The Dark Path - Ch. 3

Story by iconmaster on SoFurry

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It's another day for Ryan, at the mercy of Devos. He returns to his clan, but things quickly go bad for him...


This is a small series, with great ideas provided by FA: PurpleLove , the owner of Ryan!


Ryan awoke to the gurgles coming from his own stomach. Groaning, he shifted around, feeling the presence of the larger dragon curled around him. He was almost used to waking up next to his captor now... He stood up on his legs, feeling his middle wobble with new weight. As Ryan opened his eyes and got up, he noticed that his gut always lightly brushed against the ground now, as well as push his legs apart slightly. He let out a small belch, a few red scales flying out of his mouth, making him blush.

Devos opened one eye and snorted. "Good morning, my friend."

"Urrk... Morning." Ryan pushed Devos's tail out of the way and waddled towards the cave entrance. He grimaced as he felt a few bones clacking against each other in his gut... Not as bad as the day before, however, which made him thankful.

The larger grey dragon stood up and padded along behind Ryan. He noticed that Devos had gotten a little pudgy in the middle, too, filling out his features... It made him idly wonder how much the grey dragon usually got to eat a day. Outside the cave, Ryan began heaving, trying to get those bones out of his system.

With a long series of hacks and heaves, spittle-covered bones were slowly extruded from Ryan's mouth. A leg bone, another one, a rib, the skull... All of them came out, adding to the pile of bones that used to be Narste. All that was left of Gregon was those bones... And the newest layer of softness on Ryan's frame. He didn't feel horrified any more, by seeing himself throw up the remains of his friends. In fact, it made him a little hungry. But for what?

Something must have snapped inside himself, Ryan thought, as Devos padded past him, looking into the deep forest where his home was. Now all he felt was kind of sad and very hungry.

"Devos... What are we doing today...?"

Devos let out a low chuckle. "We're going to hunt for more food, of course. Do you know where we can eat?"

Ryan winced just a little. "Well, the village still stands... Bashade or not..."

Devos looked back at Ryan and motioned the blue-furred dragon forwards. "What a lovely idea, you cannibal. Lead the way."

Ryan huffed and started waddling off, Devos always keeping close. After a long walk through the dark forest, the two of them came once more across the tree line, marking the end of the forest and the beginning of the path back to the village. The village that he just willingly suggested they take from, Ryan thought with a grimace.

"You've come along this dark path so quickly, my friend." Devos said with an evil grin. All the while, Ryan started to have regrets about his decision... Was he scared because he was killing off his own clanmates, or was he scared that he wanted to eat his own clanmates so badly now? He couldn't tell. But he pressed forwards, still scared of the larger dragon above all things.

"I... I guess so..."

"No need to sound so glum. Be happy, because you've made a certain grey dragon very well-fed." He licked his lips and laughed. "Now, move along and obtain some food for me, dear."

"Right away..." And with that, Ryan was off... As fast as he could go, with such a stomach in the way.

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Ryan huffed and panted as he trudged to the village gates once more. Making the same journey in the same time was a lot more taxing now, and Ryan knew very well that was because of his newest layer of pudge. But here he was... Back for more.

This time, the gates had no guard overlooking them. No Bashade... Ryan shook off the thought and padded through the gates, looking around for more dragons. Few seemed to be out and about today...

Ryan knew exactly who to look for next. His old friend Lorn was probably at his hut right about now! He'd agree to walk right into Devos's jaws any day. Ryan couldn't help but grin as the thought entered his head, despite himself. And so, he waddled up to where his friend lived.

Pushing aside the drapes demarcating the entrance, Ryan stepped in. "Hey, Lorn? Lorn!" Lorn, a purple dragon, was asleep in the center of the room. He had to raise his voice to wake the napping Lorn, waking him with a jump. "Lorn!!"

"Mrrph! Urgh! What is it?"

"Wake up! I need your help."

Lorn looked at Ryan... And then his eyes went wide. "Do you need help losing weight?"

"What? No." Ryan blushed. "That's not important right now! We need to leave."

Lorn looked at him like he had two heads. "What? Why? I'm trying to take a nap."

"We need to go down to the forest. Dragons are in danger!"

Lorn got up, shaking himself loose. "Danger? Oh no, we gotta go and..." He stopped and eyed the plumper dragon suspiciously. "Wait. How can two dragons help where you couldn't?"

"I just... I just need your help!" Ryan was getting annoyed at his friend's slowness to action...

"With that belly..." Lorn's voice went soft. "You didn't eat the people in danger, did you?"

He was found out. Ryan snarled and attempted to deny it. "What? No, just come with me and-"

"Y- You ate them!" Lorn looked at his friend in horror. "I'm telling everyone! You monster!"

"Lorn. Wait-"

Lorn did not wait. Instead, he bolted past Ryan and towards the door. Within a second, he had to make a move... And he did so, leaping into the air and onto Lorn. Ryan's new weight came in handy as it knocked the wind out of Lorn, making him slam to the ground, pinned and winded.

Lorn let out a loud yelp, which Ryan had to silence as soon as possible. He muffled the dragon by snapping his jaws around Lorn's muzzle. Lorn shook his head, but Ryan's hunger kicked in. He knew what to do.

He started gulping hard, sending Lorn's head down his throat. Ryan grabbed him in all 4 claws and shoved him forwards as he greedily swallowed. His neck made a wide bulge at he began on the shoulders, which were taking forever! Lorn struggled all the while, managing to make Ryan flip onto his side with the violent turning. But by then, it was too late... Ryan's jaws had their grip over their prey.

With a powerful gulp, Ryan's jaws stretched over those shoulders, pinning the forelegs. Swallows came slower now, Ryan struggling to keep the flailing dragon in check. But soon, Lorn wriggled less and less, as more of him became surrounded by Ryan's tight gullet. His hindlegs kicked fiercely as his forelegs disappeared into Ryan's mouth, but it wasn't enough; soon, Ryan felt his stomach fill out with hard shapes as he was up to Lorn's chest.

He couldn't help but drool all over Lorn as he kept swallowing. Despite being his friend, the dragon tasted so good to him! Ryan kept greedily swallowing, holding those hindlegs in place to reduce kicking. Soon, only Lorn's legs and tail were left, the latter swishing annoyedly.

Now, not even the hindlegs could move as Ryan pushed them together, continuing to relentlessly swallow. With a gulp, those hindclaws disappeared, leaving only a tail to slurp down. And Ryan slurped it down, sucking at the long tail until it slipped through his jaws. And then Lorn was gone, packed tight into that gut.

It nearly beached Ryan right there, having another whole dragon inside him. Luckily, Lorn was a bit smaller than he was, so after some struggling, he found that his claws could barely touch the ground. He tried to step forwards, but was knocked off balance by a struggling Lorn inside him! He steadied himself and finally managed to waddle out the door. He had to find someone to bring to Devos, Ryan thought. He needed more...

And more he found. Immediately upon exiting, he noticed a few other dragons rushing towards him. "What was that? I heard Lorn scream!" Ryan suddenly realized he was in a bit of trouble... He knew what he had to do.

Ryan snarled and reached forward towards one of the interrupting dragons. This one, with scales of orange, proved to be easy for Ryan to swallow. "Ryan! What are you doing- Mmmmph!" he managed to say, before being silenced by jaws around his snout.

Ryan greedily began to swallow once again. He wanted to eat more! He wanted more dragon meat to digest away! He lost himself in his own gluttony as the organ dragon was swallowed in quick order. Ryan had the process down, quickly pinning the forelegs and gulping until no resistance remained. In no time at all, the orange dragon was nothing but a set of hindlegs... And then nothing, just an oddly-shaped bulge in Ryan's belly.

Ryan felt the two dragons in his gut press against each other, fighting their fate... But Ryan knew their fate was to be dragon fat. His dragon fat. He turned his head to the other dragon that had responded to Lorn's noise-making. This dragon, yellow-furred, was staring at Ryan in pure horror. With a yelp, he turned tail and tried to run.

Well, tried. With one heavy paw, Ryan grabbed him by the tail, making him yelp and fall over, flailing. He grabbed that tail with his maw and began furiously slurping, dragging the dragon closer to him. Claws scraped across the ground as the yellow dragon tried to keep his ground, but failed.

This time, the hindlegs went in first, getting pinned and shoved into that gullet with ferocious speed.Ryan groaned in pleasure as he could feel him attempt to kick against his esophagus walls... With no effect, of course. A few more gulps later, and he was up to the chest... The dragon shook his head and whimpered.

"Ryan, please, no... Why are you doing this??"

Ryan knew why he was doing this. He was HUNGRY! And so, he kept on swallowing the dragon, roughly grabbing the forelegs and shoving them in his maw, stretched impossibly wide. Soon, he was up to his neck, head shaking as those jaes began to surround it.

"Ryan... No..."

That was the last thing he could say before Ryan's tongue wrapped around that snout, pulling it into his maw. Those jaws slowly closed around the snout, sealing it off from the world forever. With one more gulp, that head was sent down the gullet to join the other two dragons inside.

Ryan let out a satisfied belch, his stomach's contents shifting. He was already churning away these 3 dragons... Devos would be proud. Now, to get a snack for him...

Ryan tried to touch the ground with his legs. He pushed against the dragons in his gut, making them squirm weakly... But he couldn't feel the ground, only the expanse of his gut. He pushes and pushed, but his belly at was least double his body's sized... He was beached.

Ryan looked down at his bulging belly, his snout pressing into the tight, squirming organ. There was no way he could even move now... How was he going to eat more? Or get more for Devos? He flailed around on his belly futilely... And then looked up as he heard a padding noise near him.

A deep red-scaled dragon looked at Ryan, an angry look in her eyes. Ryan knew this one as Llata, the matriarch of her clan. Llata took a step back and growled at this sight.

Ryan drooled as he spied another piece of food. He rocked forwards, stomach groaning with the pressure... But she was out of his reach!

"Ryan. You are a cannibal. Taking our own kind just to eat them... What a terrible deed you have committed."

Ryan whimpered and blushed. "I... It wasn't my fault! I-"

"Quiet!" she roared. "Justice will be enacted. Men! Get the ropes!" In a second, Ryan saw more dragons come out of the huts... 4 of them, carrying heavy ropes.

Ryan could do nothing as they circled around him, out of reach of his hungry maw... Nothing except whine and struggle. "Please! It was all-"

"It was all you." The matriarch growled. "Do not deny it."

Ryan couldn't deny it. He had been made a cannibal... A glutton... He groaned and struggled to move. The shapes within him shifted vigorously as he flailed, but it was no use... Ryan could only watch and growl as the dragons threw the ropes on top of him, grabbing stakes to tie him down.

One rope went across him, then another, then another... Until Ryan groaned with the pressure pinning him to the ground, making him utterly immobile now. He wouldn't even be able to move now post-digestion... What was his future? To be cut open to rescue his meal? To be starved to death? Or worse...

Under the bondage of rope, Ryan dreaded his fate. This fate, the fate of those who go down the dark path.