[QC-15] Hot Spring Hugs
Commissioner/Gryph - GryphRaptor
Art - foxifly
Writing/Ceylon - Runa
Kalla- dragondruid
In this story, Vore House regular Kalla brings her gryphon raptor naga friend there for her first unbirth experience, and she gets to enjoy a water unbirth with the help and cuddles of Foxifly!
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Hot Spring Hugs
Gryph Raptor smiled and looked up at the moss covered terrace of the Vore House of Klyneth, chirping gently as she patted the head of the naga next to her. "Well Kalla, you said it would be beautiful, and you were right. Thanks for bringing me here!" Though Gryph had heard of the Vore House in her travels through the four quadrants and central Klyneth, she had never gained the proper encouragement to actually visit, at least not until she met Kalla.
The teal and jungle green naga flicked her tongue up at the hybrid serpent that held her body tall above her. "I told you it was nice. The staff are plenty nice, too! Sapphire has spoken nothing but praise for the predators here."
"I'm not looking for predators, though, I want to have someone in me. You, if possible." Gryph opined, sighing a bit. She didn't mind being prey if the predator was right, but she also knew from what Kalla had told her that the predators of the Vore House were almost always busy, as most of the public wanted the experience of being swallowed or stuffed inside a larger creature.
Kalla smiled and leaned into Gryph, hissing happily. "Don't worry, I'm sure they'll find a way to make that work. Come on, let's talk to the front desk, see what they have for us."
The two of them pushed through the massive double doors to enter the grand hall, revealing an old timey looking interior, much like the palace or castle of a queen. The walls were made of dark slate gray brick, trimmed with golden highlights, and draped with fabrics and patterns of green, blue, and red. There were ornate, dark stained pieces of furniture with elegant patterned fabric off to one side for lounging or waiting while the opposite side of that had a huge concierge desk with a tiny hybrid creature of red and blue sitting behind a computer.
"Welcome to The Vore House of Klyneth; my name is Theodit, and I'd be happy to help you!" The hybrid said as he got to his feet, standing and greeting the guests. He smiled and wagged his tail, eager to see them before realizing that one of them was Kalla. "And welcome back, Kalla!"
Kalla slithered across the floor and propped her head up on the corner of the desk in front of Theodit, flicking her tongue at him. "I have some fresh meat for ya!"
"I am not meat, Kalla. We discussed this." Gryph protested, slithering up next to her friend.
Theo butted in. "We understand that, but it's a general term of endearment here, it's not meant to indicate that you're prey." He then rubbed his hands together nervously, showing he had bad news. "That said, it's good that you're not prey. As usual, all of our predators are busy right now and we can't really pull them out of their scenes until tonight. Plus, our prey subjects aren't available at the moment, Vinn is working, Tritus is in town, and the ambassadors are all doing an event in West Klyneth. We never turn people away, but we don't have anything for you at the moment, unless you're thinking of buying some potions."
Gryph raised her hand to speak, but was interrupted by the chattier, and more assured Kalla. "That's alright. We can always go out and roam the grounds. Lots to explore, and who knows who is out there?" she suggested, then slithered up around Gryph's body to rest on her shoulders.
"Right, right. I keep forgetting about that. Day passes and all. It's a new feature and it was kind of silently implemented without really advertising, and not a lot of people have taken a stroll on the grounds." He hopped down off his chair to grab a pair of vials before hopping back up and laying them down flat on the counter top. "That'll be one silver each, and you must drink this before passing through to the grounds."
"Oh, that's it? I figured it'd be more than that." Gryph said, reaching into her bag to get a couple of coins. She handed them to Theodit before popping the cork and drinking the potion all at once then then helped Kalla drink hers. After wiping her lips of the potion, she asked, "Why is it so cheap?"
Theo shrugged. "Honestly, I think it's all sort of a gamble. Only a few others have shown up today, so you might not even meet any prey and it might be a matter of luck if you get to enjoy the pleasures of this. Still, the grounds are pretty and if you really must, you could eat your snake pet."
Kalla hissed, not appreciating being called a pet.
"Or not, sheesh! Don't bite my head off! I just sell the potions. Anyway, go ahead, have fun, and who knows, you might meet Foxifly or Ceylon out there. I know Ceylon is visiting, but isn't an employee so isn't obligated to indulge your fantasies." Theodit smiled and saluted to the two serpent guests before sitting back at his computer, clicking his way through the cameras to keep watch.
"Aye! Let's be out, shall we?" Gryph said with a return salute. She then slithered her way down the grand hallway towards the twin doors. Again, they pushed through to emerge into the empty court yard, which was lined with pretty fruit trees, a pathway, raised platforms, and two perfectly square concrete ponds. Nothing special, but on the other end there was an open gate and a drawbridge that led to the Vore House grounds, where they hoped to meet up with someone who could help them out.
Gryph was astounded at how distinct each of the regions was, and how easily she could see them from the vantage point at the back gate of the Vore House castle. Laid out before them was an open hilly plain with a big apartment building to the right, rocky cliffs and winding paths leading down to a swampy marsh area. Beyond that to the left was a dense, thick forest with a tropical jungle opposite it to the right. In the middle, an open savannah with sparse trees and long yellow grasses. Farther out was a pair of tall mountains, with the ones on the left being very northern in look and feel, with coniferous and deciduous trees, while its southern counterpart was full of jungles and waterfalls.
Though Gryph's eyes were powerful, she couldn't see any farther than that due to the mist billowing up from the waterfalls on either side. Atop the northern mountain range was what appeared to be a snow cap and a tundra on the plateau, but again the angle didn't allow her to see it in depth.
"This is all so beautiful, but how do they get so many different regions in such a small space? The grounds are big, sure, but I count nine different biomes on this property. That doesn't seem right to you, does it?"
Kalla nuzzled up to Gryph's cheek, hissing and flicking her tongue playfully. "They mastered a vore potion that makes anyone able to swallow another, stretchy flesh and impervious hide included; this shows they have mastery of transformation magic, you think they can't handle some weather control? Just enchant some gems and call it a day, I guess. I'm curious, sure, but I'm more in the mood to find something to eat."
"Yeah, you're right. I can ask later, but for now I just want to have some fun. Come on, let's go." She slithered her way down the rocky cliffs and plains, following the winding path to the swampy area. Luckily, there were clearly defined pathways creating a patchwork of each of the regions. Not only were there huge routes serving as borders between the regions, but each region also had their own unique paths, such as the dirt road in the plains or the raised wooden paths up off the water of the swamp and bayou region. The trip from the manor to the border of the jungle region lasted two hours, and when paired with the fact that it was less than a quarter of the way away from one end to the other, it showed just how expansive the Vore House grounds truly were.
Upon arriving in the jungle, they were met by an overgrown cobblestone pathway, which reminded them both of the temples of Arrenthen. A nice touch, but not what they were going for.
Much of their afternoon was spent exploring, taking in the sights of the jungle while searching for the temple they assumed was nearby. Gryph hadn't seen one while looking, but there was a building obstructing his view so he might have missed that.
Another hour later, amidst the buzzing of a million insects and the incessant chirps and squawks of a thousand birds, they pushed through some thick underbrush to reveal what they knew they would find: a tall golden yellow bricked temple overgrown with foliage and moss, buried quite deep in an excavation hole so that the tip of the temple barely poked out above the tallest trees.
Kalla's awe was shown as she gaped her maw open and stared. "In all my visits here, I've never once actually seen this temple." She admitted, then closed her maw before she started drooling.
"Never? Not once?" Gryph asked, slithering into the rectangular clearing that was lined by ten meter tall walls, dividing the temple and the surrounding jungle while also serving as a foundation, for the jungle's floor started at the top of the walls. From their entrance, there were steps leading down into the temple's courtyard, and tall pillars connected by archways forming a path from their end of the site to the front of the temple.
"Not once. I didn't even know this place was here." Kalla squeezed at Gryph's neck, still in awe.
Then, before another would could be spoken by either of them, a silhouette stood at the tip of the temple, gossamer wings spreading while still letting light through. Whatever this creature was, they had a bulging belly and six limbs as well as a thick, thick tail. "Who disturbs my meal?" She bellowed out over the open temple site, only to leap off the peak and fly her way down to the two of them.
Gryph was a little nervous, but Kalla was constricting in excitement, her thick and muscled body choking Gryph in the process. Once she realized this, she loosened up, letting her friend gasp and take in a proper breath. "Sorry about that." She apologized, as the totem of the temple buzzed and hovered her way towards them.
As this creature got close enough that she stopped being a silhouette in the sun and they could see her features, she perched on the nearest archway at the end of the path. Then, as she stood to speak, her heavy, bulging belly threw her off balance and she fell flat on her face next to the bottom of the steps before them, wings buzzing but not giving her any lift.
"Oh, hi Foxifly." Kalla hissed with a jovial tone. "Meet my friend Gryph Raptor!"
Foxifly raised one of her four arms in a fake salute, mumbling into the mossy stones that made the ground beneath her. "Hi Gryph. Pleasure to meet you?" The fox moth then pushed herself up from the ground and brushed herself off, compound yellow and green eyes glistening in the bright sunlight. She then stepped up the stairs to greet them properly, all mystique and bombast gone. She reached out with both of her right hands, shaking Gryph's talon and Kalla's tail at the same time while her other hands patted and rubbed her bulging belly. "Welcome to The Vore House of Klyneth. Having a good time so far?"
Gryph shook back with a smile. "Well, we haven't really done anything yet, if you want us to be honest. Been here for a few hours, wandering and exploring the place, and you're the first person we found." She was being honest, not trying to accuse or point fingers.
"Oh? Well that's always a shame, but you brought your friend here, and she looks like she might be a perfect fit for you!" Foxifly patted at gryph's belly with a buzzing chirp. "And if you took the safari option, I believe you should have been fed some potions, so you should be safe, right?"
Both of them nodded, agreeing.
Foxifly then stopped and raised an ear as if she were listening in on a conversation, lightly nodding in agreement to words that the others couldn't hear. "Well then, it sounds like I know exactly what you want, so why I don't I help you two out? Kalla's a regular here, and I trust her to not bring weirdos or creepers into my domain, so why don't you follow me? Get out of this dusty mess of a clearing and we'll set you two up."
"Sure! Lead the way!" Gryph concurred. When Foxifly turned and started hovering away, her small wings struggling to buoy her bulges in both tail and belly, Gryph then turned to Kalla, concerned. "Are you sure this Foxifly is okay? She seems a little out of it."
Kalla nodded. "I can assure you she's perfectly safe, probably the nicest predator I know aside from Ceylon or Leera. You can trust her."
"Alright, fine, but if I end up in some hybrid's tail belly, you and I will be having a very stern conversation about when I'm hungry and when I'm not. Got it?" Though her words and expression were both stern, she still was rubbing at Kalla's chin, being affectionate and caring while threatening her.
The naga's tail curled up to wrap around Gryph's wrist, pulling her away from the chin rub. "You've known me for months now, and have I ever led you in the wrong direction?"
"Well, no, I guess not."
"Then quit dallying. Follow that fox moth to the top of the temple, and see what she has to offer you! Quit wasting time talking to me!" She gave a squeeze and used part of her body to forcefully turn the gryphon-raptor's head towards the peak of the temple, where Foxifly was already waiting. "Go!"
Though not in the mood to be obedient or subservient, she did trust Kalla enough to do as she was told. With her naga friend on her shoulders and partially squeezed around her neck, she slithered down the stairs into the below-ground open site of the temple, making her way under each of the arch ways before slithering back up to the platform three quarters of the way up the temple. While she kept her way up, Foxifly had flown away to somewhere behind the temple, thus encouraging them to keep going.
The platform wrapped itself around the summit with unlit torches lining it, room enough for two average sized people to walk side by side around it. Gryph followed it around to the back, where the platform connected to a bridge that in turn formed a link from the back of the temple to the rocky cliffs beyond. There, Foxifly was squatting down on a stone piller, smiling and struggling to balance while widening her stance to better reveal the location. Beneath her, a series of natural hot springs were carved into the rocky plateaus, dozens of them like stepped rice fields. From the springs themselves, a thick cloud of steam floated above, billowing down over the cliffs and steps of the tropical hills.
"Well this is a pleasant change of pace." Gryph marveled, relishing the bright blue of the water mixed with the green and black of the surrounded area, all accented by the yellows, pinks, and orange of flowers all around. "I must admit I was wondering when this was going to get good."
Foxifly hopped down from the stone pillar to splash in the hot water of the spring. "Oh, we're just getting started, my friend! Come, come, relax with me, we'll get you loosened up."
Gryph reluctantly slithered off the bridge and into the hot water of the spring, the subtle mountain scent of the steam filling her nares and spreading a deep sensation of joy in her chest. "Is there something special about this hot spring?" She asked, gently waving her arms in it as her body coiled up beneath her. "It's so blue, and it's really relaxing!"
"Well, it is a hot spring, you know. They're designed to relax you. And the color? That's because we've mixed in some ademane to amplify some of the potion's effects. It's all part of the attraction." Foxifly leaned in and cradled Gryph's body, the bulge in her own belly pressing to the hybrid's form. "So what I need is for you to relax, let yourself float, and let me take control, mmkay?"
"Yes of course." Gryph responded with a slight nod, her body gently rising from the bottom of the hot spring to float just below the surface. She was shocked at how complacent she had become, but assumed that such a response was also part of the experience. As long as she wasn't about to become prey to the smaller Foxifly, she was fine.
Kalla's body slithered out from Gryph's neck, coming to rest partially between the mounds that served as breasts. "What am I supposed to do?" She asked, knowing intimately well that Foxifly had plans for her. She kept her tail coiled around Gryph's shoulder for balance and control, but not enough to squeeze or hurt her friend.
"You wait there for now, we're not ready for you." Foxifly instructed her, smiling as she floated her way down to Gryph's cloaca, straddling it right next to the tail. "What I want, is for you to trust me, Gryph. The goddess Ceylon tells me you love your womb being full, so I'm going to help you make this fantasy a reality." Her legs wrapped around the hybrid's thick tail, holding her in place as all four of her arms started gently prodding and pushing at the flesh near her vent.
In response to her touch, Gryph gulped and tensed up for only a moment, before looking down over her own body and past Kalla's coiled form on her chest to smile at Foxifly. "I thought the potion only made my belly safe. I didn't know it-"
Foxifly crawled up Gryph's body to look her in the eye, interrupting her concerns. "It makes everything safe, all of your bodily fluids and every crevice in your body can be a safe home for lucky prey. Trust us, we have the divines themselves smiling upon us."
"It's true." Kalla added, smiling. "Only possible explanation for how good the potions are here. They are truly blessed, and have Foxifly here to help!"
"While I appreciate the acknowledgment, it's mostly Leera who provides the ademane and does the primary enchantment, with Vinn, Cero, and Anax doing the rest, making them taste good, and ensuring they work on all parties. I'm more the operations manager than the one making the magic. Still I appreciate your kind words. Now, I'm going to go ahead and do what I can to loosen you up, Gryph." She pressed all four of her palms to the hybrid's body, crawling backwards down her form until she once again reached the softness of her cloaca. There, she began to knead while still looking up at Gryph and Kalla. "If you relax, I can properly loosen you up. The potion makes your flesh malleable, and your natural fluids hydrophobic, so the heat of the spring water will not wash you out."
"What do you mean by that?" Kalla asked, curious due to the fact she never heard that before.
Foxifly continued to knead, deliberately not touching the flesh of Gryph's cloacal opening while massaging gently. "Well, I mean simply that if you are aroused at home, and try to take someone in your womb while in the tub, the water will wash away one's natural lubricants, thus making it very difficult to pass a body through the birth canal. However, with our potions in you, your lubricants stick to you and aren't washed away, meaning that the water doesn't do anything to make this more of a challenge. We can do this here." She kept her gaze at Kalla as she slipped both of her left hands into Gryph's vent, rocking both from side to side in half rotations to properly tenderize the canal.
Gryph whimpered and threw her head back as every bit of her body tensed up, nearly forcing Foxifly's hands out of her. She shuddered and shook, each motion creating a tiny splash in the surface of the water, until Kalla wrapped her naga body around her for a hug.
"Be calm, Gryph, we haven't even started yet." Kalla assured her, leaning in to nuzzle cheek to cheek. "If you get this excited about a couple tiny fists, I'm not sure you can handle me!"
Foxifly buzzed in lieu of a purr, gently pumping both of her fists into Gryph, still massaging the hybrid's depths. "She'll be able to take you; she may not realize it, but her body is far more malleable than you might think. Just be calm, relax, and let me work on you, okay?"
The gryphon-raptor nodded again, her breaths growing heavier with each passing moment.
Still engaged in her work, Foxifly slipped her other two hands just inside Gryph's birth canal, grinding and caressing from within before balling up into fists and parting in four directions, gaping Gryph out wide with her vaginal folds opening like a cavern straight to her uterus. "Kalla, darling, now's your cue. If you want to fill this girl's belly with your body, then go ahead." Her four arms were lightly quivering and shaking, the muscle strength needed to keep the opening gaped proving to be quite exhausting after less than a minute.
Kalla turned to Gryph to give another cheek to cheek nuzzle, flicking her tongue once before darting forth towards Foxifly. She looked up to the fox moth, then down through the surface of water where Gryph's ruby red flesh was spread open like an underwater cave. She took in a long, deep breath, gave one final flick of her tongue, then dove beneath the water and flipped in place in order to aim her snout at the spread canal that was just barely big enough to fit her, after having all four of Foxifly's hands in there with her. She wiggled her entire body, using it as a rudder or fin as the vaginal flesh smothered her, closing around her head and squeezing her tight.
Foxifly smiled and buzzed, the vibrations creating tiny waves in the water. Her hands were all lightly wrapped around Kale's scaled body, keeping her properly guided while she flailed and tried her best to use water propulsion to force her way into her friend. "Gryph, dear, are you feeling alright?"
With a nod and a smile, Gryph approved. "Y-yeah, and it feels wonderful! So fulfilling!"
"Yeah, the potion also makes you very sensitive. Will feel even better when she's fully inside you. Now relax a bit more, I'm gonna help her breach your depths, and we'll have her coiled in your womb in no time." She continued to buzz as her four hands all gave Kalla a proper squeeze, giving the naga girl some leverage. However, she quickly found that the extra leverage worked against her, as it wasn't doing much to help Kalla go deeper, but was just pushing her hands out. In an act of desperation before all four of her fists were forced out of Gryph's vent, she pulled two out and wrapped them around the base of her tail, giving her leverage to in turn offer that leverage to Kalla.
Inside, Kalla could feel the sudden increase in rigidity coming from Foxra, and she used this to her advantage. With her body in tight, controlled slithering motions, she scrunched up and flexed her muscles just beyond the fox moth's hands, using that to propel her forward. The tight passage of Gryph's depths quavered and constricted in pleasure, but the best and most prevalent thing she felt was the steady beat of her heart and the throb of the walls around her. She couldn't see, but she could hear the gurgle of the depths before her, and the sloshing of natural lubricant around her.
Kalla could also feel the sudden tightness of what she thought was the entrance to the womb pass over her. It squeezed her snout shut, then passed over her body one set of scales at a time. The moment she felt that tightness followed by a roomy interior ahead of her, she clenched her muscles and bent her body at the right place, easily pulling the rest of her serpentine body inside with her.
Foxifly smiled as she looked down through the water's surface, the dark deal and jungle green naga's body sliding with ease through Gryph's opening. Once she was convinced she no longer needed help, she gently let go of the ventral scales and let them close around the naga's rapidly disappearing body. She wiped her hands off to clear herself of the lubricant that she's accumulated, then gave one final glance as the last of Kalla disappeared between Gryph's ventral scales before pushing off the stone floor of the spring to glide up next to her. "How does it feel? Is it comfortable?" She asked, lightly patting at the growing bulge in her abdomen.
All Gryph could do was lightly nod, smiling as her body writhed in waves. The pleasure of having that serpentine body slithering through her, prodding into her womb, and coiling up inside was somewhat transcendent, a pleasure so intense that she found that the entire world was smothered in the glare that she got when looking at a bright light, then looking away. Her entire body swirled and curled up as she pulled Foxifly into a hug, thanking her for what she did to help. It was then that she felt a shifting motion in the fox moth's belly, realizing that she had someone inside her the whole time.
She had noticed the bulge earlier, but since she hadn't met Foxifly before, she assumed that she was just chubby and hadn't put much thought into it beyond that. As such, she laid one of her hands on her new friend's belly, enjoying the sensation of whomever it was inside kicking.
Foxifly did the same, placing two of her arms on Gryph's belly, patting and squeezing just right to feel the familiar shifting sensation of a naga pulling herself into a coil. The more Foxifly pressed down, the more intense the sensations became as the coils and scales pressed out against Gryph's uterine walls. "Well I'm glad you enjoy it." She said, cuddling up to Gryph and buzzing gently - her variation on a purr. "Now, just relax, enjoy the hot springs, and let your body melt into it. The longer you stay here, the more comfortable and satisfied the unbirth will become."
Gryph nodded again, still unable to properly make noises or speak against the deep, deep pleasure that filled her. Before long, as the two floated there in the hot spring, Gryph found herself falling into sleep, the steady shifting of naga in her womb quickly becoming what she felt was the norm given the circumstances. To her, none of this felt odd, it felt too right to be weird.
There she lay, splayed out in a hot spring behind the temple in the jungle quadrant of the Vore House, content and deeply satisfied. Her mind wasn't able to focus on much, aside from how much she knew she wanted to come back the first chance she could.
When she finally did awaken, she was alone and curled up in a ball nestled in the corner of the spring, hiding under ferns. The sun had set and the moon had come out, reflecting off the surface of the still-steaming hot spring.
Gryph still felt like she was being hugged, and that made her not want to leave despite the fact that she knew that she had to. After all, she had requested some prey and was growing mighty hungry. Perhaps Theodit had set her up!
With that theoretical in mind, she sloshed and swam across the spring to return to the bridge, taking her first motions towards the Vore House manor. She wasn't yet done with this place, not yet.