Wishful Thinking, Chapter 9.
#8 of Wishful Thinking
Wishful Thinking, Chapter 9
By Mitch Kenzo.
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Screw it, I don't wanna put what it contains anymore. >:O
Chapter 9: Wish Factor Nine.
Perry and Lila returned to the pond after a short walk. Morton spotted them first, while sitting on Hetoh's tail. He waved them over happily, and hopped down to run over and greet Perry. The human oomphed as he felt the soft mouse ram straight into him. He seemed even softer than before, and Perry realized that Morton's fur was extremely clean and... new! The reforming had brought him back in pristine condition, much like Perry's reformation had. He sighed and rubbed Morton's ears as he was nuzzled by the rodent.
Perry looked around for Emerald, and caught a flash of green in the otter's bellybutton. Hetoh was snickering to himself, and Perry got up to look closer. Emerald was standing on the firm navel rim and punching at the back of the cave, her fists bouncing off the firm wall of meat in front of her. Perry was certain he saw a few clawmarks on it, and something that looked like a bite - complete with a few fangs in the bite holes. The wolf femme looked up and waved to Perry, floating over to him and under his shirt. A second later, a sharp pain from his navel made him suck in his gut. Emerald floated out, chewing something, and giving a sigh of appreciation. "Sometimes humans are good for something."
"Gee, thanks. I'll remember that. Crazy wolf." Perry shook his head and rubbed the healed bite spot. He'd get her back someday... He just had to figure out how! However, he decided to let it go for now. It was more important to get everyone to get some rest!
Emerald hovered up close to his ear. "You're really good about letting me stay in there so much, so remind me to take you to my favorite place in Limbo sometime. I have a feeling you'll love it. Honestly, it's to die for!" Perry just pretended to gag and die at the pun, earning a magical flick to the side of his head.
Hetoh finally stretched and got up, having lost his admirers. Perry swore he could hear the otter's frame creaking under the weight of all of those muscles, or maybe it was the muscles themselves. "It was really fun to meet you all. I met a totally different species, and even living history."
"Are you calling me old?" Emerald just had to put her two cents in, but Hetoh only laughed and shook his head. He didn't want to incur her wrath in his midsection again! He poked the toothmarks with a claw, scraping out the fangs easily and healing everything up to his normal, wonderful navel.
Perry couldn't help himself and went up to press into it again. He closed his eyes and imagined himself inside of it, basking in the nutty scent and oils. He felt the belly shift, Hetoh apparently arching his back, as he could no longer feel the rim pressing in on his digit. However, when he felt something touch his arm at the elbow, he opened his eyes. He was shrinking yet again, the otter smiling down at him. He stopped at about half height, and Hetoh lifted him up with a strong finger under the back of his shirt. It slipped up to reveal his own stomach, and he felt the otter open his mouth and let his hot breath touch his belly. His soft red tongue raised up, and seemingly attached itself to his stomach.
Perry moaned as he felt it. It was muscled, but a very soft kind of strong muscle. It explored and forced its way along his belly, tickling and tasting him as his stomach twitched like a cat getting a bath. He felt it lick over and around his navel, taking its time to rub his bellybutton's rim before finally dipping inside. He shivered at the feeling as the tongue not only stopped to lick at the lined surface, but pressed even deeper. It was pushing in on and puckering his bellybutton into his belly, looking like a red spear going in from the side. To Perry, it felt like it was almost impaling him, but before his navel tore loose into his guts, the pressure lifted. A thick strand of drool connected his umbilicus to the receding tongue before it went completely into the otter's mouth.
Perry panted and caught his breath, his stomach feeling like he'd had the wind knocked out of him. He looked up to Hetoh, about to rub the soft nose, and realized he was shrinking again. His shirt was riding up the finger until it hung off the tip of the dull claw. He looked around anxiously as he was lowered slowly beside the smiling mouth, but passed it, going back to Hetoh's waistline. He realized that his vision was about to come true and wriggled about in anticipation. It felt like years before he felt his feet sinking into the silky fur inside the bellybutton, where he immediately raced forward and hugged himself to the back of it. It was better than he'd expected as the fur instantly coated him in the nut-scented oil. It reminded him of opening a jar of peanuts, but not quite the same scent.
He pulled his face back to look at the fur. It was only about an inch long at this size, but more than enough to make his skin glisten and soften from all the oil it was applying. He didn't think on it too long as his face was forced right back into the fur. In fact, his entire body was, as it was pressed into the back of the bellybutton by a firm paw pad. He felt like he was dying from the mental stimulation, such a situation boggling his mind with how wonderful it was. He was being rubbed around now, his lips and teeth scraping against the flesh on the back, and his nose filling with the scent. He finally gave up and opened his mouth, letting his teeth scrape the oil up onto his tongue, and even letting that hang out to lick around on the smooth skin.
The flesh was delicious, and he sighed even more. He felt like he'd never need to inhale again, at least until his lungs started screaming at him for oxygen. He breathed shallowly, completely entranced by the feelings of the navel around him. There was another feeling, one he'd noticed since meeting Lila... He couldn't place it. He relaxed, letting his mind trace it. It seemed to be so familiar, like he'd experienced it before. The feeling was of good, joy, of love and thankfulness. What was it? A murr from Hetoh as he rubbed Perry over an especially sensitive spot in his bellybutton gave him the answer. These weren't his feelings, they were Hetoh's. He could sense the otter's feelings, and share them by being so close. He thought back, and realized he'd always felt Lila's, Emerald's, and Morton's as well. He'd even gotten them when Lila was in the picture... He shivered as he comprehended the knowledge.
He felt the pad crush him down more, squishing him into the navel with great force. He was lucky as it closed all about him. It had enough give to prevent him from being crushed against the bottom of the hole. As it was, he was squished to the breaking point, his entire body pinned against the thing he loved so much. He was nearly part of it now, part of a delectable bellybutton, and the owner wanted him inside. It was too much... He felt something snap, and everything went dark.
Outside, Hetoh felt the movement in his navel go into complete relaxation. He felt himself shudder and quickly removed his finger, Perry fitting snugly into his imprint in the pad. The otter closed his eyes, sensing for Perry's spirit, and gave a sigh of relief. Perry had only passed out. It made him giggle, and poke the body. Emerald, Lila, and Morton crowded around, cheek to cheek. Emerald's tongue flicked out, and ran over Perry's body. He immediately sputtered and woke up, a shocked look on his face. "Ack, what did you guys do to me now? I was having the best dream about Hetoh putting me into his... navel... Oh, it wasn't a dream was it?" Rhythmic head shakes. Perry blushed.
Emerald reached out and picked Perry up between her claws. "Aww. You look exhausted. Have a nice place to sleep. Besides, I've been waiting to do this for a while anyway." She placed Perry into her own bellybutton, his body curling to the curved shape of the rim. The wolf woman even brushed some of her long belly fur up and over him inside, making him sigh and snuggle down into it. He reached out and stroked the back wall, making Emerald shiver and moan slightly.
Lila walked back and hugged Hetoh as best as she could. "Thank you for the fun day. We'll be sure to trespass a lot more often here." The lioness gave a wink and a snicker as the otter rumpled her headfur.
"Just take care, all of you. I do look forward to seeing you again, whether here or back in our world. Though... No, never mind." He looked at Perry, and he could feel some sadness in the otter's eyes. The others had been looking at him like that too, and he didn't know why. It was something he'd have to ask Lila about sometime.
"I feel really lucky to have met you too, Hetoh. Well, all of you, actually. I really hope I can help you all get home. It'd be the one good deed that I feel obligated to complete during my life. Though... Well, I feel selfish saying this, but when we find everyone, I'll have a favor to ask." That got questioning looks from all the furs, but he sealed his lips.
"I guess we'll be heading back then. We've got a long journey ahead of us." Morton hugged the otter as well, and tail-waved goodbye. "When we find everyone, you'll be the first to know." When he got back to Emerald, he poked a finger in her navel.
"Careful, or Perry might pass out again." Emerald snickered as well as the others while Perry protested. Then, he decided to get a bit of revenge, and turned to the lumpy back navel wall. With a smile, he took a tiny bump into his mouth and bit down as hard as he could, chomping through the flesh with a satisfying click of his teeth, and an even more satisfying yelp from Emerald. She looked into her bellybutton, and growled playfully as Perry showed her the bitten off flesh between his teeth before sucking it back into his mouth. Now he knew why the females liked doing it to him so much. Bellybutton meat was not only soft, but it tasted really good! He chewed it as the group walked back to the house, and climbed up into his room.
Perry felt Emerald lay down on the bed, tilting her belly back and dumping him against the back of the hole. He stretched out and yawned as his fingers traced through the puckered lines in the flesh, and his body rested on a mesh of lumpy wolf skin and fur. It felt like it was shifting to form to his body, becoming more comfortable by the second. He watched Morton look over the hole, and stick his nose in to sniff and nuzzle Perry goodnight. The mouse even pressed his tongue in, drenching the human and his bellybutton bedding, but he didn't mind in the least. It reminded him a lot of being pressed into Hetoh's earlier, and he moaned his thanks to the mouse. When the rodent's tongue withdrew, Perry realized that he was going to stay with them as well. His heart gave a leap for joy, and he yawned before wishing everyone a goodnight. Amidst the fur, saliva, and comfortable flesh, Perry closed his eyes, seeming to sleep as he felt the wolf drift off as well, her breathing becoming slow, except for whenever he moved. He grinned and used a fingernail to scratch at the fleshy wall once and making her snicker in her dreams. Then, he laid still and waited until he could hear the deep breaths of the others.
"Still awake, Lila?"
"Yup!"
Perry grinned. It'd worked. He had asked Lila for another ability. However, it was one he wanted to share with her. He'd asked to be able to really use Telepathy, like they had when they'd taken down Terrence. Lila was only too happy to oblige.
"Good. About that crocodile picture..."
"Hehe, don't be embarrassed. I loved it!"
"No, no, I'm glad you liked it so much. I just had a bit of an idea. Remember the first night we met?"
"How could I forget?"
"True. Well, I was thinking about how you appeared to me in my dream like that. What's it like to go into someone's dream?"
"Oh, it's fun. Anything can happen, especially when one of us comes in to help control the dream and let you have as much fun with it as you want before you wake up. You can do anything, and be anything without having to worry about magic."
"Oh, really now? So, seeing as how I've dreamed about everything I've sketched coming true..."
"Mmmrr... I get your point. Oh my. Now I seem to be feeling quite tired all of a sudden."
Perry heard a snore that sounded more like a snort of laughter from Lila.
"Me too. See you in a bit then?"
"You know it!"
Perry closed his eyes, and let his energy drain away. He felt extremely tired now, ready for a good night's sleep. A long, deep sleep with plenty of good dreams. He thought about Lila, and the image he'd made. The croc was having the time of his life chewing on the lioness's wonderful navel... He started to imagine it in motion, the chomping like a lullaby to him. It was drawing him in, relaxing and tenderizing his mind, until he finally drifted off, dreaming of the image.
It was a good dream now, and seemed very real. It felt like something was poking and prodding around the edges, very subtly. The crocodile faded away, and the image of Lila was now looking directly at him and beaming her wonderful feline grin. The sketched outline of her body filled in, with lights and shadows. The white of her body became more detailed, the paper raising up to create little strands of fur. Her form gained depth and true life, and of course her wonderful violet color. A breeze wafted by him, and he could smell her apple cinnamon fragrance, making him drool.
The background was also changing. No longer was it a blank white. Shapes seemed to be coming out of a white fog, the paper dissipating as moist bark and leaves on trees came into view. Lila's feet disappeared into a thick layer of grass by the edge of a muddy river. She sat down and relaxed against a tree, clawing a little of the earth up with her paws. Perry could smell it now, the lively scent of a rainforest. He also noticed he was viewing the feline from the perspective of the river, just above the water. He ducked his head under looking for the crocodile, but could find nothing in any direction. Plus, it felt like he was gliding through the water easily. His tail gave a flick, and he turned quickly again.
Wait, tail? Perry rolled his eyes in their protective underwater lids, and cracked his jaws in a big, toothy smile. Lila had a sense of humor for sure. Not only did she want to be the victim of the crocodile picture, she wanted him to play the part of the reptile! This was ten-thousand times better than what he'd dreamed up.
He swished his tail again and propelled himself forward towards the bank, feeling his clawed toes touch down to the clay and silt lining the underwater portion of the river. He began to pull himself forward, but slipped back as the bank gave way. This was frustrating! Tender prey just a few feet away, and he couldn't get out of the river. There had to be a trick... He tried swishing his tail again, and felt the front of his snout slide along the wet bank. He immediately pushed off with his feet and felt his chest and underbelly slide up and out of the water. He dug in with both sets of feet, and pulled himself forward, eventually finding himself completely out of the water. It was much harder to move on land here, but he found his powerful body able to compensate as he swayed forward through the grass.
He soon bumped his snout against Lila's footpaws, which he nuzzled with his wet, scaled nose. He opened his jaws and took one of her toes in his mouth, letting it rest against his teeth and onto his tongue. Her body had a totally different taste to it now. Perry no longer saw her as another intelligent creature like himself. She was now a meal, a gigantic pile of meat. He moved his tongue as best he could, finding it quite hard to do so as it was thick and the length of his entire mouth. He managed to get one good lick of her digit with the slab, and then gave up. It wasn't worth it. Besides, the prize he was going for was in another area! He lifted his body as high as he could on his legs and slid it over the top of the paws. Lila responded by scratching at his smooth belly scales gently. He let loose a low rumble and continued moving forward.
The lioness's belly loomed before him, and he felt himself start to drool. Her navel was directly in front of him, ready to be plucked from her belly like a ripe plum. He opened his jaws and loosed a sound like a belch and a growl rolled into one, a hungry reptilian roar that froze the lioness in place. Ever so slowly, he slid the tip of his wet maw over the bulbous flesh in front of him, bit by bit until he felt his snout press into her warm stomach fur. He let his jaws close together slowly, only clamping on and containing the warm bellybutton in his mouth. It rested on the tip of his tongue and fed him a wealth of flavorful information. The nub was overflowing with the feline's true flavor, which Perry found to have a tinge of a wild, fresh taste to it.
He felt the drool seeping out the sides of his mouth where his teeth pressed outside of his lips, and his tail swept back and forth over the muddy and grassy river bank. He increased the pressure in his mouth slightly and felt a series of satisfying pops as the sharp spires slid their way through Lila's navel base, stopping halfway in. He didn't want to bite it off just yet... However, he was amazed at the tough flesh he couldn't even pierce with his weak human jaws couldn't stand up at all to his new might. He felt Lila lose her composure and relax, her belly squirming about in front of him. He felt his predatory urges rising more by the second, preparing him fro the move he wanted to do.
Lila was electrified as his teeth bit into her. It was a feeling that she had experienced rarely, being thrust into eating 95% of the time. Not that she minded, but every so often she liked to be on the giving end of a pair of jaws. She shuddered and let herself relax, enjoying the burning in her bellybutton. Perry's teeth were tearing her flesh open, her white meat showing through for a moment before the red of her blood shot through it with a beat of her heart. She could tell it was trickling into Perry's jaws as he let loose more growls and twisted a bit. She felt her navel lift away a little more, fat and muscle tearing from her belly. It wasn't just skin deep either, she could feel a pulling and twisting very deep in her stomach, pulling on her internal organs. The internal hinging was pulling on her stomach and her liver, pieces of flesh loosening from her body. A low moan escaped her lips as sweatdrops appeared on her face. She dug her claws into the ground as well as into Perry's belly, making him grunt. His eyes narrowed and he gave a tug. Her tough navel remained firmly on her stomach, only a small amount of ripping occurring now. Perry had changed the properties of the dream...
Perry knew he had changed them. He wanted this moment to last, and he gave another pull. Lila lurched forward by her stomach, yelping in shock. Perry let the corners of his mouth curl up. His tongue no longer weighed a ton, and he licked the tip of the lioness's navel lovingly. She stopped yelling and went back to purring as she felt that, and he gave another mighty pull, feeling the back part of his body slide into the water. The feline was like a rag doll as he pulled her along. Her insides were probably nice and loose by now, making him drool yet more. He clamped his mouth shut and sucked on the bleeding navel wounds, getting a mouthful of the red wine that Lila's blood. He kept sucking until the wounds ran dry, likely having healed already. His mouth stayed shut as he slid into the water, pulling Lila with him. She stopped purring and gave a relaxed smile as she slid into the water.
Perry couldn't tell what she'd done, but realized a thin coating of air had completely coated her body, preventing the muddy water from fouling up her taste. "Clever..." He could have hit himself for not thinking of it earlier, but shrugged it off. Nothing could ruin this moment. He was about to bring a drawing to life yet again... Lila was even going to enjoy it too!
Perry took a deep breath though Lila's air shield and steadied himself against the bottom of the river. Three... Two... One... Barrel roll! Perry shot off one leg and thrashed his tail. He quickly picked up momentum as his teeth twisted in the wound like spikes on a hellish vice grip. His body twisted once, twice, three times as Lila's navel twisted itself free of her belly. A cloud of blood spread through the water as not only the navel, but much of the connecting tissue in her belly tore free as well. Perry quickly snapped the flesh into his jaws as he rose into the air, sparing the divine meat flavor from the mud water. Perry was stunned at the delectable taste as he fell into the water on top of the lioness's ripped up belly. He squirmed about on a bed of her intestines floating up to meet him, a squishy water bed in the water.
His tongue stroked and licked over its captive, rolling it around on the entire length of its soft bulk. He could feel Lila stiffen beneath him as she realized she could still feel the bellybutton and everything he was doing to it. Keeping his scaled lips airtight, he placed the meat between a set of sharp, razor-like teeth. A quick bite sliced it in half, and then the halves into halves. Lila was scraping her claws along his scales, which he'd been certain to make hard as diamonds. Her navel was being shredded in his mouth, and there was nothing she could do about it.
Perry reluctantly placed the shredded bellybutton meat in the center of his mouth near his throat. He surfaced and jerked his head forward, letting it all slide into his large throat and on to his rumbling stomach. It was already filled with burning acids, which made her claw at her own stomach trying to itch it and get rid of the burning. Her claws only ripped the hole open farther, letting her warm insides all float out.
Perry growled as he was enjoying the game and dove back down, opening his jaws again and clamping down on the lioness's midsection. He did another barrel roll and felt a satisfying snapping as Lila's legs raked the river bottom, snapping them like twigs along with her hips and spine. The water was now a dull rust color from the feline's blood freely racing from her veins into the drink. He heard her let loose a scream of ultimate pleasure through her pain as Perry ripped her body in twain, and he surfaced to gulp down her lower half. Her hips and legs took no time at all to slip down his wide gullet. His tongue was inundated with the combination of bloody meat and cinnamon apples, like a dessert and main course all in one. He crushed her footpaws in his jaws, scooping up the little remnants of the toes like in a chocolate soup before going back down for the last of the cat.
Her arms were outstretched towards him, drifting into his jaws to massage his tongue and teeth as they crushed her ribs in them. Perry held her there, safe in his mouth for the moment being. Lila would be able to smell herself in his throat as he climbed partway out of the water again. A gasp from her breathless lips confirmed it, and he released his jaws to let her slide into his neck. The crocodile human let gravity and his throat do its work, pulling Lila into the soupy acid and lioness mix in his stomach. Her navel had already been completely dissolved, a dark patch of acid in the corner where it was, now being absorbed into his stomach walls.
Lila could see her legs and toes suffering a similar fate. She sighed, dragging herself forward with her paws until she could rest on her own back. She snuggled her face into her own fur, feeling her cold nose nuzzling against her own back. It was quite comfortable... She could tell why Perry liked being held close to her. The feline made a mental note to do it more often. His hairless body always felt good against her own anyway!
As she sank deeper and deeper into the acid, Lila closed her eyes. She saw herself and Perry, his normal human self sitting together on the bank of the river, her paw massaging his belly, which was still churning around its meal. He blinked and looked confused for a second, but quickly calmed down and snuggled down next to his soft friend. He let Lila's fingers rub small circles over the smooth flesh of his belly, her pads catching his skin with their leathery touch and dragging it around. Her index finger wormed its way into his own bellybutton, making him squirm about and arch his back. He hugged closer to her and listened to a warm purr in her chest as his face pressed into her soft fur and flesh. He ran his short nails through her fur and scratched up and down her sides and back, itching her and hearing her changing the pitch of her murrs as she relaxed farther. Perry wondered what would happen if they both fell asleep inside the dream.
He saw Lila's eyes close.
He felt his own eyes close.
There was one more moment of perfectly warm fur against him... A very long moment. He opened his eyes and realized he was back inside Emerald's bellybutton, which had gotten very hot and sweaty during the night. He was drenched and smelling like Emerald's wolf musk, not an unpleasant smell in the least.
"Hah! You should see her face. Either she was tapping in on our dream or you were really busy in there."
Perry had an image of Emerald's face in his head. Her tongue was hanging out the side of her mouth, and she was panting in her sleep. He took a feel around, and felt all kinds of bitemarks on her bellybutton. He sent the images of them back to the lioness and got a large laugh in return.
As if a signal had gone off, all the other furs woke up together. Emerald's finger prodded its way down into her navel, poking his own belly softly. "Time to wake up, sleepyhead. It's trip time! You planning on riding in there the entire way?" He stuck his tongue out at her before climbing up onto her navel rim and kicking his legs over the side, looking at the swollen bites he'd made in the night.
"Actually, how exactly do we want to travel, and where to?" Perry was addressing the group now. Lila had her elbow resting on a slightly uncomfortable Morton's belly, and she glanced at the other two. Perry shook his head. "Ugh, don't tell me you were all expecting me to figure it out! Hmm... Oh, I know! I always wanted to see Africa. Plus, we could show Lila some of her... distant relatives?" A sparkle in the lioness's eyes told him that it was a good idea.
Emerald sat up, spilling the tiny human onto the sheets. She looked down at him, before opening her jaws and pressing her soft tongue onto him, smothering him in a squishy, wet prison. It didn't last long, as he felt his body gradually popping out from under it, her tongue shrinking bit by bit, until he pressed into all three furry bodies, Emerald's tongue ending up in his bellybutton for at least the twentieth time since meeting her. "Mmm... What were you saying about being on the menu yesterday, Perry?"
"Come on, already? Besides, I think I can smell my mom cooking breakfast. Tell you guys what, I'll go grab some and tell her I'm still packing a few things. Hmm... Yeah, I got it. Breakfast will be on me!" He quickly hopped out of bed, running downstairs and leaving three slightly confused furs behind. It only took him a few seconds to thump downstairs, running into the kitchen. "Hi mom, I'm starved! I've still got a lot of packing I remembered I need to do. Mind if I just eat in my room?"
"Honestly Perry, prior planning! You should have packed it last night... But all right, I suppose you're going to be in a hurry, so go ahead."
"Thanks mom! Just load me up, I'm REALLY hungry today!" He beamed at his mother as she loaded heaps of bacon, eggs, and sausages onto his plate. He grabbed the maple syrup as well, and scampered back up to the confines of his room. Lila, Morton, and Emerald were still sitting where he'd left them, all a bit more awake now. "Mmkay, this is going to be a surprise, so I want you to all close your eyes and stand by the window until I say to open them.
"Why?" Morton cocked his head quizzically.
"Just do it, you'll see in a minute." With that, he walked toward the bed, and the others did as instructed. This was going to be fun! looked at the plate, picked up the meal, and then set to work. Within moments, Perry had created something he could be proud of. "Okay, now you can look!"
As his friends turned, Perry beamed at their both shocked, as well as quite pleased expressions. Before the lion, wolf, and mouse laid a breakfast buffet they could all enjoy... Mainly because it was spread out on Perry's stomach! He had a small bunker of bacon around his bellybutton, with sausage reinforcements inside of it as fried eggs attacked from his upper belly. A river of maple syrup ran from his chest down into the depths of his navel, brown and sweet-smelling. Each anthro crowded around him on a side, chuckling. Morton was more for the eggs, smiling as he used his incisors to chew them against Perry's stomach. Every so often his teeth would catch the human's skin, pinching it gently to make Perry jump, and then the mouse would lick the sore spot, the pain easing instantly. The rodent greatly enjoyed the flavor of the syrup against Perry's stomach, halfway through the meal forgetting that he was really eating, slathering his saliva over the human belly, using his lips to suck it back off to get the sweet and salty flavor. Perry couldn't help but pour on more syrup, much to Morton's delight.
Lila and Emerald were busy attacking the fort from each side, Lila using her tongue to knock a hole in one side, whereas Emerald gave a huge chomp, crunching out her side. The two girls grabbed the sausages, dipping them into thy syrup to enjoy the sweet and spicy flavor it afforded. When the fort was done, they each took turns licking the rest of the syrup from Perry's bellybutton, holding him down as he giggled and squirmed. Lila quickly got most of it, satisfying her, but Emerald's more flexible tongue was able to squeeze into the deepest holes and pull out the syrupy taste. Even after Perry could feel it was all gone, the wolfess still had her lips locked around his navel, sucking all the flavor out of it. "Mmmmm..."
He tried to pull away, but quickly found Emerald's teeth locked about his navel. He looked to Lila for help, but the lioness only put on a devilish grin, and smacked Emerald's jaws together, severing the bellybutton with a large "OW!" from Perry. His eyes were shooting daggers at the feline as she smirked, licking the deep hole back to its normal navelly self as Emerald watched, dipping his navel in some more syrup and popping it back into her mouth. When he was healed, she reached for his belly again, but he smacked her paw away. "This isn't a buffet!"
He sighed, standing up to get dressed. The others stretched out, closing their eyes to get their concentration in their minds back in order. Perry had just finished putting on his shirt, and turned around to find Lila staring him in the face. "Perry, it's about time you made another wish." She pushed his bag at him, disappearing into the compartment in her micro size a moment after. He could see the others inside already, and grinned, zipping it all the way before hopping into his shoes and heading downstairs.
He stepped into the kitchen again, walking up to his mom and hugging her from behind. "Well, time for me to hit the road then Mom. I'll see you at the end of summer unless something comes up!"
"Like I said honey, just be careful... You're your own man now, so I won't tell you when to come home. If you find a better choice than home, get the chance to have a fulfilling life, then take it. Just keep in touch!"
"I'm only going on a road trip mom, sheesh!"
"Yes... But it seems like somehow it'll be something more. Just know I'll always love you, no matter what."
"I love you too, mom. I gotta run so I'm not late, bye!"
His mother smiled as he walked out the door, wondering why exactly she'd gotten such a feeling of loss. He would be home, wouldn't he?
Perry had other things on his mind as he climbed into the car, mainly the newest argument between Lila and Emerald over who would get to ride in the front seat. They were going back and forth in the bag now, actually wrestling as they were arguing, Morton trying to stay out of the way. "Argh, that's it! You're all riding in the front seat until I make the wish I've come up with this time. We're gonna take a nice, leisurely flight over the Atlantic... I do need some help on this, so Lila, let's start the wishes."
"Hold on, Lila's not the only one with magic here. We're all in this together, so I'll let you wish off me." Emerald was intent on showing off her magical prowess now too. "Come on Morton, you're helping too!"
"Eep! Why me?"
"Because I'll have you on the menu first if you don't."
"Is that a threat or a promise?"
"Just help!"
Perry chuckled to himself. "All right then. Lila, you've got the strongest magic here from what I've seen. I'm wishing for the power to levitate and fly at will from you, and I'm sure the rest of you can do that already. Emerald, I need invisibility to the outside world for all of us. Morton, do you have some way of storing the bag and my car?" The mouse nodded, concentrating. Suddenly, it seemed like the space in front of him folded in on itself, reality distorted in that area. The others hopped out of the bag, and Morton turned himself to normal size, picking up Perry's bag and placing it into the fold. He was amazed, putting his hand out to try and get a concept of what was happening. There was a definite edge to the distortion, a solid one, and something like an interior, however, when Perry placed his hand underneath, the only thing he could do was feel the bottom edge of the distortion, as if it were a hoop with no definable point of entry. He even pulled his bag out of the distortion, confused, and placed it back inside.
Morton chuckled. "Okay, here's how it works. It's actually like a two-sided holding bracelet. You can put anything into either side of it, and it'll be held in its own little part of reality. All I have to do is pull it back into existence, and whatever's inside will still be there. Think of it was what we did with our planet, only on a much more basic level." Perry just stared blankly and nodded.
He started the car and drove a few blocks from home. "Okay, Emerald, time for invisibility." The air shimmered around him, but nothing seemed to have changed... That is, until someone on the sidewalk shouted "RUNAWAY CAR! CALL THE POLICE! E-BRAKE MUST BE BROKEN!" Perry smiled as the person rushed into their house and quickly stepped out of the car. He turned to Morton. "Your turn." In a moment, the hoop went over his vehicle as if it were eating it, and then the hoop blinked out of existence, leaving the bare road. "Okay Lila, your turn! I wish for flight!" Lila gave him a sly smile, running up to him and giving him a wonderfully big kiss. It was like what he'd experienced in Limbo, but this time it was for real... The fur of her face pressed against his bare skin as her this lips met his, sucking his lower lip into her mouth and biting it gently. He closed his eyes and let the wind wrap about him, a feeling of joy and weightlessness enveloping him. The ground faded away, and Perry felt a sense of freedom that he'd never experienced before. His eyes cracked open, Lila finally breaking the kiss when he did so. As he looked down, he saw the ground quickly receding, his feet dangling in midair uselessly.
At first, he was confused, using his arms to flail about and turning around in the air. He tried kicking with his legs like he was swimming, but only ended up rotating faster. It was becoming nauseating now, he just wanted it to... to... STOP! With a jolt, that's exactly what he did. So, it was a mental control. He willed himself to rotate upwards, the blood rushing from his head allowing him to hear the furred trio laughing at him. The blood rushed right back in as he turned beet red from embarrassment. "All right, all right, so I'm new at this. I think I've got the hang of it though!" He did a few loop-de-loops in the air. Now if only he had a purple cap and some twinkling dust falling from his hands! He sighed and kicked onto his back in the air, levitating higher. "Well then everyone, let's roll out!" With that, he quickly began to gain altitude, grinning as the others caught on and zipped up to fly beside him. The ground got smaller and smaller, at last disappearing altogether as they disappeared into a cloud bank themselves. It was time now, time to go to Africa!
The More You Know: I was referencing NiGHTS with the purple cap and twinkling dust bit in the last paragraph. If you haven't played a NiGHTS game, either go get a Sega Saturn Emulator, or get NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams on the Wii. God those games kicked ass.