Furtochu
By Lutro
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The Crystal Cave shimmered its usual multi-colored tones. Any pokémon venturing in would quickly discover no need for external light sources as the shining crystals took care of illumination for them, with reflective pools of water further enhancing the vision. This was the case for Team Clamp, consisting of a totodile, a furret, and a pikachu, as they ventured in. The cave proved as labyrinthian as ever, but the totodile leader Guzzle navigated the passages with ease. The other two followed close behind, staying focused on their mission while also enjoying the splendid sights of the colorful caverns.

“Wow, this place is deserted!” the furret Dio remarked, lifting an ear a moment and hearing nothing but the occasional drip and their own padded footsteps. “Place must’ve really cleared out since that secret tunnel got discovered.”

Guzzle snorted. “Makes it easier for us. And harder for our quarry. If that seviper thinks she can hide in these caves she’s got another thing coming.” The totodile confidently led the trio deeper into the cave, so much so that Sparky felt lost despite the leadership Guzzle provided. The pikachu’s ears pivoted about for signs of life – foe or otherwise – but like Dio detected nothing. His gaze wandered to the shining crystal walls, enough to misstep and slip into a deep puddle.

Sploosh!

“Ack! Ngglr. Help!” Sparky cried, sent into a splashing frenzy. Guzzle rolled his eyes and stepped over to the knee-deep water, treasure back clanking against his back. He reached down and gripped to the flailing pikachu with his jaws, tearing him out of the water and sending him sprawling to the ground. Sparky panted and shook himself dry, heart racing. Seeing the scathing look from the totodile, he smiled meekly. “S-sorry Guzzle sir. I was–”

“You weren’t paying attention,” Guzzle growled, turning tail and resuming the trek. Dio helped the pikachu up, using their scarves to help dry the electric type off some. “Lucky that noise didn’t attract any attention! We have to get the drop on Kite! If she knows we’re coming she could set up an ambush.”

“We… we’ll be fine though, won’t we Guzz?” Dio asked, tugging on his blue collar some as he and Sparky resumed walking. “I mean, three against one! We even brought a little extra firepower for extra safety.” Sparky blushed at the mention but stayed quiet. He didn’t want to make any more mistakes. A wanted mission was serious business!

“Yeah… you’re right,” Guzzle softened, just a bit. He glanced back at the two with a toothy grin. “She’ll stand no chance against Team Clamp!” He clacked his jaws loudly, the sound reverberating among the crystals.

“That’s right!” Sparky exclaimed with an enthused leap and a much smaller jaw-clack of his own. “We’ll bring her in and bring another known criminal to justice!”

“And get a hefty cut of the reward, too,” Guzzle said, leading the trio into a more open part of the cavern. He squinted around, spying many crystal formations piled several feet high, and a few exits splintering off deeper. “Now keep your eyes peeled. There’s not too many places she could be, I think. She won’t go too deep into the cave since she’ll want to leave as soon as the heat dies down. And be prepared to fight!”

Sparky and Dio nodded, furret and pikachu on full alert, ears perked, heads on a swivel. Guzzle’s voice lowered to a near-whisper as they plunged into the open cave room. “You read the poster: Kite can hold her own in a fair fight, but she will do anything to give herself an edge. Blasted seviper venom’ll slow your movements down to a crawl, so watch out for that tail of hers! Even without the venom that weapon’s nothing to trifle with.”

Dio shivered at the thought and idly scratched an itch just behind his right ear. “Yeah, we don’t have many supplies and can only survive a couple bouts of that poison.” He blinked a few times, swearing he saw two totodiles ahead instead of just one a moment. He shook his head. “I… think that we should...”

“Should what?” Sparky asked after Dio trailed off. He quirked his head to the furret. Dio had a paw held up to his face, staring cross-eyed at it. The digits he used to scratch behind his ear had dabs of red nestled into the fur. He frantically rubbed behind his ear and brought the paw back, and the paw was redder still. Sparky saw the cut behind the furret’s head, and gasped. “Dio…? Dio! Guzzle, Dio’s hurt!” Guzzle spun in place just in time to see the furret’s eyes roll and flutter closed. He slumped forward, chin smacking to the cave floor with an echoing crack. Sparky flinched and raced to his side and shook him. Dio moaned.

Guzzle glanced upward and blinked as a trickle of purple fluid drizzled over his snout. “Look out!” he tackled into Sparky and rolled across the floor with the Pikachu in toe. An instant later a blade swung through the air where Sparky stood a moment ago. Guzzle stood with Sparky, narrowed his eyes and bared his fangs. “Kite.”

The blade hung in the air a moment, before it and the tail it was attached too slid down. A dark serpent oozed down from a crystal above, body coiling between the fallen Dio and the two conscious explorers. Hssssss. Kite held her neck and head tall before the duo, raised over a foot above them, grinning menacingly. Her tail dripped in the same purple fluid that had alerted Guzzle a moment before. “Greetings. Here to take me in?” a deep feminine voice teased out of the seviper’s maw. Her venom-laden tail flicked back and forth behind her, the serpent’s poison flicking harmlessly across the floor. Dio stirred, but couldn’t move well, the furret sprawled and staring dizzily up at the backside of a large seviper. His eyes widened, and kept quiet as she spoke again. “I’m afraid only one of us is leaving this cave alive. It seems no other pokémon hung around, so you three will do nicely as my dinner!”

Sparky let out a thin whimper, but struck a pose and stood in a wide stance, brandishing a fist. “That’s what you think! We’re Team Clamp and we’re bringing you down, Kite!” Guzzle stood firm by his ally, assuming a similar stance and growling audibly. The totodile’s lips quivered against fangs, twitching in anticipation for the upcoming fight. He didn’t like Dio being taken out, and couldn’t get to him with Kite between them all. He shed the treasure bag and lowered to all fours, blue tail swishing.

“Oh this is just precious. You want to fight me?” Kite snapped her body forward like the crack of a whip, tail slicing through the air and stopping in front of her, pointed right the two explorers. “It’s your funeral. And my supper!” In the next instant her tail blade snapped forward, the venom-impregnated blade sizzling through the cavern air towards the pair! Sparky and Guzzle had anticipated the maneuver, the pikachu leaping up with his cheeks alighting, and the totodile rolling backward, out of range.

“We’re nobody’s dinner tonight!” Sparky cried. He unleashed the pent-up lightning and sent a sizzling Thunderbolt attack crackling through the air. A beat later the totodile dove forward, jaws agape and teeth shimmering in the glow of the electricity. But Kite didn’t just lay there and take it. By the time Sparky had finished his taunt the seviper was already on the move. She slithered forward about as quick as the bolt from the pikachu, leaving Sparky to damage only the cavern floor below, leaving a blackened scar in its wake.

Her forward momentum led her right into the jaws of the totodile! Guzzle grinned and eagerly clamped his fangs right around Kite’s chest, trying to penetrate the scaled armor and do some real damage. Sparky landed on all fours, using his tail for balance, and sped for the treasure bag. If I can get Dio in the fight we can take her! He stopped dead in his tracks just as he was pawing into the bag, hearing a crunch from behind. “Yoooowww!” Guzzle yelled, losing his grip and landing with a thud, cradling his snout in his paws: A tooth of his had broken, chipped by the scales of the powerful wanted pokémon. Kite didn’t waste a moment: With the flat of her tail blade she smacked the totodile across the face and against his throbbing jaw one, two, three times in quick succession, sending Guzzle into a daze. Sparky cried out in a rage, the crystals reflecting bright sparks of electricity once more. Kite’s eyes turned to bore into the pikachu, glowing a deep crimson. Sparky’s expression faded to one of anger to one of panic, electricity fizzling out from his cheeks and movements slowing.

“N-no!” he squeaked, muscles seizing up, Kite turning to bring her head inches from the pikachu’s snout. The crimson glare from her eyes encompassed his whole vision now, and only pulled back when Sparky fell limply onto his side. The seviper licked her lips noisily before the pikachu, eliciting a whimper from the rodent pokémon. She laughed uproariously, surrounded by groaning, dazed, paralyzed explorers.

“And here I thought three of you would actually present a challenge to me. You fools aren’t the first team I’ve devoured. And you won’t be the last.” She hummed gaily to herself, deep voice resonating against the crystal walls, and casually slithered over to Dio. The furret’s insides were tingling from the effects of the poison. He tried to stand his ground but could barely get to all fours, only to crash back down once again. “Here, let me help,” Kite sung out sarcastically. The seviper eased her coils around the furret a couple loops before dragging Dio across the cavern floor. She bowled him into Guzzle, and with a flick of her tail, sent the limp Sparky skittering over to them. The pikachu cried out as he batted against the two, laying awkwardly against Dio and Guzzle. The furret tried to stand but was too tangled among his friends. Guzzle fought back tears as the pain in his jaw was almost unbearable.

“There we go!” Kite sneered. “Now comes the important question: Who do I devour first?” The seviper began to drool as it inspected the three members of Team Clamp, weighing her options.

“Grrrr… y-you’ll never get away with this,” Guzzle spouted out, still holding a paw to his upper jaw while baring his fangs. “We’re not… done yet…!” The seviper chuckled and slammed her flattened atop his muzzle. Guzzle gasped in pain and slammed to the ground, legs splayed in all directions and laying on his belly. “Ungh…”

“Oh I’d love to swallow you down first, you mouthy totodile. But I think I have a much better idea for how to enjoy you three.” She rubbed her chin with her tailblade a moment, then grinned. “Furtochu.” The three explorers glanced to one-another, then back up. Sparky’s paw twitched as he tried to move it. Although the paralysis was wearing off, it was far too slow to be useful, the pikachu only able to move a leg or tail a bit. “What, don’t get it yet? Let me give you your first clue.”

Kite’s tail slid forward, much more slowly than any attack from before, and caressed around a shivering Sparky. “As tasty as pikachu can be, they’re a little too small for my taste,” the seviper cooed. The pikachu thought that meant he would be let go a moment, until Kite continued. “So you’ll be used to enhance the more filling meal to be instead.” Kite laughed and flicked her tail over Guzzle, sliding her large form over the totodile and furret. The two explorers squirmed all they could (which wasn’t much), unable to budge the serpent’s body an inch. Sparky just managed to lift his head and peer up, only for his eyes to widen in terror: The seviper’s jaws were slowly being lowered towards him! He squealed and threw out his paws in front of his face, fearing the end was here, but Kite’s mouth only clamped around his offered arms.

Kite pulled the pikachu across the ground, as her tail wedged in between Guzzle’s jaws. Sparky grunted and tried to pry his arms free but the jaws of the seviper were too strong. The totodile started to gnaw on the blade, to no effect. “Ah ah ah, you don’t want to ingest any venom, do you?” Kite mumbled around Sparky’s arms in her muzzle. “Now hold still… and open wide.” Kite twisted her tailblade to pry the totodile’s mouth open, then flattened it across his upper teeth. His lower jaw rested on the ground, upper jaw suspended by the tailblade. Sparky peered down under Kite’s jaws to see where he was being dragged to… and squealed.

“What are you doing? Dio?? Guzzle! Stop her! She’s gonna… gonna…!” The pikachu whimpered, hindlegs twitching along the cave floor. Guzzle’s eyes widened, seeing Sparky’s body being led right towards his open, dripping draws. “Aahh! Ahh naah! Diah! Helth Starthy!” Dio had tears running down his eyes as he realized Kite’s sinister intent. Try as he might, the furret couldn’t budge an inch, squished below the serpent. “You stop this now, Kite! Y-y-you don’t know what you’re doing!”

“Oh, I know exactly what I’m doing, furret. I’m meal prepping.” With that retort, she hefted her head up and held Sparky dangling before the totodile’s vision. “Smell the rodent’s scent, totodile. Look at how plump and mouth-watering this pikachu is. Smell the flavor bubbling off his frightened form.” The totodile looked anything but enticed when it came to devouring a fellow explorer! But he couldn’t fight natural reactions to meat hanging and offered before him. To tantalizing words teasing his mind. Guzzle’s tongue lolled out to drape over a bit of the cave floor, strands of saliva stringing top and bottom jaw together. Sparky was beside himself in panic, pithily swinging his body back and forth to get away from the wide maw before him. Kite smirked around her grasp of the pikachu, and let go when he was swinging forward. The momentum carried Sparky’s rear end straight into the dripping totodile jaws, spinning and landing with a wet splat on the belly.

“N-noooo! I dun wanna die!” Sparky cried in horror, chin resting on the tongue draped past Guzzle’s lips. His legs and arms draped out past the jaws as well, with his butt tickling the back of Guzzle’s throat. The totodile fought every instinct to swallow the pudgy pikachu teasing his taste buds, eyes clenched and tongue frozen in place. Dio was scrabbling at the ground in an absolute panic, trying to find some purchase across the rocky floor to try and pull himself free, the furret having too good a few of the pikachu sticking out of Guzzle’s mouth.

Kite wasn’t leaving it all up to instinct, however. Her head leaned down and chuckled darkly as she slipped her tailblade forward. She teased the broken totodile tooth, tears squeezing from the clenched eyes of the totodile and making his jaws quiver. Sparky continued to wail loudly, though those four pokémon were the only ones present in the cave, making them futile. “There there, pikachu. You’re just getting a head start on your friends’ demise. Plus, you’re feeding a fellow explorer. There must be honor in that, or some nonsense,” Kite taunted. She rested her chin on the ground just out of reach of the trio, staring triumphantly at Sparky. The pikachu stared back as he felt her tailblade press against his forehead and start to push against it.

“No… Noooo! Guzzle! D-don’t swallow! D-don’t eat me!” The pikachu slid too easily across the drool-covered tongue. Pressure built against the back of Guzzle’s throat, and try all he might, he couldn’t stop himself from relieving that pressure. GLRK! Sparky’s rump, hindlegs, tail, and belly all slip down the totodile’s throat, eliciting another loud cry from the pikachu and Dio in turn. Sparky’s ears slipped into the jaws, leaving his whole head inside the dripping maw. “Please… please Kite… d-don’t do this!” he begged, gripping Guzzle’s bottom jaw with his outstretched forepaws. 

Kite merely slithered her head forward and licked across Sparky’s snout. “Mmm, shame I didn’t get to eat you after all… but like I said: Too tiny for me. Enjoy your meal, totodile, while you can.” She removed her tail from Guzzle’s maw, but the totodile didn’t dare clamp it shut. Grinning, Kite maneuvered her blade down to peel Sparky’s grip away from Guzzle’s jaw one digit at a time. She shoved Sparky back a couple inches, a couple more GLPs echoing out, leaving his paws out of reach of anything but a too-slippery tongue. Sparky whined and squealed, Guzzle silenced with most of the pikachu down his bulging throat. Dio panted, still scrabbling at the ground, but was still too weak from the poison and too well-pinned by the seviper.

Kite slipped her tail past the jaws and pressed hard against Guzzle’s snout. His eyes went as wide as his jaws as he started choking. He flailed his arms and head some, trying to free an airway, but it was no use. Dio watched Guzzle’s tongue cup up off the floor and into his maw, to splat up against a shocked pikachu’s face. Dio clenched his eyes shut and turned away, but couldn’t stop himself from hearing: Sparky’s muffled squeals gurgled against the tongue; his paws could grasp nothing; one eye that wasn’t tongue-blocked saw Kite wink, as the jaws of the totodile were pulled from him. The pikachu’s head and paws slip into the throat of the totodile with the encouragement of the tongue, an open-mouth’d swallow ringing out in Dio’s, and especially Sparky’s, ears.

UR-GLCK!

Dio peeked an eye open, terrified watching the Sparky-sized bulge pressing out from Guzzle’s neck against the floor, quickly shunted into the totodile belly with a slrsh. “Hmph! Hrrrmpph!” a muffled squeal cried out from the scale-covered stomach. Guzzle whimpered as he gulped down deep breaths, horrified at what he’d just done. “S-Sparky...” he wheezed. “He’s gone...” Dio moaned, growling and beating his paws weakly against the serpent laying on him. “You monster!”

The pitiful efforts of protest Dio displayed earned him a smack of the saliva-and-venom-soaked tailblade. The furret’s head smacked the ground and slowly rocked still, the normal type limp. Kite laughed. “He deserved it,” she noted simply. Guzzle felt the serpent slither her body slowly across his back. Her coils surrounded the remaining two explorers, the only sounds coming from her movements and the churning totodile belly. Guzzle urked and sat up to his hinds, pikachu-filled belly sagging out in front of him. Dio came to from the tail smack and sat up as well, woozy from the bludgeon but mostly over the venom’s effects. “G-Guzzle,” he murmured, woozily wobbling over to the totodile. “W-we have to fight b-back...”

But before the furret could say more, he felt a squeeze against his tail. “Hey!” Guzzle growled. “Don’t you dare–“Smack! Kite’s ever-present tailblade thwapped Guzzle in the back of his head. He tumbled forward, his belly squishing over Dio and pinning the furret onto his back. A loud grrrrn echoed out from Guzzle’s belly, forcing a belch out of the totodile. Sparky’s scarf flew out from the jaws and splatted Dio in the face, who squeaked and tore it off like it was on fire. Dio shivered and whimpered, knowing exactly where it came from, and what was happening to Sparky that very moment. “Hrmph… Chaa!…. Grrrrrglorp.”

“Mmm… Furtochu nearly ready,” Kite sung out above the remaining members of Team Clamp. Her head snapped down in an instant, jaws latching to Dio’s collar and making him gag as she pulled hard to undo it. She pulled the collar free and whipped it back around Dio’s neck, and Guzzle’s too! The totodile’s chin pressed Dio down to against the ground hard, the two pokémon chin-to-chin and squirming greatly.

“Erk… ugh… let us go!”

“P-p-please…”

The two explorers weakly clawed at the collar, but Kite kept them at bay with tail bats and threatening bites. Humming to herself, she casually wound Dio’s lengthy form around and around Guzzle. One loop around Guzzle’s chest, the other below his burbling belly, and the two explorers’ tails almost braided together, Kite using Sparky’s dripping scarf to tie them together. When all was said and done, Kite pulled up and away to observe her handiwork: Dio was firmly wrapped around Guzzle, almost like the furret had ensnared the totodile in his coils. Dio groaned, feeling every protest from both Guzzle and the rapidly-weakening Sparky inside the water type’s belly. The two pokémon’s tails flicked together in unison as they wriggled on the ground, but they could barely roll let alone escape. They stopped, frozen, when they heard a much more needing, hungry voice rumble from the seviper.

“Pikachu in a totodile wrapped in furret. My meal is ready.” The seviper licked her lips slowly, gathering her coils around the trapped pair of pokémon. The pair found less and less room, and all too quickly the coils pressed in on them from all sides, standing them upright and squishing them together uncomfortably. Bound at the neck and at the tails with the furret coiled in between, they couldn’t do much more than struggle in place as they saw the seviper leering from above. Drool dripped in viscous strands over their heads. Kite, calm and collected through their entire encounter so far, suddenly seemed far more feral than before. “Maybe I’ll bring your remains to your guild’s doorstep as a warning to no longer come after me,” she mused idly between long slrrrrrps of her lips. “Not that you’ll live to care. It’s time for supper!”

Guzzle and Dio stared blankly, a combination of whimpers and wriggling, when the seviper’s head leaned real close, and her jaws parted wider than they’d seen her do so far. To them, the huge gullet was wider than the crystal cave itself, pink tunnel dripping in slimy saliva, thick serpent tongue wraggling in anticipation, fangs and jaws interconnected with drool strands. All punctuated with a visible, audible gullet, quietly glrking at the back of the throat, eager to swallow the remaining explorers down.

“No… No please!”

“Don’t eat us! Please! I don’t wanna get eaten!!”

Grrrrn... Grrrgle... Glorp…

Dio’s eyes clenched and Guzzle’s went wide, Kite’s cavernous mouth closing and sinking over the explorers’ heads in one swift motion. Schlorp! Her jaws closed heavily around their middle, tongue slithering out to taste in between the two. Kite’s voice rumbled and murred loudly in their ears, her jaws opening and closing an inch to sink just a little deeper into her coils, Kite commencing her furtochu feast.

“Mmph… GLUK... GLRP… GLORK.” The seviper’s tongue lashed and slurped every which way, doing its best to taste as much of her meal as possible, but her head never stopped sinking, and loud, screaming cries were silenced as the first few swallows squelched the pokémon heads into her pulsating, eager gullet. “Mmmm...” Kite clenched her eyes and raised her head, shivering with the effort given their combined weight but managing. Guzzle and Dio flailed their tied tails in unison. They tried kicking their legs, but they were jammed up in Dio’s coils around Guzzle, leaving the pokémon largely motionless, sticking halfway out the slobbering serpent jaws. Drool slipped down their hanging bodies and dripped to the cavern floor below. The seviper’s tongue poked out to slurp at as-yet-untasted portions of her catch, jaws clenching over their forms again and again. Guzzle was trying to say something but couldn’t, his massive jaws squeezed shut between Dio and the confining throat muscles. Dio was able to cry out, but could only mutter incoherently, hardly believing he was being eaten alive. An ominous grrrrn sounded out, and they couldn’t tell whether it was coming from the seviper’s belly, or Guzzle’s.

Kite gulped some excess drool down, saliva slipping noisily around Dio and Guzzle’s heads and making it to the serpent stomach before they did. They screamed muffled cries when Kite tossed her head back and opened her jaws wide, bodies tossed through the space between jaws and slipping further back, a loud GLRK pulling more of them down. The seviper’s neck bulged out greatly, vague outlines of totodile and furret heads visible along her scaly hide. All that was left of Dio on the outside was the length of his tail. Guzzle’s hindlegs, rump, and tail still protruded from pursed seviper lips, along with some of his gurgling belly. Sparky had long-since fallen quiet, passed and drenched in powerful totodile stomach acid, being digested away. Kite still enjoyed the plumped-up Totodile’s flavor, rather pleased with her idea of combining the three explorers into one bite-sized meal for her!

A powerful wet SLRRRRRRRRP reverberated off crystals as the seviper slurped up what remained of Dio and Guzzle. The scarf tying their tails together slipped off as their last remnants passed through pursed lips. Cheeks bulging with explorers, kite chewed and swished their backsides around, murring greatly at both the taste and the squeals of her defeated enemies deep in her throat. Her tongue coiled around their freed tail tips as she took a couple more swallows, tipping her head gently back each time. GLP. GULP. More of Guzzle and Dio slipped into the throat, their tails flicking against the mighty muscle of Kite’s tongue in the maw, with the rest of them devoured. Kite’s lips squeezed out drool from their corners, tongue letting go of its prey and unfurling out of the jaws.

“Ahh...” GLUUUURK! 

A final immense gulp swallowed Guzzle and Dio completely whole, their combined bulge squelching lewdly down the eager seviper throat. “Mmph! Mmmmmph!” Simultaneous cries, muffled, scream out from Kite’s scales, the bulge pushing it’s way down further and further, until… SKLRSH! The sphincter to the stomach squeezed open,  Dio and Guzzle sinking into the pitch-black churning chamber and slowing to a stop. 

Kite lowered her head and schmk slp schmack’d her lips freely. “O-ooooh, that was one of your better ideas, Kite,” she complimented herself. She leaned down to nose at a now-burbling bulge in her belly, the stomach yielding to her snout pressing into the fat bulge. She giggled, hearing the muffled pleads from within. “Sorry boys. But you were all delicious.” Kite idly looked around and rose her head. Her belly, positioned right around her middle, slid down to the ground. “Now it’s time I get out of this cave.”

Kite slithered slowly along the passages, her belly pressed to the ground. She looked for the markings she’d left along the way, tailblade able to leave small cuts in the crystals, so that she could find her way out without trouble. Dio and Guzzle felt every motion, stomach acids sloshing over them and the ground pressing up from beneath them, pressing the two closer together than they’d ever been. “Eugh… G-G-Guzz?? I-it hurts…!”

Guzzle squirmed and tried kicking, to no avail. He mumbled, barely able to speak with his jaws pressed shut. “I-I know… We just gotta… keep… fighting…!” Grrrrrlln.

Dio couldn’t take it anymore. “Heeeelllp! Someone! Anyone! Heeeelp! Heeel—grrgle!” The last cry left acids free to wash into into his mouth. He sputtered and squirmed like crazy, Guzzle joining him when he realized what was happening. “The acids! They’re rising!!” Kite, hearing the muffled commotion in her belly, only sighed in bliss. A squirming bulging meal was a serpent’s ideal state. And she had quite the bulge to squirm about. The last cries from her gut quieted after about 15 minutes of cave-slithering, with them culminating in a particularly loud grruuuuoon followed by a big uurrrraaaap from the seviper. The elongated belch spewed out the team’s scarves, and the furret’s collar. Some had holes, others lighter in color, all dripping in saliva and acids. She left the mess behind her, and continued on her way out.

*	*	*

“Finally. Nice warm daylight.” Kite’s journey to exit the cave wasn’t too long. With her markings it was just a matter of perseverance. And her churning belly kept her company the entire journey. The bulgy, lumpy seviper stomach was now much smoother and rounder. Still sounding out with powerful glorps and glrrrns, but otherwise devoid of life. The seviper slipped out of the cave proper and basked in the evening sun, holding her head to the sky and taking a deep breath of fresh air. “Free from those pesky explorers for some time now I think. They won’t find out about their precious explorers for days...”

The pokémon coiled up on the spot and soaked in the sun’s rays for a bit, head resting on her churning belly. Minutes passed without incident, though she sat up suddenly when she felt a particularly loud noise emanate from her gut. Several small bulges traversed up her throat, Kite raising her head just in time to– 

OORRRRRRP!!

A shiny furret skull and mostly-intact totodile skull (with a broken tooth) spewed free from the seviper’s jaws and clattered to the ground in front of the cave entrance. At the tail-end of her belch shot out a few other bones, including a mostly-intact rib cage containing a pikachu skull broken in two. Kite licked her lips fondly at the reminder of one of the better meals she’d had in recent weeks, flicking some dirt over the remains of Team Clamp, and slithering away from Crystal Cave a free serpent.