tSnowflake waddled over. ``Girl-scouts... Oh, yeah, I know these knots.''\n\n\t``You're joking...''\n\n\t``I just might need a little help from your claws, but, if we can weaken them that way, I know how to undo them,'' Snowflake explained.\n\n\t``Hurry!'' Amberlina whimpered.\n\n\t``Ngahhh!!'' Volknir screamed, reloading ammo from a pouch on his person, and firing as quick as he could. By the time the blood had reached halfway across the air toward him, the entirety of Serra's body had been blown completely apart. Not even discernable limbs remained, everything was destroyed.\n\n\tBut the blood-aura had been unaffected. Staring, the wheels spun threads of blood out in a gigantic net, reaching out for him.\n\n\tCarly screamed, running to him. ``Daddy, Daddy, Archie's eating mom! Archie's eating mom!''\n\n\tVolknir kicked her off of him, blood spraying from her nose as she went tumbling. ``You'll join her if you touch me again!''\n\n\tVolknir aimed his rifle. ``Fuck this demon, whatever it is! I'm going to be the king of this goddamn world! I've seen it in my dreams, humans on top, all others reincarnating endlessly in designated machinery, the perfect slaves, my rule absolute! I've seen the dreams, I've a vision! I!'' BLAM! ``WON'T'' BLAM! ``BE!'' BLAM! ``DENIIIIEED!''\n\n\t``Graaa!'' Carly shouted, and in a fit of hysterics, grabbed Volknir by his suspender straps and pulled with all her strength!!\n\n\tHe yelled as he stumbled forward a few feet, and Carly ran and pushed on his ass!\n\n\tVolknir flew... and the blood caught him.\n\n\t``What... what...'' he panted, feeling burning hot liquid coalescing around him. ``CARLY!! WHAT DID YOU DO YOU BIIITCH!''\n\n\tCarly, crying tears and blood pouring from her nose, grabbed Volknir's rifle... She carried it to the edge of the roof and tried pointing it at Archie.\n\n\tThe minotaur was licking his lips... He buried his head in his hands, weeping. Not one human remained standing on the ground.\n\n\tCarly... dropped the rifle from the roof, and collapsed backward. She stared at the sky, crying, banging her fists against the roof.\n\n\t``CARLY WHAT DID YOU DOOOO!?'' Volknir screamed, feeling his flesh cook in the blood as he was gently carried toward the center of Kuklos.\n\n\t``No! Stop, I'm... I'm supposed to be a king! I've seen it! I've seeeen iiiiit!''\n\n\tHe gave a last scream as he was plunged into the center of the wheel, and then it spun rapidly, cocooning him.\n\n\tEveryone heard a voice, said in their own voices, stolen from everyone.\n\n\t``Sula, my vessel is wasted as I'd feared, but, we will meet again. Now, I do this for you. Flee, recover, remember my name. Call upon me, and with this outsider's soul, divorced from the food-chain, this man who did not belong in this world... we shall be reunited, and fill this world with spirals of blood! Flee Sula, and remember Kuklos!''\n\n\tSula nodded, crying. ``I love you, my true queen, my demon!''\n\n\tThe huge orb of blood caught fire, erupting into a volcanic-scale pillar of smoke. A hideous feeling of wrongness pervaded the air, some sacrilegious perversion that even this world couldn't quite contain it, and everyone there yet alive began crying.\n\n\t``Your rapist's soul nourishes me, my retreat is not in vain. Your love will not go unrewarded, live for me Sula, but fear the sun.''\n\n\tSula hesitated... and then ran.\n\n\tThe fire burnt itself out, and the blood was gone. Volknir was gone.\n\n\tJust about everything was gone... The minotaur was the only thing off the roof, and lay sobbing as he felt the last movement die out inside him.\n\n\t``Gooooods and goddesses what the shiiiit!'' Jacob snarled. ``What the shit was all that fucking nonsense! No, no no no, I do NOT like magic! Not one fucking biiit!''\n\n\tAmberlina took a few steps back from them, gazing over the scene of chaos... ``Oh... I can't... Did... did we do it? Did we save the world?''\n\n\tAmberlina sensed something behind her. She froze, and turned her eyes slightly to her right, to see a dog's face inches away from her head. The dog had boring brown fur, a dumb smile, and radiated no body-heat. The pins on his beanie glinted in the moonlight.\n\n\tHe chuckled. ``You blew it kid.''\n\n\tShe screamed, running forward.\n\n\tSnowflake and Monique got Jacob free, while Phobe freed Cynthia by snapping her fingers and gradually fraying the ropes apart with concussive force. The group turned toward Amberlina, watching her run to them.\n\n\tAnd they saw him. His eyes seemed unusually black, even in the dark night. He smiled congenially. ``I hate to make an awkward moment worse, but, you're all about to die.''\n\n\tThey stared... Amberina contorted her face and suddenly took a step closer. ``I won't let you hurt them!''\n\n\tHe tilted his head-back and guffawed. He panted his stomach, which growled in a manner that made every Predator's skin crawl. Everyone felt like they'd been thrown under ice.\n\n\t``Me? Ah, nope. Wrongo! Hey, doggo! Yeah, Mr. Khakis! You used to live in Crucible, right? Tell me, what does Crucible do if they detect a major-threat on the planet in a small, easy to isolate area?''\n\n\tJacob squinted at him, confused. His eyes then went wide. ``Wait... No, naw, that's just a rumor. A conspiracy theory!''\n\n\t``Hehehe, and people wonder why no one trusts the city-state of Crucible!'' laughed the beanie-dog. ``Fffeewwwwww~ KurBLAM! Not so much a demon doing magic, but, a soul being devoured? Oh yeah, they'd pick up on that and be all, `Oh hell no!' and send a panic-flare immediately! Too bad they have no way of telling that the demon left, so it's pointless!''\n\n\tThey stared at him, and looked up at the sky as they saw that a spot above them was growing orange...\n\n\t``Ah, here it comes!'' the Hungry Man laughed. ``Magic, isn't it? That's Crucible's calling card, from what I hear. Yeah, you'll all die. Ahh, but, there's a loophole, isn't there?''\n\n\t``What are they doing?!'' Jacob shouted.\n\n\t``Wha-what's going on?!'' Snowflake cried.\n\n\t``Oh nothing honey, the park is just about to go up in flames is all,'' laughed the beanie-dog.\n\n\t``They can't do that! This isn't their jurisdiction!!''\n\n\t``What the fuck is that dammit?!'' Cynthia asked, watching the sky grow brighter. Their hair was beginning to stand on end.\n\n\t``Just the park? Is there time to escape?'' Jacob asked.\n\n\t``There was, but, that was before I showed up,'' laughed the Hungry Man. ``If you ran now, they'll have the whole park warded before you can reach the wall or gates! So unless you can run at 40 MPH(64kph) like a fucking vampire you are basically boned. Now, I'd offer to help... but, what kind of Hungry Man would I be if I actually ate something, huh? Amberlina...''\n\n\tShe shrank against the others.\n\n\tThe Hungry Man shook his head at her. ``Tch tch tch... Enjoy your world while you can. I can't say I am not disappointed in you, but I am also... not surprised. But there is hope yet. Remember, my invitation still stands, if you want to become... Empty.''\n\n\tHe giggled and pulled his beanie off, bowing to them. ``Well kiddos... eat your hearts out...''\n\n\tHe was gone. They didn't feel like he simply disappeared. It was jarring from how un-jarring his departure was, as impersonal as noticing something missing between shots in a tv show, or a comic panel. He was gone, and the group was left watching the sun forming above them and the air grow warm.\n\n\t``We won't reincarnate if this thing kills us,'' Cynthia said, staring.\n\n\t``Why did we come here...'' Jacob grunted, staring.\n\n\tCynthia looked at Amberlina, and was... stunned by her. Just, the pure... delectableness of her prepubescent breasts and her cum-soaked hot-chocolate costume, and her huge tail.\n\n\tI'm not the only one who looks suspicious, Cynthia thought to herself. I'm not a fox-killer, I'm a fox-protector...\n\n\tShe smiled and stepped toward her prey. ``I just have to kill a few foxes doing it...''\n\n\t``What...?'' Jacob panted.\n\n\tAmberlina squealed as she felt Cynthia straddle her. She was soon nose-to-puss with Cynthia, who began tugging her play-boy bunny costume's crotch to the side. ``Oh you poor dear. I don't know what you were doing here, but, you're just the spitting image of the First-Slave, you know that?''\n\n\t``No... no I don't,'' Amberlina mewled.\n\n\t``They say I'm just the spitting image of Castelia, the Fox-Killer,'' Cynthia laughed. ``Oh, they used to tease me... Honey, you'll be fine. Honey, you'll be safe. Because once you are honey running down my legs, you'll be safe in the food chain.''\n\n\t``I...''\n\n\t``C'mere, it will be okay now, you won't remember this shit soon.''\n\n\tCynthia moaned as she pushed her pussy down over Amberlina's muzzle. She looked up at Cynthia, crying.\n\n\t``Whup-abboub-youb?''\n\n\t``I'll be fine,'' Cynthia mewled, winking, and patting her. ``I'm not going to let myself miss out on any other chances to hunt you down. I don't care how many life-times it takes me, I'm going to eat you the way you deserve to be eaten... But for now... just die naturally. In me!''\n\n\tCynthia moaned and purred, and the group, confused, watched Amberlina slowly disappearing into Cynthia's snatch.\n\n\t``Guess we have to,'' Phobe said, and pulled Monique over to her.\n\n\t``Hey, what you doing?'' cried Monique.\n\n\t``Saving you, unsexualized murder does not have a precedence of leading to reincarnation - only being eaten works, and last I heard, even Predators allow themselves to be eaten when they get old.''\n\n\t``Ooohh crap, but, my candy!'' Monique cried.\n\n\t``Oh shut up,'' Phobe said, and thrust Monique down between her legs, lifted her skirt... and began feeding the whimpering kit to her penis.\n\n\tSnowflake yelped as she was lifted up by Jacob, who dangled her above his freshly-freed dog-meat. ``Bye bye kitty, I hope to see you later!'' he grunted.\n\n\t``Wait...'' she mewled.\n\n\t``You're lucky that you're so fucking hot that I could just cock-vore you even in a situation like this!''\n\n\t``Eeeek!'' she cried as he began snarfing her down his cock, tiny cat-feet, ankles, legs... even her dainty hips were no match for his growing, snarfing cock.\n\n\tCynthia moaned as she felt a thick, red tail slipping up her canal, honey dripping to the floor.\n\n\tPhobe panted as she put a hand on the spit fastened to the roof. She could feel Monique's impressive young ass bulging out her drooling glans. ``Shit, I should... have done this earlier, oh, you delicious fox...''\n\n\tThe predators all groaned as they felt their sex-organs swallow the cubs whole, and settle to digest in their sexes.\n\n\t``One of us... I guess... can't make it...'' Jacob snorted, while rubbing his balls. The little girl-shape was melting already.\n\n\tCynthia, panting, went over to get her girlfriend Sabrina loose. They shared a sad look with each other.\n\n\t``We should have stayed home,'' she spat.\n\n\t``I know...''\n\n\t``We could be fucking at a party right now!!''\n\n\t``I knooow.''\n\n\t``I hate you so much right now, chasing foxes and Hungry Mans!''\n\n\t``I know...'' Cynthia said sadly, and pulled Sabrina into her arms. ``We'll be okay. We'll... just have to celebrate another Halloween together sometime. I... know we'll meet again.''\n\n\t``Don't try to make this romantic, we're eating each other to escape dying from a magical tactical nuke, this is the dumbest most unsexy bullshit night I've - ''\n\n\tCynthia closed her mouth around Sabrina's head.\n\n\tJacob, having no tact, waddled up to Cynthia and lifted one of her feet... poking it into his cock-tip. She glared at him, and he just smiled uneasily. ``Can't let my fine lady-friend go, can I? Trust me, I can eat adults just fine.''\n\n\tPhobe stood over Carly, who was staring blankly at the sky. Phobe considered her. ``You understand that if I don't eat you, you'll actually perish. You have to let me do it. Let me eat you, it will help. Please, find it in you to consent... You can't simply say yes, you have to find it in yourself to really, really want this.''\n\n\tCarly cried. ``I want... I just want my Mommy back.''\n\n\t``Maybe you can, but, I have to eat you.''\n\n\tCarly nodded. Phobe nodded, and knelt down, her cock dangling at Carly's face. ``You're lucky that a bloody-nose is a huge turn on for me...''\n\n\tCynthia swallowed her skunky-girlfriend until the two of them were dangling out of Jacob's dick, swaying between his legs while the bunny was sucked up into his balls. Just before her head was engulfed by his penis, she swallowed Sabrina's feet.\n\n\t``Unng, always, kinda... wanted to eat another Pred,'' Jacob snorted, feeling Cyntha vanish into his glans. ``Whoo... Never thought I'd find myself in a situation in which a Predator B would consent to being my meal. Well, desperate times...''\n\n\tThe air was so hot that they were beginning to sweat, and there was this feeling like the air was being sucked into the sky above them. The sun-like object was closer, or larger...\n\n\t``Not much time,'' he said, and looked at Phobe, who just finished devouring Carly. She looked back at him.\n\n\t``Now what...'' she said.\n\n\t``I can't leave a kid to die,'' Jacob said.\n\n\t``Easy for you to say, you're shaking and your nuts are fit to burst, maybe I can out-eat you?'' she said.\n\n\t``Naw, c'mon... I can eat you if you consent to it...''\n\n\tPhobe looked out over the park. ``My Moms are looking for me I bet... I hope... I hope Tethys is okay. She was on duty tonight.''\n\n\tJacob snuck up on her while she was distracted, and pushed his dick against her muzzle. She glared at him, and then shut her eyes.\n\n\tJacob pushed his dick forward, and felt her entering.\n\n\t``Excellent, c'mere goaty-goat, I can help you by helping myself to your body...''\n\n\tJacob panted as he felt Phobe slide into him... Man, he wish he could gloat to some other Pred's about how he could cock-vore under stress. He felt the young girl enter his nuts, splooshing into the half-digested remains of his other friends.\n\n\tPanting, he looked up at the sky again. ``Shit... so, this was my Narration all along? To just save them from this? Thanks a lot... Damn Crucible. Gods damn those bastards! I... I don't fucken wanna get blown to shit! This was supposed to be Halloween! Instead I got crazy, just... crazy everything and... and...''\n\n\tHe looked down at his hands, shaking, feeling scared. His nuts tightened against him, as his adrenaline helped break them all down into his splooge. He wouldn't even have time to enjoy it.\n\n\t``Is this really my Narrative? I thought my Narrative was to... eat kids! Not this!''\n\n\tJacob felt something loom up behind him. He blinked, turned, and came face to face with a huge minotaur maw.\n\n\t``Well... well shit...'' he mumbled, and felt darkness envelop him.\n\n14 ---\n\n\t``You don't understand, I have to get in there!''\n\n\t``No one is getting in there,'' said the cop.\n\n\t``No, my family was in the park!'' shouted the human. ``Listen, I'm not here to cause trouble, my family was with the protestors, I have to get in there and see what happened!''\n\n\t``No one can get in!'' the cop said.\n\n\t``I have to get in there dammit!'' he shouted, and pushed past the cop. He ran... and slammed against something...\n\n\tHe bounced back as if he'd run into a glass door, and looked up. There was... nothing. He ran into nothing.\n\n\t``Kid I tried to tell you we can't get in there.''\n\n\t``What the fuck kind of magic shit is this?!''\n\n\t``Barrier,'' the cop said.\n\n\tThe human looked up at the cop, his eyes glaring. ``What do you mean a barrier? Like a magic barrier? Who could make a barrier?!''\n\n\t``It's a Crucible barrier!'' the cop said, took off his hat, and began to spin it. He whistled, looking up at the invisible barrier with curiosity.\n\n\t``Why the fuck does a cop have a beanie underneath his cop-hat?'' the human asked.\n\n\tThe cop replaced his hat over the badge-festooned beanie. ``Nevermind that, I'm just here to watch the fireworks.''\n\n\t``What fireworks?!''\n\n\t``These fireworks!''\n\n\tAnd then the entire town was lit up as if by day. An intense heat filled the town, and a pillar of light appeared at Pinwheel Park, the entire thing consumed just within the walls. The walls began melting, pouring liquid rock into the streets. Nearby homes began to blacken, and the windows burst inside. There were unintended casualties...\n\n\tThe human who had tried to fight his way into the park screamed as his flesh melted.\n\n\tThe cop laughed as he melted with him, his clothes catching fire!\n\n\tA few seconds... and then the heat was gone... The effect vanished, and the town swirled as the cold night air and intense sudden heat created severe local storms all over the town. Scared survivors shouted in their homes as windows rattled and trees creaked.\n\n\tNear the destroyed park, a laughing man stood, almost entirely skeletal, dripping with the melted fats and waxes of his fur and skin, all charred into a disgusting, inky blackness.\n\n\t``Oh Crucible, you so scary! I can't believe that idiot-child let a town like that exist! Even inside your perfect little world, people are just bursting at the seams to think they know best.''\n\n\tThe Hungry Man was suddenly better, all new clothes, all new flesh, all new beanie. He even had a cup of coffee to sip.\n\n\t``It never gets old and it never changes. You can try and make it as ideal as you possibly can and people will still fuck it up. They always fuck it up! People say things get better and maybe they do, but in the end they always... fuck up!''\n\n\tHe grinned and drained his coffee, letting it shatter at his feet, shards scattering into the lava. ``Oh, I'm here, Amberlina. I'm here! I'll be watching, just like old times! What's one more world, eh? What's one more world... when we've already seen The Silent Universe tremble at your decisions! The entire universe Rose! You did this! You hear me? You did this!''\n\n\tTurning away, laughing, he walked off into the night, his heels clicking behind him. ``After all... What did I do? All I did... was sell a confused little girl a little Halloween accessory. That's all it took to watch your world destroy itself.''\n\n\tHe howled with laughter, and vanished. And for the next month, no matter how much they ate... the entire town went hungry...\n\n15 ---\n\n\tPinwheel Village recovered. They sued, sanctioned, and did everything they could against Crucible, but in the end the town became enemies and Crucible sent a lot of money their way to help the town, and no one was satisfied. The world now knew Crucible was spying, or monitoring, nearby cities, and had terrifying magitech at their disposal. Crucible, for the time being, decided to close its borders...\n\n\tNot that that helped.\n\n\tPinwheel needed time to go back to being a happy-town. The hate-crimes became the blame for the detonation - -Crucible never announced why they had done it, only that it had been necessary. Some major city-states seemed to accept this... Dark mutterings over what shadowy deals enacted that ran amok in the town, but Consenters were blamed just as readily.\n\n\tThere was no Consent-District. The four districts became three - -spiraling in on each other to form a happy-go-lucky, upbeat town modeled after a pinwheel. It used to be four...\n\n\tNow, the Consenters were gone, told to get out. All the humans who lived in town were now all Prey, and there were less than a dozen of them, and no one wanted to eat them.\n\n\tThe city council made an emergency announcement that Halloween, and all festivals, would be vore-free zones for the next eighteen years while the population recovered. Believe it or not, the major source of population-loss was the ousting of the Consent-District, who all fled to nearby Willen.\n\n\tThe city was filled with despair and mourning... But, the Village of Pinwheel did recover. Trust and goodwilling were damaged, but, the people did start to be happier. The people had children to replace those who were no longer there.\n\n\tA goat mother gave birth to twins, and she knew them. They were sisters, but she named them Tethys and Phobe.\n\n\tAn arctic mother got pregnant, but stayed single, and gave birth to a child she recognized, and named Monique. A gigantic, sealed contraption guaranteed to keep anything in it fresh through some kind of enchantment existed in the basement, and inside was an entire trove of candy. Monique's first Halloween would be rewarding.\n\n\tA single-cat mom found herself wanting another daughter named Snowflake. Actually, she named all her daughter's that. It was good parenting, she thought, that all her daughters tended to look and act the same. She was famous for it! She was also famous for her daughter getting eaten by dogs! Such was the life of a cat.\n\n\tSome animals hold such large litters that some kids simply have to go live in collectives, boarding schools if you please. They were well-funded, and had competent staff. Even so, Jacob, Cynthia, and Sabrina were some of the most voracious kids they'd ever had. They made plans early on to go move to another town as adults...\n\n\tThe Halloween that ended in a column of fire became legendary across the neighboring city-states, and word spread quickly that there had been a Lord appear there...\n\n\tBut Pinwheel recovered, if but only just.\n\n\tAnd elsewhere, in the infamous town of Misogycity, a fox and a wolf were discussing possible names for their children, as he caressed the vixen's belly, the wolf whispered, ``How about we name one Amberlina? We might even keep her for a while, if I don't get hungry first.''\n\n\tAnd Misogycity, infamous for its mistreatment of women, and the fact that all women born there, or who move there, famously are all Slave-license... has one woman who is not. A woman who, no matter how sexist and pig-headed and superior any male or shemale who encounters her, cannot bring her to heel, cannot make her beg, and she always says `no'. The city where no means yes... begins to whisper, whisper of the girl who says `no.'\n\n\tThe whisperers would be understanding, if that were only that... but they whisper of more.\n\n\tIf you meet the badger who says `no' when you try to rape her, you run. She's not mortal, they say. Her name might be Sula, they say.\n\n\tAnd they say she leaves spirals of blood wherever she goes.\n\n\tShe's trying to find a friend, they say.\n\n\t\n\n",
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\tCynthia sat across from Jacob, both of them sipping tea. Sabrina, Cynthia's skunky companion across what felt like multiple life-times, was closing the blinds and putting up sagebrush ash above the windows... who knew if it would help, but, it felt like something.
\tIt certainly made Jacob feel like they knew what they were doing, and he felt more comfortable talking about his experience.
\t``You really think it was him?'' Cynthia asked.
\tJacob avoided eye-contact; he licked his lips, and eventually found it in him to nod. ``Yeah. I mean, I don't seem the type but, when I was a teenager, I got pretty interested in the darker side of the pantheons. There's not a lot of lore on him, but, it's... consistent.''
\t``Yeah, it is,'' said Cynthia, sipping her tea. ``Living in Pinwheel, I'm surprised you even found anything on, uh, him.''
\t``Oh, yeah, I used to live in Crucible so,'' Jacob said.
\t``Hmm, that would explain it, magic-town and all,'' said Cynthia. ``I think my folks wanted to move there when I was a kid, back when my mom was a priestess.''
\t``What happened?''
\t``Oh, well, she was prey, and her daughter was Sexual Predator B so...''
\tJacob snorted. Cynthia smiled. ``A little cannibalism never hurt anyone,'' said Jacob. ``I didn't think you were the type to go after your own species though.''
\t``Well,'' Cynthia mumbled, looking over Sabrina. They exchanged looks. ``Yeah, I really like eating foxes, really really like eating foxes. But, sometimes I go after other types of prey just to remind myself that... I'm not her, no matter how much I look like her?''
\t``Look like who?'' Jacob asked, curious.
\tCynthia laughed. ``Jacob, you know about The Hungry Man but you don't know about the Fox-Killer?''
\tJacob shook his head.
\tCynthia finished her tea. ``They used to be afraid of me, when I was a kid. I think it is why I ate my mom. I could brag to the other students about, hey, look at me! I ate a rabbit! I'm not her. I'm not the Fox-Killer's avatar. I'm not a Lord.''
\t``A... lord?'' Jacob blinked. ``They're... myths right?''
\t``Well, maybe,'' said Cynthia. ``They're rare, but, I think they exist, but you won't find them in the city-states. The history is ancient, but, at one point, the Fox-Killer almost took over the entire world. Supposedly she was stopped by the First-Slave, but, no one remembers how. The legends are all different, unlike those involving The Hungry Man... It's weird, but, the legends of the other Lords all make it sound like they're here or have visited before. The Hungry Man, though... I don't think he's actually appeared here in person... but that somewhat doesn't matter, because, we can feel his Hunger even from here.''
\t``Shit...'' Jacob shuddered. ``Heh, maybe you should have become a priestess yourself!''
\tCynthia laughed. ``No chance! I like making money too much.''
\tJacob finished his tea, looking at the fading sunlight outside. ``So... he's never been here before?''
\t``It's just a guess,'' said Cynthia. ``It is said his hunger visits those who fear him long before the Man himself does. It is sort of like an omen, a calling card. While Lords become rarer as time goes on, the omens of The Hungry Man are said to get stronger.''
\tJacob bit his lip. ``So, something serious might be about to happen.''
\t``Maybe, well, I don't want to be dramatic about it, but, you're the first person who's ever said they've encountered The Hungry Man the way you did. I've never heard of him just appearing in daylight before and in the middle of a crowd, or pursuing some agenda that has nothing to do with the people he appeared before. That's... the only thing off.''
\tJacob nodded. ``Yeah, I'm just waiting for him to consume something important to me already, but, so far... It seems like his attention wasn't on me? Unless it is that little fox-girl.''
\tCynthia's ears shot up. ``Fox-girl? Oooo, now you have my attention!''
\t``Come off it, Cynth,'' Jacob laughed. ``She was just some random girl. I doubt she's that important to me. The Man almost seemed to want to protect her from me, but he didn't follow her or do anything to her. They went separate ways.''
\t``That's weird...'' Cynthia said, biting her knuckle.
\t``Hey, Cynth,'' Jacob began, ``you said that Lords get more rare? Isn't The Hungry Man a Lord? Or would be? I mean, what would he be?''
\tCynthia rubbed her chin. ``I... actually don't know. His lore says that he feels... empty, somehow. That's where his hunger comes from. It is like he ate his own license. Supposedly you can't tell what he is.''
\tJacob shuddered. ``Gods that's creepy, I mean, that's a core part of your identity. How do you... eat that? How do you eat yourself on that level?''
\t``I don't know... so this fox-girl, the Hungry Man was interested in her?''
\t``Yeah, he said that she was... uh, his niece.''
\tCynthia hummed to herself, then looked at Jacob more seriously. ``Jacob, I uh... am not just saying this because she's a fox. And you can definitely say no but... what if we throw off the party and... go find this girl?''
\t``... Seriously? Just... go poke that bees nest?'' Jacob grimaced. ``I don't think I can bear it. Cynthia, you have no idea what it feels like to stand next to that man. It's like dying, no, it's worse than that. I can't even describe it. It was a nightmare...''
\t``Mysterious man, mysterious fox-girl, and mysterious ole' me,'' Cynthia said. ``Heh... well, if there's a chance at meeting the devil himself, I think I'd like to take it.''
\t``Why the fuck would you want to do that?'' Jacob asked, and Sabrina turned from the windows to look at them.
\tCynthia played with her hair. This white-rabbit with the lemon-hair... wasn't sure herself. ``I guess I just want to ask a question.''
\t``What is that?'' Sabrina asked, walking toward her mate and placing a hand on her shoulder.
\tCynthia touched it. ``I... guess... to know if I... No, I'll find out when I get there. C'mon, let's go hunt a fox, please?''
\tSabrina giggled and ruffled her mate's hair. ``If it is really that important to you... but promise me that if there is a supernatural boogeyman following her, you'll have the sense to just leave it be.''
\t``Now what kind of badass bunny-bitch would I be if I didn't at least say hello?'' Cynthia giggled. ``Don't worry, Sabrina. I'll be careful.''
\t``Shit, well,'' Jacob rubbed his head, ``I'm not leaving you two alone in this, I brought it all up... might as well stick around.''
\t``It's a hunt then,'' Cynthia said. ``Find the fox, and see what shark is following.''
\tJacob wasn't sure if that was the right word. A shark at least eats, no matter how hungry it is. But for some reason... it felt like The Hungry Man was hungry for a reason...
8 ---
\tThere was only a stunned silence for a time, Amberlina recognizing the weight of what she was dealing with, and yet, having no idea who this was. She only knew that he deserved her utmost attention. It was as if she knew what he represented, like not knowing the name or actions of a god but knowing what the god meant.
\tAmberlina suddenly realized one important detail though - this Hungry Man did not like the idea of gods.
\tHe smiled at her, looking with rapt attention. He took a sip of his coffee, considering her over the rim.
\t``When's the last time we had a sit-down like this?''
\tAmberlina hesitated. ``I... don't know.''
\t``I guess you wouldn't.''
\t``No, I mean... who... I don't know who you are.''
\t``... Again, I guess you wouldn't.''
\tAmberlina flinched. ``I'm sorry. I...''
\t``If you say `reincarnated,' I'll be a little disappointed. I think the word you are looking for is... ran away.''
\t``I... I did what?''
\tHe chuckled and set his cup down. ``I'm getting ahead of myself. Rose--''
\t``That's, not my name,'' she whispered, biting her knuckle.
\tHe dropped his smile.
\t``I'm sorry, but...''
\t``Did you take her last name too?'' he asked, smiling again.
\t``Wh... what?'' Amberlina gasped.
\t``Did you take her last name too?''
\tAmberlina couldn't fathom what he was getting at. She tried to take a sip of her tea, but stopped when she saw her reflection looking frustrated. It whispered to her from the cup, ``Tell him no!''
\t``No, I didn't?'' she mumbled.
\t``Well at least you could show some respect for your teacher,'' said the Hungry Man. ``Even now you prove to me you just can't let go of the past. Or are you even aware of that? Exactly how far into this... regression have you gone?''
\tAmberlina kept her face down, studying her reflection. Her reflection shrugged.
\t``I don't know,'' she answered.
\t``How about you stop acting like a child.''
\tAmberlina looked up. ``I'm... I'm eight years old, though, I am--''
\tThe Hungry Man slammed his fists on the table, Amberlina shrieking as he rose from his seat, grinning. ``Don't you give me that fucking bullshit you damn fox! Your obsession with being powerless and helpless to a bunch of horny, predatory adults may have caused you to regress in spirit as well as body, but you can't hide yourself from me! I can smell who you really are!''
\tAmberlina quaked in her seat and clasped her ears, shivering and shaking her head. ``I... I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I just... I don't know what's happening! Where am I?! Who are you?!''
\t``I'm The Hungry Man!'' he laughed, and laughed. He rolled into his chair and pulled his beanie over his face. ``Oh damn! Hahahaha! You bothered to dress me up in some boogey-man nonsense and you even had the gall to rename me! You tried so hard to cover up the impact I had on your soul, to dress it up, but even if you rename me, Rose, I know when I'm being talked about, that's my thing!''
\tAmberlina struggled with her tears, biting her wrists while she clawed at her ears. ``Please... I don't... want anyone angry with me...''
\tThe Hungry Man straightened his beanie and smiled with all his teeth, his head slightly tilted. ``Too late for that hon. Didn't Castelia find you already? That's why this world even knows about Lords, right?''
\t``I... don't know...''
\t``We can get in, Amber,'' The Hungry Man said. ``And unlike me, the others are willing to become sated. You know I won't play your games, and made me into The Hungry Man, but what were you thinking with Castelia? You haaate her! I don't blame you, considering all she did to you. Necris was her idea, you remember that right? Castelia and Volknir. Bad mistake allowing your soul to emanate visions of her, the Fox-Killer! It let her in... Castelia tracked you down already, but, time being all wishy-washy as it is in the Silent Universe... Castelia is all forgotten history... except to me, heh, cuz' I just found my way in!''
\tAmberlina was lost. What was he even talking about? She looked at her reflection, who was shaking and looking from side-to-side.
\tThe Hungry Man began pacing the table, looking over her. ``You forgot everything didn't you? But, you can't forget everything; information is more tenacious than that.''
\tHe rubbed her head, and she felt her skin crawl as if to peel away from his hand and off her bones. ``You can't be a child forever! More will get in, following your undisciplined omens!!''
\tHe reached his side of the table, and sat down. He sipped his coffee, and his stomach growled. He chuckled. ``I'm fucking starving, but, I guess that's what I get for being The Hungry Man... I'll stay hungry as long as I am here, but the others, Amber, the others will eat. And you won't like it for long.''
\tHe laced his fingers and stared at her over the bridge of his knuckles. ``So, why aren't you doing something about it?''
\t``About what?'' she asked.
\t``The others. The ones that are getting in! I mean, you already saw one, so, you know, right?''
\tShe shook her head.
\tHe snarled. ``You saw her with your own damn eyes, dammit! I went to the trouble of letting one walk right in front of you and you didn't even notice?! What the hell is this, the Hungry Man and the Blind Girl?''
\t``What are you talking about?!'' Amberlina cried. ``Please mister!! I just want to leave, you're scaring me! I'm just a kid; you're acting like we know each other but I've never met you before!!''
\tThe Hungry Man snarled, jumping to his feet again and with enough force to send his chair flying. ``You're still going to try and feed me that bullshit? Drink your damn tea already!''
\tAmberlina stared.
\t``I said drink your tea! Don't make me show you what real hunger is! You know what I'm capable of!''
\tAmberlina sobbed and took a sip, a tiny portion of her reflection in the cup spilled into her mouth, and she closed her eyes.
\t``I'm sorry; I just... didn't... know what to do.''
\t``I don't care,'' said The Hungry Man. ``You can't sate my real hunger, you don't know the meaning of the word. In every sense, you've never had to go hungry... Here you are, now, in an entire world obsessed with... eating. And then here I am, Hungry... Your sense of irony is... palpable. I mean, a Slave? Is that seriously what you want for yourself?''
\t``I don't know what you mean,'' she said, her tail sweeping the grimy floor. ``I am a Slave!''
\t``You're really starting to piss me off!'' said The Hungry Man. He downed the rest of his coffee and set it down hard enough to rock the table. He loomed toward her.
\t``A fucking Slave? Are you kidding me? Castelia had you as a slave and you ran from that! Sure, you had help, but eventually you never wanted to go back! What the hell changed, I don't care, but you think you are a Slave? Are one?! Rose, you can want to be a Slave until the cows come home, but you're not a Slave, hell, you're not even a Lord! Bitch, do you know what your cowardly, insane, regressive ass is?''
\tAmberlina pinched her lips and pushed herself into her chair, curling her arms and legs against her body and shaking her head.
\t``You're no fucking Slave, bitch! You're a goddamn prison warden!''
\tAmberlina felt herself rising to her feet. She was not sure how, but she was suddenly furious! It was like she was possessed, she was terrified, but, she felt white-hot fire licking up her spine!
\t``That's not true!! That's not true at all!!''
\t``Hell yeah it is!'' The Hungry Man laughed. ``Dumbass fox, you're a prison warden! You lured all these fucking saps in, brain-washing them to love your sick stupid bullshit, and then have the nerve to call yourself a damn Slave, like you're just part of this system? You're the warden your own soul-prison, made for yourself, and populated by all these others roobs you ensnared! Heh ha HA, and you can't taste the irony in that huh? A Necris by any other name, but let's get real bitch, you're just as bad as Castelia and you always have been...!''
\t``That's... that's not true...''
\t``Always will be,'' chuckled The Hungry Man. ``Now, if you want to know what real hunger is, you only have to take my invitation. It's always open, Rose, if you want it. I don't give a damn if you are a selfish monster, if you will just admit it to yourself and confront it! Let yourself feel actual hunger for once!''
\t``No, I don't want it!'' she cried. ``Leave! I'm done here!''
\t``You trying to order me around?'' he laughed. ``Your gods couldn't keep me out, your wardenship couldn't keep me out! No, this is far from over, but don't get too comfortable! This might end quicker than you think!''
\tAmberlina sank down into her chair, drinking more of her tea, and rubbed her face. ``I'm asking... please, just... let me have this night...''
\t``Too late to start acting lucid,'' said the Hungry Man. ``Tonight might be your last chance to start taking things seriously. Look, I'll level with you. I've seen what you can do, I know what you can be. You've got too much going for you to just throw it away living an inauthentic lie. You can take my offer and join me, or, you can set out your own path and confront what is out there. But, if you want to retreat into yourself and continue this manner of decay, so be it, but I'll force you to do it authentically. I didn't let a demon into your soul for funsies! `Cuz it's not the only thing that got in!''
\tAmberlina looked up, lip trembling. ``A... a demon?''
\t``Yeaaaah giiirl!'' laughed the Hungry Man. ``I let a demon in! It is amazing what one small tiny change can do to a world! This world would fail eventually, but, with that demon here, the ball is going to get rolling much quicker. But what happens next? That's on you. You can still do something about it. I'm giving you the opportunity to pay attention to what is going on around you and actually do something about it for once - -to remember that you're not the only prissy bitch here. There was a girl hurting and in need of your help and you never even noticed. Oh and of course, Volknir got in, and I bet Castelia won't be too far behind for a second try. There are conspiracies happening in your own world and you never even noticed, because you were so arrogant you never realized your precious system has flaws.''
\t``Who are these people?!'' Amberlina cried. ``I don't know who these people are!''
\t``What does it matter now?'' the Hungry Man said. ``Halloween's over, girl, deal with it! Now it is just the devil's night, and you need to figure out who the devil will be. There are four candidates stepping up to the plate - the demon I brought in, myself, Volknir... and YOU. And if I were you, I'd get started on being the devil-warden you really are, cuz you're screwed if you fuck this up.''
\t``Why did you do it though?'' Amberlina cried. ``Why did you... do this...? Why couldn't you just let me have Halloween?''
\t``You're ridiculous,'' he spat. ``You regressive, sad little pup. Here we are, in my kitchen, my own little world, face-to-face, and I just straight up told you that Volknir is in your world and that wasn't enough to get the fire lit under your ass? That's why I brought in the demon. If your Narrative won't make you wake up to save your own life, we'll just have to use Sula's Narrative instead. If you run away now, I'll lose all interest in you, and you can just have whatever this world becomes. But I'll tell you a secret! Do you know what will happen if Volknir wins this little war?''
\tAmberlina shook her head.
\tThe Hungry Man began laughing, and threw up his hands. The chair beneath Amberlina lurched and Amber went rolling up onto the table! She landed on her back, and straps appeared out of nowhere and fastened her tightly to the surface! The ambient white of the room vanished, and the ceiling gave way, crumbling around her to reveal a vast chamber... high above her, something was whirling to life.
\tNo...! It... It can't be! No!!
\tAmberlina wasn't sure where those thoughts were coming from... What was coming?
\tAn engine started, and she saw the flicker of lights above her, and a great, heaving motion. All at once, every single memory, every single Amberlina, began screaming with someone else, screaming as the leviathan machine began its descent.
\tIt was a gigantic, twisting drill festooned with knives, each pivoting and slashing and ready to cut in myriad ways!
\t``PLEASE!! PLEASE, I'LL DO ANYTHING, DON'T DO THIS TO ME!'' Amberlina screamed. The machine descended quickly, and Amber heard human voices in the chamber scoffing in disapproval.
\t``Disobedient slave, why can't she die with some dignity?'' someone called out.
\t``I'm sorry! I'll be good, just give me the chance!'' Amber begged.
\t``Castelia will never forgive you for your sins against humanity, fox! Never!''
\t``I just want... I want...!''
\t``Yeah, what the fuck do you want?!'' The Hungry Man shouted at her, dancing around her and slapping the table. ``Do you even know anymore? Are you willing to fight for it? Would you die for it? Ha, bad question! Tell me this then!''
\tShe looked at him, sobbing, as he pulled out a switch-blade from his pocket and engaged it. She whimpered, shaking her head.
\t``Please don't...!''
\t``Are you willing to exist for it?!''
\tAnd as she screamed, he brought the blade down on her chest.
9 ---
\t``Amby?''
\tAmberlina felt her claws on her face. She was shivering, and despite being a canid, was in a cold sweat.
\t``Amby... please...''
\tJenny?
\tNo... ``Monique,'' she said, and felt her muscles beginning to unbind.
\t``Amby! I'm here, what's wrong?''
\tMonique was talking to her. Amberlina tried to open her eyes. She was shriveled in a ball on the floor. She could sense others around her.
\t``Jeez, I've never seen something like this, I thought only Consenters get panic attacks,'' some girl said. Amberlina vaguely had the impression it was the human girl with the bandages on her face.
\t``She's coming out, let's just give her some space, she needs a place to feel safe,'' said Phobe.
\tThere won't be anywhere safe if I don't hurry...
\tAmberlina agreed, and uncurled herself. The others looked at her with surprise as she stood up, purposefully. ``We need to get going. Phobe, are you... uh, done?''
\tPhobe stared at her. Her balls were swollen, but her stomach was mostly done with the wolf. ``I just need to jerk off real bad, but, I'll be done... soon... hey, are you okay? You're shaking.''
\tAmberlina tried to steady herself. ``I'm fine...''
\t``No, no you are not,'' said Monique. ``Amby, what happened? You kept screaming about knives!''
\t``I don't know,'' said Amberlina. ``Something is about to happen. I need to be there for it.''
\t``What... Amby, are you, having some kind of... break-down?'' Monique asked. ``I don't... know a lot about those.''
\t``I am freaking out!'' Amberlina fussed, reaching a shakey paw to her eyes. She was crying, hard. ``I don't know what just happened to me.''
\t``Well, first you bumped into this dog-dude with the beanie,'' explained Monique.
\t``He was here?!'' Amberlina gasped. ``I didn't just dream it?''
\t``Dream what?'' Monique asked.
\t``Where'd The Hungry Man go?!'' she asked.
\t``WHAT DID YOU SAY?!'' Phobe gasped, taking a step back.
\tAmberlina looked at her, and Monique flitted her gaze between the two of them. ``Whooo kaaay, uh, girls, what's going on? The beanie-guy only bumped into you Amby, he didn't do nothing! He just said `excuse me' and went back downstairs. Why, should we go catch him?''
\t``Amberlina, what was this about... that thing?'' Phobe urged. ``Amber, I'm sorry, I know you're barely keeping it together, but, what the fuck kind of gall do you have to invoke his name?''
\t``I don't... understand,'' Amberlina fussed, rubbing her head. ``The man with the beanie... he was yelling at me. We were in a white kitchen...''
\tPhobe put her face into her hands. ``Oh gods...''
\t``What?''
\tPhobe pulled her hands away. She was crying.
\t``Phobe, why are you...''
\t``Ignore me,'' said Phobe. ``It's a... Medium-thing, it's nothing. Ugh, how did I not notice this aura before? Amberlina, are you sure it was a white kitchen? Did it look weird, almost like... a drawing?''
\t``Yeah, it did.''
\t``And it was that guy you bumped into?''
\t``I don't... know. It was a dog with a beanie. He said some weird stuff to me, he said something about this being a prison, he said something about being hungry, but he can't eat... he said something about someone named Castelia, and Volknir? And someone named Sula - we have to find her, he said. Or Volknir, I can't remember which.''
\tPhobe bit her thumb, brow furrowed. Tears were pouring down her face.
\t``Oh... uh...'' Monique mumbled, and started blinking. ``Damn, now you got me doing it.''
\t``Whoo kay, you kids are starting to freak me out!'' said the human girl. She began wiping at her eyes. ``Screw this, my make-up is running.''
\tShe darted into one of the bedrooms, while Snowflake began eating a bar of candy. The kitten was crying as well.
\t``Why is this happening?'' Amberlina asked.
\t``It's like a warning,'' said Phobe. ``An omen. Dammit, how am I supposed to blow my load like this?''
\t``I'm sorry,'' said Amberlina. ``I'd help but, I...''
\tShe was still shaking, her breathing intense.
\t``It's fine,'' said Phobe. ``I'll get the mood back eventually. Listen, don't mention that white-room or the dog with the beanie for now. Let's just... get back on the street and look for these people you mentioned. Or my Mom...''
\tAmberlina nodded. Monique, wiping tears from her face, began lugging up her trove of candy.
\t``But, I need to know, who is that dog with the beanie?'' Amberlina asked. ``He feels... familiar somehow, and he says he knows me.''
\tPhobe looked at Amberlina with... concern. Amberlina felt a pang of pain, and she began crying harder. Amberlina realized this look was fear.
\tPhobe was afraid of her now.
\tThe ram-girl shook her head. ``I'm sorry, you're going through a lot. I didn't mean to... I'm not worried about you Amber, I'm just worried for you. I'm still your friend.''
\t``Okay... but...''
\t``But...'' Phobe sighed. ``The entity you just encountered... is the devil.''
10 ---
\tThe hunt was starting to warm up again. The three of them were each Sexual Predator B's, so they had nothing to worry about, they could just walk around. The chaos, though, might make it hard. Hopefully at least one of their Narratives, or that of the fox-girl's, could bring Predator and Prey together! But in all this mess...
\tCynthia watched as an elephant and the giraffe-mayor, laying against each other with bloated stomachs, stood off their swelling asses and clumsily chased after a merry band of Robin-Hood dressed Preys who had been daring people to eat them by stealing candy. Pinwheel was just the sort of town where trick-or-treating wasn't just for kids, with adults hunting candy and Prey alike at haunted houses, in hidden caches, and other fun activities.
\tOne such was the Snake-Trap, which the Robin-Hood Preys accidentally stumbled into. Out of the canopy of a dense copse of trees, the snake descended and quickly wrapped around them. The mayor and the elephant snapped their fingers and then sat back down, as if waiting for more prey.
\tPeople ran around everywhere, because as all the Preds were finishing digesting their earlier meals, they were ready to head back into the game. One Prey on huge stilts was shuffling over the crowds, laughing as Predators tried to topple them. Elsewhere, Preys who had dared lower their guard enough to play some carnival games were ambushed suddenly by parkouring lizards. The Preys vastly outnumbered the Preds, but the resurgence in Predators had everyone scrambling into a blur. It was a contagious hunt, a night where there was suddenly no limit to the number of people you could eat, and tomorrow the entire town might be hard at work breeding new cubs to fill out the rest of the town again. The town couldn't hold a hunt like this every year, but when they could...
\t``Ugh, we could be in there right now hunting,'' Sabrina said, smelling strangely of marijuana smoke. ``My scent-gland is getting hungry.''
\t``You're... excuse me your what?'' Jacob gasped.
\t``Let's not get distracted,'' said Cynthia. ``Okay, Jacob. Your Narration found that fox in the first place. Think of her, hard, think of how much you want to eat her.''
\t``Heh... destine myself to eat her?'' Jacob laughed. ``I can try, but maybe I can't anymore, after what that man did.''
\t``Yeah maybe,'' Cynthia said. She rubbed her womb, feeling it ripple and grumble as if like a stomach, anticipating the feel, the taste, of foxes melting inside... She loved vaginal-voring foxes. Maybe, if she really wanted to eat a big-boobied fox-girl, she could somehow stumble into her.
\t``I am not the avatar of the fox-killer,'' Cynthia said. ``But I love foxes more than anything. If anyone can find her off dumb-fucking luck, it's us.''
\tThey started walking, going at random through the park and its decadent delights. They came across a game of capture-the-flag, except the flag was a red bandana tied around the arm of an individual who, when captured, was taken to the gigantic magical rotisserie that could cook people alive while melting their fur into an enchanted seasoning, courtesy of the delightfully fucked-up magitech corps of Crucible City.
\tThey watched as a laughing Prey human-girl was captured, and carried off to the rotisserie to be spitted-and-baked, laughing like she was having the time of her life!
\tThen... there was a gunshot.
\tEveryone went silent, and the crowd watched as one of the furs carrying the Prey-human fell.
\tThey all turned to where it sounded like the shot had come - a crowd of Consenter humans, with a man leading them with a rifle in hand. He kept it pointed, smirking. His silvery hair almost seemed to glitter. He reached down to stroke the head of a little girl who was standing beside him, a little girl in a cop-costume who was staring in fear and disbelief, a little girl named Carly.
\t``Dad...!?'' she gasped. ``You... just...!''
\tSmirking, he readied the rifle. ``No more humans are getting eaten tonight, my friends! Party's over, everyone's going home or the human race is going to show you how to really hold a hunt!''
\t``Who the fuck are you?!'' shouted the human-Prey who had been `rescued,' paling as they stared in disbelief at the bleeding-out Predator. ``How could you?!''
\t``Name's Volknir, and I just saved your life... show some gratitude.''
\tThe human-Prey stared at Carly's dad, and shook her head. ``You're going to pay for this...''
\t``You're not happy I saved you?'' he laughed, as the crowd started to get a little more daring, bunching up in numbers. ``Pfeh, well... isn't that a shame.''
\tCynthia turned to the other two, ``Get down!''
\tAnd the three Preds dropped down just as the air filled with lead, laughs, and screams.
11 ---
\tAmberlina wasn't sure how long they'd been trying to get her attention. She was standing up, but, staring blankly ahead.
\t``I'm sorry?'' she asked.
\t``Oh thank goodness you're alright,'' Monique said. Snowflake stood in the corner, sucking on a lollipop but looking terrified.
\t``You're okay now?'' Snowflake croaked.
\t``I...''
\t``Where'd you go this time?'' Phobe asked.
\t``N-nowhere... I was just, surprised.''
\t``You were in a daze for like, half a minute,'' said Phobe.
\t``I'm sorry, I'm...'' she started, and blinked. ``The... devil... unng.''
\t``Don't think about it too hard,'' said Phobe. ``Let's just... do this thing?''
\tAmberlina shook her head. ``I think you should all go home. I was told to do this, not you.''
\tPhobe gave a weak smile. ``And let you have all the fun? Honey, I'm magic. You have a spooky mystery on Halloween and you don't expect me to jump at that? Plus, I'm a Predator, you need me protecting you.''
\t``I don't know what to say,'' she fussed. ``I just... I don't think it is a good idea.''
\t``I'll go with you,'' said Phobe. ``But, what are you going to do?'' she asked, turning to the pair of white cubs.
\t``Hmm... well, I dunno, I wanna get more candy, how long is this gonna take? Maybe we can go to my house first, dump this stuff off, and head out again?''
\t``That's... such a colossal waste of time,'' said Phobe.
\t``Can we get some juice at your house?'' Snowflake asked, finishing her lollipop. ``And some warm clothes...''
\t``Okay, maybe we should, if Snowflake's coming I don't want a neon-sign in the form of `naked-prey girl' running with us,'' exasperated Phobe.
\t``Bad enough with Spot hunting you,'' Monique fussed.
\tWhile they did not run into Spot, Snowflake's nude-booty did seem to attract a lot of kids. Monique was too greedy, and more than once halted the group to have Snowflake stand on her own and attract Sexual-license children to come grab a quick-orgasm from the little kitten before Monique and Phobe pounced, filling themselves up and taking some more candy.
\t``Ooh that's a good trick,'' laughed a mongoose dad as he watched his twin-girls go into Phobe's twin-orbs.
\t``Are we done yet?'' the ram asked. ``I can hardly walk anymore.''
\tMonique belched over a hearty meal and collected up the stolen candy; ``Yeah four groups are enough...''
\tThey came up on Monique's house, deep in the Mixed-District. It was one of the streets being used for the calmer, more `kid-friendly' kind of trick-or-treating, but as it was getting late, the small kids were gradually being chased off, or just devoured, by older kids.
\t``That might be a problem,'' Monique grunted as she hefted her swollen tummy up the steps of her home's patio. She watched as some high-schoolers cornered a group of elementary-schoolers and began swallowing them.
\tBing-bong!
\tMonique's mom answered, an arctic fox like herself. She had volumous hair and sported a fairly bulging package - -like Phobe, she identified female but was more than happy to spread the love of dick around.
\t``Dear!! You're back!'' her mother said and hugged her, pushing her bulge into Monique's face.
\t``Aww Mom not in front of my friends!'' Monique whined.
\t``Oooh honey my peen missed youuuu,'' her mother fussed, grinding on her daughter.
\t``Can we come inside?'' Phobe asked. ``We need to take a rest and drop some stuff off.''
\t``Oh sure thing! Just uh... come here for a moment, your Momma needs some help sweetie...''
\t``Here, take the candy,'' Monique said and dropped her hermit-crab shell of stolen sweets. ``I've got chores to do.''
\t``Aww you know you love it,'' her mom said and ruffled Monique's hair. The fussing twin-tailed kit followed her mother into the kitchen while the older-fox undid her pants, freeing her swelling cock.
\t``Ewwww, is she going to have to suck on that?'' Snowflake whined.
\t``Your parents don't get intimate with you?'' Phobe asked. ``I'm a little jealous. Both my mom's don't let me nurse anymore.''
\t``You mean breast-feeding?'' Amberlina asked.
\t``Oh, no, not exactly,'' said Phobe. ``Speaking of which I need to milk myself. Where's the bathroom?''
\tThey found Monique's room, which seemed to have a dizzying obsession with fairies, unicorns, and robots, and dumped the candy there. Monique apparently had her own bathroom, which Phobe found convenient for trying to unload without being overheard by Monique's mom.
\tPhobe plopped her balls over the side of the bathtub and lurched her back as she started gripping her sensitive phallus, her glans swelling at the knowing that soon she'd be spurting hot, gooey kids down this drain.
\t``Ung, really backed up, this shouldn't take too long. I'm going to cum like an elephant...''
\tAmberlina and Snowflake began going through their candy, picking out ones they wanted immediately and gratifying themselves. Hearing Phobe fapping in the bathroom and knowing that Monique was sucking her mom off in the kitchen had Amberlina and Snowflake staring at each other after a while.
\t``Hmm... you're a Slave right?'' Snowflake asked. ``My Momma says that I was going to be a Slave, but, she paid some priestess to have my License changed before I was born using some kind of magic.''
\t``Oh, uh, isn't that, illegal?'' Amberlina asked.
\t``Umm, I don't think so?'' Snowflake asked. ``But, I'm a Prey now, so... I'm above you... Can I order you to do something?''
\tAmberlina's tail swished. ``Y-yeah... If you wanted to, I'd... have a hard time not doing it.''
\t``Oh... so... hmm... can you... touch me?''
\tIf Phobe wasn't enjoying herself before, getting to see her friends making out and fingering each other in the bedroom certainly helped! The little cubs were really going at it, bumping their hips together even as their fingers explored each other's curves and secret-places. Phobe moaned out as she thought about what she could do to them, right now, if she just wanted to...
\tSighing, Phobe began pouring out what felt like a dozen children and teens out of her swollen, implausible balls. The girls got curious and got up to watch Phobe, covering their mouths as they continued to caress each other. Phobe soon had the entire bathtub filled, and her legs completely submerged in her own seed.
\t``K-keep your c-c-candy but... this... is what Halloween is about,'' panted Phobe, one eye-closed as she stirred the underage-prey slurry with her legs. ``Fuuuuck... I think I overate, pretty sure I just kicked a skull. Ugh it's hard digesting that many different people.''
\t``Wow, that's incredible,'' Amberlina panted.
\t``Heh, Amberlina, you definitely strike me as a cock-slut,'' Phobe said, patting the girl. ``You know, you should try living in Misogycity sometime, you'd fit right in. Lesbianism is illegal there, so girls like you two come from all over the world to go get the crap beat out of them and cock-vored.''
\t``But, if they're lesbians, why would they want that?'' Snowflake gawked.
\t``Uh, cuz sexuality is too complicated for labels? I dunno, it's just some fucked-up sport they do. It's fun. Half the stuff that's illegal in Misogycity is to make things more fun.''
\tAmberlina wasn't sure why, but a deep part of her decided to... remember this.
\tPhobe nursed her balls. ``Well, that's done... Gods, I still feel horny though.''
\t``Maybe you should... eat some more,'' Amberlina panted, biting her thumb.
\tPhobe smiled at her. ``Maybe I should...''
\tShe was starting to reach for Amberlina's head... when they heard a scream from the kitchen.
\tThe three of them looked up and began running for the kitchen, Phobe trailing thick blotches of cum as she ran. They ran into the kitchen, and saw that the arctic-fox family were watching the kitchen-television set with horrified expressions.
\tMonique was completely covered in a new coating of white, filling the other kids with lusty thoughts, before turning their eyes to the television set.
\tTheir entire world filled itself with various forms of dubious sexual violence... but it was nothing like the raw carnage on the news report.
\t`` - having overwhelmed the police, and are now marching on the bystanders! I repeat, the Consenters are heavily armed, and marching on bystanders! Stay in your homes, we are getting confirmation that the mayor has been killed, without official delegation, in good faith consider the Halloween Hunt off, the police will reorganize shortly! Run, stay away from the park, they're killing the people who came to see, they're coming this way! Oh... oh no, no it's not safe here anymore. I'm sorry to those at home but our crew has to get moving, they've broken through the last - ''
\tThere were shrieks on the television, and the camera began jumping. The girls all saw sprays of red somewhere on the periphery, as the camera-operator took off at a sprint with the reporter scrambling behind. The feed went dead, and it returned to a stunned anchor-woman walrus dressed as a vampire.
\t``Uhh... folks, we um...''
\t``Go to Monique's room, all of you!'' the mother shouted. ``Girls, give me your parents numbers, I have to call them. Just go to your room and do not come out!''
\t``Mom?'' Monique mewled, wiping cum off her lips.
\t``No arguing, go eat your candy!'' her mom snapped, and hugged her tightly. ``I'll be quick.''
\tOld fashioned or something, Monique's mom asked for everyone's phone-numbers and began using an old-fashioned land-line to make some calls, while the girls shuffled into the bedroom. They thought they could hear gunfire somewhere in the city.
\t``What the hell...!'' Phobe cried.
\t``What's happening,'' Snowflake whimpered. ``What were all those sounds?''
\tAmberlina leaned against the door, eyes closed.
\t(`I'm giving you the opportunity to pay attention to what is going on around you and actually do something about it for once!')
\t``I have to go out there,'' Amberlina panted.
\tThey stared at her. ``You're an idiot! What the hell for?'' cried Phobe.
\t``It's the Hungry Man! He said this was going to happen, or something like that, he said I had to do something about it!''
\t``What could you possibly do?! Amby you don't have magic!'' Monique cried. ``And even then they had guns! And they're Consenters, hurting them is weirdly hard!''
\t``I don't want to hurt them, I want everyone to stop!'' Amberlina cried. ``They're only doing this because they're scared, if we can somehow catch the killer who hunted in the Consenter District--''
\t``My mom Tethys is handling that, she's a cop!'' grumbled Phobe. ``Don't be ridiculous, we're staying here.''
\t``No, The Hungry Man said I have to take responsibility!''
\t``Stop acting crazy!'' Phobe spat.
\t``No! No! He said it, he said there was a demon in the city, and it is my fault! I have to do something!''
\t``Why would you believe what the devil said?'' Monique asked, teeth-gritting. ``Amby I just... don't want you getting hurt.''
\tAmberlina curled her tail around her legs. ``I don't... know why, but... I feel so... responsible.''
\t``That's a pathology,'' Phobe reasoned.
\t``I can't... just... stay here. I'm sorry girls... I just... can't...''
\tThey sat in uncomfortable silence.
\tPhobe shuddered, coughing. ``Well, if I agreed to risk glimpsing The Hungry Man, people with guns should be... less scary.''
\t``Speak for yourself,'' panted Monique. ``Bullets move fast.''
\t``If Amber's going, I am too,'' Snowflake said. ``I... I wanna be a hero. I just need some clothes is all.''
\tThey stared at her, and began chuckling.
\t``Good to know you have your priorities in order,'' sighed Phobe. ``Look, one more time - this is a terrible idea. I have magic, but, we're still kids. The Hungry Man is out there and the town is going nuts, and you are saying there's a... uh... demon involved as well. I don't know if you know what that means Amberlina, but, if The Hungry Man called it a demon, then it isn't some gargoyle-looking bozo you've seen in an anime or something. If it is an actual, occult-level demon...''
\tAmberlina shook, biting her lip. ``I know... I know that I have no idea what I'm getting involved in. But I have to. If I don't... I don't know what The Hungry Man will do next.''
\tPhobe closed her eyes. ``That... unfortunately, is a point. Alright... I'm coming to.''
\t``But how are we getting passed my mom?'' asked Monique.
\t``Window, duh,'' said Phobe.
\t``Yeah but my mom will see us, won't she?''
\tPhobe shrugged. ``Only shot.''
\tMonique pulled at her pig-tails. ``Fine!! Alright, Snowflake, go to my drawers and get some clothes. Hurry! And while we're out there, I damn expect you to continue collecting candy! Demons or no demons, its Halloween, and your-bitchness wants candy!''
12 ---
\t``Yes, keep swallowing my dear.''
\tThe fuck am I seeing...
\tTethys couldn't believe it. The smell was... yeah, definitely a Consent-License. This Consenter-badger was eating someone without their consent. The victim was Prey, but, Consenter's had a double-whammy on their metaphysics. You can't rape them or vore them without their permission, but they can't do anything without the other person's consent. You can't even sexually harass someone if you have a Consent-License, not unless they're a Slave, Slaves were just like that.
\tThe other one seemed to be Sexual Predator B... she definitely had magic, that was for certain, but still... How. How the hell was the Consenter eating their victim?
\tThe badger was almost done swallowing her victim, some struggling cat-boy. ``Please, please, no... I need to find my family, I promise I'll be food, but I need to find them!''
\t``Shh...'' the horse said and pushed him down the badger's throat with her hoof. ``Silence.''
\tThe badger gasped for breath. ``I can't... eat anymore.''
\t``It is alright dear... Your dedication is appreciated. You need your strength. Now, the time is near. I sense the man who harmed you is near... He is a little more prepared than I had anticipated, from the sound of things. Luckily, your mistress has foresight. Should things not go according to plan, I shall make sure you are well taken care of. You will have your revenge, even if it is not tonight.''
\tThe badger nodded, gasping for air as her stomach undulated and convulsed. ``Yes, Serra, but... I still... don't... understand... what this has to do with it.''
\t``You called me into this world with blood, child,'' the horse said.
\tCalled...? Tethys wondered.
\t``Blood is power. You have not yet disposed of your prey, their blood, as a symbol, still exists inside you. Filled with so much blood and meat, your body will survive what I must now do to you.''
\t``What...'' the badger whimpered.
\t``Sula, love, you impress me. Your meekness belies a rage that I will now kindle. Stand, come to me...''
\tTethys crouched lower, staring at them from around a tree. Her eyes went wide as she heard gunshots somewhere in the park.
\tWhat the hell?! She barely contained herself. She reached to mute her radio - she couldn't risk being heard. The fuck is happening!? Those were definitely guns... Shit, shit, okay, just got to... make a decision.
\tSula stood up and approached the horse, apparently named Serra. Her gut struggled against her, but she found her way to her apparent-lover.
\tJust a moment longer, what are you up to? Where are you going? Tethys stayed her breath.
\tSerra smiled, and then... then, her hand seemed to peel itself, the flesh becoming like maggots that worked into the rest of her arm, leaving a skeleton-hand behind. It melted into itself, forming a single bone knife. This sharpened edge revealed a glistening marrow-edge, impossibly sharp for what should have been tender, vulnerable tissue within.
\tTethys stared, dumbfounded.
\tAn... Advent? Or was that Sidereal? What kind of magic was that?
\tShe and her child Phobe had a handful of `Advents', but no Sidereal magic. Then she thought to herself, Doesn't matter, that's a knife!
\tTethys gritted her teeth and launched herself out of her hiding space. The same Advent that allowed her to swallow people whole... she was able to pull that same magic out of her body and into her pockets. Literal hammerspace jokes aside, Tethys retrieved a large handgun from her pocket, the ultimate answer to concealed-carry.
\tTaking the proper stance, she commanded them to freeze. ``Back away! Hands behind your heads! Back away and get on the ground!''
\t``Oh dear,'' Serra laughed. ``Honey, you shoot me with that... you'll only make me angry.''
\tTethys pursed her lips. ``I'm waiting until the count of three. Hands on your head where I can see them!''
\t``One two three,'' the horse counted for her, laughing.
\tTethys heard gunshots out in the park, and coupled with a healthy dose of fear and being taunted, pointed the gun at Serra's nutsac and fired!
\tOne of her balls exploded in gory fashion, spilling an enormous glob of jizz onto the ground, so unlike a human could have with their non-hollow balls.
\tSpeaking of non-human, the jizz... somehow caught fire and began to spread. The air shimmered with the white-hot heat of her sperm, which glowed like molten metal.
\tTethys stared, head leaning back with shock and dismay. ``WHAT THE GODDAMN--''
\t``That was rude, I have to regrow that,'' Serra snorted. From her wound, blood poured, then, wove into itself like a lattice. It coalesced and formed a new nut for her, before growing over with fur. She pointed her arm at Tethys.
\tTethys fired repeatedly, Serra's body spraying with blood but remaining still-as-a-statue. The knife elongated, like a spear, and Tethys felt excruciating pain. It took her a moment to realize she was in the air...
\t``Ulch,'' she coughed, clutching at the source of the pain... she'd been impaled at the shoulder. Everything in her right-arm was busted, lifted up so violently. She couldn't move her arm, just the left.
\tShe shot forward, the spike receding back into Serra. Tethys cried as she flew with it, before slamming into the immovable Serra as if she'd been bolted to the ground. She bounced off from the impact, falling to the ground and clutching at her destroyed shoulder.
\t``Ahhhg! Arrrgh!''
\tSerra laughed, holding her arm up again, returned again to a knife. ``We'll deal with you in just a moment, my dear. Sula? Honey...''
\tSula, terrified but nodding, looked into Serra's eyes. ``I'm here... Please, don't kill her though.''
\t``She will die, but she will live...'' Serra reassured.
\t``Oh thank you, Serra,'' Sula panted, smiling.
\t``Just as you will, Sula...''
\tSula's face fell. ``No... No... Serra, please... I'm... I'm not ready. Please, don't eat me.''
\tSerra laughed. ``Eat you? Sula... You misunderstand me.''
\tSerra lifted her right arm, and lay her left-arm-blade against it. Sula yelped as Serra dragged the blade down her arm, cutting through the flesh and veins, and causing her hot, steaming blood to pour out.
\t``You just slit--''
\t``Open your mouth, Sula.''
\tSula stared, slack-jawed with amazement, a bad time to have one's mouth open... Serra took the invitation, willingly or not. With a quick motion, Sula's struggling body was pressed against Serra by lieu of her blade-arm, while the spurting wound profused into Sula's screaming maw.
\tHer mouth smoked and burned as Serra forced herself on Sula.
\t``I love you Sula,'' sneered Serra, while the wailing girl felt her mouth burning-numb from the blood. ``Swallow, dear child. I will grant your wishes, whether you want me to or not, you will consent because I say so, and in doing so you will transcend your Consent-License! Free yourself, for you are mine!''
\tSula grew week, her legs giving out, she struggled against her burning lungs and burning mouth... and began to drink.
\t``Yes... good girl.''
\tSula's stomach began convulsing again, the pain in her stomach was shared with her prey, who screamed audibly from within as he were bathed in steaming blood.
\t``This heat will temper you like steel, harden you. With my heat, my blood, you shall never grow cold again Sula. The chill, despair, emptiness you felt when that man raped you... it is gone now, my child. This is the last violation you shall ever suffer...''
\tSerra let go, Sula gasped for breath, steam coming off her rasping mouth as she struggled for air. Sula collapsed to her knees, clutching her stomach... Her stomach became still, and all at once, went from a clear outline of a boy to a complete orb of liquid mass.
\tSula fell over, feeling... something... coursing through her.
\tSerra smiled at Tethys. ``I can heal your wounds, by destroying them utterly. You will live, and you shall also be gone from my sight. But you are well acquainted, yes? Although, perhaps not experienced from this end.''
\tSerra crept down to Tethy's feet, her equine cock becoming erect as the dripping, bobbling cock-tip neared her hooves.
\t``You can't...'' Tethys snarled, resolute. ``I'm a Predator B too, I'm the same License as you! You'll fail, you can't force it! You'll lose your erection before you get close!''
\tSerra giggled. ``Oh... I'm sorry, my treat. I am afraid I haven't been honest with you.''
\tTethys sensed a change in the air, and suddenly Serra seemed grander in scale, larger in presence, more commanding in sound...
\t``I am your Lady, and you are mine.''
\t``Oh... fucking... dammit...'' Tethys cried, face contorting. Falling onto her good-shoulder, laying on her side, Tethys wept silently. ``Phobe...''
\tSerra grunted as her cock took in Tethy's hooves. ``That's a good treat. Enjoy, this might be your last.''
\tGulp.
\t``Unless you ever dare cross me again. See to it that you don't. We'll meet again, I'm sure, even long after your body dries on this cement as my cream.''
\tGulp.
\tTethys glared at her as her cock-head neared her hips. ``Go to Hell.''
\tSerra gasped with amusement, and with another swallow, Tethys seethed as her body entered what felt like a boiling dee-fryer of oil.
\t``Honey, dear... I am Hell. Now... go to me!''
\tGulp.
13 ---
\t``Well, we're off to a great start.''
\t``Ahoy maties...''
\tPhobe and the others had just hopped Monique's yard fence straight into the middle of the teen-pirates from earlier, in the middle of devouring a fresh batch of late-night trick-or-treaters.
\t``Please, you can still help me if you pull me out!'' mewled a little ferret girl before her wolfess-predator finished pushing her up into her dripping snatch.
\t``Shoosh, girl-cum now,'' she said.
\t``Well, well, well, the thieves,'' laughed the panda pirate-captain, his cock swollen huge with three pre-schoolers he'd cock-vored in one go. ``What great timing for some revenge! So uh, where's our candy?''
\tGulp! His penis bounced and gave an audible heave, his nuts splashing and grumbling as his morsels reached their resting-place.
\tPhobe looked at the others. She was safe, but, the others were way below half of these Sexual Predator B teens. Phobe could eat some of them, but, not all of them.
\tMaybe that was a ticket. ``If you start eating them, I'll start eating you,'' said Phobe. ``You want to lose some pirates just for some petty revenge?''
\t``Fine by me...!'' the panda boy shrugged. Half of his merry band looked at him in outrage. He looked around at them, surprised. ``What... circle of life me harties, eh?''
\t``Man, fuck you,'' grunted a Doberman in their party, Pred-A to Phobe's stronger Pred-B.
\t``Mutiny?'' Phobe suggested.
\tThe pirates seemed hesitant. ``Let's take a vote!'' asked one of the Pred-A girls, her raccoon-womb struggling with two smaller boys melting inside. Phobe almost hoped they'd betray each other, cuz this cute girl technically would count as three meals...
\tBut as they started to settle the matter, Phobe quickly grabbed Amber, Monique, and Snowflake and ran with them. ``Move it!''
\tThe girls obeyed and ran with her, the pirates hollering after them and chased!
\t``I'm going to fuck you until you tell me where my candy is and then eat you all myself!'' the panda yelled.
\tAmber's slave-instincts made her hesitate, just before Phobe scooped her into her arms, carrying her. ``No, no, Amber, not yet.''
\t``Nyaaaa!'' Monique teased, slapping her bulging tushy at them. ``I bet you want this fresh hot loli-fur ass suuuuper bad, don't you panda-boy!?''
\t``Oh I'm going to fuck you `til you have jizz pouring out your mouth!'' he shouted.
\t``Ha you wish!'' she giggled, forming a heart with her twin-tails. ``Catch me if you can!''
\t``They're gaining on us!'' Snowflake squealed.
\t``Hmm, oops,'' Monique panted.
\tThe wolf-girl, despite her swollen womb, reached to clutch at Monique's tails, which she narrowly pulled away.
\t``That!!'' Amberlina pointed, a sudden green-light in her vision.
\tThey all saw a safe-point! It would last minutes, but, it would be good enough for now! It appeared to be set up inside someone's front-yard playhouse. The kids darted for it, the teenagers hollering after them.
\tThe two white-cubs dived into the playhouse, with Phobe throwing Amberlina inside like a sack of potatoes!
\tThey all coughed as they landed, the teens smashing against the playhouse in a heap!
\t``Oof!'' Phobe moaned, knocked down with the teens.
\t``Crap! We're in the safe-zone!'' the predators yelped, and then scrambled out of the over-hanging green sign saying `safe zone'.
\tPhobe, possessed by the same... probably a kind of magic...? crawled out with them. The inside of the sign's aura felt like deep-bone revulsion, like a bathtub drawn too hot.
\tThe Predators, panting, hovered around outside.
\t``Oh you little gits,'' the panda snorted, rubbing his nose. He patted his struggling nuts. He pointed his wang at them and stroked himself. ``Just for that I'm going to jerk off and blow these little pre-schoolers all over your costumes, to remind you what is going to happen when the timer goes out.''
\t``If you camp us, you won't get any more food!'' snorted Monique.
\t``Don't care,'' said panda boy.
\tThey all ignored Phobe, except for the raccoon-girl with a fat, gurgling womb, who was quite aware that Phobe was bearing down on her Predator-A ass.
\t``Well, what if I told you where I hid the candy, but only if you leave?'' Monique asked.
\t``Umm, boss?'' the raccoon-girl asked while Phobe started shoving her hands down into her mouth. ``A little help?''
\t``Oh, right, you'd probably just betray us,'' Monique mused.
\t``Oh, good idea, then sure, tell us where the candy is!'' laughed the panda.
\t``Uh, captain? Seriously I need some help,'' the raccoon-girl said, before saying, ``Mrphg!'' as her head was pulled into Phobe's esophagus.
\t``You're wasting your night hanging around us!'' Monique yelled.
\t``I already jerked off twenty-kids down the storm drains, now I want revenge on you!'' the panda snorted. ``And my fat cock will make that Slave tell me where the candy is in no-time, with or without your help. I'll make her cum long before she winds up my cum, and you know Slaves are totally obedient once you get your wang up their ass!''
\t``Amberlina wouldn't do that!'' Monique fussed, looking at Amberlina.
\tAmberlina squirmed away, looking pained. ``Uhh...''
\tMonique blinked. ``Yeah okay, you're right, Amberlina will totally cave when you put your dick up her ass.''
\t``S-sorry,'' pined the red-fox.
\t``But it doesn't give you the right to bully us!'' Monique yelled at the panda.
\t``Girl you stole all my candy!'' the panda said, shrugging. ``I cock-vore people and I say that's a dick-move, so that's saying a lot. I mean, you're allowed to run away from a Predator, but, you stole my candy.''
\t``Uh yeah cuz its freakin' candy!''
\t``Hey, who's the pirate here?'' he said.
\t``Well I'm a dark fairy, so deal with it!'' Monique said, and stuck out her tongue.
\tThe panda boy, jerking off to climax, basted Monique for her second coating of hot, creamy nut-gravy!
\t``EEWWW!'' she cried, and the other girls began whining as the panda-boy gushed rope-after-rope of digested-pre-schoolers all over their costumes.
\t``Unng, yeah, that's... what you'll be soon, my nut-sauce,'' he panted, eyes shut tight as he gushed. ``Sweet... sweet... little girl cum...''
\t``Hey, captain?'' the wolfess interrupted.
\t``What, I'm jizzing on little-girls, what is it?'' the panda asked, and looked to see that half his crew of teenage-pirates was now... inside Phobe!
\t``Urp,'' she belched.
\tThe panda smacked his head. ``In the name of Davey Jones what's this shit? Seriously, half my crew?''
\tPhobe looked around to make sure she had the rest accounted for. ``Hmm... yeah, three is doable.''
\t``What's that supposed to mean?'' the panda said while brandishing his toy cutlass at her.
\t``It means I'm an actual witch and you're going to the dirt,'' Phobe said, holding her fingers up, and with a snap! the panda flew back as if hit with a car!
\t``Woah!'' he yelled, apparently uninjured until he went smashing into a thorn-bush. ``Aeeek!''
\tThe wolfess growled and prepared to brawl Phobe, fist-to-fist. Phobe began walking backwards, snapping her fingers at her.
\t``Aaah!'' she yelled, the magic hit her and made half the cum, and a bunch of clothes, come rushing out of her pussy, leaving a thick slimy trail as she flew past.
\tThe third teen, a lizard boy, lunged at Phobe. Phobe knelt down and let him sail past her. She crept forward, minding her swollen stomach, and turned to face him as he got back up.
\t``I'm twice your size!'' he yelled.
\t``I'm twice your weight,'' she said, smirking, and snapped her fingers at the ground beneath her.
\tHowever her magic worked, the shockwave launched her up into the air, and the lizard-guy squealed as Phobe fell on him, smooshing him.
\tThe green-light above the play-house went dim.
\t``Oh crap, run!'' Monique yelled, and grabbed the girls to run after her. They ran past Phobe, who struggled to her hooves and wobbled after them, lifting her gut up as she ran.
\tThe lizard-boy, eyes twitching and a scarlet blush on his face, mumbled, ``Big... big beautiful belly. All... over me.''
\tThe panda ran up to him, almost all his costume torn off in the thorn-bush, and snarling with rage. ``C'mon, get up, after them!''
\tThe lizard didn't move.
\tThe panda stared. ``What's the matter? Get up before I keelhaul you!''
\t``Big... belly... I'm in love,'' he panted.
\tThe panda looked up at the sky in rage, shaking his fists, and fell to his knees, screaming, ``NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!''
\tHis remaining friends began clapping.
\t``Thank you,'' he said.
\tMeanwhile, the girls, more than a block ahead, were booking it for the park. It'd gone quiet in town for a awhile, but they could see people swarming in their homes and shops, closing blinds and turning off lights. Every once in a while they'd see a panicked, mixed-group of people running past in fear.
\tThey found the crack-in-the-wall that lead to the bushes, and crept through. Phobe launched herself over the wall with her magic, flopping on her rapidly-softening belly like a cushion.
\tShe belched up someone's skull, wiped her lips, and then continued on with them. The skull had the faintest, inexplicable blush on it.
\tThe kids crept through the bushes, into the woods... they found a giant snake, lying dead in the grass, riddled with holes and its belly sliced open. A little after that, they found a bird girl, covered in blood and digestive-slime, rocking back and forth.
\t``Are... are you okay?'' Snowflake asked, hands covering her mouth.
\tThe bird-girl shivered and shook her head. ``I was... I was in the snake. I was in the snake... I was in the snake...''
\t``She's a Consent-License,'' Phobe whispered, sensing her.
\t``The snake ate you?'' Amberlina asked.
\tThe bird-girl nodded. ``I just... I just, got curious. I let it wrap me up... but then, then, there was this light, and screaming, and blood... they pulled me out, and the snake was in such pain. I was inside the snake, and now it's dead. How did it wind up like this? It's... It's not fair. I... I consented...!''
\t``Get out of here, there's a hole in the wall past the bushes,'' Phobe advised. ``Please...''
\tThe bird rocked, slowed, and then stopped. She blinked at them... She asked where again, and Phobe pointed.
\t``Please, don't go any further,'' the bird-girl said. ``They've... they've got guns.''
\t``We know, we just got to find something out, we won't be here for long, but we have to do this,'' Phobe explained.
\tThe others watched the bird-girl creep away, and then they proceeded.
\tThey came to the edge of the woods, and saw the desecrated rotisserie, surrounded by a mob. The cooker was smashed, and turned into a giant dais. No one was inside it, but, on-top, stood a family.
\t``Holy crap, it's...'' began Monique.
\t``Carly...'' gasped Snowflake.
\tCarly, looking corpse-like, clung to her mother's legs. Her dad, holding a hunting rifle, was saluting the cheering crowd with his hat.
\tAnd behind him were three Sexual Predator B's, mounted and tied to three spikes from the rotisserie. One of them was a tan husky, head hung. There was a white-rabbit with lemon-blonde hair. Finally, a silky black-skunk with rich wavy hair.
\tBehind the broken rotisserie was the brute-force behind it, some minotaur-sized bull who, in-spite of appearances, seemed to have a sense of the Consent-License behind him. Other than a very few others, almost everyone in their group was human, and most of them Consent-License.
\t``My friends, we have caught them!'' the man shouted. ``These are the culprits! These are the vermin who hunted us in our own homes! My friends, we have done it! Justice will now be carried out, we will put them to trial, and then, put them to fire! Our vengeance is almost complete. After this, we will reorganize the town, and with me as your new mayor, we shall change Pinwheel Village for the better! No, the entire world can follow in our steps! Humans, furs, scales, and all else, all the people, all the people!! All of them, finally, safe... cooperative... Under control! No more vore! No more hunts! No more fear! Only cooperation... cooperation and trust! Trust and love! We will teach them this love. We will teach them, and those who will not learn? What will we do with them!?''
\t``Burn them!'' the crowd shouted.
\t``Yes, shout it again, my friends!'' he shouted.
\t``Burn them!!''
\t``Yesss! We shall burn them, are we one people?''
\t``One people!''
\t``Are we one people?! Let me hear your voices!''
\t``ONE PEOPLE!!''
\t``Yesss! Let yourselves be heard at last! I am listening my friends! I will listen to your pleas! Let yourselves be heard!''
\t``WE ARE ONE PEOPLE!!'' they screamed in relish.
\t``And who am I!?'' he yelled.
\t``MAYOR VOLKNIR!!'' they shouted, as he threw his hat sailing into their raised fists.
\t``Judge, jailer and executioner!'' Volknir shouted. ``And with you as the jury, we can get this thing started! Let me hear the cries of the victims! Did these... Predators eat your family to death!?!''
\tA few screaming voices made themselves heard in the crowd. The Predators tied to the posts flinched.
\tAmberlina looked over them, a dawning coming over her. ``I... Know them! One of them is a husky I saw earlier today!''
\tThe other girls looked at her. ``Ugh, that's...'' Monique fussed. ``But, what can we do?''
\t``We have to help them,'' said Amberlina.
\t``But what could we possibly do?'' Monique asked. ``We have to have some kind of plan, right?''
\tThe crowd cheered, and Volknir fired his rifle into the sky, and this seemed to make them cheer more.
\t``Well, whatever we do, this looney-toon is getting them ready to kill,'' said Phobe. ``So we have to do it fast, and careful. They'll shoot us if we mess with them.''
\t``Maybe we can make a smoke-screen,'' said Monique.
\t``With what though?'' Snowflake asked.
\t``We have those smoke-bombs!'' said the arctic-kit, smiling.
\t``But cover a whole crowd?'' Phobe asked, ``And that won't last for long...''
\t``Hmm,'' Monique mumbled. ``Dangit, if only I had magic...''
\t``I can't use my ramming-Advent as fast as they can pull their triggers,'' Phobe huffed.
\t``Hey, uh, who is that?'' Snowflake mumbled, pointing.
\tThe rest of the girls turned to look.
\tOpposite the clearing, coming out of the tree-line, were two furs. The larger one was a horse-girl, and she was carrying two limp, unmoving people in her hands. The equine must have been incredibly strong, dragging them like they were nothing. She had an incredibly large ball-sac, hinting of a possibly recent meal.
\tThe other girl, a badger, was covered in thick streaks of red. She and shaking, and definitely had eaten. Her stomach was swollen and jiggling with peristalsis.
\t``That badger... she's a Consent-License,'' Phobe wondered. ``That's odd.''
\t``Oh, we saw them earlier,'' Monique mumbled. ``They were talking about sensing magic in the air.''
\t``What...?'' Phobe asked, curious. ``Then they must be magic themselves!''
\tAmberlina stared, and remembered... (`You saw her with your own damn eyes, dammit! I went to the trouble of letting one walk right in front of you and you didn't even notice?!')
\tThe red-fox inhaled. ``Oh... oh no... that's... that's the demon. I think that's the demon.''
\t``What makes you so sure?'' Monique asked.
\tSerra threw the two dead humans thirty feet right into the crowd, which went silent...
\t``I'm pretty sure,'' Amberlina whispered, blanching.
\tThe crowd began screaming, pointing their weapons at the two witches, and open-fired!
\tThere was some sort of... shadowy nonsense around them for a brief moment, and the two of them were simply gone. The bullets hit the trees behind them, seeming to not hit anything.
\tThere was a laugh, from the same direction. ``You can't hit me!''
\t``I kept telling you we were innocent!'' shouted the bunny-woman from the rotisserie. ``Looks like the real thing is here!''
\t``Oh please, please, please be an angel here to save me!'' Jacob shouted.
\t``No, my dears!'' the voice from the empty-space called. ``I... am quite the opposite!''
\t``They're there, fire!'' Volknir shouted. ``Fire!!''
\tThe militia started firing again, some idiot accidentally shooting one of the people right in front of him from them failing to form an organized rank. The group began to panic themselves and break order.
\tSomething slender stretched out of thin air ten-feet to the left of where they'd fired, and pierced someone in the skull, dropping them. The thin-rod slid back into the thin-of-air.
\t``They're on the move, fire, quick, lead the shots!'' Volknir shouted. ``Fire at will!''
\t``I hate to say it but this is our only chance!'' Phobe shouted. ``Follow me, stay low, you have those smoke-bombs just in-case?''
\t``I have mine,'' Monique said.
\tPhobe checked her pockets and had hers.
\t``Mine got nommed,'' mewled Snowflake.
\t``The rest of mine were in my candy,'' Amber whimpered.
\tPhobe nodded, grim. ``It will have to do.
\tThe girls clapped their ears as another ring of shots went out, and someone from the crowd dropped dead. There was a cold laughter on the wind.
\t``Foolish, but delightful! Oh, where will I appear next? Could it be... here?!''
\tA spike flew out, pierced someone, and dragged them back. They vanished in the thin-of-air from whence the spike came, and everyone suddenly heard the chilling cracking and lip-smacking of someone being hard-vored.
\t``Holy shit!!'' echoed from multiple sources.
\tAmberlina shook with fear as they ran across the clearing. This isn't happening. They're Consenters, this can't be happening!
\t``Lucky shot!'' Volknir shouted from atop the giant rotisserie. ``I have my followers trained, see? Make Consenters think that being fired on by the enemy is some sort of fetish and the cops couldn't even land a bullet! We are not afraid of you! You can't keep this up!''
\tA spike flew out, impaled, retracted. Crunch smack munch!
\tVolknir recoiled, rubbing his neck. ``FIRE EVERYWHERE!! BULLETS, EVERYWHERE, NOW!!''
\tThe screaming, panicked crowd obeyed.
\t``Down!'' Phobe yelled, and just a few feet away from the rotisserie, the girls dropped to the grass.
\tBullets rang out across the air, everyone with a gun shooting randomly. Friendly fire dwindled their numbers, and bullets ricocheting off abandoned food-carts and benches and other fixtures caused more injuries. A bullet hitting the rotisserie bounced and hit the ground inches from Snowflake's head.
\t``EEEEK!'' she screamed.
\t``Quiet!'' Monique whispered.
\tAnother cry came out from somewhere... suddenly, the two girls reappeared, and Sula was clutching her stomach, doubled over. An unhappy horse hung near her. She had three bullet-holes in her, but...
\t``She's...'' someone whispered from the crowd.
\t``That's enough. The time for secrecy is at an end. Volknir, there is no escape for you, mortal.''
\tShe lifted her arms. ``Let all be graced... in the radiance of a true Lady, a princess of the Void!''
\tThe air shifted, and everyone gasped. The humans couldn't put a finger on it, but, they suddenly couldn't bring themselves to keep firing.
\tPhobe stared at her with open-fear. She turned to her friends. ``She's higher than me on the food-chain!''
\tMonique grimaced. ``But, you're the top! It doesn't go higher than--''
\t``Yeah, I know, but trust me, she's higher!'' Phobe snorted.
\tThe girls got to their feet and crept to the rotisserie.
\tThey found a ladder, scattered their smoke-bombs, and began to climb, following the smoke.
\tPerhaps the girls should have figured that the smoke would attract attention rather than hide them - -how fortunate, then, that the rotisserie had smoked heavily after the minotaur had smashed it. He ignored the smoke and walked past them, clenching a huge fist.
\t``I am not afraid of you!'' he shouted. ``I am Consent, you still can't eat me!''
\t``Hahaha!'' Serra cackled. ``What pathetic nonsense! I can do more than that! I can make you do anything I wish by simply ordering you to do it! The only thing I cannot do is order you to forget you saw me, or to not speak of me. I cannot force you to keep me secret, but what I can do?''
\tShe pointed at the crowd. ``Eaaaaat...''
\tHe shook his head, eyes going wide. ``No.''
\t``I order you to eat them!''
\tThe minotaur stared... tears the size of baseballs fell from his eyes... and then he marched on the Consenters.
\tShrieking, they readied their fire-arms. They got off a few shots at the howling minotaur, but his thick fur and tough body survived the first volley.
\t``You will drop your fire-arms and submit!'' the Lady cried.
\tConsenters... consented, and soon, the minotaur was obediently scooping weeping humans into his large hands, and slipping them, one by one, into his humid, bovine maw.
\tThe humans watched as, one by one, their numbers pushed down his throat in visible bulges.
\tThe demon cackled. ``Oh what joy to finally fulfill myself! Every night shall be soon as this is, my dear Sula! No more hiding, once we have Volknir, we will have no reason to. Volknir, approach, I command you!''
\tVolknir snarled and pointed his rifle at her.
\tShe blinked. ``Excuse me? Consenter, I gave you an order to consent to me, and break your legs upon your fall to my feet!''
\t``Go fuck yourself, Preddy!'' he snarled, and pulled the trigger.
\tSerra's head exploded. Sula, screaming, watched as Serra's body fell to the ground.
\tVolknir laughed. ``Got a little magic myself, my dear!''
\tPhobe, staring at him from the edge of the rotisserie's roof, couldn't believe it.
\t``He's... he's not fully human himself...''
\t``Then what is he?'' asked Monique, just behind.
\t``More human than her...'' Phobe said, and watched as the headless body rose back to its hooves.
\t``What... on earth?'' Volknir balked.
\tSula stared, eyes wide with shock, and something like... hope.
\tThe crowd screamed as a huge gush of blood, smoking and steaming and making the air coruscate from rapid-temperature change, erupted from her stump. The body raised its hands as if basking, as the blood began to twist and spiral... It snaked, wove, and spun, forming looping, fractal patterns and dense knots that resembled inelegant and offensive caricatures of chakras. Soon, where Serra's head had been, there was only a gigantic, abyssal illuminated script of smoking blood... a wheel.
\tHypnotising, the script seemed to spin, the false-chakras orbiting the center. No known language was written in the spooling spirals, and yet, everyone had felt that there was a single word inside, a word understood without knowing the language.
\tBut no one but Sula could put it to words, and even her word was a paltry, Greek approximation of what the demon used as a name.
\t``Kuklos,'' she panted, and in some mad epiphany, understood that the demon she'd thought she'd come to know... wasn't fully here. Kuklos was only a name, just the demon's name. This... was the demon's name. Sula wept as she watched the spinning wheel, contemplating what true nature her mistress had out in the Void.
\tOf what essence was present with them, the `Kuklos' held out a hand, pointing its finger at Volknir. Laces of blood from the blood-aura protruded out through the air, lazily weaving through the empth-space toward him.
\t``Bitch!'' Volknir shouted, bolting his rifle and taking aim. He fired on her repeatedly, but no matter how many great holes he blew in her body, the creature didn't stop.
\t``What the fuck is this thiiiing!!'' he screamed, his wife clutching at his shoulder, crying.
\t``Never mind it honey, let's get out of here, let's get out of here!'' she shouted, shaking him.
\t``Be sensible!'' he shouted, took aim, and blasted a leg clean off the demon.
\t``No, honey, this is crazy! Stop firing, let's just run!''
\t``You run!'' he shouted, grabbed his wife by the hair... and chucked her from the roof.
\t``Aaieee!''
\t``MOOOOOOM!!'' Carly screamed, crying as she ran to the edge. She watched her mother land with a thud...
\t``Aagh... aaagh... my arm... My arrrrm...!''
\tThe mother rolled over, clutching her shattered arm. ``Oh, oh, oh Jesus... My arm...''
\tThe minotaur crawled toward her. Her eyes shot open as she watched him approaching.
\t``No... please, Archie, no... we're neighbors Archie...''
\t``Please, tell me to stop demon, please! Don't make me do this...'' Archie the minotaur hovered inches from her, Carly shrieking overhead.
\tPhobe and the girls clambered up onto the rotisserie and neared the captured Predators. They caught sight of them, and Jacob and Cynthia gasped with shock.
\t``It's you...!'' they both said, staring at Amberlina.
\t``What can we cut these with?'' Phobe asked, examining the ropes.
\tSnowflake waddled over. ``Girl-scouts... Oh, yeah, I know these knots.''
\t``You're joking...''
\t``I just might need a little help from your claws, but, if we can weaken them that way, I know how to undo them,'' Snowflake explained.
\t``Hurry!'' Amberlina whimpered.
\t``Ngahhh!!'' Volknir screamed, reloading ammo from a pouch on his person, and firing as quick as he could. By the time the blood had reached halfway across the air toward him, the entirety of Serra's body had been blown completely apart. Not even discernable limbs remained, everything was destroyed.
\tBut the blood-aura had been unaffected. Staring, the wheels spun threads of blood out in a gigantic net, reaching out for him.
\tCarly screamed, running to him. ``Daddy, Daddy, Archie's eating mom! Archie's eating mom!''
\tVolknir kicked her off of him, blood spraying from her nose as she went tumbling. ``You'll join her if you touch me again!''
\tVolknir aimed his rifle. ``Fuck this demon, whatever it is! I'm going to be the king of this goddamn world! I've seen it in my dreams, humans on top, all others reincarnating endlessly in designated machinery, the perfect slaves, my rule absolute! I've seen the dreams, I've a vision! I!'' BLAM! ``WON'T'' BLAM! ``BE!'' BLAM! ``DENIIIIEED!''
\t``Graaa!'' Carly shouted, and in a fit of hysterics, grabbed Volknir by his suspender straps and pulled with all her strength!!
\tHe yelled as he stumbled forward a few feet, and Carly ran and pushed on his ass!
\tVolknir flew... and the blood caught him.
\t``What... what...'' he panted, feeling burning hot liquid coalescing around him. ``CARLY!! WHAT DID YOU DO YOU BIIITCH!''
\tCarly, crying tears and blood pouring from her nose, grabbed Volknir's rifle... She carried it to the edge of the roof and tried pointing it at Archie.
\tThe minotaur was licking his lips... He buried his head in his hands, weeping. Not one human remained standing on the ground.
\tCarly... dropped the rifle from the roof, and collapsed backward. She stared at the sky, crying, banging her fists against the roof.
\t``CARLY WHAT DID YOU DOOOO!?'' Volknir screamed, feeling his flesh cook in the blood as he was gently carried toward the center of Kuklos.
\t``No! Stop, I'm... I'm supposed to be a king! I've seen it! I've seeeen iiiiit!''
\tHe gave a last scream as he was plunged into the center of the wheel, and then it spun rapidly, cocooning him.
\tEveryone heard a voice, said in their own voices, stolen from everyone.
\t``Sula, my vessel is wasted as I'd feared, but, we will meet again. Now, I do this for you. Flee, recover, remember my name. Call upon me, and with this outsider's soul, divorced from the food-chain, this man who did not belong in this world... we shall be reunited, and fill this world with spirals of blood! Flee Sula, and remember Kuklos!''
\tSula nodded, crying. ``I love you, my true queen, my demon!''
\tThe huge orb of blood caught fire, erupting into a volcanic-scale pillar of smoke. A hideous feeling of wrongness pervaded the air, some sacrilegious perversion that even this world couldn't quite contain it, and everyone there yet alive began crying.
\t``Your rapist's soul nourishes me, my retreat is not in vain. Your love will not go unrewarded, live for me Sula, but fear the sun.''
\tSula hesitated... and then ran.
\tThe fire burnt itself out, and the blood was gone. Volknir was gone.
\tJust about everything was gone... The minotaur was the only thing off the roof, and lay sobbing as he felt the last movement die out inside him.
\t``Gooooods and goddesses what the shiiiit!'' Jacob snarled. ``What the shit was all that fucking nonsense! No, no no no, I do NOT like magic! Not one fucking biiit!''
\tAmberlina took a few steps back from them, gazing over the scene of chaos... ``Oh... I can't... Did... did we do it? Did we save the world?''
\tAmberlina sensed something behind her. She froze, and turned her eyes slightly to her right, to see a dog's face inches away from her head. The dog had boring brown fur, a dumb smile, and radiated no body-heat. The pins on his beanie glinted in the moonlight.
\tHe chuckled. ``You blew it kid.''
\tShe screamed, running forward.
\tSnowflake and Monique got Jacob free, while Phobe freed Cynthia by snapping her fingers and gradually fraying the ropes apart with concussive force. The group turned toward Amberlina, watching her run to them.
\tAnd they saw him. His eyes seemed unusually black, even in the dark night. He smiled congenially. ``I hate to make an awkward moment worse, but, you're all about to die.''
\tThey stared... Amberina contorted her face and suddenly took a step closer. ``I won't let you hurt them!''
\tHe tilted his head-back and guffawed. He panted his stomach, which growled in a manner that made every Predator's skin crawl. Everyone felt like they'd been thrown under ice.
\t``Me? Ah, nope. Wrongo! Hey, doggo! Yeah, Mr. Khakis! You used to live in Crucible, right? Tell me, what does Crucible do if they detect a major-threat on the planet in a small, easy to isolate area?''
\tJacob squinted at him, confused. His eyes then went wide. ``Wait... No, naw, that's just a rumor. A conspiracy theory!''
\t``Hehehe, and people wonder why no one trusts the city-state of Crucible!'' laughed the beanie-dog. ``Fffeewwwwww~ KurBLAM! Not so much a demon doing magic, but, a soul being devoured? Oh yeah, they'd pick up on that and be all, `Oh hell no!' and send a panic-flare immediately! Too bad they have no way of telling that the demon left, so it's pointless!''
\tThey stared at him, and looked up at the sky as they saw that a spot above them was growing orange...
\t``Ah, here it comes!'' the Hungry Man laughed. ``Magic, isn't it? That's Crucible's calling card, from what I hear. Yeah, you'll all die. Ahh, but, there's a loophole, isn't there?''
\t``What are they doing?!'' Jacob shouted.
\t``Wha-what's going on?!'' Snowflake cried.
\t``Oh nothing honey, the park is just about to go up in flames is all,'' laughed the beanie-dog.
\t``They can't do that! This isn't their jurisdiction!!''
\t``What the fuck is that dammit?!'' Cynthia asked, watching the sky grow brighter. Their hair was beginning to stand on end.
\t``Just the park? Is there time to escape?'' Jacob asked.
\t``There was, but, that was before I showed up,'' laughed the Hungry Man. ``If you ran now, they'll have the whole park warded before you can reach the wall or gates! So unless you can run at 40 MPH(64kph) like a fucking vampire you are basically boned. Now, I'd offer to help... but, what kind of Hungry Man would I be if I actually ate something, huh? Amberlina...''
\tShe shrank against the others.
\tThe Hungry Man shook his head at her. ``Tch tch tch... Enjoy your world while you can. I can't say I am not disappointed in you, but I am also... not surprised. But there is hope yet. Remember, my invitation still stands, if you want to become... Empty.''
\tHe giggled and pulled his beanie off, bowing to them. ``Well kiddos... eat your hearts out...''
\tHe was gone. They didn't feel like he simply disappeared. It was jarring from how un-jarring his departure was, as impersonal as noticing something missing between shots in a tv show, or a comic panel. He was gone, and the group was left watching the sun forming above them and the air grow warm.
\t``We won't reincarnate if this thing kills us,'' Cynthia said, staring.
\t``Why did we come here...'' Jacob grunted, staring.
\tCynthia looked at Amberlina, and was... stunned by her. Just, the pure... delectableness of her prepubescent breasts and her cum-soaked hot-chocolate costume, and her huge tail.
\tI'm not the only one who looks suspicious, Cynthia thought to herself. I'm not a fox-killer, I'm a fox-protector...
\tShe smiled and stepped toward her prey. ``I just have to kill a few foxes doing it...''
\t``What...?'' Jacob panted.
\tAmberlina squealed as she felt Cynthia straddle her. She was soon nose-to-puss with Cynthia, who began tugging her play-boy bunny costume's crotch to the side. ``Oh you poor dear. I don't know what you were doing here, but, you're just the spitting image of the First-Slave, you know that?''
\t``No... no I don't,'' Amberlina mewled.
\t``They say I'm just the spitting image of Castelia, the Fox-Killer,'' Cynthia laughed. ``Oh, they used to tease me... Honey, you'll be fine. Honey, you'll be safe. Because once you are honey running down my legs, you'll be safe in the food chain.''
\t``I...''
\t``C'mere, it will be okay now, you won't remember this shit soon.''
\tCynthia moaned as she pushed her pussy down over Amberlina's muzzle. She looked up at Cynthia, crying.
\t``Whup-abboub-youb?''
\t``I'll be fine,'' Cynthia mewled, winking, and patting her. ``I'm not going to let myself miss out on any other chances to hunt you down. I don't care how many life-times it takes me, I'm going to eat you the way you deserve to be eaten... But for now... just die naturally. In me!''
\tCynthia moaned and purred, and the group, confused, watched Amberlina slowly disappearing into Cynthia's snatch.
\t``Guess we have to,'' Phobe said, and pulled Monique over to her.
\t``Hey, what you doing?'' cried Monique.
\t``Saving you, unsexualized murder does not have a precedence of leading to reincarnation - only being eaten works, and last I heard, even Predators allow themselves to be eaten when they get old.''
\t``Ooohh crap, but, my candy!'' Monique cried.
\t``Oh shut up,'' Phobe said, and thrust Monique down between her legs, lifted her skirt... and began feeding the whimpering kit to her penis.
\tSnowflake yelped as she was lifted up by Jacob, who dangled her above his freshly-freed dog-meat. ``Bye bye kitty, I hope to see you later!'' he grunted.
\t``Wait...'' she mewled.
\t``You're lucky that you're so fucking hot that I could just cock-vore you even in a situation like this!''
\t``Eeeek!'' she cried as he began snarfing her down his cock, tiny cat-feet, ankles, legs... even her dainty hips were no match for his growing, snarfing cock.
\tCynthia moaned as she felt a thick, red tail slipping up her canal, honey dripping to the floor.
\tPhobe panted as she put a hand on the spit fastened to the roof. She could feel Monique's impressive young ass bulging out her drooling glans. ``Shit, I should... have done this earlier, oh, you delicious fox...''
\tThe predators all groaned as they felt their sex-organs swallow the cubs whole, and settle to digest in their sexes.
\t``One of us... I guess... can't make it...'' Jacob snorted, while rubbing his balls. The little girl-shape was melting already.
\tCynthia, panting, went over to get her girlfriend Sabrina loose. They shared a sad look with each other.
\t``We should have stayed home,'' she spat.
\t``I know...''
\t``We could be fucking at a party right now!!''
\t``I knooow.''
\t``I hate you so much right now, chasing foxes and Hungry Mans!''
\t``I know...'' Cynthia said sadly, and pulled Sabrina into her arms. ``We'll be okay. We'll... just have to celebrate another Halloween together sometime. I... know we'll meet again.''
\t``Don't try to make this romantic, we're eating each other to escape dying from a magical tactical nuke, this is the dumbest most unsexy bullshit night I've - ''
\tCynthia closed her mouth around Sabrina's head.
\tJacob, having no tact, waddled up to Cynthia and lifted one of her feet... poking it into his cock-tip. She glared at him, and he just smiled uneasily. ``Can't let my fine lady-friend go, can I? Trust me, I can eat adults just fine.''
\tPhobe stood over Carly, who was staring blankly at the sky. Phobe considered her. ``You understand that if I don't eat you, you'll actually perish. You have to let me do it. Let me eat you, it will help. Please, find it in you to consent... You can't simply say yes, you have to find it in yourself to really, really want this.''
\tCarly cried. ``I want... I just want my Mommy back.''
\t``Maybe you can, but, I have to eat you.''
\tCarly nodded. Phobe nodded, and knelt down, her cock dangling at Carly's face. ``You're lucky that a bloody-nose is a huge turn on for me...''
\tCynthia swallowed her skunky-girlfriend until the two of them were dangling out of Jacob's dick, swaying between his legs while the bunny was sucked up into his balls. Just before her head was engulfed by his penis, she swallowed Sabrina's feet.
\t``Unng, always, kinda... wanted to eat another Pred,'' Jacob snorted, feeling Cyntha vanish into his glans. ``Whoo... Never thought I'd find myself in a situation in which a Predator B would consent to being my meal. Well, desperate times...''
\tThe air was so hot that they were beginning to sweat, and there was this feeling like the air was being sucked into the sky above them. The sun-like object was closer, or larger...
\t``Not much time,'' he said, and looked at Phobe, who just finished devouring Carly. She looked back at him.
\t``Now what...'' she said.
\t``I can't leave a kid to die,'' Jacob said.
\t``Easy for you to say, you're shaking and your nuts are fit to burst, maybe I can out-eat you?'' she said.
\t``Naw, c'mon... I can eat you if you consent to it...''
\tPhobe looked out over the park. ``My Moms are looking for me I bet... I hope... I hope Tethys is okay. She was on duty tonight.''
\tJacob snuck up on her while she was distracted, and pushed his dick against her muzzle. She glared at him, and then shut her eyes.
\tJacob pushed his dick forward, and felt her entering.
\t``Excellent, c'mere goaty-goat, I can help you by helping myself to your body...''
\tJacob panted as he felt Phobe slide into him... Man, he wish he could gloat to some other Pred's about how he could cock-vore under stress. He felt the young girl enter his nuts, splooshing into the half-digested remains of his other friends.
\tPanting, he looked up at the sky again. ``Shit... so, this was my Narration all along? To just save them from this? Thanks a lot... Damn Crucible. Gods damn those bastards! I... I don't fucken wanna get blown to shit! This was supposed to be Halloween! Instead I got crazy, just... crazy everything and... and...''
\tHe looked down at his hands, shaking, feeling scared. His nuts tightened against him, as his adrenaline helped break them all down into his splooge. He wouldn't even have time to enjoy it.
\t``Is this really my Narrative? I thought my Narrative was to... eat kids! Not this!''
\tJacob felt something loom up behind him. He blinked, turned, and came face to face with a huge minotaur maw.
\t``Well... well shit...'' he mumbled, and felt darkness envelop him.
14 ---
\t``You don't understand, I have to get in there!''
\t``No one is getting in there,'' said the cop.
\t``No, my family was in the park!'' shouted the human. ``Listen, I'm not here to cause trouble, my family was with the protestors, I have to get in there and see what happened!''
\t``No one can get in!'' the cop said.
\t``I have to get in there dammit!'' he shouted, and pushed past the cop. He ran... and slammed against something...
\tHe bounced back as if he'd run into a glass door, and looked up. There was... nothing. He ran into nothing.
\t``Kid I tried to tell you we can't get in there.''
\t``What the fuck kind of magic shit is this?!''
\t``Barrier,'' the cop said.
\tThe human looked up at the cop, his eyes glaring. ``What do you mean a barrier? Like a magic barrier? Who could make a barrier?!''
\t``It's a Crucible barrier!'' the cop said, took off his hat, and began to spin it. He whistled, looking up at the invisible barrier with curiosity.
\t``Why the fuck does a cop have a beanie underneath his cop-hat?'' the human asked.
\tThe cop replaced his hat over the badge-festooned beanie. ``Nevermind that, I'm just here to watch the fireworks.''
\t``What fireworks?!''
\t``These fireworks!''
\tAnd then the entire town was lit up as if by day. An intense heat filled the town, and a pillar of light appeared at Pinwheel Park, the entire thing consumed just within the walls. The walls began melting, pouring liquid rock into the streets. Nearby homes began to blacken, and the windows burst inside. There were unintended casualties...
\tThe human who had tried to fight his way into the park screamed as his flesh melted.
\tThe cop laughed as he melted with him, his clothes catching fire!
\tA few seconds... and then the heat was gone... The effect vanished, and the town swirled as the cold night air and intense sudden heat created severe local storms all over the town. Scared survivors shouted in their homes as windows rattled and trees creaked.
\tNear the destroyed park, a laughing man stood, almost entirely skeletal, dripping with the melted fats and waxes of his fur and skin, all charred into a disgusting, inky blackness.
\t``Oh Crucible, you so scary! I can't believe that idiot-child let a town like that exist! Even inside your perfect little world, people are just bursting at the seams to think they know best.''
\tThe Hungry Man was suddenly better, all new clothes, all new flesh, all new beanie. He even had a cup of coffee to sip.
\t``It never gets old and it never changes. You can try and make it as ideal as you possibly can and people will still fuck it up. They always fuck it up! People say things get better and maybe they do, but in the end they always... fuck up!''
\tHe grinned and drained his coffee, letting it shatter at his feet, shards scattering into the lava. ``Oh, I'm here, Amberlina. I'm here! I'll be watching, just like old times! What's one more world, eh? What's one more world... when we've already seen The Silent Universe tremble at your decisions! The entire universe Rose! You did this! You hear me? You did this!''
\tTurning away, laughing, he walked off into the night, his heels clicking behind him. ``After all... What did I do? All I did... was sell a confused little girl a little Halloween accessory. That's all it took to watch your world destroy itself.''
\tHe howled with laughter, and vanished. And for the next month, no matter how much they ate... the entire town went hungry...
15 ---
\tPinwheel Village recovered. They sued, sanctioned, and did everything they could against Crucible, but in the end the town became enemies and Crucible sent a lot of money their way to help the town, and no one was satisfied. The world now knew Crucible was spying, or monitoring, nearby cities, and had terrifying magitech at their disposal. Crucible, for the time being, decided to close its borders...
\tNot that that helped.
\tPinwheel needed time to go back to being a happy-town. The hate-crimes became the blame for the detonation - -Crucible never announced why they had done it, only that it had been necessary. Some major city-states seemed to accept this... Dark mutterings over what shadowy deals enacted that ran amok in the town, but Consenters were blamed just as readily.
\tThere was no Consent-District. The four districts became three - -spiraling in on each other to form a happy-go-lucky, upbeat town modeled after a pinwheel. It used to be four...
\tNow, the Consenters were gone, told to get out. All the humans who lived in town were now all Prey, and there were less than a dozen of them, and no one wanted to eat them.
\tThe city council made an emergency announcement that Halloween, and all festivals, would be vore-free zones for the next eighteen years while the population recovered. Believe it or not, the major source of population-loss was the ousting of the Consent-District, who all fled to nearby Willen.
\tThe city was filled with despair and mourning... But, the Village of Pinwheel did recover. Trust and goodwilling were damaged, but, the people did start to be happier. The people had children to replace those who were no longer there.
\tA goat mother gave birth to twins, and she knew them. They were sisters, but she named them Tethys and Phobe.
\tAn arctic mother got pregnant, but stayed single, and gave birth to a child she recognized, and named Monique. A gigantic, sealed contraption guaranteed to keep anything in it fresh through some kind of enchantment existed in the basement, and inside was an entire trove of candy. Monique's first Halloween would be rewarding.
\tA single-cat mom found herself wanting another daughter named Snowflake. Actually, she named all her daughter's that. It was good parenting, she thought, that all her daughters tended to look and act the same. She was famous for it! She was also famous for her daughter getting eaten by dogs! Such was the life of a cat.
\tSome animals hold such large litters that some kids simply have to go live in collectives, boarding schools if you please. They were well-funded, and had competent staff. Even so, Jacob, Cynthia, and Sabrina were some of the most voracious kids they'd ever had. They made plans early on to go move to another town as adults...
\tThe Halloween that ended in a column of fire became legendary across the neighboring city-states, and word spread quickly that there had been a Lord appear there...
\tBut Pinwheel recovered, if but only just.
\tAnd elsewhere, in the infamous town of Misogycity, a fox and a wolf were discussing possible names for their children, as he caressed the vixen's belly, the wolf whispered, ``How about we name one Amberlina? We might even keep her for a while, if I don't get hungry first.''
\tAnd Misogycity, infamous for its mistreatment of women, and the fact that all women born there, or who move there, famously are all Slave-license... has one woman who is not. A woman who, no matter how sexist and pig-headed and superior any male or shemale who encounters her, cannot bring her to heel, cannot make her beg, and she always says `no'. The city where no means yes... begins to whisper, whisper of the girl who says `no.'
\tThe whisperers would be understanding, if that were only that... but they whisper of more.
\tIf you meet the badger who says `no' when you try to rape her, you run. She's not mortal, they say. Her name might be Sula, they say.
\tAnd they say she leaves spirals of blood wherever she goes.
\tShe's trying to find a friend, they say.
\t
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