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As dawn broke over the horizon, so did life, birds soon started chirping and not so long afterwards the forest was brightly illuminated by the rising sun. In one small clearing of such forest laid a camping site with three tents, each of them with their individual occupants. One of the tents' entrance opened and from it stepped a young human, average height, average weight, just an average human. He closed the tent and proceeded to walk away from the camp heading in deep into the woods, his steps crunched leaves under his feet as he walked away, awakening his two other companions on the other tents. Not long after the footsteps had gone quiet, another tent opened, from it emerged an anthropomorphic wolf, grey fur, cute blue eyes, and lean body. Taking a couple of steps away from his tent, the wolf began stretching his body, letting all the cold and chilly air from the forest enter his nostrils, soon he heard some shuffling, and from the third and last tent emerged another human. “Morning!" cheerfully said the wolf, “Morning, how's your sleep?" said the human, “oh, pretty cozy, I must say this has been the most relaxing sleep I've had in a long time!" “Same here dude, but I had this crazy dream, that there was a dragon that chased us though the woods and some crazy things happening with it" added the human. “Wow" replied the wolf, “see, that's why I told you not to eat all those marshmallows before sleep!" he added “Well, it still was worth it" said the human, however, soon the crushing of leaves could be heard once again, startling both speakers, only to notice that it was their friend, Nathaniel. “Nathe my man! Where did you go?" said the other human “I went to take a leak, almost peed myself in the tent, guess cold nights tend to have that effect, huh?" he answered “Yeah, now that you mention it, I gotta go for that too, won't be long!" his friend mentioned as he began walking past him heading towards the trees.

“So, how's it going? You're not…uh with that urge as well?" said the remaining human, whose name was Nathaniel, to the wolf “Nah, I went to do my business late at night" he answered, “Ok, nice…" replied the human, an uncomfortable silence then began to set around them, however, it was broken by the wolf. “Have you enjoyed the trip so far?" “Yes, yes of course I have, I've enjoyed every moment of it, well, except for the insects that is, but for the rest, it's been the most delightful experience I've ever had!" replied Nathaniel “Aw, thanks man, I do agree with you, this has also been the best experience I've had" said the wolf “actually now that I think about it, we could've—" before he could continue the other human interrupted him, “Hey, guys, I found something w i e r d and quite mysterious as well" “Oh really?" replied Nathaniel as the wolf twisted his head like a curious dog, “Yeah dude! It's like, this huge paw print but I don't recognize the species, come check it out!" said the other human “I'm not so sure we should get close to where there was probably a very big thing that isn't easily recognizable, Jacob" said the wolf “Fang, c'mon, I mean sure it may sound unsafe, but, it looks old and besides you don't catch the scent of anything dangerous, do you?" said Jacob. “Well, if you put it that way, then sure, I don't smell anything and if it looks old, it's probably just a little bit safer" said Fang, “Well, then c'mon, Nathe, are you coming man?" “well… sure, let me just… get my phone" said Nathaniel as he went into his tent to search for his phone. Just a few seconds afterwards he came out again, closed his tent and made his way with Jacob and Fang. “All right, follow me guys" said Jacob as he lead them away form the camp and deeper into the woods.

The trio made their way through the trees, at least the walk helped them to get started with their day, they had planned on going fishing on the afternoon to a nearby lake, and this walk would serve as a nice stretch and exercise for them. Soon they made their way into a small clearing, one in which, true to Jacob's words, laid not one, but four paw prints. “Here they're, see?" said Jacob as he posted at where the marks were, “Oh, interesting, very interesting" said Nathaniel, Fang meanwhile proceeded to smell their surroundings, and eventually ended up smelling the paw prints themselves. “I don't recognize this scent, it smells, musky,…very musky and also kinda—he took a few more whiffs—non-mammal" said Fang, “Well, one thing is certain, it's not a person or an anthro, so it must be a wild animal" said Nathaniel. Jacob meanwhile took pictures of the prints, however, as he was doing so, he noticed that they pointed in a straight direction and that they were not arranged in a walking pattern. Squatting behind one of the paw prints, he looked to the direction they pointed, only so that when he stood up he could see a path of sorts in between the trees, a clear line of vision to an area directly forwards of the direction the marks pointed. Dread began to fill Jacob's mind as he pondered what the animal was looking at when it once stood where he was. “Hey J" said Fang from behind Jacob, scaring said man to the point where he jumped, “whoa dude, calm down!" “that shouldn't have gotten me like it did…" “definitely man, I just wanted to say that we need to start making our way to the lake if we want to have fish for dinner" said Fang, “oh… okay, yeah, lead on!". As all three of them made their way back to the camp, Jacob still had that dreading feeling from earlier, his mind telling him that, whatever creature left behind those prints, it was stalking something, like a predator does to its prey before the chase.

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“So, is everyone ready?" asked Fang, “Yeah" responded both Nathaniel and Jacob, “All right then, let's go!" said the wolf as he began making his way from the campsite towards the woods, both humans following closely from behind. The forest they currently resided at was part of a national park, one of the biggest in the country in fact, however, they currently resided practically in its center. Half of the park was inside a mountain chain, the other half containing forests and hills, the place's history is quite an interesting one, the park began as a way of isolating the inhabiting dragons from the rest of the land. The dragons agreed to move into the park's territory in exchange for receiving offerings and uninterrupted peace from the inhabitants of the surrounding villages. As technology developed and eventually once the country industrialized, the peace that the dragons demanded was soon in danger of being lost, so the government and dragons agreed to change their living quarters in favor of a bigger and calmer area, much further away. Still some of the area's draconic inhabitants decided to remain in the mountains, most of them resentful for ever allowing the human and anthro races to progress. Disappearances began to occur and once the perpetrators were found, it was clear that the mountains of the park were no safe place, specially near the mountains, however the dragon's existence in the park was kept secret. This is were our trio comes in, since Fang wanted his camping trip with more privacy than the one achieved in the exploited park areas, he decided to camp near the mountains and in unknown consequence for him, near the dragons.

After a somewhat long and exhausting walk, both human and wolf made it to the lake's shore. Standing at its edge the scenery was dazzling, the lake's surface was marked by calm tiny waves of clear water, the crystalline body surrounded by tall pines and trees, with a feeding stream coming from the huge mountains on which rock gray and white snow patches could be seen behind the tree tops. “Wow…" said Jacob “Wow indeed" said both Fang and Nathaniel in almost complete sync, after a few more moments of appreciating the views Fang broke the silence, “Well, let's start now shall we? Our dinner won't make its way to us by itself" he said as he began to walk again, this time looking for a nice fishing spot. Not long afterwards he found a nice deep zone clear of any big seaweeds, “This will do" he told himself, “guys, over here!" he then called on his friends, who began walking towards him. Once they arrived they began settling down the fishing equipment, filling up with water a bucket for the fish soon to be fished, taking out their fishing rods, putting corn grains in their hooks and, after each of them getting feet apart they began their angling day. Fishing is a slow activity, however, it is highly enjoyable, specially when doing it in such beautiful surroundings, which was the reason for which Fang, Jacob and Nathaniel didn't mind having to wait half an hour before any fish made contact with their hooks. After almost an half an hour the trio made its first catch, and a big one, kicking up the groups enthusiasm, another fish later followed suit. As time passed the water filled bucket was slowly filled with life, literally, as more and more fish were put in there as morning turned to noon.

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“Time to go" said Fang as he began to put pull out the fishing line. It had been quite an exhausting day, having stood for almost three hours at the lake's shores, the group managed to catch a dozen fish. “Yeah, I agree dude" said Jacob as he stood up from his laying position in the soft grassy ground, halting his daydreaming while looking at the clouds, with Nathaniel also begging to put way his fishing rod, the trio began to get ready to leave. Gutting their fish and then putting them into an ice box and throwing the bucket's water into the lake, the group began to make their way back to their campsite, hunger urging them to rapidly get there so they could cook their well earned meals.

A clock would've marked three in the afternoon when the very exhausted individuals finally made it into their camp. Setting down the ice box with a groan, Nathaniel's body ached specially his arms, having carried the ice box for half of the comeback trip after Fang did, for this reason Jacob was chosen to be the chef for the day and prepare the fish. Having no easy way to start a campfire but with bare dried leaves and twigs, it took Jacob long enough to even have a small flame. After tenths of tries, the campfire was finally strong enough to not die with Jacob's own breath as it had done for the previous hour; this meant one thing: it was cooking time. Putting the fish in a grill over the fire, the group's lunch began to cook, filling the air with its delicious and smokey aroma. Some minutes afterwards the first fish was ready and served to Fang, who eagerly began devouring it, the next done fish was served to Nathaniel, leaving Jacob to eat the following one.

After about an hour all of the trio's catches had been cooked, Fang, having a literal wolf's appetite had eaten five servings of fish, while Jacob and Nathaniel could only eat roughly two, having enjoyed their meals throughly, the remaining fish were covered in aluminum, shoved in plastic bags and stored in a thermal storage bag. Having finished eating, all of the campers felt incredibly tired, walking for a couple of kilometers to go angling just to return walking that same amount of distance while carrying kilo's worth of extra weight to then start a fire, cooking your food and end up bloating your belly with the aforementioned meals tends to have that effect. “Guys I—*urp*—need to get some rest" said Fang, hand on his stomach as he stood up, “I am going to take a nap" he continued as he made his way away from the campfire and into his tent. “'Aight, I'll put out the fire then" said Jacob as he stood up from the bucket he was siting on and grabbed it to go fill it with water from a nearby stream. “I'll wait for you to be done J so we can all rest" Nathaniel told him, “Thanks man" replied Jacob as he walked away.

The crunching of leaves under Jacob's feet were his only companions in his walk to the stream. Arriving to the wet edges of the small current, he bent down to start filling the bucket up. Unknown to him, from in between the trees to his side a black shape could be seen, a rounded shape, with two horns and bright eyes, watching his every move. Standing up after filling the bucket, Jacob began making his way back to the campsite, the pupils in the shapes' eyes following him. When almost arriving to the camp's clearing a growing feeling of uncomfortableness was creeping Jacob out, he had that sensation of being watched, turning around to his surroundings he saw nothing, but then again it's hard to see anything when all around you there only are hundredths of similar pine trunks. Nathaniel heard the crunching of leaves and turned to see Jacob arriving with the bucket in hand, Jacob simply walked up to the campfire and threw all of the water onto it, almost fully extinguishing it. The left over withering flames still worried Jacob though, he didn't want to start a wildfire after all. “Hey Nathe, you wanna go get the water this time?" he told his friend, “sure" said Nathan who took the bucket and made his way to the stream, at some point he too got that watched feeling while walking to and from the stream, but he just shrugged it off. A second bucket load of water was all that was needed for the fire to completely die out, only wet ash remaining, “Nice dude" Jacob told Nathan, “Now…we can rest" Jacob continued, “That we can" replied Nathaniel. Each of them turned to their tents, wishing a good nap to each other they then closed off their little sleeping quarters. After some shuffling from inside the tents, silence soon covered the atmosphere, nothing but the sound of wind and leaves rustling resonating through the camps surroundings. Meanwhile the shape, now from the same clearing that the friends had first investigated in the morning, attentively watched the camp, hearing, smelling and sighting all of the trio's actions, it was time, the humans and wolf were well fed, now it was opportunity for the mysterious shape to feed on its new prey.

Nathaniel slipped inside his sleeping-bag and sighed, it sure had been an exhausting day, the last day in fact, for he and his friends were to depart tomorrow noon towards a small town to return to their homes. Turning to his side, he connected his phone to his portable charger, making the device's screen to turn on, “5:58 huh?" he said as he looked at the hour, “bit of an early hour to sleep, but, I'm sure it's going to be enough time to be ready for tomorrow" he continued. Turning on his other side he closed his eyes and listened to the leaves rustling outside, the soft occasional sounds driving him deeper into a world of comfortableness, softly making him fall asleep. Outside his tent, not much happened, the sun continued its path across the sky, the tree's branched brushed at each other and the stalking shape was nowhere to be seen.

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Fang uncomfortably awoke with a strong pressure in his lower abdomen, he really needed to take a leak. Opening his tent, he stepped outside and after closing it, made his way towards the trio's selected “business area" to take care of his body's necessity. It was dark, the sky just barely holding that characteristic orange glow of every sunset, darkness didn't represent a problem for Fang, having night vision was after all one of the perks of being an anthro wolf. Arriving to his desired destination, away from the campsite, Fang unzipped his pants and began doing his business, for almost a minute he stood there discharging all of his liquid, when he did finally finished he was mid-zipping up his pants when he heard a rustling. It wasn't a natural rustling caused by wind, but one caused by something, or someone. Attentively listing to his surroundings, Fang zipped his pants and slowly turned around, looking in the direction of the rustling, he tried to sniff out any scent, but he was downwind. Squinting his eyes, he searched for any sign of a creature in between the leaves, and he found it. His eye's pupils met with other pupils, slits in the middle of a green sea, those eyes, were not of a bear, or a savage wolf or normal creature of the forest. Fang could faintly notice the surroundings of the eye, they were scales; soon the wolf realized he was dealing with something he stood no chance against: a dragon. Both creatures maintained eye contact for what seemed like hours for the poor anthro, but before que could even react, the slits in the eyes became thin as paper, sooner than he could have predicted he saw the eyes moving towards him, their huge owner leaping at him. He saw the moonlight illuminating a huge body, he saw huge teeth surrounded by flesh, he saw wide open jaws angled almost vertically, he felt fangs sinking into his thighs from the front and back, he then felt pain and then, darkness.

The dragon bit into the anthro's lower body not to kill, but to incapacitate it, true to its intentions he felt his prey's leg bones breaking within his fangs. The predator began to immediately savor his new treat, twisting his tongue to get all of his meal's taste out of it, however the little anthro wolf wouldn't be its only food, he had after all, another two to be meals profoundly sleeping in their own little tents. Having taken down the strongest of the group, the dragon turned and began making its way towards the campsite ahead of him; humans were such easy prey, weak, small and dumb, it wouldn't matter if he made himself present to them early, catching them was effortless.

Jacob woke up suddenly, sitting in his sleeping-bag, he stayed there, unsure of what had waken him, he had just sat up from out of nowhere, confused, he began to get out of his sleeping-bag. Outside the dragon chuckled as he heard activity arise at the tent on his right, it seemed like his next meal was ready for him. Walking and crouching himself beside the active tent, he waited for its occupant to step out, his paws ready to pin down his next snack. Just a few seconds later, Jacob opened his tent and walked into the open, only to feel a heavy weight on his back, slamming him towards the ground, his ribs painfully pressed against the hard surface, knocking the air out of him. Letting out a scream of terror and pain, he tried to lift the wight of him, only to find it becoming even stronger and feeling a pointy object dangerously positioned on his nape. Hearing an incredibly deep growl above him, Jacob instinctively stopped moving, not wanting to anger whatever was on him he stopped all his struggling. Having his face flat on the ground he had no idea of what was happening, but he was pretty sure that his life was hanging on the thinest of wires. A loud thud was then heard, accompanied by a splatter of some liquid next to him, he turned his head, only to see an anthro wolf covered in some slimy substance laying next to him, forcing him to gasp and yelp. Recognizing the wolf, he became even more scared, it was Fang! The liquid that covered him had a faint mix of red. Hearing a zipping sound, he turned his head towards it only to see Nathaniel at his tent's entrance instantly freezing with his mouth agape, eyes widened to their extreme.

Nathaniel had no idea of what was happening, he had been listening to music with his earphones after having waken up just a few minutes earlier, but he then began hearing sounds like those produced by things falling flat on the ground, so he decided to investigate, only to find himself staring into the face of a dragon towering over Jacob's tent, with Jacob himself underneath its paws! Nathaniel didn't know on how to react, the beast was easily ten meters tall, and just a few meters in front of him. Without thinking about he sharply turned around his tent and began running.

The dragon watched as his third and last serving began running away form him, typical, he simply pounced at the human. Hearing a scream behind him, he shrugged it off, surely he had hurt the one human under his paw when he pounced, but that was his intention after all, he didn't want to risk letting go the other little man as well. Within a couple of steps he was already behind Nathaniel, with the simple action of a slap on its tiny body, the running human was sent flying towards his side, strongly crashing into a tree trunk, falling unconscious on the ground. Halting after his attack, the dragon simply grabbed the human in his jaws and returned to the campsite, seeing both human and wolf still laying next to each other, he then returned to them. Having gotten next to his two other prey a delicious scent entered his nostrils, taking a few whiffs and sniffs he soon found the smell to be coming from a black bag, grabbing it with his claw he then tear it apart and having trouble unwrapping the fish he simply left them there. Growling, the dragon began to sniff in each individual tent, looking for any objects of value, finding none he huffed loudly before simply stomping on each tent, destroying whatever there was inside, he then did the same with the camper's fishing equipment, his job done, he turned to his kills on the ground. The wolf was starting to groan, just as the little human next to him was doing as well, not caring much for their well-being, the dragon simply took both his front paws. Setting himself in a sitting position, the dragon stretched its wings and with his powerful back legs pushed himself into the air. Flapping until he was above the tree tops he then flew off, his food in paws and maw, and disappeared in the already dark night sky.

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Nathaniel stirred in a panicked state, all he remember was him running in the dark woods before suddenly being thrown to his side. His breathing slowed down, he stood there, or more specifically, laid there, there being wherever he was. It was dark, so dark that he couldn't see a thing, not even his own chest when turning his head down, but such action caused him incredible pain in his neck. Groaning he returned to his straight laying position, as minutes passed, his mind and senses became clearer, he was laying in a hard and cold surface, it felt like rock. A smell, a disgusting one, hit him hard, it smelled like raw meat. “Who's there?!" said a voice, scaring Nathaniel to the point of feeling his hands run cold, but then he recognized the voice, “F-Fang?" he could barely say, “J-Ja-Jacob? N-N-Nathe?" responded the voice. “Fa-aah-ng!" exclaimed Nathan, who could hardly complete the word after feeling his jaw popping mid-word, “It's Nathe" he finished. For a few seconds there was no sound but only breathing from Fang, “Nathe" he finally said, “Nathe…leave, get out…" continued Fang with a dying tone in his voice. “Wh-What?" answered Nathaniel, “Fang, where are we?" he asked him, “Hell" replied Fang, “We are so fucked…we…we…we need to—" “Oh, but aren't the little survivors plotting against me already, huh?" said a deep voice far from where they were.

Stomps were soon heard, nearing closer and closer, when they finally stopped, Nathan could already feel the ground trembling from the wight of what was provoking them. “Who are you?!" asked Nathaniel loudly, who was only responded to with a growl so deep he felt his insides trembling with its force, “You are in no position to demand me anything, human" said the owner of the voice, who lowered its muzzle to him. His head so close to his, Nathaniel could see the glow of the creatures eyes, wide reptilian pupils focusing in his own rounded ones. The huge being proceeded to smell Nathaniel throughly, ending his sniffing with a deep mmmmm, just like the one people made when seeing a delectable meal. “What's wrong human? Cat got your tongue? Hm?" the voice said, following it with a short laugh. “And you, you were trying to find a way to escape me? Huh~?" said the voice, now from the direction of Fang's position, who let out a short whine “You should know better, that there is no way of escaping a dragon's lair, specially when such dragon is me~" continued the deep voice. “A dragon's cave?-" asked Nathan “Quiet!" said the dragon, “Both of you have no right to talk when in my presence unless I allow it, understood? Now, I was just waiting for you two to wake up, I would hate it if even one of you missed the show~" “The show?" asked Nathan, who was responded with a growl that got closer and closer to his position, “N-N-No! I'm-I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll keep quiet! Keep qui-qui-qui-quiet!" he quickly stuttered and exclaimed, for which the growling stopped. A dreadfully long silence followed, only the breathing of the three of them sounding around, “Well then, let me take you to the stage, I'm sure you morsels will enjoy my show~" said the dragon. Both Nathan and Fang were soon grabbed by the beast, Fang letting out yelps and groans of pain as he was grabbed. As the dragon began making his way to his “stage" he was awkwardly walking on his hind legs, making his upper body sway, Fang ending up sobbing and crying form the pain his broken legs caused him.

As the dragon carried him, it was then that Nathaniel began remembering something, it wasn't just him and Fang who had gone on this trip, where was Jacob? He didn't have enough time to ponder the question as he was suddenly let free from the paws of his capturer, falling to the hard rock below, earning him with burning pain at his hands and legs. Fang on the other hand let out a scream when falling to the ground, for which Nathan followed his voice until he put his hands on his friend's body. “Now, now, don't be such a snowflake you doggy" said the dragon “Be like your friend over here" he continued, “He doesn't whine, he doesn't scream, he just…breathes" he finished. Taking a deep breath and exhaling through his mouth loudly, he spewed flames from his maw, illumining his surroundings and turning on a bonfire next to him in the process. The flames stopped and the monolith of wood was soon encased in flames, giving off a powerful yellowish light and heat, the dragon slowly turning its head to look to its prisoners. It was then that Nathaniel saw him, Jacob. The dragon, laid down like a cat, crossing his front arms and surrounding his body side with his tail, with Jacob lying sideways in front of him.

Both humans and wolf were able to get the first glimpse of their capturer, except that they couldn't really, the dragon looked identical to the cave walls and ground, almost like a chameleon. “Oh, I'm sorry, I haven't presented my self or my abilities to you yet, hmm, well little ones, I'm known to you anthros and humans as…Bonorturer. And I, as you can see—his scales changed color, now turning into a complete black—can camouflage quite well" said Bonorturer. “You may be wandering, why hunt us down? Why us when there are bigger prey than humans and anthros?" he continued, “Well, its simple, you humans and anthros took away my previous home, attacked me a dozen times, took away my eggs, killed my mate and failed to serve me with your promised offerings, so I resisted when you fowl beings tried to force me to move out again. You see, humans and anthros have one thing on common, when they're overpowered, they don't give up the way wild, savage beings do, oh no. They beg, plea, cry and yell, and they can do it for hours. All three of you broke one very important rule: to not trespass the middle of the park. By doing so you knowingly put your lives in danger, and you deliberately entered my territory, and…by doing so,…you automatically become my prey~" as the dragon finished saying so, he looked down on his cave companions. All three of them with visible confusion and fear displayed in their faces. “I stalked you, followed you and knew everything each and every one of you did. Today I simply woke up with a desire for some entertainment, and so I hunted you down~". It was with this last sentence that the dragon confirmed Jacob's theories, the paw prints at the clearing from the morning did belong to a stalking predator after all. “Well, now that I've properly introduced my self and the reasons for my actions—the dragon said as his eyes began glowing with a bluish glow, his dark body then did something unimaginable: bones, his bones, could now be seen, his entire skeleton behind his flesh was suddenly in display before his prey—let's get down to the show, shall we?" he said and finished with a deep laugh that sank what little hope remained in his humans and wolf.

Nathaniel was bewildered and frightened to no end. This dragon, Bonorturer as he was called, had hunted him and his friends down, taken them to his lair and now he was proclaiming the beginning of his “show". Nathaniel saw that a smirk was drawn on the dragon's muzzle as it slowly began creeping his paw to Jacob, who was still laying in the ground before him. Jacob's ragged breath turning into a frenetic wheezing when the sharp claws touched him, they stayed there, the scaly paw wide open just above his torso, just so that it unpredictably closed on him. Both Nathaniel, who was standing, and Fang, who was on the ground supporting himself on his hands behind him, looked in shock and fright as Jacob was slowly lifted from the ground, whining and shacking violently within his scaly prison. “Aw, aren't you such a poor thing… a little poor man. All defenseless, barely breathing and completely drained of any force" said the dragon with mocking pity in his voice, “You know—he continued—predators tend to catch the weakest of prey, they're easier to take down after all, but you, you're not in weak, no, you're pathetic" he finished with a sharp tone while having Jacob dangling in front his muzzle now.

“Let him be!" yelled Nathaniel to Bonorturer, who only sharply directed his gaze at him, moving Jacob out of his way he let out a small yet still considerable gush of flames from within his jaws. Soon the rebellious human was screaming in agony, his skin burnt and clothes on fire, he dropped to the ground and began rolling in pain, much to the dragon's amusement. “I thought I told you not having the right to speak, human" turning back to Jacob, he was suddenly splatted with a glob of saliva on top his muzzle, the human in his grasp having spitted at him. Bonorturer growled, his eyes showing unthinkable amounts of ager, but a few seconds later his glare softened, in the most terrorizing of ways, looking like that relaxed face worn by brutal killers when in action. “Oh human, ever wondered how a dragon's mouth looks like in the inside?" he asked Jacob. “F-Fuck you" his prisoner responded in a sharp tone, “Oh and I will~" the dragon said as he tilted his muzzle upwards and lifted the human above it. The terrible jaws parted, saliva strings connecting tongue and palate, an awful stench of rotting meat hid the human hard, then the dragon let go, the human falling feet first letting out a tiny broken scream before the jaws closed.

Fang couldn't believe, he just saw his friend getting eaten, alive. The dragon turned to him, making a soft chewing like motion with his jaws. He could hear the screams, Fang could hear Jacob screaming, the dragon not actually chewing, but just toying with him. The dragon's jaws then parted, with its head pointing to the ground, Jacob slid in the same direction, except that once his lower body was crossing the terrible fangs, the jaws closed. A crunch was heard, his legs braking apart, Jacob's body got slurped like a noodle, the action then followed by second, then a third and a fourth and final crunch. With a swallow, Jacob's remains left the dragon's mouth. What a 'glrk' the show began, since once the dragon swallowed, the human's bones became visible while traveling down its throat, a white lump, formed of smaller pieces of white, traveled down the dragon's neck, disappearing for a moment behind the beast's sternum, only to reappear behind each of the ribs, the lump finally stopped just after the ribcage ended. Courtesy of the dragon's ability, displaying calcium in his body made eating sentient prey so entertaining, forcing them to watch their companions remains traveling through his digestive track. A second swallow, and a smaller lump of white followed the same path, 'ptui!', the dragon then spat out one of Jacob's shoes, completely covered in red slobber, and with some fleshy remains on it. Licking his chops, Bonorturer turned to Fang, who was laying next to Nathaniel, who was now laying sobbing in his underwear after having taken off his burning clothes. “J-Jacob" whispered Fang in a frightened and broken tone, “Jacob, huh?" said the dragon “well, he may not had been as crunchy, but he still had a delicious filling!" it finished, continuing on with his licking at any reachable remains from his teeth, once he finished he looked at the wolf.

“Fang, boy" said Bonorturer, for which the wolf looked to him, “come here, come on" continued the dragon, the anthro wolf began moving, pushing himself towards the dragon with his front paws. Tears running down his cheeks, his broken legs were certainly a problem, he could already see his thighs turning a dark purple, but the tears weren't so much for his legs, as they were for his now deceased friend. Fang made it to the dragon, who looked into his eyes, those reptilian oval slits showing nothing but prime hunger. The dragon scooped the wolf with his paws, for which the furred being let out whines and protests due to its broken legs. Turning on its back, the dragon laid the wolf on his chest, out of the corner of his eyes, Fang could see the human bones in the middle of the dragon sloshing and settling down after the scaly beast had positioned itself.

“You are aware that yesterday's daylight was the last that you'll ever see, aren't you?" said Bonorturer, looking straight into Fangs eyes, eyes that moved up and down as their owner nodded. “Good, now, you don't want to end up like your friend over there, right?" said the dragon as he directed his gaze to his belly, the wolf shook its head. “Well, then I've got a job for you. Get rid of your friend's leftovers from my teeth and you won't suffer like he did, do you understand?" continued Bonorturer, the wolf nodded, “Then get to work" the scaly giant said as he opened his jaws widely.

Fang slowly scooted from the dragon's chest to its neck. The anthro was so scared that his own heartbeat quieted Bonorturer's; with pain and difficulty Fang made his way to the front of the dragon's jaws whose owner grabbed the wolf in its paw. Fang felt terrified, he wasn't only putting himself in the maw of a monster that had just eaten his friend, but was also just grabbed by that same monster. Thinking that the reptile would just fling him into his jaws, he prepared as much as he could for it, but he was actually just set down on the giant tongue. For a few seconds, he waited, waited for the top of that mouth to come down on him, for the knife sharp fangs to rip him apart, but it none of it happened. Moving his eyes around he began his work, and for such he began to look for Jacob. It wasn't long before he found, “His foot" Fang said quietly, so quietly he barely heard himself. He scooted closer to the piece of meat, he was at the back of the dragon's mouth already, just ahead of that pulsating rhythmical throat, grabbing the ankle of the foot, he began to yank.

Nathaniel opened his eyes, his body not having any more water to produce tears from. His skin burnt, he couldn't move without experiencing piercing pain, the cold rocky ground proving to be somewhat of a pain killer because of its cold texture, still, its rough surface didn't help. Turning on his back, he saw the cave's roof, illuminated by a fire of sorts, he stayed there, looking as the short shadows of the wrinkled surface danced with the constant changes of the fire's light intensity. He almost fell like sleeping before he heard a disgusted cough of sorts. Turning his head, he saw him, the dragon with Fang in his jaws, immediately anger began boiling inside him, but stronger than that anger was the fear, the fear of being burnt again, and the fear fo his friend's life.

Fang was disgusted beyond belief, he was not only picking out his friend's remains from the molars and fangs of its killer, but was burped in the face! A horrible acidic stench came from the dragon's depths, Jacob completely gone, not even that horrific stomach air contained his scent anymore, he was truly nothing but bones and raw digesting meat. Focusing on his task, Fang grabbed the last piece of stuck leftovers from the dragon's molars, tugging at it, he noticed it was sharp, curved, and elongated, after a few twists and hard tugs it finally came loose and free. His spine, part of Jacob's spine had been ripped out his body, that meant that he would have instantly died at the event, but, how long was it before he—, the wolf shook of the thought, he didn't want to think about that thing anymore, he was inside a dragon's mouth, why think of deadly stuff when you're in the deadliest place in the world? “I'm-I'm done" announced Fang, scooting backwards towards the front teeth of the beast, he put the spine section in the dragon's paw, which was next to the maw, and in which were all of the little bits of food had been placed. “I need—" “Fang!" interrupted his still alive companion Nathaniel. “Fang what are you doing?" the human continued as the dragon took Fang by his chest and took him out his mouth, proceeding then to throw the last of Jacob into his mouth and swallowing them. “Nathe, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, this is all my fault, if it hadn't been because of me we would've never—" “Shhhh, shhh, shhh, shush" mentioned the dragon, cutting of Fang's apology. “If it hadn't been for you—he said turning the wolf towards him—I wouldn't have all of you three, or well, now two delicious meals~" said the beast with a smile.

“Fang, where is Jacob?" Nathan worriedly asked, “Searching for your little friend, huh?" answered Bonorturer, “Well, little one, why don't you take a deeper look at me, hmm?~" he finished with a laugh. After a moment of silence, with loud huffs and deep frightened breaths, Nathan began looking at the dragon, scanning him, until he noticed it, those white dots, just after the ribcage. He unconsciously gave a step forwards, wanting to make sure that he wasn't seeing what he believed to be seeing. Stopping himself, mouth agape, eyes widened, sobbing coming back to him he asked his captor in a low crying tone: “Why?". The dragon leaned his muzzle forwards, looking at Nathaniel's eyes, “Because that is the show, your personal little show—the dragon turned his body, no longer laying on his back but on his belly—and you'll be it's own star~" the dragon teasingly answered, “but, you'll be the star once your furry friend has gone through me!~" Bonorturer quickly added. “What?!" both human and wolf said alike, but before any of them could react the dragon squeezed Fang in a way so strong the wolf felt his ribs pressing down his lungs. The dragon used his sharp claws to tear off the wolf's pants, violently treating his already broken legs, the wolf loudly whined in pain, only to then be firmly grasped from his very same legs, his upper body exposed, the dragon grabbed the wolf's shirt and torn it off from him as well. Grabbing him from only his feet, Bonorturer let Fang dangling from his grasp, sharp claws nearing him, Fang immediately froze, he saw with extreme fear as the dragon's left claws neared his hips, grabbing at his boxers and with a strong tug, breaking them off.

“What are you—" Fang began demanding before being interrupted by the dragon “Ah there you go, you see, eating clothes isn't good, they don't befit me in any way and they cover up all your flavor~". “Him too?!" asked Nathaniel in disbelief, he couldn't take the fact that not only had he just witnessed his friend's remains inside a monster, but that that very same monster was planning on eating his remaining colleague. “Why of course~… Dragon's have such enormous bodies to take care of, feeding it is vital to keep a perfect shape, and you anthros are so good at doing that, with just the right amount of fat added to my perfect form with each of you" said the scaly beast as he looked at the human. Suddenly, Nathaniel felt something on his feet, he looked down, but before he could react, the dragon's tail had coiled around his ankles and tugged him, making him fall on the floor. Looking up again he saw as Bonorturer stood and twisted his body so that his head and neck were laying at the ground and just a few feet from the human's side. With a teasing glare to Nathaniel, the dragon then looked at Fang, opening his maw he then lowered the wolf closer to his mouth. “No, no, no, no, please I beg you to make up your mind! Please a least let us see another sunrise! I just want to prepare myself!" Fang screamed as he broke into tears, the dragon simply gave a long tedious lick across the wolf's face and chest, “Puny little wolfie, I am letting you and your friends see another sunrise, you'll just see it as whatever part of me your nutrients attach too~" replied the reptile, Fang continued his begging, much to the dragon's pleasure. “P-Please, just let us go!" said Nathaniel who was beginning to swell up with tears again, Bonorturer looked at him, “Oh but that would just be so much worse for you! Your poor little friend here is so badly injured, he wouldn't even make it to the entrance with those broken legs of him. And you, oh you're just a human, no coat on, no fur, no claws, you would freeze or fall off the precipice with the slightest of winds." Turning to Fang, he continued “I will save you from your misery, and give the opportunity to be more than you could've ever hoped to be as an anthro. You will become part of me~" finished the dragon as he let go of the wolf's feet. Both human and anthro screamed at the action, and both were silenced as the great jaws closed, not hard enough to snap the wolf into two halves, but enough to keep half his body in and half out the dragon's maw.

Fang was living absolute hell, he had had his legs broken by a dragon, had just witnessed Jacob's gruesome death, and was now being toyed with by that very same dragon while being in the very same place in which Jacob had met his fate. He was beaten, he was done. Feeling the dragon's tongue across his head, neck and chest, feeling as it twisted and undulated on his fur, feeling all the thousands of taste buds across half of his body, Fang simply stopped his struggling, he didn't feel like living anymore. The dragon frowned as his prey no longer struggled inside his maw, disappointed he grabbed the wolf by its feet and, opening his jaws, let him out again. “Aww, what's wrong snack? Where's all that wild wolf desperately fighting to survive?" teasingly said Bonorturer. Fang looked at the dragon's eyes, the wolf's face and own eye orbs showing no feelings. “Oh I understand, it has finally dawned on you that your death is mere seconds away, is that it? Well, let me tell you something you dirty dog, even when feeling as empty as you are, there are still instincts, and they will force you to fight for your life, like it or not. And I will prove it to you" the dragon said with a cold tone.

Nathaniel's eyes widened as Fang was let go and fell into the maw of the beast, except this time the dragon craned his neck upwards and with two audible glrks and neck motions swallowed Fang, literally whole and alive. The human's eyes filled with terror as the anthro's skeleton appeared behind the jaw bones of the dragon, only to sharply bend downwards, steadily following a path through the dragon's neck, the wolf's form making a barely distinguishable bulge on the neck's surface. The skeleton disappeared behind the sternum, only to then be seen behind the ribs, eventually it happened, the hole skeleton greatly slowed down just after the ribcage ended, in a few seconds it was then violently thrown together with the mass of white dots that were already inside the dragon. Taking an upside down fetal position it stayed there, the wolf's bones now visibly mixed with Jacob's. The human couldn't believe it, he had just witnessed his friend's death, or that was what he thought.

Fang was beaten, he was asphyxiating, the powerful peristalsis having squeezed all the air out of his lungs, only so that seconds later his head was painfully squished, followed by the rest of his body. Once he head became free, he was met with a horrifying stench of acid togaed a lack of oxygen so great his eyes bulged and reddened. He then flopped and sank into a liquid and a mass of little hard and soft pieces of something, Jacob he thought, he was swimming in Jacob. Fang stayed still, he's situation was unthinkable, he was inside a stomach, alive, in a vile of what used to be a human while also being on the verge of drowning in that same vile. Instincts unconsciously kicking in, Fang turned and sat so that his head was above the pool of acids, taking a deep breath, his lungs burned and his skin now felt like it was being ripped apart by millions of ants. Gurgles, stomach groans and bubbling was all he could hear. Fang let out the loudest scream of terror he would ever give, his chest burned for air, having almost none he began to violently spasm and struggle, looking for any way out of the hellish chamber he was in.

Nathaniel was shocked, Fang was still alive, and he was struggling inside the dragon, he was being digested alive. “Fang!" he yelled in tears, getting on his hands he pushed himself closer to the dragon, not getting far since his feet were still coiled by its tail. “No, no, no, no, Fang!" he yelled again, he was scared beyond belief, trying to push himself forwards to his dying friend's figure, he could go nowhere, the tail being too stiff and strong for him. As Nathaniel tried to push himself towards the dragon's belly, he suddenly fell flat on his face, turning his head, he saw that his feet were free. Standing up he ran towards the monstrous belly and, putting both his hands on it with his arm's stretched, began to call out for his colleague. “Fang!" he cried out, just beneath his hands, the anthro's skeleton was punching and screaming, judging by how his jaws opened and closed.

Fang could no longer sustain himself, he was feeling numb, his body burned, his chest ached and he couldn't feel his legs anymore. Feeling Jacob's remains brushing and picking against him, Fang suddenly pictured himself in the woods as a kid, running about with his brothers and sisters. Every melting piece of meat that flecked him became a leaf of a bush or tree skimming his fur, every pointy bone became a stick or branch scraping him. He was running, free, playing tag with his siblings, one of his brothers pushed him too hard when tagging him, making him fall to his side. Fang was then suddenly embraced by a sheet of leaves and then landed on a pile of painfully pointy sticks, but it didn't matter, turning his head, he took a deep breath, ready to stand up and run after one of his siblings. As the air entered his nose, it clogged in it, afterwards it did the same in his lungs, as Fang stood up on the forest floor, a bright light encased him, freezing him on the ground, then, silence.

Nathaniel saw as Fang's skeleton fell to its side, then it spasmed, no more movement came from the wolf's figure afterwards. The human stopped his yelling, there was no use with it now, he would be screaming to a corpse beneath a layer of scales, fat and flesh if he continued. Uuurrrp, a loud belch escaped the dragon's mouth, who then clicked his tongue a couple of times before exclaiming: mmmmm “What a nice struggle did he put in the end, huh? Ha! I told him that instincts would take the best of him" the dragon then finished with a sigh.

Nathaniel began crying, lamenting both of his friends' deaths, he was so immersed within his feelings that he didn't felt the dragon's claws grabbing him from his back, until he was lifted off the ground by them.

Bonorturer lifted the little human atop of him, watching him crying, the dragon then turned his body so he could lay on his back, and then settled the human down on his belly scutes. Flattening his claws on his stomach, he pushed the human against it, getting no resistance from him, he decided to talk. “Well, looks like it's just you and me now" said Bonorturer as he looked down on Nathaniel. “Just do it" whispered the human, “Please, just finish me" he continued, broken and defeated. “Aww, don't tell me you haven't enjoyed the show~" the dragon replied, “Because if you have not I'd be really disappointed, it wouldn't have been fair for me to benefit from it while you just wept and cried, and I want to be fair, human." The human sobbed before saying: “How?", to which the dragon gave him a questioning look, “How can a-anything, anything be fair with you? You are huge, and-and you're stronger than we all three could've ever hoped to be and yet you-you treated us like shit! You used us! Played and toyed with us! And-and you killed them!—Nathaniel was yelling now—You killed my best friends, in what was supposed to be the journey of our year! In what was—!" Nathaniel silenced himself after felling a sharp claw sinking on his back, right on his spine. “Oh, but they are having the journey of their year, listen up closely~—Bonorturer said as he pressed the human harder onto his belly scales—listen to them and watch as they travel through me~"

Nathaniel was pressed tightly between the claws and stomach, then, to his horror he heard it, or them, the gurgles. Groans and gurgles emanating from the very same place in which the anthro skeleton and the surrounding white dots and lines were. Grooan, guurrrgl, gurgl, groaaan, gurgl. They sounded so loud, even though the dragon was completely still, the bones still moved around beneath the human, as a result of the active mechanical digestion aiming on turning his friends to nothing more than a nutritious soup soon to be absorbed by the scaly beast. _ _

A long day spent with hours of walking, angling, walking again, making a fire, cooking being hunted and burned alive was starting to weight down on Nathaniel's shoulders, the effects of today's events were taking its toll on him. Soon the human began feeling tired and empty, listening to his friends actively digesting below him, he fall asleep without even noticing. The dragon eased his claws on the human, it wasn't like a puny man could lift any of his giant limbs; Bonorturer stayed there looking at the human, soon he sensed that it had fallen asleep, its breaths slow and no longer crying. The dragon could now hear his own stomach working on his meals, however, he could still feel an empty space within it, craving him for the last reaming meal in his cave: Nathaniel. Nonetheless, Bonorturer waited for it to fall deeply sleep, even tough fear did spiced up the meat of his meals, eating them while they were asleep is more amusing, specially when they try wake up only to already find themselves in his gullet.

For what were maybe hours, Bonorturer watched the sleeping human, watching him going up and down his belly with his every breath. The wolf's skeleton broke down, the cartilage having been digested, some of the white lumps in his stomach had also disappeared or moved on, some now located deeper in his underbelly following the zigzag motions of his intestines. After all this time however, the dragon eventually could no longer resist the temptation of filling his stomach up with the last remaining snack. Lifting his neck and pointing it forwards he then straightened his head, opening his jaws he prepared, the show was about to end for the spectators, trapping him with his right claws, he grabbed the human, awakening him, the dragon then quickly flinging him into his maw.

Nathaniel was soundly sleeping when he suddenly felt painfully pressed from his sides, he then felt as if he was off the ground, before he could even get the blurriness out of his vision, he felt himself flying, only to meet a wet surface almost immediately afterwards.

Bonorturer felt the human land in his mouth, closing his jaws he quickly pushed the human to the back of his maw and, pointing his head upwards, gave one big strong gulp. Glrk! A human skeleton soon slid down his neck, behind the sternum, and then it soon came to an absolute stop.

After feeling the wet surface Nathaniel suddenly felt himself sliding back, head first, only to stop on a fleshy wall, wall that soon gave away as he was suddenly surrounded by tight wet flesh. Feeling some kind of contractions across his entire body, he couldn't breath, the only thing entering his nose being a sticky liquid. After some seconds, he suddenly felt his head being squeezed to the point in which he thought his skull would be crushed, however once his head was free the rest of his body had to go through the same. But the human had no time to do anything other than almost choke, since as soon as he passed the stomach's entrance he entered into a sack filled almost fully with digestive juices. As his full body entered the stomach, Nathaniel felt himself falling on something hard, twisting his arms around, his hand suddenly touched that same object he was on top of. As his fingers entered through a hole of sort within the object he pushed it out the way, now without any noticeable lumps beneath him he began to spin within the acids as he tried to find the surface. Once he did, he immediately sat up and took a deep breath, the action only rewarding him with acidic air with almost no oxygen entering him. He still had his hand on the hard object he had previously moved, with his second hand he tried to figure out what it was. It was soft, it had two holes and on a long elongated part in which there were sharp pointy bits. Fangs, Fang's fangs, that meant: Fang's skull. Nathaniel let out an unholy scream, letting go of the bone piece he tried to move away from it only to bump into another one, this time it felt like multiple sticks in a row, a ribcage. Another scream wailed out his mouth, he then noticed it the liquid, it was mushy, Nathaniel was literally swimming within a paste of bones and digested flesh that used to be his friends, and he would end up the same.

Bonorturer watched in pleasure as the little human explored the contents of its new home. Licking his chops, he laid down on his belly again, sloshing the human in his stomach around, laying down, he closed his eyes. Uuuuuaaarrp he let out a juicy belch, still lingering with the human's scent and taste, he took one last lick across on his lips before sleeping off the most delicious meals he had had in the past weeks.

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Daylight entered the cave, it must have been already noon by the time Bonorturer woke up. With a wide yawn the dragon opened his eyes, laying down for a few minutes before finally standing up, he walked to the cave's entrance to then stretch his body and wings. Looking off at the beautiful tall mountains that surrounded his home he stayed there, admiring their beauty as clouds scrapped at their very tips. A loud growl took him out of his trance, the growl so strong he even felt his tummy vibrating because of it, he looked down to his belly, it was empty, no trace of white left in it. Bonorturer knew very well that his stomach was capable of digesting even certain iron works, of course that human and anthro bones were no match to him. Proud of his stomach he then noticed a mild pressure at his bottom, looking further down his body he saw that some traces of white actually did manage to survive his hungry belly, however they were minimal and very small, almost unnoticeable. Looking at how the small traces of bone were all confined together just before his tail began he knew one thing: all of the three friends had reunited, maybe not in the way they wanted, but they still did.

Allowing his magical ability to stop working, his skeletal display died down until only his normal green and almost dark patterns of scales was all that could bee seen. Turning his head forwards, Bonorturer opened his wings, flexed his legs and with a jump left the cliffside of his home. Flying off he went looking for a place to discharge of his dinner and for a nice and juicy herd of deer to fill his belly with.