A dead guest
#2 of Jungle Sabers
Zoe gets eaten by Maya, but finds someone she isn't expecting in her fearsome friend's stomach.
Maya yawned and cuddled Zoe closer. She liked the young lioness much more than she used to, now that she had begged Makura to let Maya swallow her as well as use her as a chew toy. Maya had promised that she wouldn't digest her, and would cough her up as soon as Makura asked. Other than that, there were no other rules. She didn't have to ask Zoe for permission. She could just gulp her down whenever she wanted. / "Zoe, my jaws need streaching" Maya whispered. Zoe woke herself and climbed into Maya's gaping maw. The smilodon started chewing enthusiasticaly, pressing her fags against the lioness' belly and chest. Her tongue lapped at her stomach, and Zoe found herself moving so she could have more of her body chewed on. Eventualy her legs were down Maya's throat and only her head and neck were outside. Her whole torso was being munched on by every tooth in Maya's jaws, and it aroused her greatly. / "one day, our clever little friend will come up with a way to bring me back to life" Zoe groaned "and then you'll be able to have the meal you've so desperately wanted for these past three months" / The 'clever little friend' Zoe was referring to was a peculiar anthro dragon named Kingra, who offered his help to Maya from time to time. He had spent quite some time trying to formulate a method for reconstructing digested prey and bringing them back to life, which he often tested on the scats of Makura and his females. So far, he had been met with little success, but had managed to reconstruct something that appeared to be part way between a samba deer and a python, which were, incidentaly, the last two meals that maya had eaten before he performed that particular experiment. / Maya suddenly gulped, and Zoe was yanked down into her. She had already been half swallowed, and was drenched in saliva from Maya's chewing, so she slid down with incredible ease. The hot, wet, tight embrace of Maya's throat felt more like a display of love than a prelude to a painful, acidic doom, and Zoe struggled to recall the terror she had fealt when she first slid down this particular gullet. / Her lower legs were already in Maya's stomach, since her paws had been pressed against the smilodon's cardiac sphincter, the opening from the gullet to the stomach, all the time that she had her legs in her throat. The ring of muscle squeezed against her as she slowly passed through it, making the experience much more enjoyable. She longed to know what it was like being squeezed through an entirely different sphincter in Maya's body, but she couldn't make it through her intestines alive so that fantasy wasn't likely to happen. / Zoe placed her paws on Maya's two foot long saber fangs and pushed herself in, forcing her body down towards the waiting stomach faster. She expected to feel the organ open up for her as she pushed more of herself in, but instead she found that it already had an occupant. It had been a tight squeeze for her last time she had been in there, but with another victim it would be very, very cozy indeed. / From what she could feel, the other prey was feline, anthro and male. She would have to wait a minute or so to see him, however, as her face had only just left the mouth. When she did finally enter the stomach completely, she got a rather large shock. / "You!" she snarled when she saw the tiger that Makura had devoured after using her as bait to catch him "you're supposed to be dead. I saw Makura cough up an orange and black furball only two days after he ate you" "well" Aramal chuckled "that crazy dragon friend of yours decided to test his latest formula on your beloved's scat just after what was left of me passed out of him. The last thing I remember before that was the hot, stale, oxygen free air in his belly, and the agonizing burning of his acids as my fur fell away. You know, he got down to my muscles before I finally died" "so Kingra managed it after all" Zoe laughed "well, I guess this makes us even. You ate me, my lover ate you. We're both still alive. The name's Zoe, by the way. I see no reason why we can't be friends now" "Aramal. I must apologise for raping you. The scent you gave off was just too deliscious" "I don't blame you. I know I can be pretty inviting, sometimes" / Aramal laughed and kissed her forehead. She cuddled him as best she could and they shuffled around so they were curled up together. Maya's stomach forced them into a foetal position, anyway, so they had to stay as a tight ball. / For what seemed like hours they slept in Maya's belly, the soft, steady thumping of the female smilodon's heart like a lullaby to them. Zoe couldn't rest completely, however. She knew that Maya was well overdue for a meal, and now that she wouldn't die she reakoned that she was on the menu. / Zoe's theory was proved correct when her hide started to tingle and Maya's stomach started to fill with a warm, pungent liquid. It did not hurt at all, and she actually found it rather pleasent. She knew that it would hurt eventualy, though, but she hoped to have suffocated by then. It was extremely unlikely that Maya wished her harm. / "looks like Kingra will be busy again" she purred "let's just hope that it works with two of us in here"
Zoe and Aramal were dead a few minutes later; suffocated when Maya burped up the last of their air. If they had simply been random prey then she would have kept them alive as her acids stripped them to the bone, but she would be seeing the two of them again soon enough. They would feed her for weeks, taking at least four or five days to digest completely, which meant that her usual prey could sleep a little better at night without her on the prowl.
Six days later, Maya had already coughed up the hairball that Zoe and Aramal had left in her stomach, and now the rest of their remains were being expelled from her body. Not much was left, save a few small bones and bits of fur, as hardly any of them had been wasted. / Kingra stood next to Maya with a phial of strange, dark red liquid. He poured a few drops onto Maya's scats, and the few bones that were there began to grow. Very quickly, two distinct skeletons began to form, and flesh grew onto their bones. Everything seemed to be working well, until Kingra noticed something odd about one of the skulls. / Zoe's still regenerating body seemed to have formed elongated fangs like those of her lover and companions. This was entirely unexpected. Two prey items had fused together during the early stages of Kingra's experimentation, but DNA had not passed from predator to prey. / Other than her new teeth, Zoe was completely unchanged once she was breathing again. She had always rather fancied being a smilodon, viewing her primative cousins as much more majestic and fearsome hunters than any modern cat could ever be. She stood, hugged Maya, and then helped Aramal to his paws. Then she turned to Kingra, who smiled happily at her and started laughing. / "it's good to see you again, Zoe" he chuckled "I trust you are well" "considering I was a lump of smilodon crap only a few minutes ago, I don't think I've ever been better. How the hell does that stuff work, anyway?" "I can't tell you that. Just be glad that it works. From now on, as long as there something left of you when you come out the back end, it's extremely simple to bring you back. I have gallons of this elixir, and it takes but a few drops to completely rebuild the two of you after a trip through one of nature's most thorough digestive tracks" "impressive. Thank you, Kingra. I'll make sure that you are repayed for your efforts" / Kingra bowed his head and left the den, taking flight back towards his lair. Zoe and Aramal settled next to the belly that had just recently killed them and closed their eyes to sleep. Maya curled around them and went to sleep herself. It was getting late and Makura would be back soon. It was her turn to mate with him that night, and he never failed to exhaust her. / "looks like I might be having kittens for dinner again" she purred.