Gallus, Sandbard, Ocellus, Silverstream, Yona, and Smolder all sat in a circle, looking at each other alongside their tiny partners sittin on their muzzles or beaks, sweating hard. Fluttershy watched over them all, making sure that it all went smoothly. This activity was all about resisting the urge to eat their tiny partner, who, earlier, were laced with a potion that made their smell more tantalizing to eat. As for the tinies, they looked at their huge partner in the eyes, encouraging their partner to resist eating them… all except for Nick.
“Come on, Smolder.” He spoke, laying down on her muzzle and rubbing his hands on her muzzle. “You know you want to eat me. Afterall, I’m your most tastiest, juiciest, excellent tiny you’ve ever-”
“Um, Nick?” Fluttershy spoke. “You know you’re supposed to encourage your partner to not eat you, right?”
“I know, miss Fluttershy… but I don’t mind at all. I love to be eaten by Smolder, isn’t that right, big gal?” He practically placed his hands in her nostrils. Smolder’s sweating went wild, but, in a blink of an eye, her tongue snaked out, wrapped itself around Nick, and pulled him in to her mouth. The dragon drooled heavily as Nick was in her mouth, tossing him around in there.
“Oh yeah, that’s the stuff.” Smolder spoke with her mouth full before swallowing Nick. She leaned back in her chair, patted her belly before belching. Fluttershy looked down at her with a disappointed look. “... What? I can’t help it. He’s a tasty guy who wanted to be eaten, and I granted it. Not the first I ate him.” Fluttershy sighed.
“Alright, I think this experiment is over. Class, you can take your partner off and-” Fluttershy didn’t say anything as she saw all the students try to eat their partner. Silverstream tossed Jasmine in the air and caught her in her mouth, with the girl screaming as if she was gonna die. Ocellus had Ellie’s top half in her mouth, making loud slurping noises as if she was like a pacifier. Yona stuffed Phillip in her mouth with the large boy making a surprised yelp with the yak chewing with her mouth open, showing how he tossed Phillip in her mouth. Gallus lowered Edgar by his feet, head first into his beak, with the boy making nervous squeaks before deposited. Sandbar had Kathy in his hooves, giving loving licks, making the girl giggle.
“STUDENTS!!! STOP!!!” Fluttershy shouted. Her sudden shout made all the students stop, looking like they had seen a ghost. “Spit out your partners, now!” The students listened, spitting their partners out and into their appendages, with their tiny partners covered in spit. They all had different reactions; Phillip looked grossed out, Ellie smile had a nervous look on her face, Jasmine was petrified, Edgar was shivering, and Kathy just smiled, unphased. Fluttershy turned to Smolder. “You too, Smolder.”
“Uh… yes, ma’am.” Smolder replied. She pounded her stomach hard, then Nick flew right out, landing in Smolder’s claw, covered in stomach acids and bits of digested gems.
“Hey! What gives!?” He asked.
“Alright, I think it’s time for a new group project.” Fluttershy spoke. “It seems all of you have eaten your partner before. Now, I’d like each of you to explain how you have started to eat your partner.”
“Heh, guess we’re out of this.” Smolder spoke with a chuckle, holding Nick close to her chest.
“Well… yes, Smolder and Nick will be the exception to this, but the rest of you, with your partner, explain how you’ve started to eat your tiny partner.” All the students remained silent, unsure who should go first, and how to say it properly. Fluttershy gave an annoyed look. “Alright, then I’ll choose one. How about… Yona and Phillip.”
“U-us!?” Phillip and Yona asked.
“Indeed. Go on, tell us how this started between you two.” Both Yona and Phillip stammered a bit, sweating hard. “Don’t worry, this is a judge free zone. We won’t make fun of you for answering.”
“Uh… well… Yona...uh…” Yona tried to answer. Phillip stood forward.
“Easy, Yona. I’ll explain it first.” He spoke. “You can add extra details, but it all started with a dream I had.”
Phillip found himself in front of a live audience, with photos taken of him, as he wore an NFL Jersey. Everyone around him were asking various questions, though he couldn’t answer all, he tried his best. His fingers pointed to one of the interviewers.
“You have a question?” He asked.
“Yes, how does it feel being the youngest NFL player to date?” The interviewer asked.
“Gotta say, I’m very surprised, but happy to be here.” He pointed to another person. “You?”
“Do you have any sponsorship deals?”
“Not that I know of. I’d like to find out sooner than later.” Another point to someone. “You?”
“You do realize you’re still a worthless human, right?” The interviewer asked in an all to familiar voice.
“Wait, excuse me?” Everything began to break down and turn into sand. The room and people disappeared, with the spotlights turning wide over him, becoming more menacing. Everything shook as Phillip saw himself in front of Neighsay, who’s eyes were the spotlights, looking down at him in disgust.
“You humans need to learn your place! You are insects, and insects are meant to be squished from existence!” Neighsay lifted a hoof and lowered it to crush Phillip. Phillip turned and ran as fast as he could, barely missing the stomp Neighsay did to squish him. Everything around Phillip went blurry as he tried to run away, but he tripped and saw Neighsay, looking down at him. “You disgust me!” And his hoof came down, rendering Phillip to scream before-
“AHHH!!!” Phillip screamed as he woke up. He sweated and breathed heavily. Everything was quiet as he was back in his dorm, then turned to see Yona looking at him with a concerned look. To say the least, Phillip jumped out of bed in shock, seeing the face of the Yak looking at him, scaring him. “Yona! What are you doing!?”
“Yona heard Phillip being scared in Phillip’s dream.” Yona answered. “Yona wanted to be sure Phillip was alright.” Phillip got up and walked to Yona, wearing some sweatpants his parents gave him for his bedtime.
“Alright… thanks… and don’t worry, it’s just a dream, nothing else.”
“What happened in dream?” Phillip looked at Yona, unsure if he should or shouldn’t, but seeing the Yak’s large, very dog-like eyes, he sighed.
“Only for you, Yona.” He cleared his throat. “Alright… you remember that I’ve always wanted to be a football player, right?”
“Yona remember!”
“Shh!” Phillip shushed. Yona covered her mouth. “Anyways, my dream quickly turned into a nightmare, form me being the next NFL star to being chased by that Neighsay guy.”
“Phillip chased by bad pony?”
“Worst. He crushed me.”
“Oh… that even worse.”
“Yeah.” Phillip shivered a bit. “Jeez, it’s cold around here!”
“Do Phillip need a warm place to sleep? Phillip want to sleep with Yona?”
“... You know, that wouldn't sound so-” he was interrupted as Yona’s stomach gurgled loudly. Yona had an embarrassed smile on her face.
“Sorry, Yona didn’t have dinner, and Yona’s stomach not exactly happy.”
“Ah, right, well, it shouldn’t-” Phillip paused, then thought of something. “Wait… do we have to go to class tomorrow?”
“Hmm… Nope. No class for Yona and Phillip tomorrow.”
“Oh, sweet! Then maybe we can experiment a bit.”
“Experiment?” Yona asked. Phillip had a small blush on his face.
“Uh… well… Yona… I’ve never had this experience before, but… can… can you eat me?” Yona had a shocked look on his face.
“What!? Phillip want Yona to eat Phillip!?” She covered her mouth as soon as she realized she yelled that aloud. Only slight annoyed sounds were heard next to their dorm, but nothing else.
“I’m just curious, Yona. Honestly. Plus, I haven’t been eaten yet, and I doubt you have eaten anyone.”
“Yona has not eaten anyone, but Yona don’t get why Phillip want Yona to eat Phillip,”
“Well… it’s simple, really. I like you, Yona, I really do. And you’ve heard how ponies love to eat people. Maybe you’ll think I’m tasty. Plus, I doubt you want your stomach to be empty, so I’m just temporarily keeping you full. This should be harmless for me.” Yona looked around nervously.
“Uh… Yona been curious what Tinies taste like, and Yaks never ate Tinies before, so… Yona unsure about this.” Phillip walked up and placed a calm hand on her nose.
“It’s ok, I’m a bit nervous as well. If anything goes wrong, then spit me out, got it?” Yona blinked, but nodded.
“Yona… ready… Yona nervous… and excited.”
“Same.” Yona opened her mouth wide and stuck her tongue out, allowing Phillip to see her huge maw that, upon closer inspection, didn’t really look all that inviting. Her breath was enough to knock out a whole football team, causing Philip to almost gag at the smell. He looked inside seeing webs of saliva sticking to the tops and bottom rounded block like teeth he could see some bits of some meals she had eaten prior, with some of those bits were left over hay strays, something that looked like wood or even cardboard? The yak’s teeth didn’t fair better, looking as yellow as possible, and haven’t been brushed in years. For being cute, Yona sure had bad dental problems.
Philip took a deep breath and held his nose with one hand as he entered Yona’s mouth. Yona’s eyes widened as she could taste how delicious Phillip was, but held back incase Phillip wanted out. The humidity made the boy sweat as the hot air bathed over him, his feet sank into the squishy mass of the giant flesh member making a ‘Squish’ sound, soaking his bare feet in the slimy drool that drove a shiver up his spin giving him goosebumps making him cringe. Philip tightened his fists taking in all of Yona’s mouth as he went down on all fours, feeling the spongy, lumpy taste buds, Philip began to crawl further inside, leaving the tip of Yona’s tongue as he crawled deeper as he felt the slimy drips of Yona’s saliva splat on his head and back, resulting in Philip turning a bit green, holding back the urge to toss his cookies.
Yona couldn’t take it anymore as she closed her mouth and tossed Phillip around, though, coming from a more… loud kingdom, she didn’t close her mouth as she ‘chewed’ loudly. Phillip bounced everywhere in her mouth, seeing her mouth open and close on repeat with the outside world in frame of her teeth before it’s just the back of her teeth. His world went dark as Yona finally closed her mouth, leaving Phillip’s head spinning, but not before seeing himself fall down into Yona’s throat. He pushed back a little bit, but he fell down into the abyss, and was swallowed whole. The Yak’s throat proved to be quite tight, and the smell below was even terrible than before, making him want to puke even more. With one final push, Phillip landed in Yona’s stomach, where he began to cough hard and gag at the terrible smell all around him. His vision went blurry, but he looked around, seeing how wide Yona’s stomach was, with how dry everything was… and how there was some food from earlier, still digesting away.
“Mmm! Phillip taste great! How is Phillip doing inside Yona’s stomach?” Yona’s voice boomed and asked around him. Phillip got up, holding his nose.
“Alright… Yona?” Phillip began. “I really like you, I really do, but we’ve gotta work on some stuff together. Starting tomorrow, you REALLY need to brush your teeth, and maybe eat some breath mints, ok? I’m not trying to be mean, but it smells like something died in here!”
“Yona not know how to brush Yona’s teeth. Yaks have best teeth!” Her stomach gurgled before she let out a near deafening belch. The sounds of groans from her fellow classmates could be heard all around, as they got up from bed to complain about the loud noises. “Uh… lay low, Yona need to apologize.”
“What!? What did you say!?”
“And Phillip taught Yona how to brush Yona’s teeth, and Yona can say Yona has best teeth out of any yak!” She smiled, showing off her now clean teeth that looked more presentable.
“Trust me, it was a nightmare to get those teeth clean.” Phillip added. “Especially after the deafening belch to end all other belches.”
“That did explain that night.” Ocellus replied, drying Ellie up with a rag.
“At least you worked it out together.” Fluttershy added. “And Yona, I’m very happy to hear how you cared about Phillip after that nightmare of his. I’m glad to see you do care. Would anyone else like to go?”
“Ooh! I want to go next!” Silverstream insisted.
“Oh no! Not us!” Jasmine shouted. “We are not gonna talk about this again!”
“But I saved your life, Jazzy!”
“Wait, you saved Jasmine by eating her?” Gallus asked.
“Indeed!”
“She did not!” Jasmine yelled.
“It started as we visited Ponyville’s lake to go for a swim-”
“She kidnapped me from my studies.”
“And she went swimming herself.”
Under the bright, open sky, the sun shined over a small lake that Silverstream, in her Seapony form, splashed around in, having fun. Jasmine, meanwhile, sat under some rocks that provided shade. Silverstream breached the waters, swimming towards Jasmine.
“Come on, Jasmine! Swim with me!” She insisted.
“Why am I here?” Jasmine asked, crossing her arms.
“So we can have fun together!”
“No, it’s so YOU can have fun. You took me away from my studies, Silverstream.”
“Aww, but you looked so sad while studying.”
“It’s not sad, it’s called being focused. And I was focused on my studies to get a good grade and pass, not just lolligag and swim when there’s a big test tomorrow.”
“But didn’t a study show that students who go out and play develop their cognitive thinking better than those that stay inside and study more?”
“I… wait… how did you-?”
“I study too, Jazzy! I didn’t want to brag or anything, but I’m a Straight A student! And the two of us should have fun together to make our brains process all our information better!” Jasmine had a blank look on her face.
“You’re… a straight A student?” Silverstream nodded, using one of her fins to pick up Jazmine.
“Now come on! Let’s have some fun!”
“No! Wait-!” Jasmine yelled, but Silverstream tossed her in the air. “SILVERSTREEEEAM!!!” Jazmine screamed as went flying in the air, before falling down and splashing down in the water below. Her eyes opened as she looked up and flailed her arms and legs, trying to swim up. Her head breached the waters, where she coughed and gasped for air. Unfortunately, Silverstream dived in, causing a wave to crash into Jasmine, bringing her underwater again. Silverstream swam around her underwater.
“Isn’t this exciting!? We’re both underwater and having fun!” Silverstream only saw Jasmine flailing, trying to get up with small bubbles exiting her mouth. “Ooh! You want to talk like fish!? I gotcha! Glub glub!” Jasmine’s eyes closed as she went limp. “Hey! There’s no need to sleep. We’ve got a lot of… wait… Jasmine?” She poked at the limp human, seeing there was no reaction. Silverstream’s eyes widened. “Oh no! Hold on, Jasmine!!!” Silverstream used a fin to hold the limp human, swim up, and breached the water, quickly turning into her Hippogriff self and flew high up onto a cliff. She set Jasmine onto her side and, with a pinch, began to move Jasmine’s arm up and down like a lever, causing water to come out of the tiny’s mouth, followed by her puking out the water and regaining consciousness. “Jasmine! Are you alright!?”
“... Alright?” Jasmine asked back. “Alright!? You almost killed me!!!”
“No! I didn’t mean to, I was-!”
“I’m a human! I can’t breath underwater! And I don’t know how to swim!”
“But I-”
“No! You listen here, birdbrain! For being a Straight A student, you’re the biggest idiot I’ve ever been with! You can’t take a hint that I hate you! I struggle with trying to get good grades so I can have a better future and not suffer like how my parents did! But oh no! You’re somehow a genius that’s also from royalty, so if you make a bad grade, it’s just a light slap to the hand, not like me who gets punished for me being an idiot!” She began to walk away, not seeing the edge.
“Jasmine! Wait! There’s-”
“Don’t bother! You can’t convince me otherwise how you’ll be-” Jasmine fell over the cliff and began to fall. “AHHHHH!!!”
“Hold on! I’m coming!” Silversteam ran and jumped off the cliff, zooming past Jasmine, then opened her claws, ready to catch her. “I got ya! I got ya! I got-!” Silverstream was off as she felt Jasmine land in her mouth roughly. She didn’t how to react, but felt Jasmine move in her mouth… and how she tasted so great. Jasmine found herself in a narrow, wet, and dark spot. She was alive, but the place she was in was moving, and the smell of fish overwhelmed her nostrils. Her eyes adjusted to see that something was closed in front of her, and what looked like twin boulders nearly blocking that place. Then it dawned on her.
“Wait… Silverstream! Spit me out! You hear me! Spit me out, now!!!” Silverstream didn’t hear, instead, found how delicious Jasmine was in her mouth. Her narrow tongue went active as she tasted her partner in her mouth, finding that the tiny student was even better than her mom’s salmon juice. Jasmine, meanwhile, was grossed out as the tongue tasted her body, and hearing Silverstream murr in her flavor. “Silverstream! Stop it! Spit me out, or I swear, I’ll-!” She felt herself being pushed down into Silverstream’s throat. Her anger quickly went to fear as she clinged on to the back of the Hippogriff’s tongue. “No! Wait! Silverstream! I’m sorry! You’re not an idiot! You’re a smart gal who just made a mistake! Really! Please! Let me go, and we can have a laugh about this!” All she could hear was Silverstream giggle, followed by her mouth opening, and a waterfall of water entering, washing her down. “SILVERSTREEEEAM!!!”
Silverstream swallowed Jasmine with a mouthful of water provided by the lake. She couldn’t lie, Jasmine was pretty tough to swallow, but water certainly helped, especially feeling her move down her throat as she swallowed. The Hippogriff sighed with relief as her tiny partner landed in her stomach. A shiver went up her spine as she could feel Jasmine move in her stomach, though she walked back to their school, with no one aware that she swallowed her partner.
Jasmine landed in Silverstream’s stomach, the water making a puddle that reached to her feet, with the smell of fish overwhelming her. She hyperventilated as she saw various bones and fish scales around, slowly melting away, then felt the place shift as the Hippogriff walked away. The student ran to the Hippogriff’s stomach wall and banged on it. “Silverstream! Let me out! I’m sorry for what I said! I didn’t mean it! Please, I don’t want to go, not like this!” Tears began to fall as Jasmine fell to her knees, banging on the stomach walls
Silverstream stopped as she could hear Jasmine’s faint crying and pounds against her stomach wall. She placed a claw on her belly, feeling where Jasmine was in her stomach. “Uh… Jasmine? You ok?”
Jasmine looked up, seeing and feeling Silverstream’s claw around her area. She sniffled a bit. “N-no! Y-you swallowed me! You swallowed me after you nearly killed me twice! Of course I’m not fine!”
“Well, I tried to warn you about the cliff, but…” Silversteam stopped and shook her head. “Uh… look, I’m sorry for taking you away from your studying. I really wanted us to get along and have fun together. And I really was trying to catch you with my claws, not my mouth. But you really were tasty, so… yeah… that’s on me.” Jasmine sighed.
“No, this is all my fault. I shouldn’t have been so grumpy and so focused on my tests to not just have fun every once in a while… I guess mom was right that I took more from my dad than I thought. And I shouldn’t have been such a jerk to you, Silver. I guess… I was just jealous.”
“Jealous?”
“Well… you remind me a lot of those happy go lucky popular girls back home that can get anything they want, whenever they want, and are still somehow geniuses that go to college. Whereas with me, I’m nowhere near as charismatic as you are, or even that smart that I can go out to all the expensive parties and still have an A on. Plus, you’re royalty, you’ve got everything at your fingertips, where the rest of us have to work to even get even at least one hundredth of what you have.”
“So… What did your parents do? Care to tell me about them? I’ll listen as we make our way back.” Silverstream continued to walk, and Jasmine braced herself as her stomach shifted with each step.
“If you want to listen… well, my dad is a plumber, worked on fixing people’s toilets, sinks, the likes that involve water. But before that, he was a stockbroker, making millions by helping others make millions, investing money into products that might be successful or not, it was all a gamble. But he wasn’t the smartest guy around, being a high school dropout at that time, and got lucky working with a company that, as far as I know, went bankrupt after doing some shifty activities. Had he had known his company did it, he might’ve left with all his cash and maybe find a new company to work for, but, as you guess, he stayed, and lost everything, and since he had to take care of me, he had to take care of me and make sure that I didn’t fail as badly as he did.”
“Whoa… I don’t anything about that, but that sounds tough. And your mom?”
“She was a model, but it didn’t last long after she had me, and depended on my dad for income. We were just about to become homeless, and me taken away with Child protection services, until the Vanishing happened. On one hand, at least we’re together again, but on the other, we’re in this world with giant, man eating creatures, and now, I’m here, in your stomach, slowly waiting to be digested.”
“Digested!?” Silverstream laughed a bit but stopped herself. “Sorry, but you’re fine. You’ll be out in no time, back in the fresh air once again, with me by your side!”
“... Really?”
“Yep! I wouldn’t want to harm a friend, even if they were a bit harsh and unlucky compared to me.” Jasmine smiled a bit, though still felt a bit guilty.
“You… uh… promise not to tell anyone this?”
“I promise!”
“... Pinky promise?”
“Yep. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!”
“She broke a Pinkie Promise!” Pinkie Pie shouted, sitting with the circle.
“Uh… Pinkie?” Fluttershy began. “How long were you sitting by us?”
“... Gotta go!” Pinkie ran away, leaving only a cloud in the shape of her silhouette.
“... Anyways,” Jasmine continued, “we’ve grown up together after that, though I still don’t like being eaten for… well, obvious reasons.” Silverstream nodded.
“And I try to make sure to not harm her, or annoy her that much,” she added. “So while it may not seem like it, we’re getting along just fine.”
“Huh… thought you didn’t get along with Silverstream, Jasmine,” Ocellus commented. “Says a lot on what I know.”
“Oh, care to tell us how you started, Ocellus and Ellie?” Fluttershy asked.
“Uh… do you think we should?” The changeling asked her partner.
“I think we should.” Ellie answered. “It was after Twilight’s science class as we learned about the pony body, and I figured it’d be a good time for me to see it first hand.”
The school bell rung, signaling the end of the day. Ocellus and her partner, Ellie, both sat down in the library, studying for an upcoming test about the pony body and how it worked. While it was nice for both, with the lack of ponies anywhere, the test proved itself that it was going to be quite difficult. They shared a book, one Ocellus can hold and flip the pages while Ellie can read and see all the small texts that the Changeling might’ve missed.
“So, we know the simple idea of how the digestive system works, right?” Ocellus asked.
“I think so.” Ellie replied, seeing the picture. “Food goes in the mouth, the pony chews to make the process easier, food goes down the throat and into the stomach, the stomach churns food down before going into the intestines, the intestines break food down into nutrients, and everything left over that is is bad is turned into-”
“I think we have the idea.” Ocellus had a nervous chuckle. “Though, the test says we need to label all the organs correctly.”
“... Wait… isn’t there an extra credit portion?”
“Why… yes! I believe so. Using a different creature to compare and contrast their anatomy to a pony’s.”
“Is there a book about changeling anatomy?”
“Um… from what I can tell, no, there isn’t, but we can still use-”
“Wait, you’re a changeling, but there’s no books about how your body works?”
“... Well… no… I mean, I doubt anypony wanted to dissect a changeling. Especially back then, before King Thorax came and-”
“The extra credit portion is around the digestive system, right?”
“I mean… yes.”
“And no one knows how a Changeling’s body works, right?”
“... What are you getting at?”
“Easy; you eat me.”
“Wait, what!?” She covered her mouth, looking around to see nopony was around, then lowered her head to Ellie. “Are you crazy!?”
“No. Just want to get that extra credit in case we get a less than great score.”
“Yeah, but with me eating you? I can’t eat you!”
“Why not?”
“Well I… I never ate someone, that’s why. And I’d rather not eat someone, not after Thorax ate someone.”
“Oh? What happened to him?”
“Look, he ate some people, tresspassers, really. Turns out, if they don’t have love for us, meaning if they’re scared or angry, then they taste nasty, and one of the tinies gave Thorax internal bleeding after stabbing his stomach walls.”
“Oh… is he fine?”
“Yes, Thorax is fine, but seeing that as nymph, I didn’t want to eat anybody, not after that horrible sight.”
“Ah… well, I’m not like those people. I’m not scared… a bit nervous, sure, but I trust you.”
“... Really?”
“Yeah! And I won’t hurt you at all.” She placed a reassuring hand on her muzzle. “How can I hurt my BBFF?”
“... BBFF?”
“Big Bug Friend Forever.”
“Oh! Right… but… are you sure? Do you think you’ll be able to take notes in there?”
“Leave that to me.” Ellie grabbed her notebook and held it tight. “As for you, well, you still got some of those grapes, right?” Ocellus’s horn glowed, picking up a bundle of grapes.
“Right here.”
“Then leave it all to me as you snack away and study.”
“Um… are you sure? I mean, I don’t want you to be uncomfortable or anything, but-” She didn’t get to say anything else as Ellie jumped into her mouth, landing on her tongue. “What!? Ellie! Wait! I-!” She stopped as her tongue tasted Ellie. She shivered wildly and felt giddy as Ellie was the most sweetest thing she had ever tasted. Ellie, meanwhile, held on to her notebook, but giggled at how Ocellus was enjoying her flavor, happy to know that Ocellus loved her flavor. She was quite surprised to see how her mouth looked normal, with the only minor difference being that the changeling’s tongue was very soft, almost enough for Ellie to sink in, were it not for Ocellus moving her tongue around to get a good taste. It was ticklish, to say the least, with Ellie playfully pushing back Ocellus’ tongue.
“Stop it, Ocellus!” Ellie giggled.
“Mmm… you’re so tasty, Ellie!” Ocellus giggled, lightly drooling a bit. “I almost feel bad for bad for this,”
“Hehehe, it’s alright, I’ll be fine.No go on, don’t be afraid. I’ll be fine.” Ocellus leaned her head back and swallowed Ellie. Ellie found herself going down a somewhat loose throat that felt more like a waterslide. And like a waterslide, she slid into the stomach of Ocellus, causing a bit of a splash as she entered. She got up, seeing how Ocellus’s stomach acids reached to her knees, and the stomach, was discolored, having blue walls, along with being more flexible looking. Immediately, Ellie opened her notebook and took notes, noting everything about Ocellus’ stomach as she walked away from the entrance, her feet sinking in with each step. Loud giggling could be heard.
“Hey, stop it down there!” Ocellus teased.
“I can’t handle it. I think changeling stomachs are much more sensitive and loose compared to pony stomachs. What with you having an exoskeleton. Now go on, eat up. I need to see the effects.”
“If you say so.” Ocellus grabbed some grapes and chewed on them. Ellie could hear Ocellus chew her food, then swallowed, followed by some mushed up grapes entering and splashing in. Immediately, Ellie saw how fast Ocellus’ stomach broke down the grapes and took notes of it.
“Oh boy! This is quite the discovery!”
“Wait, the test isn’t until a few days from now.” Smolder spoke.
“Well, gotta be prepared to get extra credits.” Ocellus replied.
“And I’ve made a few discoveries while in my BBFF’s stomach.” Ellie added.
“That’s pretty… interesting.” Fluttershy replied. “Would anyone else like to go?”
“Oh! Oh! Miss Fluttershy I wanna tell our story, if it’s ok with you?” Kathy looked up at Sandbar, he had a soft smile on his muzzle and gave her a slow nod, she smiled happily giggling she was starting to get over excited and coughed from losing a bit of breath.
“Just calm down a little bit before you tell it, ok?” Sandbar lowered his head down nuzzling the side of her shoulder, she took some deep breaths leaning against Sandbar’s face and smiled up at his saucer-like eyes.
“Okay, so it all started when we were playing outside the school…”
“Alright get ready, Kathy!” Sandbar held a small marble sized ball in his hoof. It was the perfect toy for a tiny to play with, he smiled happily as Kathy readied herself waving her hands all around like a goalie at her net. “Alright here it comes!”
Sandbar backed two steps away holding up his hoof taking in three deep breaths along with his teeth baring, his face tightened growing more intense, biting down on his bottom lip throwing back his arm. He threw his arm forward his quick and intense motion quickly turned calm and slow once again as he let the ball slowly roll off his hoof.
The ball rolled down the flat grass it picked up speed once it the ground bouncing it rolled right passed Kathy who leaped for it missing it easily, she quickly got up and ran for the little ball she payed to much attention to the ball she didn’t see it was heading for a rose bush with visible thorns, Sandbar panicked rushing over to Kathy as she ran towards the bush.
“Kathy wait!” His words echoed making her stop as she looked up nearly inches from the bushes the low stomps from Sandbar made her ground shake looking up to see a slightly shocked Sandbar standing over her. “Sorry… I didn’t want you to get hurt, there’s thorns all over this bush.”
“Wait… What about the ball?” Kathy looked inside the spaced areas of the leafy wall seeing the ball deep in the bush surrounded by twigs, leaves, tangled vines and thorns, Kathy stared with disappointment. She felt a touch on her shoulder which was Sandbar gently putting his hoof on her shoulder.
“Its ok I could try and get for you.”
“No, I missed it so I’ll get it.” Kathy lowered down and crawled into a narrow space she pushed passed the twigs and the leaves see the ball in her sights she reached out not seeing the thorn poking into her arm, she quickly pulled back with the ball in her grasp scratching her arm leaving a noticeable mark. “Ow!” Kathy backed out holding the ball then quickly held her right arm.
“Kathy! Are you ok?” Sandbar closed in trying to see what was wrong with her, she looked up at the nervous pony giving a smile showing him the ball being held by her right hand Sandbar easily saw her cut, he gently picked her up with his hoof letting her sit down on the soft padding of his frog and walked away from the bush he gently trotted making sure Kathy didn’t fall off, he laid down on a blanket near a tree giving the two shade from the hot sun. “Kathy why didn’t you let me get the ball for you?”
“You do so much for me already, I just wanted to do something for you.”
“Well next time just let me get the ball, ok?”
“Ok.” Kathy opened her hand showing off her fresh cut, there wasn’t much blood coming out despite it being a new cut but some noticeable blood did start to leak out, she winced seeing it almost feeling sick seeing her own blood.
“Hold still.” Sandbar brought her closer to his face she could feel the hot gusts of air being blown into her from his nostrils his lips parted and his tongue slipped out licking at her arm, the spongy pink member licked at the cut lapping what blood leaked out and cleaning the cut as much as he could. Kathy winced at the touch the saliva from Sandbar began to seal up the cut clearing the wound of the blood. It stung, but it felt good, and a tad bit ticklish.
Sandbar had the awful taste of Kathy’s blood, but then had Kathy’s taste, which overpowered the taste of her blood. He looked to see that she was healed, but continued licking, finding Kathy even more tastier than expected. Kathy didn’t know what Sandbar was doing, but giggled as Sandar continued licking her, finding it ticklish. The young stallion slurped Kathy into his mouth, overwhelmed by how tasty his partner was, with Kathy laughing hard at how tickling his mouth was, both in total bliss of what was happening. Sandbar retracted his tongue back into his lips he giggled Kathy began to calm down a bit, snuggling up to his face hugging his muzzle his tongue slipped out once again licking Kathy across the face making the girl laugh and then pressed herself into his tongue giving it a somewhat hug. Sandbar’s tongue slipped back in and began to nuzzle her gently, Kathy stroked his muzzle resting on his nose. Kathy sat back on the soft frog of his hoof she looked up at him smiling Sandbar and her stared at one another till it was slightly awkward making Sandbar blush. Kathy looked over at her ball, picked it up, then looked back at Sandbar whose coat soaked with a nervous sweat.
“Hey Sandbar?”
“Yeah?”
“Can you swallow the ball?” Sandbar blinked looking at her confused.
“Uhh… Swallow the ball, why?” Sandbar rubbed the back of his head still very confused.
“Please.” Kathy held out the ball to Sandbar he blinked and gave a loud sigh and shrugged opening his mouth bringing Kathy closer she looked inside his mouth observing the details looking closely, she brought the ball into his mouth setting it behind his teeth. She brought herself up to his lower lip holding onto his front teeth, she watched as Sandbar worked the ball into the center of his tongue it rolled up and down becoming coded in his drool. Sandbar’s tongue shifted as it motioned up slightly letting it roll down into the double lumps getting caught between the back of his tongue the wet ball easily slipped behind Sandbar’s tongue and with a shift of his tongue lifting up he swallowed the ball letting a gust of hot air breeze out from his throat.
“Alright…” Sandbar spoke letting Kathy let go of his teeth and sit back on his hoof. “I swallowed the ball so what now?”
“Now I have to go get it.” Kathy giggled leaning into his lips.
“Are… Are you sure about this?” Sandbar smiled sheepishly.
“Yep, sure am.” Kathy felt Sandbar’s lips morph into a smile she waited patiently as Sandbar’s mouth opened Kathy rod on his lower lip watching his mouth open again with fresh saliva webbing all around his tongue and the roof of his mouth, Kathy climbed inside feeling the soft taste buds under her knees and hands letting it sink into the pink spongy flesh. Kathy flopped into the center of Sandbar’s tongue snuggling into the soft flesh, Kathy watched as the light from outside faded away as Sandbar’s mouth closed, his tongue lifted up and began tasting her once again.
Sandbar ‘Mmmmed’ loudly her taste was amazing to him he began to drool a bit from the corner of his mouth saliva flooded inside saliva drenched Kathy she laughed as Sandbar’s tongue moved her around enjoying the thrill ride. Kathy moved herself down and began to snuggle into the tongue once more pressing herself into it, the stallion’s tongue lifted up pinning her to the roof of his mouth playfully making her giggle, Sandbar’s tongue dropped down allowing Kathy to roam in his mouth once more she crawled over towards his throat looking up at the swaying flap above his throat she smiled, giggling she reached up hugging Sandbar’s uvula.
Outside Sandbar felt a jolt almost choking feeling what Kathy was doing inside his mouth he rubbed under his throat and smiled feeling how gentle she was now being it almost felt like a massage for his uvula. Then, Sandbar swallowed Kathy, her being a small bulge in his throat, disappearing quickly into his stomach.
Kathy was gently deposited into Sandbar’s stomach with a large grin across her face from all her laughter and tears in her eyes. She looked around, seeing that Sandbar’s stomach was fairly small, just enough for and maybe a friend to occupy in, though she didn’t mind being alone. With how soft Sandbar’s stomach was, she crawled around in search for her ball. She found her ball, picked it up, and found a nice spot to snuggle in with the toy in her lap. She got comfortable easily, laid down and quickly dozed off. Sandbar, meanwhile, was a bit surprised at what he did, not meaning to swallow her, but with how he felt her getting comfortable, he was relieved with how Kathy enjoyed being in his stomach.
“And it was the best place I’ve ever slept in,” Kathy spoke
“That’s a very nice story Kathy,” Fluttershy smiled. A curt snort drew everyone’s attention to the class’s only laidback griffon.
“You call that the first time you got eaten by your partner?" Gallus said, his cool demeanor contrasting that of his young tiny partner. "That's nothing. If you wanna hear the story of the first time I ate my partner, you should hear about the time I ate Edgar here..." He drew in the tiny teen to his fluffy, feathered chest. "...and he wasn't even awake to tell the entire tale."
"You mean he was unconscious at the time?" Ocellus inquired.
"And you ate him when he was in his most vulnerable state where everycreature would swoop down and eat him up in one bite?" Silverstream asked.
Gallus waved them off. "It's not like that," he clarified, putting his talons at the back of his head, leaning back in his chair, and putting his paws on his desk. "The little guy was too afraid to be eaten up like that. In fact, the first time I opened my beak to him, he was so shaken so bad that I thought he was gonna pass out. That's when I realized about his fascination with paws and feet. Right, Edgar?"
"Wait, so Edgar likes feet?" Smolder's attention peaked at the tiny, sliding her body across her desk in his direction, head propped up on her shoulders and eyes sparkling with interest. "I'd like to hear that story any day of the week."
Soon, the entire class was drawn towards the young tiny sitting at the griffon's feet, whose toes curled teasingly to stimulate his nervousness. He felt his face glow vermillion as the temperature rose up to his head. He was so flustered he felt he could shrink smaller than his fellow humans and hide away on a microscopic molecule. "G-G-Gallus! You didn't have to tell them that I like paws, feet, or whatever like that! It’s embarrassing!”
"It wasn't that embarrassing the first time you snuggled up to them."
The entire class clamored with interest, but Fluttershy wasn't having it.
"That's enough! Everyone back to your seats!" Fluttershy ordered. The entire class shuffled back to their desks. "Gallus, don't tease your partner like that! It's not polite to call them out based on their own, um... interests! If you want to, you can tell the class in detail about the first time you've swallowed Edgar while he was asleep, but don't embarrass him about his interests in your paws, please."
Gallus sighed. "Alright, fine, you win," the griffon said, repositioning his seating so he was sitting up in his seat. "So it happened a week after we got our partners, and we were having a lazy night. By lazy night, I meant that I was lying back and Edgar was doing his homework... near my paws..."
The class giggled, but Fluttershy shot them a slightly stern look.
"Explain to me why you're doing homework on a night like this when we could be doing something right now?"
"I am doing something. I'm doing homework so I won't have to worry about it later."
"Ugghhhh. So bored..."
Gallus was lying on his stomach on his bed. His hind paws were upside, and lying on the soft paw pads was his tiny charge, Edgar. He was doing his homework from one of his classes and the only comfortable surface he could do it on was on Gallus's paw pads. It was actually comfortable. He often fidgeted and wriggled around to get a better seating position. Sometimes, when he got stuck and needed a mental break, Edgar would lie comfortably into the soft dark leathered pads. This hadn't gone unnoticed by Gallus in the last few days, but he kept his tongue in his beak about it.
During one particular evening, Edgar was racking up his brain with research and study and felt his muscles get sore from the stress. To rest himself, Edgar snuggled in with the metacarpal pad with the other three digital pads, though it was deeper than before. Feeling a tickle of the tiny on his paw pads, Gallus snickered and turned over to meet his tiny partner's sight.
"You know," he said, grabbing the boy's attention, "if you really wanted a place to get comfy, you can always find a better spot on my pillows than my paws."
"What's wrong with my comfy spot?" Edgar asked. "If you must know, I happen to like your paws. They're like bean bags I can sleep in every night."
"Yeah? But what if one day that you get sick of sleeping in my paws and you wanted to sleep in something for comfortable like... like my stomach, for example?" Gallus laid a talon on his underbelly.
"That could be a possibility," Edgar said. "You know, I've often been curious of what it's like to be swallowed and inside a stomach."
"Oh really?" Without warning, Gallus plucked Edgar off of his paws and held him in front of his beak. "How about I satisfy that curiosity?"
In the span of a few seconds, Edgar's curiosity did a one-eighty and turned to fear. He was lifted up and dangled over Gallus's face as he opened his beak. At the sight of his moisturized mouth, his giant pink tongue, and the dark tunnel leading into his esophagus, Edgar thrashed around in the tough talon grip, screaming and yelping. "Wait, Gallus, stop! I didn't mean I wanted to be eaten now! Gallus, are you listening to me!? Put me down! I said, PUT ME DOWN!"
At the screech in his voice, Gallus suddenly stopped, turning his talon so Edgar would be seated in his palm. "Geez, Ed, what's your deal? You're all fine and dandy when you're on my paws, but every time I open my beak to you, you act like you've got your underpants twisted in a knot. Why can't you just let me eat your for once?"
Gallus somehow failed to notice the slight tremors Edgar's body felt. "Y-You don't get! I can tolerate being smothered in your paws, b-b-but if there's one thing I'm deathly afraid of, it's being eaten alive!"
Gallus raised an eyebrow. "What? You mean you were eaten once before and it was rough?"
"No, but my parents were! When we landed in Equestria, we were hunted down by those Tiny hunters! A stallion caught up to my parents. He tossed them into his mouth, chewed them up, and swallowed them down like they were food and not living beings! When he was done with them, he did the same thing to me, and it was horrible, just horrible! I was trapped in that awful cafe, getting soaked all over by his spit! I thought I was gonna burst in between his teeth! I can still smell the inside of his mouth! I would've been stuck in his stomach forever in the Night Guard hadn't found me, but the way he chewed me up really messed me up! I couldn't go nights sleeping without being in that stallion's mouth!"
"Okay, okay, calm your jets already," Gallus quickly insisted. "Look, if you don't wanna get eaten, then I won't eat ya. Simple as that."
At this, Edgar felt the trauma of his near-vore experience calmed down. "Thanks, Gallus. That means a lot to..."
"But that doesn't mean you're not gonna be squished in my paws!"
Without warning, Gallus caged Edgar in his talons and brought him over to his paws. Loosening his fingers, the griffon dropped the tiny onto his paws and went to work with his signature playful torture. The second Edgar landed between the metacarpal pads and the digit pads, Gallus clenched his toes together, trapping him in a cushiony embrace of soft and rough leather. Then the giant griffon got up from his stomach, turned and sat straight up, keeping his little victim clenched in his foot, feeling him wriggle and tickle in his toes. With a smile on his beak, Gallus watched as Edgar forced himself through the tight leathery vice grip at the edge of his feet. He loved putting that shrimp into that torture, and he suspected the shrimp felt the same way for some time.
From between his pads, Edgar's arm popped out, pushing on the pads, pulling the upper half of his body out for breath. Too easy, Gallus figured as he moved his foot to sandwich the boy trapped in the other foot. Edgar barely had time to catch his breath when he felt and saw his partner move his paws together and sandwich him inside. As gently as possible, Gallus squeezed his toes, giving Edgar a full body massage. The tiny did his best to hide it and resist it, but in the end, between the gentle squeezing sensation all over his body and the heavy endorphin release, Edgar was enjoying it immensely. The overload of endorphins in his system was so great, so pleasurable, that he fell into blissful unconsciousness.
Gallus massaged Edgar's body until he fell limp. Gently prying his feet apart, he raised his paw upwards and smirked at the sight of the tiny hanging unconsciously from between his toes. "Heh, I knew you liked my paws, shrimp," he teased, prying the sleeping boy from his toes and hanging him over his beak. "I hope you'll like this more when you wake up."
Gallus lowered Edgar towards his open beak and set him daintily onto his tongue. He slowly retracted his tongue into his beak, being careful not to wake him, and closed his mouth shut. In endless darkness, Edgar laid in blissful slumber, but on the outside in the light, Gallus felt himself go into bliss with a bounty of flavors absorbed by his taste buds. Gallus gently suckled his tiny partner's body between his tongue and the roof of his beak, gently humming and moaning from the sweet taste. He tasted like his favorite, undisclosed food, mixed in with the flavor of his paws. He didn't mind that one bit. With one smirk, Gallus lifted his head and let Edgar's unconscious body slide into his throat, where one gentle gulp sent him sliding down his esophagus. As soon as the tiny hit his stomach, Gallus let a content sigh loose from his beak.
"Wow... that was amazing. I can definitely see why everycreature does this." Gallus licked his chops noisily and gently patted his stomach. "Well, at least he made a nice late night snack. I'm definitely looking forward to seeing his face when I tell him about this. But in the meantime..." the griffon said, yawning and stretching his limbs out, "...time for some shut-eye."
Gallus covered himself in his bedsheets, switched off the lamp, and fell to sleep.
A few hours into his sleep, Gallus was stirred awake up to the sound of, "Hey, where am I!? What's going on!? Did somebody eat me!?"
A few tickles from inside his stomach jolted the griffon awake. "Hey, let me out! Let me out of here! I don't wanna stay in your stomach! Please, let me out! I don't wanna be eaten!"
Gallus's only response was to gently pat his stomach area. "Hey, keep it down in there, will ya? I'm trying to sleep."
It got quiet for a second. "Gallus, is that you!? Wait a minute, were you the one who ate me!?"
"I was," the griffon casually said. "You looked so pooped from my paws that I had to put you somewhere safe."
"S-S-Safe isn't exactly the word I'd use to describe here!" Edgar cried from his stomach. "You know I didn't want to be eaten, but you did it anyway! I already told you w-why I hate being eaten, but now I wake up in your belly and you tell me it's safe!? W-W-What if something happened to me in here and I couldn't come back up like a pellet!? You put m-m-my life in jeopardy here! I hate you! I don't want to be your partner anymore!"
Gallus didn't like to show his concerned face outside of his laid back demeanor, but for this he made an exception. "Hey, don't be like that. So what if I ate you while you were unconscious? If I hadn't eaten you when I did, then somecreature else would've did the same and I'd never find you. Trust me, if anyone else tried to take you like that, I'd fight beak and claw to get you back."
"Why? So you can torture me in your paws again?" There was a slight hesitation there. "Not that I don't like it... or anything... baka..."
"No, so I could protect you. Your folks told me to look after you, and that's what I'm doing. From what I hear, lots of creatures do the same with lots of tiny kids."
"What? By locking them away forever in their stomachs?"
Gallus shrugged. "Eh, I wouldn't call it locking them away forever, more like putting them in a safe place."
"...and you think your stomach is a safe place for me?"
"Well yeah. You don't like it as much as you like my paws, but it's safer in there than out here."
A pregnant pause loomed over the griffon and the tiny in his stomach. Gallus felt him shift against the stomach walls and heard him sigh.
"You know you're the closest thing to a brother I don't have?"
Gallus looked down to his stomach with surprise. "Really?"
"Yeah, I'm the only child with my parents. I've always wanted a younger brother or sister for me to protect and sometimes I wished I had a big brother or sister for me to follow around with." Inside, Edgar curled up against the griffon's stomach walls. "But my parents can't afford to make another baby, so they have to settle with me. I tell you, it gets lonely being the only child and not having a brother or sister around."
Gallus frowned at this. His tiny charge was lucky to have a blood family on his own, but he still felt lonely. Gallus often spent many a day alone in Griffonstone, an unwanted orphan on the streets with no parents or siblings whatsoever. He didn't even count that grumpy old geezer as a guardian. Things changed when he first attended Twilight's Friendship School and when he was in charge of looking after his partner. Despite the initial hardships of getting along at first, Gallus felt something between him and Edgar. It was more than just a simple friendship bond between tiny and griffon.
"That's not true," Gallus said, drawing Edgar out of his melancholy. "You're the closest I have to a little brother I don't have. I'm one of those street cubs in Griffonstone who try to get by with less than squat... but after coming to this school and getting paired up with you, I feel that's changed me for the better. I mean, yeah, I tease you a lot. I joke around with you, I tease you with my paws, and I just ate you like I eat mice in the streets... but isn't teasing each other and looking after each other what brothers are for?"
Edgar felt his breath freeze. "You mean to tell me that you think I'm like a brother to you?"
"Uh, sure. Why not? I don't have a real family waiting for me in Griffonstone, so you, your tiny friends, and my friends are the next best thing."
For the next ten seconds, Edgar felt an overwhelming joy inside of him. He felt happy, so happy that he was on the verge of crying. He jolted around and hugged Gallus's stomach walls, the griffon who was taken by surprise by the tiny hugging feeling in his body. He swore he could heard labored breathing inside too. "Hey, what are you doing in there? You're not really crying in my stomach now, are you?"
"N-No! I'm not crying, you're crying!" he bawled uncontrollably. "I-I-I can't believe y-you consider me a bro-o-other-her-herrrr!"
Gallus patted his stomach. "Hey, don't get so sappy about it. I'm just here to look after you like your mom wanted me to."
"Yeah! Th-Th-That's what a big brother does for his little brotherrr-her-her-her!"
"Hey, stop that. You're embarrassing me," Gallus insisted. After a moment, Edgar eventually calmed down. "Look, don't tell anyone this because Professor Egghead will be all over my case, but I think you're cool, even cooler than me. You put up with what I do every day, you keep me in the straight and narrow with work, and your parents are accepted me to be your partner. If anything, I'm just as lucky to have a partner like you as you do with me."
Edgar sniffled, wiping his eyes and nose. "Thanks, Gallus. And you know what, you're pretty cool too. You're laid back, you tell it like it is, and you don't give a *darn* about anything. And just when I thought you couldn't get any cooler, you come out to me and you tell me your backstory. I'm glad you were teasing me during the first day of Friendship School because I can't think of anyone else in this school that I couldn't hang out with."
"Ah, come on, shrimp. I told you to stop embarrassing me," Gallus said nervously and happy, wiping away a tear.
"Why? I thought all the cool kids stay cool when they receive their compliments." Edgar teased.
"Not this one, but let's keep that a secret between us."
"My lips are sealed," Edgar said, making the horizontal zipper motion.
"Good. That settles that," Gallus said, suddenly yawning. "Now we gotta settle the matter of sleeping 'til morning."
"I... *yawn*... agree." Edgar curled himself against Gallus's stomach walls. "'Night, big brother."
With a smile, Gallus rubbed his stomach area and closed his eyes. "'Night, little brother."
And so the two surrogate brothers drifted off into a blissful sleep, with Edgar drifting off to dreamland safe in the stomach of his protector and partner, Gallus. The tiny let the sounds of the griffon's body slowly lull him into an unconscious state until morning rolled in, a smile growing on the youth's face.
"You know what I also heard?” the griffon asked. “The tinies say the food tastes better when they fall into the stomach they're staying in."
"Ew, gross."
“And that’s how I found about my little brother.” Gallus finished, ruffling Edgar’s hair. “And he’s been getting used to me eating him now without being crushed by my paws.” Edgar had an embarrassed blush on his face.
“I still enjoy being between his paws.”
“Heh, strage, but I like it.” Smolder spoke, presenting her feet to Edgar. “Perhaps you might enjoy my feet for a change.”
“Smolder.” Fluttershy spoke sternly.
“Nono, it’s ok.” Edgar replied. “And sorry, I’m gonna have to decline. I prefer actual soft and rough pads over sharp and scaley feet.” Smolder crossed her arms and looked disappointed.
“Ugh, fine.”
“Well, I have to say, each of these stories are really great to hear,” Fluttershy spoke. “And I’m very glad that each of you are getting along with each other so well.”
“So we’re… not in trouble?” Ocellus asked.
“Um… I’ll let you off with a warning. If you want to eat your partner, that’s fine, just do it at the end of the school day and other days off.”
“Yona can do that!” Yona spoke.
“Wait… but this is the last class before the-” The school bell rang, interrupting Jasmine. All the students looked down at their partner and licked their lips.
“... Well, glad to see I’m not alone anymore!” Nick spoke.