With two factions of pirates potentially roaming the island and who-knew-what-else, Skyheart decided it would be better to have shelter and only one entrance as she slept. The full pegasus yawned and clapped her lips together, belly etching out a groan as it swayed to and fro. The griffon she ate was less than mush at this point, and the fattened pegasus looked forward to sleeping him off. She wandered into the cave and didn’t see anything dangerous in it, the rocky walls extending back about 10 meters or so and clearly showing a wall along the edge in the flickering torchlight. Skyheart snuffed out the flame and kept the hot end pointed towards the entrance, her newly-acquired blade sitting nearby. She faced the entrance herself and settled down, belly pancaking out across the cool cave floor and protruding out under her rear some. “Ahh… urp,” she mumbled cozily as she rested her chin on her hooves and drifted off to sleep.

Skyheart snored. It reverberated throughout the cave but didn’t bother the mare. The sounds and scents of the slumbering pony, however, did not go unnoticed by a hidden resident of the cave on the bay. The mare was deep in sleep, too deep to hear the sound of heavy scales slithering along the cave floor, as a large lumbering snake emerged from a hole in the corner of the cave wall. It tasted the air again to confirm what it sensed a moment ago: Fresh meat! Plump and tender by the taste in the air, the large green snake with a diamondback pattern piled its long large body into the cavern around the snoring mare. Skyheart was none the wiser as the snake head drew close and sniffed with flaring nostrils, tongue flitting out again, tailtip starting to form around the doughy sagging stomach of Skyheart. The mare murmured, dreaming that the half-devoured Seras she was feasting on suddenly sprung into action, with tufted tail sliding around her middle. The sudden shift pulled the mare out of her griffon-induced coma, eyes quivering open just as the large hungry serpent completed its second loop around her doughy stomach. “Wh-wha… N-n-no!”

The snake hissed loudly, it echoing around the cave and drowning out the drowsy mare’s cry. Skyheart made to reach for dagger, but found her legs bound by the cool slippery scales of the diamondback. Another loud hiss made her ears ring as the pony stared deep into the wide-open, dribbling jaws of the reptile. “Noooo!” She clenched her eyes shut, picturing those jaws slapping down over her head and tearing it off as an appetizer. But instead Skyheart felt the cool air of the cave and the coils squeeze tighter. Her fat belly poked out between the coils, buttcheeks protruding outward beneath them. She gasped for breath in sudden desperation while the serpent leered at its catch, the next tongue-flick gliding across its lips. Its gaze focused in on the copper cheeks jiggling out behind Skyheart, the flicking black-haired tail nothing more than a nuisance. It lowered its head down to rest on the ground with the wide ass presented to it.

Skyheart wheezed and flicked her tail at the snake snout, vainly whipping at her captor despite the futility. “Let me go!” she choked out, cringing as a serpent tongue curled around a hind leg and slithered all over her fur. Heated drool dripped to the ground in its wake as the serpent’s maw slowly, noisily, craned open. The sweating mare stared in fright at the looming jaws widening greatly, echoes of moonlight glinting off the saliva-coated innards of the wild creature. “N-no, stop that!” she cried when the snake slithered forward, its lower jaw cupping under her extended hinds and scooping them in. Its top jaw slowly crawled over them, the stubby things quickly finding themselves collapsing together with hooves tickling a hot, slimy snake throat. “Y-you better not, you filthy monster!” ...Uh-GLK! In an instant the pony’s hooves were gulped down a wide throat, pressed together, leaving her bulging jiggling cheeks to slowly sift in towards the drizzling jaws. “Nooo!!! Somepony help me!” the trapped coiled pony wailed in desperation.

Nopony came to her rescue. The mare grimaced when her wide copper butt was crunched down on without regard for how she felt. The doughy malleable cheeks squashed outward and filled the hungry serpent’s jaws completely. Skyheart squirmed what little she could in the coils, seeing the edge of the snake’s tail twitching merrily near her head. “Oh I bet you’re enjoying me you bastard!” She took a bite at the wiggling tail. It was too far away for her to reach, and the distance only increased when the coils shifted and her butt, crevice invaded by a slimy tongue, started compacting roughly into the throat. GLRRK… GLUK. The snake skin audibly stretched outward when the bulging ass started to stretch out its throat, the mare in a dazed panic seeing her own body bulging down a ravenous serpent’s. Skyheart whined and thrashed inches back and forth, but the coiled muscles of the snake kept her in check as she was slowly eaten alive.

15 minutes passed, and the copper pegasus was still mostly sticking out of the coiled snake’s jaws. The diamondback was slowly inching its maw over the incapacitated pony, leaving Skyheart exhausted by the time it finally finished devouring her largest asset. GULLLLLRRRRP! A lewd, lengthy swallow finally managed to pack down Skyheart’s rump, the mare twitching her hinds and tail in the tight, wet confines in feeble protest. “I-it can’t end this way,” Skyheart whimpered, hot drool running down her barrel and into her wings. “I… I gotta find a way out… Skyheart is not going to be a stupid snake’s dinner!” The serpent had other plans. Skyheart let out a shriek when those strong jaws squashed around the pegasus’ griffon-filled belly, the resulting squrrrrrrsh making the mare queasy. She felt the edges of the mouth with her bound forelegs, more and more of her devoured with each passing moment. “L-l-let me go! This can’t be how I die!” The serpent ignored its prey, knowing that she was going nowhere as long as it kept her bound.

The slithering coils seemed to tighten the more the serpent ate Skyheart, the skinnier end looping around her neck and threatening to suffocate her if she squirmed too much. Half the pegasus was devoured, with the flab of her upper stomach barely jutting out the serpent’s jaws. Various Skyheart-shaped bulges stretched down its neck and towards its middle, Skyheart swearing her hinds were splashing around in something tingly. The mare was beside herself at this point: With nothing to fling or flail but her head, she cried and threatened and begged and sobbed until she wore herself out. Her ears were ringing with the continuous GULP… GULLLK… GLRKs of the snake slowly devouring her. By the time it had worked its way up to her chest and shoulders, Skyheart was a panting, sweating mess, cheek on the dirty ground, eyes locked on the snake jaws that continually worked over and under her. “P-please don’t eat me...”

An hour drifted by, and every second was agony from the exhausted mare. She felt her stomach churning greedily around the gooey remains of the griffon, as if she was trying to eke out any extra energy to survive. In truth, it was just because the snake’s throat was compressing it so harshly. The mare had to use what energy she had to simply not retch, with the awful-smelling snake slobber now oozing all over her face and running down her neck in rivulets. Joining the saliva and sweat were actual tears, even the mighty Skyheart reduced to whimpers after having being eaten for the better part of the night. Her voice was gone, nothing but raspy gasps of begging, seeing and hearing every subtle movement of the giant serpent’s head. Individual teeth dripped drool, along with the tongue that constantly slithered over her exposed body. The excess saliva rapidly cooled, enough to leave fur matted, then was immediately replaced with a fresh coating. Her shoulders sank deep into the maw after a slow, grueling ULRRRRK pulled down what remained of her chest. “Mercy...” she croaked hoarsely.

Skyheart’s last scream came about when her head was lifted up off the ground, with her chin against the lower jaw of the voracious reptile. Her eyes stared out into the entrance of the cave and the Bay beyond. She saw her dagger laying useless nearby. If only she could reach it! But all hope disappeared as the stinking slobber began to cover her vision, the viscous drool dangling down from the top of the serpent’s mouth in front of her. More seemed to join as the slimy tongue slapped up against the sobbing pony’s cheek and wiped across her entire muzzle, back and forth, a couple times. GLORK… Skyheart let out a silent squeal when her head slid backwards and her chin perched on the edge of her tongue. The serpent’s body took up the bulk of the cave now, with Skyheart’s fat bulges and the rest of its length coiled around it. Skyheart gawked at the tip of the tail, it flicking back and forth inches away from her nearly-devoured muzzle. Her mouth formed a silent plea as the jaws started squelching shut. Terror struck through her heart when they sealed shut wetly, cutting the world off from Skyheart and leaving the snake to finish devouring her.

GLUUURRRRRRP!!!

A vague outline of Skyheart’s terrified face bulged out the scaly underside of the serpent, her whole body shifting and squelching noisily down the hot sticky throat. Her whole backside had a tingling sensation to it, sticking out visibly just around the snake’s midsection. The diamondback allowed itself a single lick of its lips as it curled around and rested its chin on its meal’s bulge. Skyheart, blind in the darkness and deafened by the sounds of squelching and rumbling grrrgles, packed neatly into the snake stomach and settled down. Whatever pitiful cries she uttered never made it out of the serpent, let alone out of the cave.

The sated serpent took its time with its large, calorie-dense meal. Skyheart was subjected to days of torturous, slow digestion within, feeling every movement the snake made when it was finally done chilling in the cave. She felt stinging acids coat her body over and over, sometimes feeling as if she were dangling from a tree. Others, squished to the ground, the walls getting so tight she felt she would pop. But to her own dismay, her body endured, and the serpent kept the pony-shaped bulges in its middle for three whole weeks. It heard occasional commotion throughout the island, either from the local tribe that it occasionally picked off a meal from, or from other invaders like the one it recently ate. The diamondback always had its cave to retreat back to, even if it couldn’t fit back into to the more-hidden cavern beyond the main entrance. That was, until many weeks passed, and Skyheart, body finally reaching its limit, began to churn and gurgle away into copious amounts of mush for the serpent’s body to utilize. Her last moments were agony as the churning fluids really dug into her, flooding her orifices and working at her insides along her mostly-bare skin. Skyheart didn’t last too long after that, and the bulging shapes deformed into a single solitary glorping mass of digesting equine shortly thereafter. A month after having eaten Skyheart, the diamondback regurgitated what remained of the devoured mare: Nothing more than a cracked skull and a leg bone, everything else utterly annihilated and now part of the still-sated snake.

Taking shelter in a small cave certainly seemed like a good idea. Too bad Skyheart neglected to check the whole cave for potential secondary entrances! Her journey ended before 24 hours passed, the mare left to her fate slowly digesting in the belly of a serpent.

Bad End