I'm trying to get better at writing.

Honestly, I really want people to ask about my characters and the lore because I have so many ideas and so much I have written down on my note pad.

My brain is usually empty so I'd be more than happy to do a request. All asks I make are completely free. If it is a vore story you're asking for, I'll only do-

Safe

Soft

G/t,

Halfsize,

Or Same size

(Maybe Fearplay)

I won't write-

Anything sexual

Hard Vore

Fatal Vore

Gore

Skat

Charress began to lay back down on his tail, using a coil to support your back as he steadied himself with his hand. He pushed your legs under the covers and pulled you a bit closer. You pushed back, pulling up his shirt and quickly snuggling into his chest. The cool scale like skin slightly cooling down wherever you touched. Charress slightly laughed to himself for a moment as you pushed yourself into him.

"Heh. Even threw closed eyes you can find your way back to your favorite spot on the bed."

As he pulled his shirt back over you, he could feel you slightly chuckle before going back to quiet sobbing. He started rubbing your shoulders, helping you sink into him and helping get the tears out.

"Yn, I thought we agreed that you wouldn't stay up this late anymore."

"N-no, you suggeste-ed it and i-I ignored it." You could feel your tears flowing onto his chest, you thought it was a wonder that he didn't hate you. "I-I need to finish t-this last assign-nment."

......

....

"Do you like watching me be hurt?"

"W-what?!" You couldn't believe it. What kind a question was that. Of course you didn't. You moved your head to the collar of his shirt getting ready to say something else.

He stopped rubbing your shoulders, moving a hand down to hold yours and another to hold your face, wiping a tear away from your eye. "Waching you kill yourself over every single course every night, it... it hurts to watch you ignore every bit of help you need. So I'm done asking. I need you to stay in this bed for the rest of the night, and no more thinking about college."

You could see the look on his face, it was one of the few times you've seen him this serious. You moved your hand up to his, pressing it a bit firmer into your cheek. You did your best to stop any sounds of crying and looked back into his pinkish eyes. "I know your just looking out for me and I can't stop loving you for it, but I have to finish this. I'll be done soon." As you finished, you pulled his hand away from your cheek and crawled out of his shirt. As you started stepping over a coil, you looked back, seeing sadness in his serious eyes, but needing to ignore it. You step over another coil, but feel a slight tug on your arm. You look back and see your hands still connected. You try to pull away, but he won't let go of you, gently rubbing your hand with his thumb.

"Charress, you can't force me to stay in bed with you. I still have work I need to do." You began tugging on his arm more harshly, trying to get his fingers to lose their grip.

"No, I dont want to force you to stay in bed YN, I'd rather that be your decision."

"OK! I made up my mind, now let go!" You had grabbed your arm with the other, pulling with everything you had to make him let go of you.

"(Inhale)(Exhale) No." He pulled you closer, a coil tripped you as you fell on top of him. He put an arm around your back to hold you close to him, letting go of your hand and hugging you into him. A coil fell on top of your thrashing legs as you tried everything to despretly get away without screaming in the clostrophobic fear you felt. He had never done anything like this before, and you started to fear what he'd do next.

"You can't keep me here! This isn't right! Let me go! I'll struggle out eventually!"

"Your probably right." You slowed your thrashing when you heard this. Your breathing was alread heavy and you could feel his was too. "I probably won't be able to keep you close to me, so I just need to keep you in me." Your eyes went wide as you heard that.

"Yo,-you can't mean that... right? Charres?" You could start to feel your heart beat out of your body as adrenaline started flowing. You could feel the end of his tail begin to coil around your ankles. "NO! Charress, please, I'm sorry, ok! I promise I'll stay in bed!" You had heard rumors that nagas were controlling, demanding, but extremely loyal and protective.

"Last time you promised that, you got up an hour after I went to sleep and started working again." You had also heard rumors that nagas in inter species relationships would sometimes eat their partner.

You could feel his coils wraping you two together. His stomach to yours, your chest to his. "Ok, I'm sorry, I promise I'll stay here just stop. Please! Charress!" You could still feel his hands massaging into your back like he was trying to calm you down after threatening to eat you. Maybe that's just it, he threatened to eat you because he cares about you, he loves you to much to eat you.

"I believe you," your eyes lit up as he said that, your head fell to his neck as you started crying again, and a tear fell down his shoulder. "But I love you to much to take the chance of you killing yourself anymore... So I promise you'll be safe. I'll let you out after you get some rest."

Dread. As you started to look up, you saw his mouth coming right at you. With a sickening squelch and pop your face entered his. You could barely focus on the thin tounge licking your face up and down. His throat looked bottomless right in front of you. The noises sounded, strangely comforting to some back part of your mind. The continues licking and stickiness of saliva fill you with fear, but also started to make you tired. You could barely focus on anything, let alone him licking your tears away. His fangs were stuck into the top of his mouth like they're ready to stab you at any moment. You mind started racing and just as soon, you heard a sound of death.

You heard a gulp as your face was pulled into his throat. The paralyzing fear flooded out of you as you started thrashing and moving as much as you could, harder than you ever had to before. You bent yourself in weird ways just to stop this. You knew the dangers and still went on that date, is this the price you get for wanting to feel love? You could feel another gulp, as you were pulled down further into the warm throat. You could feel tears and saliva mixing on your skin as you were dragged and pushed further into them. "O-Ok! OK! I'm s-Sorry! P-pl-pl-PLEASE! I'll Do what you want! I-I'll quit college if you want me to, J-Just LET ME OUT! P-please... I can't take anymore of this!"

....

Everything had stopped. You could start to feel his teeth dig into your skin threw his lips. You could feel a small bead of water drip onto your back. You thought that was it, he'd let you go now.... doom sounded again.

You tried to make a sound, but only a squeak came out as you were pulled further into his throat. The gulps came harder and faster, your head being forced into his chest and the once comforting heartbeat now sounding your end. You couldn't make a sound, your chest pressed into his ribs, barely allowing you to breath. Another and another gulp boomed around you as his throat quickly pushed into every part of you. You could feel your head touching something hard, like a ring stopping you from going any further. He swallowed again, forcing your neck to crunch into itself. It finally gave way and your head slid into his stomach. You could feel each muscle squish into you, examining you, tasting you. You could finally take a deep breath of the wet air, barely feeling your chest move his body. Your hands finally entered the mouth and you started to feel around. His gums, the hard teeth, his toung cutely wrapping around your fingers... No, it wasn't cute anymore. Then on the roof of his mouth you could feel his fangs. You tried to pry one out, but as he swallowed again, you could feel your finger get pricked just before your hand followed you down. You started to give up, you were basically in his stomach, you had no more energy and you now had venom in your system. He kept swallowing, forcing more of you into him.

You could feel him start to move. A spark of hope appeared, before getting crushed yet again. You were moved down as he began moving you around. Your feet hit the bed and he moved down, getting your lower half in one gulp. You tired to keep your legs straight, but the sudden motion kept them moving and your struggling body to curl up even more. Your feet plopped in uncerimonusly, adding to the scrunched up pile. Tears continued to run down your face and your mouth was wide open, taking in as much oxygen as you could.... All you could think, was that this is how I died.

.....

A cold wind hit the back of your neck as the stomach you were in started to expand. You heard more gulping. "Fresh" air finally entered your lungs. He was keeping you alive, or, just prolonging your punishment for disobeying him. Tears would have come harder if you had any left to shed.

You shook as he started talking, you could feel his lungs close to you pushing and contracting threw the slimy wall. "I'm sorry if I scared you, but its easier to explain-" you didn't let him finish, violently pushing out in every direction and punching where you could feel his lungs.

"No shit you scared me! LET ME OUT! I can't- I" you started gasping for air, your legs and arms almost immediately giving out after just a few seconds. You leaned back, trying your best to steady yourself as his arms and hands pushed into you. You slipped slightly and the side of your face collided with the back of his stomach, his breath was strained slightly and you could hear his heartbeat faster than usual. You gave a slight push outwards with your foot, you could tell you weren't getting out of here. Might as well make the best out of this situation. You started settling your breathing and listened to his body like you did most nights, just... louder. "You said you hated seeing me kill myself, did you just want to take the glory instead?

"What, of course not." His voice came in an echoey feeling. It was hard to pinpoint but just louder than the bubbly noises and pops of his stomach. "I just want you to sleep and feel better. I wouldn't do anything to hurt you."

"Well the sting of betrayal hurts a lot more than working."

"...oh, I should have figured. I just thought it would be easier to explain if you were already inside."

"Oh, explain that I'm safe. I know that's exactly what monsters do to convince people their ok and to not fight back. I've watched the news I know how it works." Your breathing were both going back to normal.

......."I'm sorry. It was rash, but it was hard to think of anything else. But I would never 'eat' eat you. I'll let you out after you've had enough sleep."

..."I still don't really believe you, but you might as well digest me. I have your venom running threw my systems" you pushed your leg back out where you felt his hand. Bringing it back after the strain of a few seconds.

"What? You already know what it does, I would have pulled you out the second I thought that too much had entered your system."

"What?" You stifled a yawn as you could feel his venom running up the veins in your arm. "No... no it...?"

"...It makes you-"

"Tired." As you cut him off, you started to remember the two pronged scar on your neck.

"You wanted me to use it on you once. You had human insomnia, and asked for anything to help you sleep. You'll be fine, when you wake up you'll just be a bit bleary and out of it."

You could feel the odd toxin in your neck, directly entering your bone. "Charress!" Your eyes drifted closed without the energy to keep them open, and you could feel his hand matching yours from the outside. You could feel the venom enter the back of your neck, crawling its way into the back of your skull. With the last pang of fear your body could force out. "I... I don't want to die."

His other hand layed across the back of your head. "You're safer than you ever have been."

You felt like you had shattered. You couldn't tell if you were cold or warm, looking at yourself threw someones eyes or looking threw your own. You couldn't describe anything, even where you were, it was.... it wasn't even nothing. It was the lack of anything. Not black not white, just nothing. You turned, looking around you could still somehow recognize you were in a room, but nothing was there that could indicate that. You could tell your body was still there. You had no indication or anything to go off of, but you could still feel... something. You moved your eyes slightly to read something. You were reading, and you felt, more real somehow. You were dragged out of whatever trance it was as you felt something slightly cool hit the top of your head as the nothingness began to grow black.

You could feel something very cold touching your arm. Without thinking you grabbed it, feeling the plastic crunch of a water bottle. You quickly opened it and began downing it as fast as you could. The coolness spreading threwout your body made you realize just how warm you were. You didn't realize the ringing until you started to hear the faint gulps above you and pops and gurgles around you. Another small object hit the top of your head, followed by another, softer one. A voice buzzed above you, just above the ringing in your ears.

"Well weren't you thirsty... have a good rest?"

You still couldn't get a train of thought going properly, reaching around to find the small object. Something clicked under you and your eyelids burned keeping out a majority of the light. You did your best to crack your eyes open, seeing the red pulsing walls all around you. There was maybe an inch and a half of space between you and the wall. You looked down, seeing your knees slightly bent as a you could see the slithering muscles bulge right under your knees for a few seconds. You let your head fall as your breathing started to come in painfully. You reached out, pushing a hand into the red surface and watching it stretch as far as you could push it. You did your best to sit up, giving you a bit more room to move. The light began to gleam in weird ways as two objects were caught behind your back. You reached out, grabbing both with either hand. There was a flashlight and a plastic bag filled with a few sandwiches and paper towels. "YN... are you ok?" You did your best to look up to the echoing voice, unsure how to respond. You looked down at yourself, feeling fine. You slightly pulled up your shirt, seeing no bruises, burns, or blood of any kind.

"Uhmm... ya. I'm all right. Could-... could I get some more water?"

He did his best to chuckle at the request. "Of course. Anything."

You tried to smile back, unsure of how to feel at your current predicament. You slightly scrunched your knees to your chest, giving you a bit more room to move around. You opend the plastic bag, grabbing the paper towels and wiping your hands and your face off. Your eyes were starting to get used to the light as you grabbed the sandwich, taking a bite and tasting peanut butter and jelly. It was weird, knowing you were eating something while being in a stomach. You heard more gulps as another water bottle gently fell onto your shoulder, quickly falling down to your side. You finished off the rest of the sandwich as you put the trash back into the bag, still unsure of how to feel about this.

"Did you sleep well?" You could feel Charress pressing into the sides of your shoulders.

You cracked open the water bottle and took a sip. "Umm, I think. I had the weirdest dream though."

"Well, I hope it wasn't too unpleasant in there, cause you slept for 14 hours."

You slightly choked on your water as you heard him say that. "What? What time is it."

"Basically 6pm. I checked, and you didn't have anywhere to be today, so I let you sleep for a while. But... do you want to come out?"

You pressed your palm into the soft wall. It felt really nice, and hearing the little hums of pleasure he made around you felt good too, but the small pit in your stomach was turning uncomfortably and you felt you needed to leave. "Umm, could you start a bath for both of us?"

"Mmmm, oh, uh, ya. We probably shouldn't leave that gunk on you for too long."

You started to feel movement around you. Looking forward, you could see the dark void in front of you turning and bending as the soft sound of scales on hardwood vibrated beneath you. Laying back out, you felt the turns moving your body in tandem. You'd laid down on his scales as he moved before, but being inside was a much... weirder experience to be sure. Some part of you rather liked it, feeling each muscle feeling at you, massaging you, knowing it's you. But you opend your eyes, seeing the the red pulsing stomach around you, lines you couldn't identify, and weard dents that formed and smoothed out rithmicly. It my your own stomach tossed looking at it, quickly moving to turn off the light. But a part of you looked into the void in front of you and wanted to fill it. You turned off the light and placed a hand on the wall, feeling him humm above you as you started rubbing the muscles surrounding you.

With every sound slightly echoing around you, you could hear the slight difference as he entered another room. The movement came to a stop as the small ammount of liquid moved you forward slightly. You could hear Charress fumbling with something outside, then hearing the wood rolling draw of a drawer. You could almost imagine him taking you around the house on his scales, like this was normal. You drew your hands back resting them on your chest, the slight disappointed whine you heard almost every night slightly shook above you. It didn't take him long before you heard the creak of the bathroom door, and his scales sliding smoothly over the tile floor. You could hear the rushing water start behind you for a while and his tail splash in. You started feeling warmer for a bit before you were pulled upwards, feeling his stomach cradling you like a hammock as you reached out on either side grabbing a handful of muscle, and you could feel him murr above you.

You made yourself let go, pulling you hands up to your face as your breathing came in harder and faster. The tight muscles squeezed you upwards as a pop sounded around your ears. Two hands caught your back as you were slowly allowed to move downwards by them. You moved your hands away seeing Charress helping the rest of your knees and legs out of his mouth as he set you down into the warm water. You could only think about how demeaning it felt to be vomit as your back and head were lowered down. Finally your feet splashed into the water, and with all of you out, you felt so... exposed. The air was cold, everything was too bright, and the water didn't feel smooth enough. You were glad to be out, but something made you feel unsafe. "Y/N, are you ok?"

You propped yourself up, feeling the pattern indentation of his scales under your hand, your eyes drifting down. You were in there. Your mind was spinning, feeling.... diffrent, every second. "Ya. I'm- I think I'm ok. Thanks." You turned around in the water, leaning back into him as he wrapped his arms around you and pulled you closer. His hands went up your back and started pushing on your shoulders, massaging out all the knots from your sleep. His tail moved slowly under the water, creating a small nest around you as you sat..... "So... what did it feel like for you? Was- did it feel... good?" You cringed at your own words. You knew the type of awnser you wanted to hear, and you couldn't understand why you wanted to hear it.

"I felt protective, but it only felt good after you woke up and realized you were ok. I'm- I am sorry again... for scaring you."

"I... might have."

Felix walked into the doorway, the four corners of the rectangle poking out of his stomach was more than noticeable.

"Felix, why did you eat my screen."

"What makes you say that?"

"The big rectangle sticking out of your stomach!"

"This could be anything!"

"..."

"..."

"(Sigh)Are you ok?"

"Its a little pointy, but I'm fine."

He was in fact, not fine.

"So, do you need help getting in to get it out?"

"Hmmm, na. I'll get it later. Or you could put it in the corner over there. You... can get it out right?"

"Well ya, but I thought you needed to finish the office?"

"I can finish this anytime, theres still work to do elsewhere."

"Ya but, shouldn't you get it out sooner than latter?"

"Eh, it doesn't matter too much. You said you could get it out on your own, so if it starts to hurt, just get rid of it."

"Wait! Please get it out."

"But I thought you said you could get it out on your own?"

"Ok, I'm sorry I lied. Its stuck and it hurts so please get it out."

"And?"

"And this was a bad idea and i shouldn't take your stuff. Please! It's going to shatter! "

Olivia couldn't help but laugh at him.

"Ok, kneel down."

Olivia was able to quickly grab onto the monitor and drag it out. There was a thud underneath both of them, but it took Olivia a few seconds to move the monitor out of the way to look, but saw nothing. It didnt take long to get the smooth monitor out of Felix's throat.

"Ok, no more lies today. I don't want to hear anything that isn't true."

"Alright."

Olivia began to set up the monitor while Felix walked downstairs. He opend up his hand to examine the phone Olivia droped. He quickly unlocked it and hit the call button. There was a small yellow book on the kitchen table that Olivia hadn't looked at yet.

"Ok, I'm trusting you not to tell them."

Felix watched as Olivia walked down the stairs, glaring at him as she walked down. Felix couldn't keep a straight face as he watched the top of her head fade from view.

"Hello,- hi again. I'm- ya, sooo, Felix wont be able to join us today so this-"

"Why, he sounded fine. Do you not want him here?"

"Ya, and how big is he to make that loud of footsteps."

"I- uhhh, Felix did make some snacks so I'll grab them."

Olivia quickly walked into the kitchen, and grabbed a few the platters off the table. She did see these before but she thought they would be used in some sort of cuddle prank, but this! She was going to scream at him when she finally got them out of the... was that a Felix's voice in the living room?!!

Olivia stumbled into the livingroom, trying not to drop any of the plates she was carrying. She looked over to the couch, seeing one of the guests gawking over how soft Felix's hand is. Olivia nearly fainted when she saw Felix with other people.

"O, M, G!"

"Ok, this isn't what it looks like, he-"

"This suit is awesome!"

"It's not a suit."

"... What!"

Olivia nearly dropped the front most platter she was carrying. All of them were moving over to, Felix on his couch.

"So where's the zipper?"

"Ya, how do you get into this?"

"I'm not a suit."

"Well of course not you, this suit. How do you get into it?"

"This isn't a suit, this is me."

"Oh, so your a method actor. What do you do or (gasp) what movie are you in?

"I'm not-"

"Felix, maybe you shouldn't be as... open, right now."

"What does she mean open? The only opening you have is your mouth. And how do you keep the hydraulics so quiet? I can't even hear them."

"Its fine, they've accepted me for who I am."

"No, Felix, they've accepted a suit. I know it's going to take a while, but maybe you could get out of it quick enough to say farewell."

"But, I cant get out of my own skin, well, fur."

"He's really good."

"I know right!"

"Can everyone please stop!"

"Oh, you. What movie does he play in?"

"No, he's not a method actor-"

"Ok, so this is some sort of role play thing. I like it."

"It's not role play, this is just who I am."

This was infuriating. How had they not noticed yet, or at least caught on to what either of them were saying. Olivia set the snacks on the table and looked back just in time to see one of the guests with their head and one of their arms in Felix's mouth.

"Felix! Spit them out!"

"Mmph."

"So where are you in this thing, do you really enter threw the mouth? It's a little odd, but not entirely unexpected."

Felix had to drag her out of his mouth, she did keep looking for who she thought was Felix. He looked over to Olivia and started to regret what he did.

Olivia was freaking out, nearly on the verge of tears. If Felix was found out again they would have to move again. This had happend before and Olivia had to find something to get rid of their memories quick, but she hadn't even set up her lab yet.

Her eyes were starting to get wobbly and the ground was starting to spin. She looked over to see Felix trying to move a few people off him. Seeing Felix with other people made this all the more real. She couldn't loose Felix. She knelt down as she let out a quiet sob. This was the worst time to sleep, but she really needed it.

Time skip: about one hour

Olivia woke up, swaddled in a roll of blankets and pillows. Her eyes fluttered open to see the familiar grey tendrils tearing away at the half digested cocoon she was in.

She tried stirring to get Felix's attention, but a heavy weight kept her down. She tried pushing back at it, but was startled to feel it move.

"Oh, she's awake. Olivia, are you ok in there?"

Where they still here?!

"Felix, what's going on?"

"I just told them everything and they believe me."

Olivia pressed her head into the tendrils rubbing her face. She made a mistake asking him not to lie for the rest of the day. She couldn't loose Felix, especially just after they moved in.

It didnt take long for the walls to press in on her, signaling that she was about to be pulled up.

She could see just between the cracks of his teeth. Fear radiated threw her body as she saw movement from other people. The small cocoon was pulled of her body by the velcro in Felix's throat. She couldn't loose Felix, if any one of them decided to talk about Felix, he might be taken away.

She was quickly pulled out of Felix's mouth to a barrage a questions. She couldn't focus on anyone in particular, except for Felix.

"What's it like in there?"

"Why did he eat you?"

"They said they wouldn't tell anyone about this. It's ok."

"Where did your blankets go?"

"But, what if you're taken away again?"

"Why did he wrap you in blankets?"

"Then I can trust you'll save me again. But I feel safe here and maybe, we can be ourselves. If not, I promise I'll never do anything like this again."

"Does it feel weird being swallowed?"

"Can everyone leave for a while, I need to talk to Felix, alone."

"Of course, hopefully we can talk again soon."

She watched everyone walk out the front door, looking up to felix as the last person left. She felt a tear run down her neck as she moved her head. She went to feel, realizing she was fully crying. She tried wiping a tear away when a fluffy finger started to massage her cheeks, warping away any tears in the process.

"It's going to be ok. This isn't the end of the world, your dad isn't here."

"You don't know that, you set off a time bomb and sooner or later, people are going to find out about you or start looking, and unlike you, I don't know if I can trust their promises."

"Hey, I feel like this is going to be fine. We can be ourselves here. When have my instincts ever been wrong."

"Two years ago when you said my friendship with Emma wouldn't be good."

"I still feel like it won't end well, but anytime before that."

She thought back, and every time Felix predicted something, it was true.

"...

Fine, but we cant show everyone."

"I'm ok with that."

"Good, but I'm still locking you in the attic."

"Aren't you forgetting something? You haven't even done one prank today."

"Oh, (sigh) what's your favor."

"I want to go on a walk with you."

"Really? Ok, we can clear out the kitchen and the-"

"No, tomarow I want to go on a walk with you, outside, like everyone else did back home."

"Heyyy, could you help get the tape down, and maybe the tape cutter off. And maybe you could do some science stuff so it won't tear any fluff off?"

"You're stalling, aren't you?"

"... no."

"We have to pack, but if you want to stay one more night you can just ask."

Felix looked down to the boxes in his hands, he knew he hadn't made a mistake, but maybe he was a bit to hasty. "Could we stay one more night?"

"Yes! Thank you for asking, I hate driving in the dark. I also forgot to buy tickets, so there's that too."

Felix couldn't help but laugh, he knew what she was doing but he'd play into it. "Alright, 'your welcome' for not having to ask."

Olivia started walking over, Felix quickly set the boxes onto counter and knelt down. Olivia tried to hug him as best as possible, Felix picked her up and set her in his lap. "Thanks for everything Fee."

"Ohhh, pet names. I thought we only used those during cuddles and sleepy times. Is it that time already?" Felix moved his jaws over her head, lightly pressing down and combing her hair back with his tounge.

It was so warm inside his mouth, warmer than usual. "No, Felix not... not... w-were... mmm... no, NO!" Olivia pried open Felix's jaws, the sad rumble in his chest almost made her feel bad. "We need to finish packing, we can stay for tonight so when we're done packing you can have all the grooming and cuddle time... you (sigh)"

Olivia opened Felix's lips and saw a small, fabric handle caught between two of his teeth. She pulled out the long, pink, bean bag she liked to use while felix made dinner. "Were you sucking on my bed buddy? The beads are bad for your stomach, you shouldn't get jealous of something beacuse it has a brand name on it." She reached up to his head, tearing the box taper off his fluff.

"Oww. I wasn't going to eat it, I was keeping my mouth warm."

"... Why?"

"You're so stressed, and I can feel how tense your muscles are." Felix took the bag back. Sliding it under his tounge and hooking it back onto his teeth. "Just give me a few minutes, if were staying the night then we can pack until we sleep and wake up when we want."

"... only five minutes, and I'm setting a timer."

"Allright, I promise you won't regret this."

Felix waited for Olivia to set the timer, waisting no time from the second she hit the button to start it. He turned her to her side and bit over her neck, rubbing her shoulders with his teeth. He pushed into her chest to keep her still while he used his other hand to rub her back. He rested her head between the bean bag and the heated part of his tounge to keep it as comfortable as possible.

Five minutes came and went as she smacked at her phone to stop the beeping. Felix could barely understand the mumbled grunts of an order Olivia made but she would eventually move his hands or his teeth where she wanted a massage.

Olivia eventually stopped Felix soon after the heat of the bag ran out. Felix turned her around and rested his chin on her head. Holding her stomach and moving her closer to him. She picked up her phone and checked the time. It was 30 minutes past when her timer went off.

"Felix!"

"What? You were comfy, I was comfy, you kept asking me to rub you and we only have three rooms left to finish."

Olivia rubbed her neck to try and straighten out her muscles. "You go get to bedrooms, I'll take down the tape and finish the bathroom. But, thanks for doing that."

"Of course."

Olivia finished throwing the tape away and cleaning the bathroom. She took the boxes to the moving truck as felix brought them to the hallway. They left the furniture and the big TVs for the person they would rent it out to. It didnt take as much time as Olivia had originally thought it would take.

There weren't any sheets left on the beds. Either in boxes or in Felix's stomach. There was a pile of blankets and pillows on the ground that Felix was snacking on. He was determined to eat every piece of fabric that couldn't fit in the truck.

Olivia was laying on Felix's stomach, her entire body was sunken into it. She could barely hear the movie they were watching. Well, Olivia was trying to watch, but Felix was purring too loud for either of them to watch.

"Hey, Felix, sorry for yelling at you earlier."

"Mmm, sorry for not listening to you. Is it time for bed now?" Felix grabbed another pillow and shoved it into his mouth.

"Ya, but I'm only wearing my thermals."

"Wha!" Felix had to swallow the pillow still halfway out of his mouth. "You never let me do that. I thought you didn't like the feeling of going down with only your thermals."

"Ya, I made them beacuse I hate coming out naked even more, but I put the clothes in the back of the van and I don't want to stand outside for an hour in the morning just to get a jacket and sweat pants."

Olivia took off her top clothes, leaving her a flannel version of her blue and red pj's. She folded her clothes and put them under the bed. "Do not eat them or I'm vacuum sealing you and leaving you in the car." She opend Felix's jaws and shoved her head inside, resting her neck on his cheek. "Now eat me, I need to rest before we start driving across the country."

Felix started licking at Olivia's face. She quickly started to try and crawl down Felix's throat. Olivia was already moving her arms and torso down his throat. Felix felt like he didn't have much of a choice, didn't really matter, she was going to the same place anyway.

Olivia slid into Felix's stomach. As always, everything was so soft, there was an open pillow with some soft fluff flowing out. Olivia nuzzled her face into Felix's stomach,hearing and feeling a hitch in his purring. "Night Fee."

"Wow, I'm usually the first to pass out. Well, goodnight almost purple." He could hear Olivia let out a light chuckle from inside.

"I don't want to leave, but this is exactly what I've wanted for a few years now." She had built her whole life here and now she had to choose which way she went in her new one. It started to hurt her as much as the first time she had to leave somebody she had grown to call family.

"Well your not leaving for the rest of your life right? Once you're done with collage, I'll be the first to welcome you home." Emma knew Olivia was scared, she was too, but she couldn't let her friend feel any worse.

"I also don't want to quit your company." They had made their program when they worked out of Emma's garage. Eventually they just kept branching out into new businesses and it kept working.

"Who said anything about quitting? You helped me build this company so your just as much a part of it as I am." She held onto Olivia's shoulder to reassure her. Olivia smiled and took the last sip of her drink. "We have business over there too and I'll make sure you can get a good paying job that won't hinder your college education, ok?"

Olivia looked back down at her drink, she didn't want to have everything made for her but, she also knew how persistent Emma could be. "That'll be great, thanks, Emma." She just smiled back at Olivia. "Well, sorry this was short but, it was good catching up one last time. Felix and I should get the last of the boxes packed."

"Maybe when you get back, you, Felix, Gaudi, and I could go on a double date?" Emma had never met Felix in person but she had heard him when she was talking with Olivia.

"Ya, maybe." Olivia knew Emma or Gaudi could never meet Felix, they wouldn't understand, but it is nice to dream about. "See you soon, Emma. You too Gaudi."

Emma gave a light wave goodbye while she fought against the frown forming over her smile. She didn't want her friend to leave, but as the carved wood and glass doors closed, it finally set in that she might not see Olivia for possibly a couple of years. Emma could feel her eyes start to sting and her muscles forced themselves into a frown. The bottem half of her vision was going blurry and she couldn't stop a choked sob that escaped her throat.

"Hey, are you ok? Is there anything I could get for you?" Gaudi couldn't help but be a bit protective of Emma. Sadness radiated off her and he wanted to fix that.

"No, maybe? I don't know. I just- I don't want to lose Olivia." she couldn't help but bury her head into her arms and let out another choked back sob.

Gaudi walked out from behind the counter carrying an almost finished drink he'd prepared. "Heyyy, this isn't going to be the last time you see her, you even said it yourself. Plus, you said you were going to hire her into one of the diffrent chains, maybe you could personally check if the store's up to code whenever you want to see her." He had sat down in the stool next to Emma and began to finish the last of the drink. "Maybe try to keep some memories fresh, like... how did you two meet?" Gaudi didnt know much, if not anything about Olivia.

Emma looked back to him and raised her body to talk in an almost professional way. "Well... we were..... I was working on........." Emma couldn't remember how they meet. The only memory of Olivia she had besides the past year or two was just a still image of her and Olivia working on a black screen. "Uhh... could we talk about this some other time?"

Gaudi's face shifted in disappointment. He had wanted to know something about Olivia but there wasn't much to know. "Of course." He had the finished drink ready and made a big show of putting it down in front of Emma.

Emma couldn't help but let out a small laugh as Gaudi took the time to pick out the perfect coaster and bow in his stool as he set the drink down before hopping slightly away. Gaudi always knew how to make her smile. "Umm... could I ask you for a weird favor?"

"Of course. What do you need me to do." Gaudi stood up and dragged his chair back to the counter before sitting back down next to Emma.

"R-right... uhh, could..... do you remember when you first showed me you were a dragon?" She knew what she wanted to ask but she couldn't find the right words.

Gaudi was a bit taken aback, leaving silence to hang in the air for a few seconds. He was a bit confused and the echo in the back of his voice confirmed it. "Of course, but I thought you said you never wanted to talk about it again." Emma could barely get over it but she eventually began to see him as a friend again, but she had said that nightmares haunted her every night.

"Well, ya. I didn't want to remember it, but you're still the same person when you're a dragon so you- I know you won't hurt me." She had to close her eyes while talking, Gaudis dragon form looked like it was just forming in the air behind him.

"Are you sure you-"

"Yes! Just do it before I change my mind."

"Alright, as long as you promise this will make you feel better."

...

"Yes, I promise."

Gaudi didn't want to scare her and have a repeat of what happend the fist time, but if this is what she wanted, he would help. He walked into the a more open part of the house. His skin began to shift as his scales repeatedly flipped over, replacing his skin bit by bit. The air around him started to dance as his wings began to appear out of nowhere. His size steadily increased as his dragon form took over.

Emma, braced herself to keep her from screaming or running away, but... nothing. She wasn't scared of Gaudi. He was still a dragon, but not like she remembered. There wasn't any curling horns or bared teeth, the small grove of spikes along his back seemed dulled down and otherwise harmless. He had soft paws rather than the huge claws she rememberd. His eyes were bigger and not focused on her than the glaring she thought she rememberd. They almost seemed sad, maybe worried. "Oh, Gaudi, are you ok?"

"I thought that's what I was supposed to ask you." He couldn't help but smile as she talked to him like normal. He didn't want Emma to think he was a monster again. He had built up so much trust over the past few months and he was scared that it would be thrown away in an instant. "Is there anything you need me to do before I change back?" It felt nice to be in his dragon form but he wanted to change back as soon as possible. The longer he was a dragon, the higher the chance he might scare Emma.

Emma stared for a while. She wanted to ask for the very thing that was giving her nightmares. She looked back down at her drink while beginning to take a sip. She stopped when she saw the runes on the lid. She set the drink back on the coaster, she didnt want to be awake for too long. The words swirled in her head as she stood up. "Uhhh... c-could you..... there.... I-I just n-need you to......" everything was telling her to stop as tears started to from in her eyes. She couldn't find the words to tell him. Her mind was yelling at her to just go to bed for a week and forget this happend! Everything was getting so loud! "I JUST NEED YOU TO EAT ME!" Her eyes went wide as tears finally started to stream down her face as she fell to her knees.

Gaudi flinched backwards as Emma yelled at him, he didn't know she could be so loud. But the question caught him more off guard. "...what?"

Emma, was balling into her hands at this point. Had she believed that he was just going to eat her the second she said that? "P-p-please, I j-just need you to... e-eat me."

Gaudi felt like he was going to cry. Had he messed up? What prompted her to want to be eaten? "W-why?"

Emma didnt want to tell him. "I-it..." She had said, time and time again that she would never tell anyone! "I j-just wanna...." She might as well tell him to get out beacuse he would never forgive her! "S-s-so warm....." Why did she insist that this was a good idea! "It w-was so......" He's just going to leave! "I WANT TO SLEEP!"

Gaudi laid down onto his stomach as a million questions flooded his brain, but there was one that stood out. "How would me... eating you, help you sleep?"

Emma didnt want to tell him. Everything was going wrong and she just wanted a hug from Gaudi. "E-everyone says face your fears, a-and being i-in there somehow h-helped me feel better."

Gaudi wanted to give Emma a hug, she looked so sad and scared it was hurting him. How long had she felt like this? Was it normal for humans to do this? One of his siblings would be better prepared for this. "I... I don't want to-"

"Gaudi please, I get three hours of sleep a night and it's always a nightmare. I don't want to be scared anymore."

Gaudi stared at her for a second, it hurt him to see her this scared of him again. He reached out one of his paws, bringing her closer and nuzzling her with the side of his head. "I don't want to hurt you." Gaudi nearly fell over when he felt Emma's arms wrap around his neck.

"I know you never will."

Gaudi wanted to melt. How did she trust him enough to ask to be eaten. "I... (sigh) Only if you promise that this will make you feel better."

...

"It will."

Gaudi reluctantly let go of Emma after a minute. She walked in front of him as he stood up. "So, what should I do."

Emma looked at him, she was still scared but Gaudi could cheer her up, he always had. "Um. Could you just... bring your head down?"

Gaudi had to close his eyes as be brought his jaws down over Emma, he didnt like knowing that he was eating his only friend. As Emma's cheek hit his tounge, he could taste the same milky chocolate he was regrettably craving. He could feel Emma shaking and he wanted to reassure her that she was ok, but he knew if he lifted his head he wouldn't be able to help Emma. He brought his head down a bit more, bringing Emma up to her waist as he continued to cover her with saliva. He lifted his head up, bringing Emma with it and giving him confirmation that she was scared. She was deffenetly fighting every urge to struggle. Gaudi was nearly on the verge of tears again, he didnt want Emma to be scared. He couldn't help but think this was the wrong decision. Emma began to slide down his throat and he couldn't help but purr at the feeling of something heavy moving towards his stomach. He gave one last swallow, sending Emma completely to his stomach. The weight settling in his middle started to make him drowsy as he felt Emma stop struggling.

"Are you ok?"Emma needed to be ok, if he let himself go threw with this and she wasn't ok he would never forgive himself.

"I'm... ya, I'm fine. Thanks." Emma wasn't able to let herself feel last time she was eaten, and it surprisingly felt wonderful. Everything was so soft and she had a bit more room than she initially thought she would.

"You seem to be a lot calmer."

"Ya, thank you, it's a lot nicer than I remember, but may I also try to sleep?"

"Sure, I (yawn) also need to take a nap."

"Hey! You're only supposed to sleep after eating from a Thanksgiving meal!" She lightly punched the top of the stomach for emphasis.

Gaudi couldn't help but purr at the feeling of something moving in his stomach. "Ya, you're right. You're not Thanksgiving dinner sized. Not human dinner sized at least.

Emma scoffed at his remark and began to flail wildly with a grin on her face. He really could make her smile at nearly any situation. "When I get out I'm going to hunt you down."

Gaudi nearly collapsed as Emma moved around. Instead of the firm punching and kicking, it was instead a weird form of rubbing. He barely caught himself on the counter. The gentle cracking from the expensive stone had him make sure to stay away from it. "Cant you already see me?"

Emma hadn't realized it but she didnt have her eyes open. It was a sight when she did open them. The slick walls shown with small streaks of a bright pink bioluminescent flesh. It was pretty amazing. "It... thanks (yawn) Gaudi."

Gaudi couldn't help but let out his own yawn. It was contagious. "Goodnight."

He picked up Olivia and set her on his lap before shoving her entire head and upper torso into his maw. She didnt mind, the trapped warmth made her want to crawl down into his stomach, but there was work to do! She valiantly raised a fist into the air, barely brushing Felix's cheek. He let out a confused hum and loosened his teeth from around her shoulders when she did.

"Sorry, just thinking to myself." She brought a hand up and gently massaged between the bridge of his nose and his eyes. She leaned her head back, Felix's tongue molding in a way to support her head while staying as soft as possible. Had Felix not insisted that he help wrap the gifts, she would have finished by now but she wanted to at least let him successfully wrap one present this year. She held her hand up and pressed in on one of Felix's cheeks. "I need to come out now, we just have this last bit to do and then we can lay down for the night."

Felix let out a sigh before slightly opening his jaws, just enough for Olivia to squeeze out. He'd prefer to say like this for a bit longer but she moved out of his grasp. Olivia walked to the island in their kitchen and began riffling threw the contents. Felix tore off another piece of tape and tried to stick it to the paper, his fluff getting in the way again. He continued to try and stick it to the paper for a moment longer out of spite. Olivia walked back in to see Felix tossing another piece of tape into the pile.

"Here, this should help." She set a screwdriver in front of him, Felix had to squint as the shiny red handle reflected light into his eye.

"What should I do with it?" He picked it up, the handle fitting between his finger and thumb.

"Well... try to use it to pick up the tape." She started laying down small strips of tape to hang off the edge.

Felix pulled up the edge of a smaller piece of tape with the screwdriver. He flattened the paper and the lowered the tape onto it then carefully stuck it to the box. The tape stuck and it wouldn't move. Felix sat there in silence tho he felt like he was going to explode with relief.

"Perfect, I'll take the boxes out to the car and you finish up with this one." She picked up a few of the boxes while she said that.

"Thank you." Felix would have said more but he had presents to wrap.

Olivia started to take the boxes out to her car. The presents were for her co-workers and Felix has perfectly gotten them what they wanted for three years now. Olivia would tell him storys about them and stuff they did at work and he began to know them. He picked out presents for them and Olivia brought them in. As Olivia walked back in, she saw felix move his arm to cover something. She didnt think much of it. She grabbed a few more boxes and walked out.

When Felix was finished wraping the final box Olivia took it out to the car with the last of the other boxes. Her car barely held all of them but she would still be able to drive to work. When she walked back into the house she saw Felix standing eerily close to the doorway. She closed the door and walked closer.

"Wha-"

"Pick a hand."

Oh, he was playing this game again. Last time they did this it was with a candy bar and the TV remote. "Ummm... Left."

She could hear the shuffling of wrapping paper behind his back before he extended his left arm. "Merry early Christmas, Olivia."

"Felix, did you che-"

"No."

...

...

Felix grappled her with his left arm before sitting down on the ground. He set her in his lap and rested his chin on her head so he could see. "Open the present."

"Alright, alright." She began to tear through the wrapping paper, throwing it into the trash under the hallway table. "Ohhh... a magic eight ball."

"Ya, your still doing experiments sometimes, and I remembered you were last studying magic in this universe."

She couldn't be disappointed with this. His stuffed heart was in the right place, but she had two of these in her toy box from when she was a kid. She knew it wasn't magic, and she was pretty sure Felix knew it too. "Its great honey, thanks." She looked up and kissed the under side of his chin. "Dear magic 8 ball, does Felix have a second present behind his back?"

...

Yes

"Ahh, I was hoping to save it for Christmas morning but now is as good a time as any."

He brought his other arm around his back, holding Olivia a little tighter with his left arm. He held the present just out of reach from her, moving slightly farther away she she almost grabbed it.

"Haha, got it!" Olivia quickly tore threw the wrapping paper. She turned the frame over in her hands when she finished peeling the rest of the tape off. "Dear Olivia, . We hear by accept you into- I GOT IN!?"

"You got in!"

Olivia nearly tackled Felix to the ground, he held his hand back to catch them while trying to hold the squirming Olivia with the other. "I already read threw it all, you start in late January."

"Wait, but... we don't have a place to stay yet, we cant just go down there and buy a house, can we?"

"I already got that figured out." Felix held onto the specialized frame with Olivia, un-hooking a latch on either side. He took out the bottem which had a smaller frame and another piece of paper showing that Olivia was now in possession of another house.

Olivia looked like she was about to burst into happy tears. She wrapped her arms around Felix's neck, burying her face into his shoulder. "Thank you so, so much."

Felix picked her up and locked the door before walking upstairs, the sky was already turning black. "Don't thank me. You put in the smarts on your application and it's your money that bought the house, my gift was the frame." Felix sat down and gently pulled the frames out of her hands. "You have to work pretty early in the morning, let's make sure you can stay stay awake threw the day."

Olivia silently nodded as she let out a yawn. Over use of one emotion always made her tired.

Felix brought her head up to his mouth. It was surprising to see her bouncing around one second and barely able to move her head the next. She didnt even play fight back. Felix gave a gentle swallow to show her what was happening, Olivia just gently patted his tounge back. He gave another, stronger swallow, then another, sending her entire body quickly sliding into his stomach.

The small grey tendrils slowly rubbed at her face and back. She balled herself up a bit tighter and quickly fell asleep.

Now that he could see the cave more clearly he realized just how big it was. Maybe about two football courts. He got up and started walking around the edge's, trying to find something new. There wasn't anything to see though, just the same green and orange algae. The weight swaying in his stomach was distracting at times but it felt amazing. He eventually returned back to the hole, dipping his legs into the water and letting more warm water fall down his head and back. He rubbed at his stomach again, feeling at every groove and wrap of the tail, revelling at each movement from within. This was much more comfortable than back at camp, and it's not like he had anyth- oh shit. He rememberd the sub he had to destroy, his team needed those materials. He panicked, that was his one job and who knows how long hes been out for. He leaned up and shook his stomach, making sure to wake up the small occupant. The tiny eel moved in his stomach and he had to force himself to not focus on it. He had to get to that submarine and deconstruct it.

The eel in his stomach started angrily chirping at him, it still sounded tired. He shoved two of his finger into the back of his throat, forcing himself to gag. He could feel his stomach flexing as he tried to force himself to throw up. The tiny person was making more distressed chirps. He guided the tiny's torso up to the top of his stomach until he couldn't feel it anymore. Everything was starting to hurt as he shoved his hand further into his mouth and practically punched the back of his throat. His other hand was pushing on his stomach, trying to force the eel out. Nothing was giving until finally his stomach shrank, even just slightly. He kept forcing it further up until he felt tiny hands pressing onto the back of his tounge. He griped the tiny body and dragged it out, it gently flopped onto his hand before glaring at him. The tiny eel wiped the stomach juices and saliva off his face and arms. Noah kept pulling out its body, his was starting to feel like it was about to shut down.

His stomach shrank and each inch of the eel he pulled out hurt more and more. After a while, his stomach was empty, he just had to pull it out of his throat. Every last bit he pulled out felt like needles in his throat. Once all of the eel was out of his mouth he took a deep breath, holding the eel away and coughing as he exhaled. He could feel tears streaming down his face as he caught his breath. They felt like they were already there for a while. The ringing in his ears started to subside and he heard frantic chirping. He opened his eyes to see the eel, it looked horrified as grabbed at the air towards Noah. He brought the tiny person closer to his face, it immediately grappled to the bridge of his nose and started started chirping even more. Noah brought both his hand to his face and returned what he thought was a hug. "Hey, hey, I'm all right. I'm fine" the tiny body clinging to his face was shaking and he wanted to help it however he could, but he needed to move. His stomach let out a loud growl, he hasn't been this hungry since he was on the surface... He could probably take a quick snack break.

He grabbed the tiny body still clinging to him and set it on his leg. He could see the sadness and fear still plastered on their face. It let out a quiet chirp and scooted closer to Noah's stomach. Noah reached into his bag and pulled out a small granola bar, this would more than hold him over until he got back to camp. He looked back to the tiny on his lap, when was the last time it ate? He ripped off the biodegradable wrapper and threw it into the water. He tore a small chunk off the granola bar and handed it to the tiny eel. It stared at it for a second before trying to hand it back to Noah. He chuckled and pushed the small chunk back to the tiny before he took a bite out of the rest of the bar. It looked back to the tiny piece in his hands and took a bite of it. Pure bliss seemed to cover its face before it ripped into it like a starving animal. Maybe it was. Noah broke off a bigger chunk of the bar before finishing the rest. The tiny was finished with the small piece of food he gave it and it looked more than satisfied. He gave it the bigger piece and started washing off its tail in the miniature waterfall.

The tiny was still trying to eat the granola, the piece was nearly the size of its torso but it didn't slow down at all. It kept eating and it looked like it was squishing the food into the shape of a ball. After a while, Noah had almost finished washing off the tail when he heard a pop. He looked over to see the tiny had unhinged its jaw and was trying to swallow the ball of granola whole. Noah watched as the tiny struggled to fit it's mouth over the ball. Finally something gave and it got it into their mouth and started swallowing. Soon it got the ball down, the shape settled in its stomach as it layed down over Noah's thigh. He stared for a bit before cautiously poking the tiny's stomach. It let out a quiet click and swatted at Noah's finger. He pressed down a little harder, the ball gently squished under his finger and the tiny let out more angry clicks before pulling itself off his leg and into the water. The now clean tail quickly followed down as the tiny sank further into the water. Noah pulled up his hood and made sure to tuck his hair in. He put on his visor and dropped into the water after it.

Noah looked around as the bubbles started to clear. He saw the tiny's glowing hair buried halfway into the sand. He reached down and picked it up by where he could tell its waist was. It didn't protest as it was raised to eye level with Noah, its eyes were closed as it held its belly. It deffenetly wasn't going to be swimming with him so he would have to carry it. Why was he getting so attached to this thing? He looked around the small cave, only one pipe and not much else. He's seen the trees, it could easily hide in there so why didn't it? He'd have time to think about it on the walk. Noah slowly wrapped the tail around his neck, making sure it wouldn't fall off while he walked. Once the tiny was secured around his neck he started to climb back through the tunnel. It was a tight fit and he had to crawl to get out. He reached the hole out and started to climb. It wasn't a very long climb and it didn't take too long to orient himself and find the forest. He saw a tree directly strait from the hole and walked towards that one.

As he walked towards it he could see where he had previously tried to sleep. He was glad he didn't or he wouldn't have been able to help his tiny. Wait no, the tiny wasn't his, it probably had a family or friends. His feelings were starting to get conflicted but he reached the tree and focused on that. After searching around in his bag for bit he felt the small thing he was looking for. It was a beacon, he set it to blue to remember this as a point of interest and pointed it towards the hole. He set off walking and continued his journey. He occasionally found stray peices of scrap metal, he deconstructed them and kept walking. There wasn't much out here. The forest providing light on his left and pure darkness on his right. He would occasionally unwrap the tiny around his neck a bit and hold it in his hands. He would study it for a bit before it started to complain and he would give it a gentle massage. This went on for a while, the boredom of endless trees and examining his tiny sleepy friend.

Timeskip: maybe a few hours

The scrap metal was getting bigger and more frequent, Noah's intrest peeked when he saw a rusted piece of metal with a pattern under it. He wiped off the rust and saw what was deffenetly a piece of a German flag painted on. Noah kept deconstructing every piece of metal he came across, every bit was necessary. Noah jumped as he felt movement from around his neck. The tiny woke up and partially unwrapped itself from his neck. It swam back in front of his face, pressing on the glass again. Noah gently ran his finger down it's back, the notable lump of food in its stomach was gone. It leaned into the rubs and hugged his thumb. Noah brought it to his shoulder and gave it more rubs as he walked. He wasn't really focused on were he was going, content to just give the tiny more rubs. A faint glimmer soon caught his eye though. He looked up to see the submarine, its tail end caught on some trees and a broken flood light on the ground that his helmet light was reflecting off of. It was a spectacle to be sure.

There was a faint touch along his back that made him shiver. He looked at his shoulder expecting to see the tiny's tail tickling him. Instead, the end of the tiny's tail was next to their own face as it sat on Noah's shoulder staring at the submarine in horror. Noah turned around as something touched him. A dark red tentacle was already wrapped around his waist and two more were quickly coming at him. He flailed and struggled as he was lifted up away from the glowing forest. Two tenticals raced towards his arms as he tried to get away. The tenticals reached all the way into the darkness and he couldn't see the source. He pushed at the tentacle around his waist with one arm while trying to reach into his pack with the other. A tentacle grabbed his left arm, he was able to punch the tentacle coming at his other arm before it could grab him. He looked over to see the tiny trying to pry the tentical off his arm as the other one came for it. Noah grabbed the tiny and threw it towards the darkening forest. "HIDE!" Was all he could yell out as the glowing blue hair disappeared towards the slowly fading forest.

He watched in horror as the tentical raced after the tiny. He forced himself to look around as he heard a sound. His light shined over more tentacles coming from every direction, 20 to his left, maybe 30 to his right, who know how many more above him. His hand finally brushed past what he was trying to grab, he gripped onto the deconstructer and shot at the tentical moving towards the tiny. A large chunk of it vanished as the bottom part of it slowly sank to the ground. A low bellow of pain came from whatever abomination was holding him. He vaporized the tenticals coming at him and the ones holding him. More followed as he sank to the ground, red stained the water around him as chunks of meat also fell to the ground around him. More tenticals grabbed at his legs, he was just barely able to get them away before destroying them. He hit the ground frantically aiming into the darkness, more bits of meat fell around him as he made a dash towards the sub. He found a torpedo hole and bent the metal to make it bigger. His breathing was frantic and he's sure he was screaming the entire time. As he caught his breath everything became clearer, he could hear the tiny chirping and clicking somewhere in the sub.

Noah fallowed the noise, deconstructing minor walls and other oddities he found. He still had a job to do. His heart was still racing from the adrenaline high and he nearly fell over a few times. The quicker he finished this, the quicker he could return to bace. After a bit of checking hallways and rooms he looked back to see that most of the interior of the ship was gone. He could still hear clicking so he knew the tiny eel was still alive, but where? There wasn't a lot in the ship, already emptied out from who knows how many years down here. As he was deconstructing a wall, the ship bent a little, letting out a loud creak as gravity shifted. He could hear the tiny's chirping and clicking getting more panicked as he tried to run further up the ship. His feet didn't touch the ground for a few seconds as the walls soon became the ceiling and floor. As Noah reoriented himself he heard shrill chirps and clicks from somewhere in the back of the ship. What had he done? His mind raced with horrible thoughts of what could have happened and his breath quickened. He moved as fast as he could up and down the hallways, not even bothering to deconstruct anything anymore. The noises only got louder as he moved through the ship. He could see a faint blue light coming from one of the open doors. He rushed in to see that the blue eel wasn't the one making the noise. It was trying to lift something that was crushing another tiny.

Noah cautiously moved over to the tiny, he saw it was trying to lift a wrench from a pile of tools. The chirping came from inside the pile of tools and he could see a faint red glow coming from between the cracks of the tools. He moved the tiny eel out of the way and started moving the tools off of whatever tiny he crushed. The tiny eel looked stunned for a moment before it grappled to Noah's arm and hugged him. He continued to take tools off the pile until he saw the glowing red hair of another tiny. He scraped the last of the missalanius supplies off its chest, its torso was maybe two times the size of the blue tiny. He wrapped his hands around it and... oh, no. He saw ten tenticals protruding from it's lower half. His heart sank as he realized what he had done. The tiny blue eel rushed over to it. Noah could see a large insision on its chest and its arm was bent out of place. The tiny's chirped back and forth for a few seconds before the tiny eel swam up to his visor. It slammed on the glass and tried to pull it off, only managing to slip and almost ram into the wall.

Noah held the tiny red squid closer to the face plate. It weakly held up a hand and pressed it into the glass. Noah knew what it wanted. The tiny blue eel swam up to his visor again, sadness riddled its face. Noah sat down on the rusting metal, his eyes focused on the red tiny in his hand. Noah held his free hand to his face plate. Every minor movement caused the tiny to let out a chirp of pain. Noah took a deep breath and quickly took off his visor, the cold water rushed onto his face. He quickly shoved the tiny squid into his mouth, the metallic taste caused him to gag slightly but at least it didn't struggle. He forced himself to swallow as quick as he could, the tenticals limply fallowed down his throat. The salty water was starting to sting his throat so he forced the face plate back into position and the water quickly drained from the mask. He could still feel the tiny cold body moving further and further down his esophagus. The tiny finally entered his stomach, he could feel its suction cups on the edges of his stomach, and tiny hands on the outside.

Noah looked down to see the blue eel pressing itself against his stomach. He heard clicks and chirps from both of the tiny's. The conversation was short lived as the tiny eel darted off. Noah got up and started to fallow the tiny. It was much faster than him but stoped when it heard Noah following them. It let out a small chirp and held out its hands before darting out of the ship through a bullet hole. Noah tried to fallow but fell to his knees, he could feel the tiny squid pulling his stomach inwards. He forced himself through the pain and watched the end of the tail dash into the forest. He leaned on a nearby wall and rubbed at his stomach. Maybe the tiny went to get help or to get stuff to heal the tiny in his stomach. It might be going to get someone to take him out now that he was immobilized. His mind started racing with every worst case scenario. He gently rubbed along where he could feel the tendrils holding onto his stomach. They slowly released, letting his abdomen expand back to normal and letting the pain subside.

Noah held the deconstructer in his hand, he felt horrible for what he had done and what he still needed to do. The light from his helmet shined on the rest of the ship, his team still needed this metal. Maybe he could get Michael to build a habitat for this thing. His mind started to wander as he thought about what his team would think of when they find out that there are tiny people down here with them. He deconstructed part of the top of the ship which was now a wall and stepped out of the ship. He looked over the sand and into the darkness, there was a few, small, regular fish picking away at the scraps of the monster. Tears welled in his eyes for a moment before he started deconstructing the bloody flesh. Who knows if his team might need this, he just needed to make himself believe they did so he would feel better. Once he was done with all the big pieces he went back to deconstructing the ship. Piece by piece he destroyed the ship, his team needed this metal and he knew if he didn't destroy this ship, someone else would.

Timeskip: a while

Noah destroyed nearly the entire ship, he stoped when he reached the maintenance room. He walked back inside, small trinkets lined the floor. A few bottle caps, a bottle opener, even an old German pin. He picked them up and put them in his pack. He sat down putting a hand to his stomach and chest. He could feel the tiny heartbeat in his stomach, it was slightly faster than his but it wasn't even close to the eels. He hoped it was ok. He slowly stood up and started deconstructing the room. His eyes started watering as tears started rolling down his cheeks that he couldn't even wipe away. It didn't take much longer to get rid of the rest of the ship. He looked back on what he'd done. A bloody mess in the water, a crater where the ship was, and about half a dozen broken trees. He stood in silence as he surveyed the ground, it was only a shadow of what remained. Noah walked over and sat down on one of the uprooted trees, taking off his mask and letting the cool water wash over his face. He thought he could feel the red tiny's heartbeat on the wall of his stomach when he focused hard enough.

After a while of holding his breath he put his mask on. Letting his emotions wash over him instead. He sat there, contemplating, thinking, remembering everything that was happening and how weird it was. He was a pilot, sent on an underwater habitation mission next to a forest made out of coral. He was given experimental drugs that gave him super human strength and fitted with an indestructible suit. In the forest he has to stay next to, there are tiny glowing people the size of his fingers that like to be eaten alive. His thoughts were quickly interrupted when he heard a loud boom. He got up and looked around as fast as he could. There was a white capsule quickly rising from the tree's. It looked advanced even for his team, and he wouldn't be able to see it with how far away from bace he was if it was them. There didnt seem to be any words or symbols on it. The thing quickly disappeared into the darkness as he stood up. He heard faint chirping and clicking in the distance. He looked over to see the blue eel and another new tiny swimming next to it. This one was purple and had a small fish tail that was nowhere near close to matching the length or size of the eels tail. It had long glowing purple hair with small strands of algae stuck in it. They were also carrying a small woven basket made from a multitude of different colored algae.

The blue tiny seamed to swim a little faster when it saw Noah, the purple tiny fallowed and tired to match the other's speed but couldn't keep up. They dashed through the branches of the trees, never making a mistake while they swam. The blue eel slammed into Noah's chest and wrapped itself around him. The purple tiny soon caught up, it slowed down as it came closer to Noah. Their long hair flowed in front of their face as they came to a stop, their eyes widened in horror as they looked up at him. It watched him for a bit before backing up, fear still glued to its face. It tried to swim back into the forest before the blue eel unwrapped from his torso and dashed up to it. Noah tried to walk towards it until he herd a shrill chirp from the purple tiny. The tiny's chirped and clicked back and forth for a bit, then a few chirps came from in his stomach. Both the tiny's looked over to Noah, the purple one looked slightly less afraid of him. They slowly swam up to Noah, flinching at every tiny movement he made. They pressed their hands to his stomach, more clicking came from inside before they started talking.

All three of the tiny's talked next to his stomach for a while, Noah eventually moved a bit and laid down on the ground. The purple tiny recoiled away from him as he moved, it soon came back and sat down on his stomach next to the blue tiny. Noah stared up at the darkness while watching the small specks floating in the water around him. The feeling on his stomach disappeared as the purple tiny came closer to his mask. It started chirping at him until the blue tiny came up to it and stopped it. The blue tiny gently knocked on his mask and pointed at the purple one before swimming down to his stomach. Noah sat up and watched as it patted at his stomach. He looked over to the purple tiny who slightly swam away from him as he turned. He held his hand out to the purple tiny, it slowly moved closer and sat down on the ball of his hand. He slightly closed his fingers around the tiny, the fear in it's eyes hurt him. He brought it closer to his face and it quickly backed up to the edges of his finger's. He watched the tiny in his hands, they held the basket close to their chest and closed their eyes, quickly nodding to Noah.

Noah moved his hand up to his mask and brought the tiny closer to it. He looked over to the blue tiny who looked back at him, they gave a gentle nod as they swam a bit closer. He took off his mask, the cold water rushed back over his face. He moved the purple tiny between his lips, the salty water diminished the taste but they were... delicious. He had to force himself not to just swallow them down with the water. He was able to fit the entire tiny in his mouth with little effort. He shoved his mask back on and let the water drain away. After a bit he positioned the tiny onto the back of his tounge, he hadn't realized how much they were shaking until now. He gently swallowed, letting the small weight fall down him.

Marin woke up to his world shaking violently, if the giant wanted him awake this was working. He moved in and out of his coils to make sure nothing was getting tangled. Once he knew everything was secure he came back to the wall of the stomach. As he got to the edge it started to compress his body, everything was tightening as he heard a sound from above him. He hated whatever sound the giant was making and all the tightness that came with it. "Hey! What are you doing, I was trying to sleep!" His words didn't seem to travel very far as he could feel the giants fingers pressing at him again. He was forced upwards to the top of the stomach when the pressure disappeared. He was starting to get mad at the giant, they were just moving him around like a toy. He flailed his tail in an effort to make the giant stop whatever it was doing. It seemed to work for a while until his arms were gripped.

His body was forced upwards, he tried to flail but the muscles massaged him still. His tail was slowly dragged up with him as he was continuously massaged by the tight muscles. He was eventually deposited onto the giants tounge, he looked around to see the giants hand in it's own mouth pushing at their uvula. It came down and pinched him between their fingers. They pulled him out and gently set him onto their free hand. The cold air pierced his skin and he shivered a bit before looking back to the giant. He glared at it before flinging away whatever stomach juices were still left on him. They looked relieved to see him before clutching over in pain. He flicked off a bit more of the odd mixture of liquids and was going to start beraiding the giant but stopped when he saw tears welling in their eyes. They were in pain, but why? He saw his tail creating a small lump under their neck that was crushing their wind pipe.

"Hey, don't pull it out, it'll only make it worse!" Most mers had to practice to let whoever they were protecting out. It's a painful process if a mer tries to force them out and some mers have choked on who they were protecting. Marin didn't want his new friend to die but he couldn't help them, they either couldn't understand him or couldn't hear him. He watched in growing horror as the giant kept pulling his tail out of their mouth and each bit looking more and more painful. He tried to help pull his tail put but only succeeded in nearly slipping of their hand before catching himself on their thumb. The tears in their eyes started streaming down their cheeks. Marin started to cry when he saw that their lips were starting to gain a blue tinge. They were losing air to quickly, he was going to lose his first protector in forever because he was too long and he couldn't do a thing about it. He could feel the last bit of of his tail in their throat, they just needed to get that out and they would be safe.

The end of his tail came up their throat and they yanked it out just as their lips were turning entirely blue. They quickly took in a deep, shaky breath. Marin was held out far away from the giant as they coughed into their arm. "Hey! Hey! Are you ok? Do something, anything to show your ok!" His words came out frantic but it didn't stop him from trying to get the giants attention. Soon enough their attention settled on Marin, his hands were extended towards the giant as he scooted closer to the edge of the giants palm. They brought him closer and he immediately latched onto their face and hugged them. They slowly cupped their hands around him in an attempt to hug back, making a few low growls while hugging him. He could feel himself shaking in fear, he didn't want to lose his new friend. The giants stomach let out a loud growl without Marin in it. He didn't want be their snack again, not yet at least.

The giant set him down on their leg before reaching into their back and pulling out a shiny brick. They took the shiny off and threw it into the water before pulling off a small part of the odd golden brown material. They handed a small piece to Marin, what did they want him to do with it. He tried handing it back to the giant, they pushed it back to him before taking bite of the bigger piece. Marin took a bite of his piece and was stunned. It was the sweetest things he'd ever tasted. His stomach let out a low groan as the bite fell into it, he had forgotten how hungry he was. He tore into the small piece of food, finishing it with ease. He felt a little satisfied but he was still hungry, maybe he could- the giant interrupted his thoughts by handing him another piece of food. It was nearly as big as he was! Maybe he could even practice using this as something to be protected.

He took bite after bite out of it, making sure to try and make it ball shaped. He could feel the giant messing with his tail, it didn't hurt so he just ignored it. After a while he finally had it just small enough to swallow. He unhinged his jaw to fit it over the ball. It wouldn't fit for a bit, just slightly too big for him to eat. He kept forcing it in, his jaw stretched farther than it should have and finally got it through. Swallowing it wasn't as difficult, but when he got it down he was in paradise. The taste was still lingering on his tounge and the feeling of being this full was amazing. He laid down over the giant's leg and let every nerve fire. He let out an annoyed groan as the giant poked at his stomach, he couldn't explain it to the giant so he just wanted to sleep off his meal. He made an odd noise even to him as the giant poked his stomach again. He pulled himself off the giants leg and fell into the water, letting himself sink to the floor.

Marins back hit the cool sand, he just wanted to go back to sleep. He dug his way into the ground and burrowed into the sand. Keeping just an eye above the sand. The giant soon fell into the water, the bubbles surrounding him floated upwards back into the hole. He nuzzled his face into the sand to try and fully bury himself. It didn't take long for the giant to grab him, the warmth of their hand was a nice contrast to the cool water and sand. He held his stomach a bit protectively, he didn't want the giant to poke him again. For some reason though the giant decided to wrap him around their neck. They eventually got out of the cave and started walking again, his mind was getting fuzzy. After a while of walking the giant would occasionally check on him then give him messages and they would occasionally make a big piece of metal turn into water and bubbles somehow. This went on for a while and Marin eventually fell asleep.

Timeskip: a nap

Marin slowly woke up to the rhythmic pace of the giant walking. His eyes had to adjust to the light from the forest and the pure darkness ahead of them. He swam slightly upwards in front of the giants face and pressed his hands onto the invisible barrier. He wanted to make sure that his friend was with him. The giant rubbed at his back, he leaned into the warmth of the giants finger. He snuggled up to the giants thumb as it gave him rubs from all around. They brought him back to their shoulder and kept rubbing his back for a while. It didn't feel like too long before the giant stopped in its tracks. Marin turned to see what the giant was looking at. He saw what he never wanted to see again. The huge, long, oddly shaped piece of metal was still propped up on some uprooted trees. It looked like holes were torn into it and blown outwards. He knew the kraken didn't destroy it but whatever did was much more powerful. Marin was jolted back by the giants neck, his tail was still wrapped around them. He looked back to see three red tentacles coming at the giant. One was already wrapped around their waist and the other two were coming at them.

The giant was reaching into their back with one hand and trying to pry off the tentical with the other. Marin didn't want to go threw this again, and this time without even being protected. Marin was frozen with fear and sadness. A tentical griped onto the giants arm, he couldn't go through this again, he wouldn't let himself go through this again, if he could help, even just slightly. He snapped out of his fear and untangled himself from the giants neck, dashing towards the tentical around the giants arm. Marin pulled with everything he had, just able to unpop a single suction cup before he was grabbed. He looked back to see the giant holding him. They readied themselves and threw Marin towards the forest. They yelled out "HIDE" as Marin rapidly descended. He understood the giant! They could finally talk and... and... the slight optimism was soon crushed as the flailing siluet of the giant disappeared and the light from their head went out. Marin gently hit the sandy ground, sadness overwhelmed him as he was barely able to think. He was a curse on everyone around him, every protector he had would die. He staired into the darkness, there was a faint glimmer in the distance and his hope swelled before immediately being crushed.

A tentacle darted out towards him and Marin let out a scream as he began to swim towards the metal. There was a large gash that he swam threw, he looked back to see the tentical following him in. It was dark in the large piece of metal but he was glowing just bright enough to see where he was going. The massive piece of metal was neatly hollow, odd perfectly rounded ovals and rectangles leading into more rooms. He looked back again to see that the tentical wasn't following him anymore. He let out a small sob before going to explore the ship. He had outrun a kraken, but why was it protecting this piece of metal. He scoured the ship, there had to be something to indicate why it needed to be protected. Marin swam into a bigger room, there was rot covering six big rectangles and an odd substance was floating in the water. He was about to leave when something caught his eye. He looked over to some of the rot, there was something shiny caught in the deep green substance that didn't seem to be rusted over.

Marin cautiously swam over to the shiny metal, getting just inches away from it before being stopped "I wouldn't do that." Marin turned around as fast as he could towards the familiar voice. A barely glowing, deep red mer was swimming in place in the middle of the oval doorway. "The rot isn't very nice to touch." They slowly swam towards Marin, and he could finally see their facial features. He didn't need to see everything about them to know that it was Lamarr, there wasn't any other red squid mers that he knew about. "So, why are you in my home?" Lamarr's words came out less enthusiastic than normal and he didn't seem as 'on top of the world' as he normally was. Marin swam in place for a few seconds, stunned to see a friend where he was told no mer should ever go. He didn't realize as his tail drifted closer and closer to the rot, too entranced with his thoughts. He jolted upwards as the light sting turned into a full burning sensation. Lamarr let out a delayed sigh "Come on, I've got something to treat that." He left the room and swam down the huge, empty corridor as Marin followed behind while cradling the hurt part of his tail.

Lamarr swam into a side room as Marin followed, the pain in his tail was only getting worse. Marin looked around in amazement, Lamarr had gotten so many things past that kraken. A small algae bed rested idle between two metal cylinders and they had more shiny things on one wall than Marins entire collection. There was a large rectangular piece of colored rot on one of the walls with odd shapes throughout and a small hole in the opposite wall letting in light from the forest. He looked back to see Lamarr swimming towards him, rubbing green and blue algae together with an orange berry under his arm. He gestured to Marin to hold out his tail, rubbing the aquamarine colored paste onto the hurt area. It was cold compared to the burning feeling as Lamarr rubbed it on. He smashed the orange berry and put it over the paste to keep it in place. Marin cringed at the odd feeling but sighing in relief as the pain quickly subsided.

"So, I'll ask again, why are you in my home." Marin never heard their voice so cold, they seemed like a completely different person.

"I was with my protector when the kraken... it..." a wave of emotions flooded his mind as he remembered what happend to his newest protector.

"What? What did my mother do?" They sounded confused yet bored at the same time.

"Your... mo-!" Marin was cut off mid-sentence as the walls shifted around them. Marin looked around as a large metal rectangle fell towards them. Lamarr lunged at him and pushed him away just in time to be hit by a barrage of large metal trinkets that fell out of a smaller, red rectangle. Marin slammed into the wall as he watched Lamarr sink under the pile of metal. It didn't take more than a minute for Marin to come to. He looked around the room, everything was in shambles as the walls had shifted to the floor and ceiling. He looked up to see the thin rot floating towards him. He dashed away and swam in quick circles to make sure his tail wouldn't be hurt. He sighed knowing he was alright, but mad that he brought destruction with him everywhere. He snapped out of his thoughts when he heard Lamarr's panicked voice muffed by the metal on top of them.

"Marin! Please, Help I.. I.. I Can't Breathe!"

He bolted towards the top of the pile, trying to lift the oddly shaped metal. He tried everything, pushing it, pulling it, slamming into it, but nothing he did made it budge an inch. Everything started to shake but Marin didn't stop trying to free them. Lamarr's voice was starting to go hoarse and it sounded like he was on the verge of tears. Soon he was shoved out of the way, Marin looked over to try on fight whatever moved him but stopped when he saw his protector, alive! He moved over to hug their arm as best he could while they were moving. He looked down to see what they were doing and saw them flinging away the oddly shaped metal with ease. Lamarr's red glow started to shine threw the metal and a few strands of hair poked out. Once everything was out of the way the giant picked them up, the tenticals hanging idly off the giants hand. Marin swam over to them, Lamarr's arm was bent around and there was a huge cut on their chest.

"I- I'm so cold."

"Hey it's ok, uhh..." Marin didn't know what to do, he didnt know how to mix the algae to heal them. Lamarr seemed to know what to do so they could teach him while he did it. "I'll go get some supplies, but for now, you need to be protected."

"I- I don't h-have a protector."

"Umm, I'll try to get the giant to protect you."

Marin swam up to the giants invisible barrier and started pounding on it. He tried to take it off, swimming into the side but slipped and nearly slammed into the wall. He reoriented himself and turned around, ready to try again when he saw the giant bringing Lamarr closer to its face. Lamarr put his hand onto the invisible barrier, he seemed like he was about to cry. Marin swam up to the giant as well, he needed to make sure his friend would be safe. The giant looked at them both for a bit before taking off its barrier. Lamarr groaned at every movement from the giant, once Marin knew that Lamarr would be safe he needed to find supplies fast. The giant quickly slid Lamarr into their mouth, their face twisting in disgust before swallowing. The lump Lamarr created slid down the giants throat and quickly disappeared past their collarbone.

Marin swam down to the giants stomach, looking up for just a second to see water somehow draining from the inside of the barrier. Marin touched the giants stomach, after a few seconds, Lamarr weakly touched back.

"Are you ok in their?"

"Yes, it's much warmer in here."

"Good, I'll be back soon but I need you to find a way to keep the giant from falloing me for a few minutes."

"I'll try."

With that, Marin bolted off. The thuds of the giant echoed threw the metal chamber, he turned around to see the giant falloing him as he expected. He held out his hands to try his best to communicate to the giant. "Wait here." was all he said before swimming threw a small hole in one of the walls. The forest was right outside so he didn't have to worry about the kraken trying to get him. He dashed threw the branches, his tail barely touching any algae or coral. There wasn't much to determine where he was but luckily the town was at the center of the forest so he knew where he was going. Something was off tho, he shouldn't recognize these trees but somehow he does. His eyes darted around as the trees became disturbingly more familiar as he swam. He suddenly came to a stop, there was just something about this place that hurt him. He looked up, seeing the darkness threw a crushed opening in the branches. Why was this so familiar? He swam up to one of the trees, seeing red berries growing inside the hallowed trunk. A thought raced a cross his mind and just as soon as it came, he shoved it away. He bolted off towards the town, his eyes stang and he had to force himself to believe that it was beacuse he was moving so fast.

The yellow orange lights lit the town in the distance. He swam closer, slowing down just a bit. He swam deeper into the town, there seemed to be some sort of farmers market going on. He looked around for a stall that could help him, but he noticed that people were staring at him. He didn't have a protector, he shouldn't be here, he shouldn't be in this town. He shoved those thoughts away and continued looking for a medical stand. A pattern of red algae caught his eye, he swam closer and saw the spiral of the krakens tenticals indicating the medical supply's. He darted over as fast as he could just to see that the stall was closed. No, there had to be something else to help Lamarr. He looked around swimming above the crowd onto one of the less crowded branches to look around. He couldn't see another stall that had medical supplies. He nearly gave up hope and would buy the bace materials to try and heal Lamarr when he saw familiar long purple hair swimming next to a deep green. He swam down, seeing Amara swimming next to her dad. Amara was training to become a healer at the main medical center! This was perfect!

"Amara!" Marin yelled out as he quickly dashed over to her.

Amara turned around with a multie color algae basket hanging from her arm. "Marin?"

Marin saw medical supplies in the basket, everything was already gathered in one place. "It's Lamarr, he got hurt and I don't know how to heal him! Can you help!?"

"What happened? Where is he?"

"We were near the edge of the forest at his home. His arm is all messed up and bent and there's a huge cut in his chest."

"Was he getting colder?"

"Yes, but I found a protector that we could trust."

Amara looked up at her dad, he had been listening to their quick conversation and gave a slight nod. "Then we have to go now!"

Marin bolted off, they shoved through the crowds of people to get the edge where Marin had emerged from. Once they left the town, Marin slowed down so Amara could catch up. Being an eel ment that he was fast but it ment that he had to go slow so others could keep up. He led the way for wat felt like an eternity compared to how fast he got to the town. Amara's fastest was barely keeping up with Marin as he tried to slow down. They kept going, Marin quickly slipping into a tree and grabbing two berries, giving one to Amara and quickly eating the other one as they swam. He started to recognize the trees again and took a longer route, trying to convince himself that he didnt know why he was doing that. They kept swimming, Amara seemd like she was going to collapse soon. Finally Marin could see the edge, the giant was standing up and looking into the darkness above the forest and he couldn't help but yell out "Protector!" as he swam faster towards them.

The giant didn't seem ready for Marin to full force slam into them. Marin loosely wrapped himself around the giant and looked back to see Amara, she looked so scared that her scales were turning from purple to pink. The giant barely took a step towards her as she screamed. She started to back away before Marin caught up and wrapped his tail around her to stop her from running away.

"Marin, let me go! We have to get away from that- that thing!"

"No, that's what's protecting Lamarr, just like it protected me!"

"No way, that's a full on monster like the kraken! We have to get away from it or it'll-"

"Marin, is that you? Did you bring Amara?" Lamarr called out from the giants stomach their voice was muffled and barely audable but, they could hear him.

Marin let go of Amara, she didn't swim away but shyly moved towards the giant, looking up to their face every so often. She slowly reached out towards the giants stomach until she was barely touching them. "Lamarr, are you really in there?"

"Ya, i-it's gett-ting colder."

"Ok, tell me what's going on."

Lamarr began to tell her what had happend, Marin swam a bit closer to try and listen better. It didnt take very long for the giant to move. Amara moved away as they moved and layed down on their back. Amara slowly came back, sitting down on the giants stomach next to Marin. Eventually Amara found out that the only way to help Lamarr was if he was kept warm in the giants stomach while she healed him. Amara definitely didnt like what she had to do but there was no other way. She cautiousaly got up from the giants stomach and swam towards their face. The giant was staring into the darkness before tilting their head up to look at Amara, she recoiled away when it looked at her.

"Umm- c-could... I-I need you to eat m-me so I can help Lamarr-"

"They don't understand what you're saying."

Marin swam up to the giants face and knocked on the invisible barrier, their eyes focused on him. He pointed at Amara before swimming down to the giants stomach and quickly patting on it. Amara looked at him in confusion while he did that. The giant turned its head towards Amara, she backed away from it a gentle whimper echoed in her throat. The giant moved their hand towards Amara, she backed away but eventually sat down on their hand. The fingers slightly cupped around her and she backed up into them as she was brought closer towards the giants face. The giant brought their other hand up towards their face and looked over to Marin. He gently nodded, Lamarr needed help and he trusted the giant. A mass of bubbles escaped from the invisible barrier as the giant took it off. They quickly slid Amara into their mouth and put the barrier back on, water quickly draining from it. They soon swallowed and Marin fallowed Amaras form as it quickly moved down the giants body.

"Hi Amara, it's good to see you, Heh."

...

"...Amara?"

"Get me out of here! Marin, get the giant to spit me out!"

Olivia started dividing the last of the candy between the three. Her joy started to dwindle as she realized this would be the last time she could do it this year and they might not even fall for it. She would have to trick them into saying something she could use to start the bigger trick. "I love your costumes, how long did it take you guys to make them?"

The comic book kid piped up. "Not too long, but isn't the sheet ghost a bit outdated?

Olivia's joy started to grow and a smile began to creep over her cheeks. That wasn't tvery hard. "You probably shouldn't make fun of other people's costumes on Halloween." Felix perked up as he heard that, he turned off his tablet and slightly pulled off the blanket covering him. "It's said that on Halloween, there's a monster that stalks the roofs of the town and eats the costumes of anyone who makes fun of another's." Felix slowly moved down the roof but kept his head mostly hidden over the gutters. "A clawed hand as dark as the night sky comes over the edge to take them away and steal their candy." Olivia had sown black clothing over Felix's arm with long plastic nails to make his fingers longer and sharper. He lowered it down and hovered it just behind the kids. "That's stupid, monsters don't exist." The martial arts kid chimed in.

Olivia saw Felix's hand just about to knock the hat off the comic book kid. "What's that then?" They all turned around expecting not to see anything. Olivia nearly burst with laughter as their faces shifted in horror. Felix slowly moved his hand towards them to give them enough time to escape. They nearly slammed into each other as they ran down the driveway, accidentally hitting themselves in the legs with their candy bags as they ran. Olivia fell into a laughing fit as she saw them turn the corner, Felix chuckled under his breath, the fear of being discovered still lingering in his mind kept him as quiet as possible. He looked down to see the empty bowl sitting on the ground next to Olivia who was still laughing. He grabbed the blanket and tablet before climbing off the roof and hunching over to fit under the doorway. Olivia tried to quell her laughter as she watched Felix walk past her. "Aww, was this really the last one for the night?"

"You promised that when the bowl is empty we would be done, and I don't understand how you find so much humor in scarring people every time." Felix put the tablet onto a wireless charger then flopped onto the bed/couch

"I don't see how you don't. Its Halloween, the phrase is literally 'Trick or Treat' and I feel like doing both." She pulled half of her costume off before shutting the door and turning off the light, leaving the room in relative darkness, besides the TV and a dim lamp.

"So the best part of Halloween for you is giving people treats, then scaring them so they nearly loose everything they've gathered threw the night."

"When you put it like that it dosen't sound as funny." She climbed onto the couch and flopped onto Felix's chest.

He protectively wrapped his arm around Olivia as she laid down, her legs lazily rested on the rest of the couch. She grabbed the remote and barely moved her head to look at the TV before going to her watchlist. She turned the movie on and pushed herself up to Felix's chin.

After about only 20 minutes though, Olivia started to get tired, but the night wasn't fully over yet. Just one last treat for Felix and she would sleep. She pulled the blanket over her head, the left eye hole covered her right eye before rolling onto her stomach.

She slowly raised her head above Felix's chin. "...Felix.... I've come to-!" Felix grabbed her arms and pinned them to her sides, quickly stuffing her front half in his mouth. Olivia let out a quick scream as she was flipped over the back of the couch. She flailed her legs to no avail, quickly and effortlessly sliding into Felix's stomach. She curled up, scared that Felix might have turned and gained the mental state of one of her dads monsters. Those feelings immediately subsided as she heard Felix start to laugh.

"Ok, I see the appeal in scaring people now."

"Don't scare me like that!"

"Why? You were doing it to almost everybody who came here and plus, I could tell you were getting ready for sleep so I thought I would speed it up."

"Oh, you wanna play it like that! Goodnight, monster!"

"Alright, Goodnight my delectable little victim." Felix grinned as he rubbed where he could feel Olivia's head.

The undeniable sound of a gun being fired by one of the other teams in the forest, the birds were flying out from the trees all around your team. Everyone needed weapons for protection from wild animals and from whatever was taking out the previous teams. Some were a little trigger happy for anything that moved. You didn't like to carry around a gun if you knew you weren't going to be in danger, but a knife wasn't off the table. You were almost always right for what might happen to you and your team on an expedition. You couldn't say for the other two teams your employer hired but it's likely this would be your biggest discovery yet and your team would probably come out unharmed. The last few teams that went deep into the forest never came out, their GPS and radios just stopped. No teams have ever found the body's, bones, tech, or anything else from the team before them but it never stopped people from coming to find out why.

You and your team were a small group of for higher adventures in a time where everything needs to be known. Your team hasn't found much, it was more of quality over quantity but, what you have found is amazing. Old era weapons that changed history books and plants you could only describe as magical. Hell, your team even found an entire city in a mountain that was abandoned thousands of years ago but had modern day, well, everything. You would only go on the best, most dangerous adventures, and your team would follow wherever you went.

BANG

The other teams were starting to get on your nerves. You loved nature and animals which is why you wanted to become an adventurer, and the other teams were just shooting at every animal big enough to have a clear shot. They were only in it for the money and fame, they didn't care what they found and they didn't care how they got it. Maybe during the night the monster in the woods could come and make them "disappear" like the other teams. You knew your employer was using everyone as fodder to further their own goals but to what or why was unknown. It didn't really matter as you knew this would be big. It was getting late though, and all the teams needed some rest. They were only a few miles out from where most of the other teams went missing but it was still better to get some rest than to walk during the night in the forest. After a bit of searching, your team found part of a cave in a cliff. There was scratch marks all over it and the front of the roof of the cave was slanted upwards with smoke stains running along it. An older team had deffenetly been here before, so your team was deffenetly going in the right direction.

The cave was big enough for about two teams to comfortably sleep in but everything was finders keepers for now. Your team hid most of the trails they made, ripping up bushes and lightly planting them on the trails. The other two teams worked together and set up a small camp under some trees, pitching their tents together and making a large fire under an opening in the canopy. Your team pulled all the tents together, creating a wall of fabrics to use as a wind barrier and to trap the heat in the cave.

Your team started to fall asleep one by one, eventually all of them fell asleep but you were still wide awake. Something was off, you knew your team would survive and this would be your biggest find yet but, there was something dangerous that you couldn't put your finger on and it was bugging you. You snuck out of your camp making sure not to wake anyone, the fire was already dwindling to ashes so you didn't have to worry about that being a problem. You walked around the forest unsure of what you were looking for but eventually you stumbled upon the other teams camp.

You snuck up from the side of their camp but you felt like someone or something was watching you. Looking over the bushes you saw everyone from the other teams, none of them could be looking at you so what was. You glanced around the forest, you didn't see anything except a small shadowy movement in the trees. You thought it was just some birds looking at you. Eventually it started to subside and you began to focus on the other teams again. You picked up a medium sized rock and threw it to the other side of their camp, some of them pulled their guns and immediately fired at where the rock landed.

You stepped out of the bushes, arms crossed with a disappointed look on your face. "And what if that was an exotic animal"

A few of them turned to you with their guns pointed and two of them tried to fire, their guns clicked as they were out of ammo. You weren't scared of them, everything usually worked out in the end for you. Everyone waited for the other to move, you eventually made the first move, walking closer to the fire and sitting next to them. "So, what are you going to do with your pay if you survive" you say, stealing a marshmallow from one of the sticks next to you while most of them were still aiming their guns. You knew this was going to be a long trip so you had your team only pack compact food, luckily this team wanted to keep some sugar around like they were camping. Everyone stayed quiet, one by one they reluctantly put their guns away. "Well, does anyone want to talk first or should I share my opinions about you guys" you say, each of them started talking about their wants. Some would help their family's, some just want the money for whatever they feel like, and some didn't share what they wanted. Eventually you left back to your camp after exchanging stories of your adventures, you didn't like them anymore than when you first met them but you did get to know some of them better. Finally you got your mind off of whatever was bugging you but now there was something else. It felt like there was something falloing you, it didn't feel like when the other team was starting, but whatever was watching you from before was back. Your neck was on fire at this point, you were tempted to just sleep in the bushes and deal with whatever was following you but you finally found your camp. Walking inside you immediately fell onto the single blanket you called a bed. The burning sensation was finally dwindling from the back of your neck as you drifted off to sleep.

You woke up, your team had already taken down the makeshift wall and had already packed and were ready to leave. The sun was barely rising let alone showing threw the leaves and it felt like you hadn't gotten any sleep but it took you no time to pack up what you had laid out and start walking. You led your team to the other's camp, all of them were asleep but the huge fire you sat around was just a small campfire now, and that was being unwatched, the smoke from it had burned the leaves in the canopy. Everyone was asleep in their tents with nothing guarding them, you took one of your teammates guns and shot once at the fire, sparks flew as you guided your team to leave. You walked away from the other team's camp to your original destination, you could hear them questioning what that was while you walked away. You and your team were always efficient and always made the most of every moment. They sometimes questioned why you did what you did, even you questioned what you were doing from time to time but the results of what you did made it worth it. After a long time of walking your radios started to crackle and your GPS couldn't pick up where you were anymore eventually failing completely. Your team came into a clearing after a few hours of walking, the expanse was huge, bigger than any clearing the satellite's had seen, it was perfectly circular and the grass was too green and short to be any type of grass in this part of the world. After getting a closer look, it didn't even look like it was from your world. A large stone castle was in the middle of the clearing, it was perfectly kept and was deffenetly being lived in. There wasn't any human life anywhere neer this area so a castle wouldn't be out here. There was an assortment of trees surrounding the circular clearing, a few dozen trees you recognized from all over the world and thousands more you didn't. You were about to start heading towards the castle until you heard a roar from your side.

Your entire team looked to the right, a large wolf like creature had exited the forest near you. It didn't seem to notice your team or the explosion in the distance as you looked to the edges of the forest to see monsters and groups of people exiting from all parts of the forest. The creature sniffed at the air as your team slowly crept back into the forest but it was no use, it had already noticed you. Everyone ducked out of the way as the monster jumped out at you and your team. You ran back into the forest. You heard the monster roar as you slid under a fallen tree but it seemed to be cut off half way through its roar. You ran threw the forest for a bit, looking back to see if the monster was still chasing you or your team but there was nothing. You stoped and walked back to try and find your team, but the forest grew weirder, there was new types of trees and shrubbery and the land was flattening out more. You looked over to some trees, you could see the edge of the forest threw two trees but other trees just made the forest look like it had kept on going. You walked threw the two trees that showed the edge of the forest, a cold chill washed over you as you looked up to see it was dark and snowing. You were baffled, it took you no time to run out of the forest and it looked like the world had ended. You were already starting to shake from the cold and had no choice but walk back into the forest. You stepped over twigs and shrubbery, you had no idea where you ran from as your mind raced as to what was happening. How did the world get so cold and how did it take so little time to get to the outside of the forest. You went back and looked behind the trees, the forest did keep going.

You could feel the burning of someone looking at you again, looking back you still didn't see anyone. You could hear something quietly moving behind you and acted as if you couldn't. More edges of the forest, worlds with giant houses, large stone structures you couldn't tell the meaning of, or trees in the distance that seemed to move, none of which was near the forest you entered or let alone on your world. You kept walking as the rustling of leaves and snapping of branches got louder. It was starting to get dark, you didn't want to sleep with whatever was stalking you, so with no other choice you kept walking. Your eyes were getting heavy as the terrain only got weirder, a small bump in the dirt was almost a few inches tall at this point and the moss on the trees seemed inverted but normal somehow. You kept going but a thundering sound almost knocked you off your feet. You couldn't tell what it was or where it was coming from and it sounded like it was all around you. Your eyes darted around the forest looking for whatever it was as you heard the rustling of leaves again, hastily moving towards you now. You couldn't move in time to get out of the way as you were picked up and carried up a nearby tree. You were about to scream as a scaly hand was put over your mouth and another was holding your arms to your sides. You tried to flail enough to reach for your knife, almost grabbing it before being spun around. You didn't know what you were expecting to see but it wasn't a humanish snake thing. Its face had yellow scales up from its jawline to its ears, its torso was a mix of yellow and brown scales and its blue and yellow eyes were particularly covered by its blond hair. It looked human but it had scales over most if not all of its body.

You wanted to say something but its hand was still covering your mouth. It didn't look like it was looking at you, the thundering sound was starting to get louder as the scaly human looked like it was getting worried. You couldn't turn your head enough to see what was coming but at the bottom of the tree was a yellow and brown tail with a small repeating diamond pattern slowly climbing it. You followed the tail up the tree as it wrapped around the branch you were on expecting something to be ready to attack. But instead you saw the tail connect to the man holding you. You started to wriggle free and get away but he had a death grip on you. You looked back up to his eyes as the booming kept getting louder, he was now completely focused on you, looking over you from head to toe. He glanced over your shoulder one last time and, with an apologetic look on his face, shoved your head into his mouth. You couldn't move for a second, petrified with fear as you were surrounded by warmth and wetness. Your head was spun around to its side, you could see large fangs in the top of his mouth and a small forked tounge quickly licking at your cheek and neck. With one gulp you partially slid down his throat and your feet left the branch you were barely balancing on, you could feel his bones buckle and gravity shift as your head was forced past his collarbone. A reverberating hum echoed around you as he forced your shoulder's past his throat. You thrashed your legs, the booming got louder and the snake person grappled your legs together and quickly forced them down his throat. The muscles around you tensed as you were shoved down faster than they could drag you, it felt like you were falling for a second before it tightened even harder around your head before all the pressure vanished. Your scalp roughly hit the bottom of his stomach and your neck painfully fell behind.

You could feel your shoulders falloing in behind, your whole body lurched to try and catch itself on something as gravity shifted around. You felt like you were laying on your back and immediately tried to wriggle backwards up the snake person's throat once the movement stopped. The booming was only getting louder somehow and your chest started to feel crushed for a second before it fell into the stomach with you. You kept trying to writhe your legs but they were kept still by the thing currently eating you. Your stomach started to follow into his as you were forced to curl up. You tried to scream at him to let you go, the booming sound outside drowning out any sounds you tried to make. Your hips finally made it into the stomach with you for what felt like an excruciatingly long time. You forced yourself threw the pain of bending your joints the wrong way and dragged your arms up to cover your ears. You wanted to punch the walls of your new prison but the booming was too loud and you thought you were about to start bleading from your ears. You could feel your captors mouth close over your feet as he tried to swallow your legs, eventually giving up for a second and opening his mouth. A faint glimmer of hoped flashed for a second before he moved your feet and bit your toes with his molars. Luckaly he hadn't bitten down hard enough to cause any bleading, unluckily, you jerked forward and curled a bit more and slightly bent your knee's. That was all he needed as he swallowed your legs, you could feel his joints cracking and popping as his jaw realigned itself and his chest cracked itself back into place. You tried to push your legs back up but they got caught on his rib cage, he pushed back and shoved your legs deeper, each pair of bones your feet passed clicked back together until you were fully curled up in his stomach.

You tried to scream at the top of your lungs, you couldn't hear anything coming out of your mouth as the booming got louder. You felt a light touch feel along your back. A pair of hands ran across your wing bones, over your shoulders, over your head, and down your spine, a few fingers tracing over every vertebrae. It was almost a reassuring feeling until a small drop of liquid ran down your face, for a split second you forgot where you were and were getting comfortable. You snapped out of the almost trance like state, kicking at the walls and stretching out as much as you could without removing your hands from your ears. You tried your hardest to get him to spit you back up before remembering your knife. You moved your hand out of the way and slamming you head to your shoulder, you jostled around with one hand for your knife, you were suddenly greeted to a pain of pressure once you had your hand on the grip. The pressure tightening the stomach around you as you forced your hand back up to your chest as it slowly wrapped up your back and over your head. It was getting hard to breath and you couldn't grab your knife in time to cut your way out. The booming suddenly stopped as you realized the snake part of the person that ate you had wrapped around your body. Your heart was racing so fast you could hear it... wait, the beats in your chest weren't the same as the ones you heard. You felt your wrist and timed it to the one you were hearing. The heartbeat you heard was faster and deeper than yours and you realized it was the snakes heart beat. The heart beat wasn't the only thing you could hear, low gurgling and the quickening breath of the snake man echoed all around you. A small amount of saliva dripped onto your head and gravity shifted again.

You were back on your feet, at least as well as you could be on your feet while you were all balled up. You heard a sharp drawn out hiss as you were jostled around in his stomach for a bit. You could hear him take in another breath as he hissed again, this one was rising in pitch before you were jostled around more and heard a loud squelch. An incredibly loud and undescribeable noise echoed around you as you felt like you were about to go deaf. It stopped and the booming started up again. This time it only took seconds to disappear. After a few seconds of relative silence besides the gurgling of the stomach and the heartbeat, the pressure was released around you. You immediately took heavy breaths of the thick air around you, the heartbeat around you slowing down. Both your breaths became steady as you felt the tail around you slowly uncoil around you as you felt the hands return to your back. It felt reassuring when he started massaging the muscles in your shoulder blades. You started relaxing a bit, leaning into his massage as you were just happy that the booming stopped. You tried to get comfortable for a second as your legs pressed against his stomach and you remembered where you were.

"Are you ok in there?" He asked, it sounded genuine and auctly kind hearted. He sounded somewhere in his mid 20s.

You had felt acids before and nothing was hurting, slight pain in some of your joints and neck but that was it. "Y-ya, I uhh... I guess I'm fine" Your voice was scratchy and horus. You let your mind wander for a bit, you were in his stomach and it wasn't hurting you at all. Then your mind raced back to why he ate you. "Oh uhhh... ya- umm...... WHAT WAS THAT!" You screamed at him. It must have scared him a bit as he jostled around a bit before his stomach started to sway.

You could feel him slithering a bit until he started resting against something. "Ya, sorry I ate you, I had to try and keep you safe from the giant. If I didn't hide you they would have killed you" he sounded apologetic and a bit sad while saying that.

"Fine, I guess that's a good enough excuse. Can you let me out now. I need to find my team and get back to that castle" you didn't want your friends to start worrying but it was probably to late for that.

"I would but I can't, not right now at least. It's already night and the ground has already started moving. I'll have to wait till morning to let you out" he sounded apologetic but you thought you could hear a bit of joy in his voice as talked.

"Why do I have to stay curled up all night in your stomach, and how do i know your not going to digest me!" You said a little angry and getting ready to pull out your knife.

"The ground is moving, the tall bumps you saw where what move under the ground, and when something touches them they open up and drag whatever it is down under ground. No one I've met knows what it is beacuse no one's ever come out"

"Then what about my friends"

"They'll be fine, these things are rare, if I wasn't here you would have been eaten by them... auctly, you would have been killed by the giant first. Also I'm not going to digest you, I can control my digestive system, and even if I couldn't, us nagas take weeks to digest our prey"

"All right, but I can't sleep like this. Can you let me out on the tree so I can go to sleep"

"I told you, I can't. Here, I was about to go to sleep as well, if you can turn around I can straighten you out."

It didn't seem like you had much of a choice, and for some reason you trusted him. You started trying to turn around when gravity started to shift around you. Gravity was constantly changing directions and interrupting any progress you made. You eventually got turned around as his movement finally stopped and you could tell he was leaning against something and slightly swaying. "All right, I'm turned around, what was your big idea. Also what took you so long to settle down" you said, still pissed at the situation.

"I had to tie a knot in my tail so you wouldn't go too far, if you did go to far I wouldn't be able to bring back up without it taking a full day"

It occurred to you that you were taking him at his word, you had no reason to trust what he was saying and less reason for you to trust he wasn't going to hurt you. You had no idea what was outside and you didn't see anything before he ate you. What is going on, and why was there a part of you that's saying everything is ok? "Hey, what are you planning? I need to get back to my team as soon as possible"

"Were going to sleep safely in the trees until morning and then I'm going to take you to the king. After we talk with him and he does all his king stuff I'll help you find your friends and then take you back to your world"

"Fine, but why did you want me to turn around. I'm still squished in your gut" It didn't take long for the the stomach to start pressing in on you harder. Your feet were pushed through a hole in the bottom of his stomach. Your legs started to follow down. Your hands were caught by the tight muscles and were pulled down with you waist. Your chest felt slightly crushed as the rhythmic pushing and pulling of muscles kept working you down. Your decent started to slow as your shoulder's were caught. Your head and neck were the only thing left in the human stomach. He ran a hand lightly over your head before pushing you down further. You were finaly fully in his second stomach. It was warm, sure it was cramped but it was comparable. You realized there was a gentle swaying like you were on a hammock. The stomach mussels kept trying to work you further down but your feet were caught and you couldn't go down any more. "So, I'm just supposed to sleep like this. What's your name anyway?" The naga gently rubbed where your forehead was.

"Could you at least try to go to sleep? My names Xorha by the way, what's your name?" He was gently rubbing at your shoulder's.

"I'm Y/N" you pushed back at his hands "I'll try and go to sleep now. Goodnight" you reluctantly fell asleep, but it was much easier than you thought it would be. The rhythmic heartbeat and breathing along with gentle massage his stomach gave drifted you along.

"Well, goodnight" Xorah sounded tired. He let out a long hiss like yawn. "Why are you so angry?"

Olivia slightly chucked at the clattering of the potions and sword. She grabbed the potions and put them on a shelf full of others with different colors and different shaped bottles. She didnt know what they did but they looked cool and the liquid inside constantly swirled which was mesmerizing. Olivia put all the weapons and books in her closet to sort out later. She started folding the clothes, slowly stacking them into a pile and putting all of their hats onto another rack almost full of hats from all over time. She finished folding the clothes, putting the plushie on top and ran out of her room with a grin. She ran down the hallways and corridors of the castle, light being created by an unknown source above her. She eventually slowed down while passing a room, she heard pleading to be released and threats on whoever locked them away. Threw the crack in the door she only saw darkness soon lit by a ball of fire and as it slowly moved and grew lightning cracked around them as the fire was snuffed out. Olivia ran off, her dad didn't want her to talk to people that came from other worlds or times. She ran down some more doors and hallways until she reached her dad's lab. Once she walked in everything changed from a medieval stone castle to a sterial white futuristic laboratory. She was able to slip by the cleaning robot, instead grabbing a small disk she put on her back. She ran into the lab and put the clothes on an empty desk which she also jumped onto and began to play with her plushie while she waited for her dad to finish what he was doing.

Olivia didn't know what her dad was working on immediately but she knew it was usually to help her, her mom, or her brother. Her dad walked out of a side room, a few barrels floating behind him. His eyes settled on Oliva, she looked at the ground as her dad walked over.

"What are you doing, you know your not allowed to come into the workshop."

"We have visitors and they had new stuff and I wanted to see what you were making"

"You could have told me threw the intercom, it reaches threw my entire workspace"

"The guy in the front scares me"

"Well... (sigh) I'll make something else soon. Please leave the clothes with him and go back to bed"

"But I'm not tired, and I want to help"

"You know you can't help. Not yet at least"

He started to guide the barrels to the top of the machine in the center of the room. A green, thin liquid flowed out of the barrel's and into the large vat on top. They could see it filling threw the glass in the middle of the machine.

"I remember this, it makes new life in an instant right, or it's supposed to"

"You... remember? What do you remember seeing it from"

"Oh, umm. I uh, saw it while reading from... your... private... collection.

His face shifted in anger slowly settling on disappointment. He grabbed her plushie and walked over to the control panel, shoving it into the small glass tube. "If words won't stop you from going into my library, maybe action will" he said while pushing a button, sending the plushie into the vat. Olivia ran over to her dad to try and stop him as she started to cry, his frantic button pushing wasn't even trying to experiment on it, just destroy. She tried to form words threw a blur of tears, just wanting her dad to stop. "Mom made that for me" she finally blurted out. Her dad stoped, remembering walking past the room of her mom stitching it together. He hit a release valve, a green steam shot into a containment vault above them. The plushie fell onto the ground, a thin white mist flowing from it. Her dad walked away, the plushie floating to follow him until he threw it into a chemical cleaner. The machine shook for a few seconds before the plushie was released. Olivia immediately ran over and picked it up to check what the damage was. An intricate design of thin green vines covered the pink plushie as if it was re-dyed. She was relieved that it wasn't damaged but she was sad it had changed color's. As she was thinking how she could dye it back to pink, she thought she could feel it move a bit. She looked down to see its front paws trying to climb her shirt like a puppy. She hugged it tighter, trying not to let it move. It made a small squeak as her dad sat down next to her.

"I'm sorry for my outburst, but you know why I can't let you read threw my collection"

"Beacuse if I read the wrong book I could die on the spot, I know. I just want to help you bring mom back"

"I would love if you could help, but what kind of father would I be if I knew the risks and let you take that chance. I want you to live your childhood which is why I'm making you a protector if I can't help you"

"Wait... this isn't to help mom"

"I will never stop trying to bring your mother and your brother back, but I still have to protect you. Please, stay out of my studies, I can't risk you getting hurt. Now, let's get you to bed"

He got up, carrying Olivia in his arm's. They walked out of his lab and her dad took the disk off her back and threw it onto a nearby table. As they walked threw the doors a disinfect mist sprayed out of the walls but hit an invisible bubble around them. Her dad walked threw the castle slowly so he wouldn't disrupt her. Olivia almost fell asleep, barely staying awake from the tiny movement of her plushie. They passed by the dark room, a red light started to grow as her dad walked closer, she heard screaming from the three people in the room and the door slammed shut just as he walked neer the red light shinning from the crack. She looked back just as her dad was walking away, she saw the red light die down threw the windows on the top as the screaming stopped. Olivia slipped in and out of sleep, her dad lulling and rocking her to sleep and the small plush keeping her just barely awake. As they walked threw the castle her dad was regal in his movements, though no one else lived in this castle to see it. They walked down the hallway to her room, the pictures on the walls shifted and seemed more picturesque than usual and the light that illuminated the halls started to dim.

The doors to her room opened as her dad walked down the hall, the light that illuminated it was completely gone by this point. He placed Olivia on her bed and tucked her in, the weather outside changed to a light rain and the tapping of the raindrops on her windowless windows finally rocked her to sleep, she didn't even hear her dad close the door.

After a few minutes Olivia woke up to the sound of squeaking and the feeling of her shirt being pulled. She looked down to see her plushie biting at the collar of her pj's, squeaking as it tried to stand but feel down. She picked up the plushie, holding it in her arms as it tried to bite at her sleeves. "It's never eaten before, it has to be hungry." She thought. "I've never needed to give you a name before... how about Felix." She said while grabbing the biggest pillow on her bed. It looked up at her for a few seconds when she said that before going back to gnawing on her sleeve. The biggest pillow she had was almost 6 feet long that she would sometimes hide in. She put Felix on the pillow while looking for something to feed him, he started to gnaw at the soft fabric before collapsing onto it. The pink fabric of his body started to break apart and the green fabric started to stretch over the pillow. As the green fabric touched the pillow the surrounding fabric formed into a fluffier pink fabric. Certain parts of the pillow started to constrict into limbs and in a matter of seconds her plushie had taken over her pillow. Felix started to move slightly, the fabric on his face shifted and his eyelids opened. His eyes were pure black as Olivia had seen before but there was small blue speckles she'd never noticed. His mouth showed a row of translucent rainbow teeth. He sat up, rubbing his head before looking over at Olivia, a confused expression showed over his face. She pushed the button oh her bed and stumbled over to Felix, picking him up and throwing him onto the floor. He may have been two feet taller than her but he was still the weight of a pillow. His face was stained with confusion and shifted to fear as the small gun lowered from the top of the room and shot out a thin laser that settled on his forehead. He looked around the room for somewhere to hide, eventually settling on the curtains and running over to hide behind them. They automatically closed to an impossibly thin line and he ran to the closest, then over to the hat rack, each hiding space stoped being usable as he got to them. Olivia was confused to what he was doing, it wasn't like any intruder that had come neer the castle or any of her dads monster she had found lurking outside whatever room he was in. She let out a small giggle, it was funny seeing him run around the room but she stopped when she heard the AI's voice.

"1 OCCUPANT DETECTED. -82% THREAT LEVEL. NO DETAINMENT NEEDED" the voice said before the gun retracted into the ceiling. The gun has never not gone off, even the most minor threat would be sent away. If he wasn't a threat then maybe he was a friend. Olivia sat on her bed staring at Felix while he tried to process what had happened. He knew the gun was dangerous but he didn't know why, he unfolded himself from the ball that he scrunched into and stood up while checking his surroundings. He questioned what he was doing out loud, surprised that he could talk when he did, he didn't sound any older than Olivia. She got a better look at him while he was mostly still, he was just a bigger version of the plush he was, though a few features were bigger. He looked over to Olivia, neither of them knew what to do. They sat in silence, studying each other and thinking of what to say. Both of them spoke at the same time and both apologizing as they interrupted each other, Felix lightly laughed to himself about it. "Who are you" Olivia asked as she scooted closer to the edge of the bed. "Oh, I'm Felix. That's what you called me before I-" Felix said as he tried to sit on the floor, he put his hand on the ground as his wrist and forearm sunk into each other and he fell onto the ground. He hit the side of his head, it sunk halfway into itself and lightly bounced back up. He took a second to figure out what happened as Olivia giggled at it. Felix sat up, pushing his arm into the floor and letting it crumble into itself. "Before I became this. Whatever this is?" Felix said as he looked over his body.

"Were you something else before my dad made you?" Olivia said scooting closer while her knees were dangling off the side of her bed.

"I dont think so. I remember wakeing up but I dont remember going to sleep, auctly I dont remember anything before walking up" Felix said while pushing his fingers into the ground, watching as they buckled and bent with a lack of joints then letting them extend and bend them like they did.

"So why are you he-" Olivia scooted too close to the edge of the bed and fell. She braced herself for the impending thud, but it never came. She opend her eyes the see the pink and green fabric under her.

Felix instinctively jumped under her. "I think I'm here to protect you" Felix tried to say with his face still pressed into the ground.

"Is that all, or do you also want to play"

"play what?"

"My dad talked about this old game he used to play when he was a kid called hide and seek. I'll count down from 30 and you go hide"

"oh, ok" Felix found a place to hide pretty quickly. Olivia was surprisingly ok with what was happening.

They played for a while, Felix never found any good hiding spots while the room seemed to help Olivia. Felix only found her when she started laughing. He didn't see the humor in it or why he did what she said but he was starting to have fun, and he was also getting hungry. Olivia was hiding in a new closet that opend up in front of her. The door looked like it was made out of the same stone as the wall which is why she probably hadn't noticed it before. Her eyes were getting heavy as she sat in the darkness. Her mind started to drift as she heard the rain taping on the windows outside. She could barely keep her head up for more than a second at this point. She heard the light shuffling of Felix looking for her while she finally fell asleep. After a while she woke up to Felix yelling her name, he sounded horrified. Olivia opened the wall door and rubbed her eyes. "Felix?" He looked over, he couldn't cry but he deffenetly would be. He ran over and hugged Oliva, pressing her into his body.

"Dont scare me like that, I thought you died. I need to protect you and you need to stay in my... line..." he trailed off and kept mumbling as Olivia talked

"In your line of sight? You sound like one of my dad's robots, I thought you were going to be fun to be around" she started to get sad as she tried to get away from Felix, she was just going to go to bed and be silently upset with her dad in the morning. "Hey, let go of me"

Felix stared at her, the blue specks defused into his eyes. "My- my li... my line of..." he couldn't keep a single thought strait besides his want for food. He needed food.

Felix slightly opend his mouth, his yellowish tounge gently licked across her face. She was the best and only thing he's ever tasted, he wanted more. He gently placed her whole head into his mouth, slowly licking at her face. Olivia was thrashing around just trying to get away from the thing that was currently eating her. Her movements started to slow as she felt what was happening, his tongue was super soft and weirdly warm. Her movements almost came to a stop, it was so soft and comfy. Felix worked her shoulders into her maw as he pushed her head into his throat. Olivia started to flail again, she was still being eaten, she couldn't just stop struggling. Felix worked her further and further down and she would occasionally stop and let the warmth and fluffiness surround her. Soon her head reached his stomach and small grey tendrils slightly rubbed at her face. She would have thought they would tickle but they pressed down almost like a massage. As more of her body found it's way into Felix's stomach, she could feel herself drifting off to sleep from the feeling, the gentle sound of his heartbeat and the muffled sound of the rain helping.

Felix finished swallowing her legs, he leaned against the wall to his side as the rest of her entered his stomach. Olivia studied the stomach walls a bit closer, she could see through them. She could see the light being broken by thin strands of various fabrics. It wasn't much thicker than a few dryer sheets, if she wanted she could tear her way out. A small strand of fabric moved through her line of sight and she looked back to her clothes. The grey stands were slowly tearing her pajamas to shreds and the cotton strands were being moved to find a place along Felix's stomach like they were always there. She held a hand to one of the grey tendrils, it gently pressed at her hand like it was waiting for something. She pressed back at the stomach walls, a muffed rumbling grew above her. He was purring, Olivia would've never guessed that he could purr but he was. She had to stifle a yawn, this wasn't so bad. Felix rubbed back at the light pressure in his stomach. He could feel every strand that was on the verge of snapping. He had done it, he ate the only thing he was made to protect... he ate...... oh no.

"Olivia, are you ok in there? I-I'm sorry, I didn't mean to. I just got so hungry and I needed to eat and you were just-"

"Felix, please be quiet. I'm trying to sleep"

"WH- your in my stomach! How are you so calm!"

"Your warm, comfy, and your stomach gives a really good massage. Also, your not hurting me, its probably safer in here"

"But a stomach isn't safe. Your-"

"Can we just go to sleep. If you want you can sleep on my bed"

"I..." Felix looked over to the bed, he was deffenetly getting tired. He slowly stood up, having to carry his huge stomach until he collapsed onto the bed. Olivia kneaded into the stomach walls causing Felix to purr up a storm. He had to admit, everything about this felt amazing. The gentle pushes, prods, and rubs from inside his stomach along with the feeling of being overly full while protecting Olivia was heavenly to him. The gentle patter of rain, Felix's soft heartbeat and purring, and the massage his stomach gave started to lull her back to sleep. "Goodnight Felix" "Oh, goodnight Olivia" It didn't take long for them to both drift off to sleep.

:timeskip to morning:

After a while longer of playing their parents called them back, there was no sense of time underwater, but everyone was still getting tired. Their parents had to be the ones to make sure that they didn't get hurt and when to call them back. They were their only source of protection after all. Everyone swam deeper into the forest, eventually the small town was in sight. A few bigger mers were swimming around, some with bigger and slightly squirming belly's. Some shops were opening and some were closing by the time they were entering the small town. Marin swam next to Amara and helped look for her parent's. It didn't take long to find them, Amara gave Marin a hug and a quick goodbye before she swam over to her dad and gave him a hug. He was a bright glowing green with small black lines coursing over the edges of his scales. Marin watched with a bit of envy as Amara's dad gently pulled her into his mouth after returning the hug. He swallowed a few times, her wriggling form slowly shuffled down his throat and into his stomach. Marin jumped as he felt a light hand press onto his back, he turned around and was ready to swim away. His instincts were eased when he saw Amara's mom, her deep purple scales gently rubbed at his arm. She set his head into her palm as he stared up at her.

"So I still cant get any protection anymore"

"I'm not the one getting bigger"

"I-I'm sorry"

"No, No. Don't apologize. Someday you'll be the biggest mer here. I wish I could still protect you so you could stay here, but they won't let a kid stay with no protector. I'll swim with you back to the edge if it'll make you more comfortable"

"Thanks"

Amara's mom was right, he was too big, even with his tail scrunched up he was almost her size. Marin fallowed behind her, his tail gently swayed so he wouldn't dart ahead of her, even if it was on accident. Eventually they reached the edge of the forest, Marin swam out just a bit further than her into the darkness. They said their goodbyes and Amara's mom left back into the forest. Marin staired into the darkness, he never wanted to go back but they wouldn't let him sleep in the forest. He never needed to come this far to the edge of the forest before he lost his parents. Marin swam further up the branches, his tail coiled around a branch with some fruit growing on it. He tore off a thin white strip and bit into the juicie flesh. This was the first type of food he had after he clawed his way out of safety so he wouldn't starve. He didn't like to think about it but he wasn't able to complain about what he ate. He staired back into the darkness and thought. It was only one wrong turn and he became an orphan. Marin finished his meal and returned to the ground, he's been doing this for what felt like his entire life but the horror never seemed to dwindle.

A falling branch caught his attention, Marin looked up to see a grey shark slowly approaching him. He could feel his heart start beating faster as he slowly backed away. The shark lunged at him and Marin let out a small shriek and swam as fast as he could to get away from it. He ducked under branches and into small crevices in the trees while trying to get away from the shark, it was breaking almost every branch while trying to bite at him. Marin had to find a place to hide, NOW. His instincts were going off the rails, there had to be somewhere he could go besides the town. Marin darted out into the darkness and slipped back behind a... was that a mer. Marin swam back into the darkness and checked, the shark was still following him. There it was, a pure black mer near the light of the forest. The shark almost bit his tail while he darted back into the forest. It didn't take long for Marin the reach where the other mer was. He darted out of the forest to it, they had to help him.

Marin darted under its arm, it was bigger than any mer he had seen before, maybe it could even protect him. Marin scrunched up even harder while he heard the struggles of the huge mer and the shark. He poked his head out to see what was happening, the shark was biting the bigger mers arm. He scrunched himself tighter than he thought he could when the huge mer reeled its arm back and punched the shark in the nose. The shark swam off into the blackness of the sea, it didn't take long for Marin to lose the form of the shark. He didn't want to be away from the new mer in fear that the shark would come back the second he didn't have something around him. He looked back, there wasn't a drop of blood in the water from the huge mer. The arm around him started moving upwards, Marin dashed to the other side of the huge mer, he needed to stay safe if the shark came back. The huge mer opend both of its arms, Marin dashed around the huge mer to look for a new place to hide. He was confused on why the bigger mer wouldn't hide him, every mer looks out for each other. He wrapped himself around the bigger mers neck, he didn't want to choke it but he needed to stay hidden.

After a bit, the bigger mers hands started waving around him. Marin protested a bit, eventually he let go and swam up to the bigger mers face. It... didn't look like a mer, its hair was golden but it wasn't glowing and it went to his jaw. He didn't have any scales and what looked like pinkish fruit skin wasn't even golden like his hair. Marin tried pressing his hands to its face but was stopped by some invisible force. He was trapped, that's why he kept trying to get Marin's attention. Marin swam a bit away from the giants face and readied his shoulder in front of him before swimming as fast as he could into the invisible prison. The resulting thud made him feel like his arm was going to shatter when he looked at it. The giant cupped his hands Marin and made some low growls. Marin starred up at the giant after a bit of struggling, it didn't look like any other mer he'd seen. "I-I'm sorry, I was trying to free you but now I don't know if your even trapped. I'm Marin by the way" he said while rubbing his arm.

The giant looked confused as Marin talked, could he even understand him. The giant raised a hand up to Marin, it was bigger than most of the branches on the tree's. He wrapped his tail around the arm out of instinct before he realised what he had done. There was a small orange line on the giants wrist, it almost felt like it was made out of the algae on the trees when he pressed his hands into it. The giant let out a light chuckle and some more low growls before moving towards a nearby tree. It layed down and started shoveling sand over itself. Marin looked up at him confused, why was he sleeping in the open, he would get killed and if not, couldn't he at least protect Marin. The giant gently rubbed a finger down his back, Marin recoiled at first but leaned into the warm massage. The giant made more low growls before bringing Marin down and holding him to his stomach. Marin looked up to the giant who was already trying to fall asleep, he could hear a faint growl from the stomach. The warmth emanating from the giant was staring to make Marin a little drowsy. He forced himself away from the giant and started pulling on their finger. If he could keep Marin warm then Marin would bring him somewhere warm.

The giant reluctantly got up from where it was resting and took a step towards him. Marin swam into the darkness and the giant slowly followed him. Great, he had a giant following him, now he needed to find home. Marin raced ahead, making sure that he was going in the right direction and then swimming back to make sure the giant was close behind. Eventually he found the stone wall and followed along the bottom. The giant was slowly stumbling behind him, he was deffenetly tired. Marin hoped the giant would like his home, it was huge compared to Marin and there was a constant warm water falling from the top of the cave. Marin kept swimming along the edge, the entrance had to be nearby. The orange lines were the only indication that the giant was still following him. Eventually the couldn't feel the ground and swam down, soon he could see the familiar orange light of home. He swam back to the entrance of the cave but before he could ascend, the giant fell down the hole next to him. Marin hugged the giants face, happy he could get his new friend so close to home. He was surprised when the giant grabbed him by the waist.

Marin protested and pushed at the fingers holding him. "Hey! Let me go! We're almost there, I can swim there myself!" He yelled at the giant but it didn't matter, they couldn't understand each other. Marin not so reluctantly leaned into the warm massage the giant gave with his thumb. Marin finally got a perspective on how big the giant was. The tunnel Marin used to get to his home was huge and the giant needed to almost crawl to fit through it. Soon the giant entered Marins home and let go of him. He darted over to his bed, and swam up the thin tube. He crossed his arms and watched the giant, they looked over his collection of shiny things. The giant looked up at the light hole on the ceiling and stuck its head out of the hole. The cave started to drown in darkness as the giant pulled himself out of the hole. Marin swam closer to the retreating legs of the giant and followed him threw the hole. The giant stood up in the waterless place, they looked over the empty space.

"Hey, don't leave me, I want to be up there too. Pick me up" The giant turned around while Marin grabbed at their heels. They put their hand in the water next to him, Marin quickly wrapped himself around their wrist again. He didn't expect the amount of weight over his body when the giant pulled him out of the water. Marin was forced to lay down on the giants palm while everything became warmer the higher he was lifted. The giant moved to a wall and laid down, it took all of Marin's strength to hold his chest up. It felt so weird to breath this high up. He watched as the giant pulled off the invisible prison on its face and pulled off what Marin previously thought were scales from its head. Its non-glowing golden hair bounced up slightly from where the black stuff was. Marin was captivated by the sight for a bit before speaking up. "Um, if you can understand me I was wondering if you would be able to protect me until we're not tired anymore" Marin grabbed at the air as he talked. The giant brought him closer to their face, would they actually protect him? He pressed his hands into the giants cheeks, they were so much warmer than any mer.

Marin partially opend the giants lips, a warm air lightly blew over him. He lightly put a hand on the giants teeth. Immediately the giant pulled him away from their mouth, Marin looked up at them confused. "I-I thought you would let me- I'm sorry, I haven't had a protector in a long time" Marin had to hold back a sob while he said that. The giant slowly moved their hand back to the water. Marin grappled to their wrist and pulled himself forward up their arm as best he could. He at least wanted to be near the giant who could keep him safe. He could barely grip the black substance on the giant as he tried to pull himself up, his hands slipped and he fell. The giant caught him as soon as he fell, he looked over the side of their hand to the ground. He hadn't felt this type of fear before, he scotched over and hugged the giants thumb while his tail hung idly between their fingers. The giant slowly moved him around, Marin held his eyes shut until he felt the tip of his tail touch the water. He pulled himself between the giants fingers and tied loops between his tail so the giant wouldn't let him go, he just didn't want to be alone again, was it too much to ask.

Marin couldn't hold back his tears any more. He didn't want to be alone, he wouldn't let the giant leave him alone. The giant held him a little closer to their face, they looked disappointed and angry. He realized their eyes were pure brown, they had small slits in the brown that were discolored as well. Marin grabbed at the air again towards their face, he wanted to see. The giant pulled him closer and Marin looked in their eyes. They looked like mini rainbows in his eyes. Marin scotched closer to the giants face and tried to grab at their lips. After a bit the giant slowly moved him to their lips, did they change their mind? Would they protect him! Marin practically chocked when he saw the giants lips part. His eyes were getting heavy and he just wanted to sleep. With the last bit of energy he still had, he jettisoned himself forward onto the tounge. He landed with a small squish, everything was so warm that his tail felt like it was freezing. He moved further over the tounge to the back of the throat, he hoped he at least tasted good.

Marin reached the back of the giant's throat and tried to crawl down, he was ecstatic that someone could finally protect him. He was pulled out, closer to the edge of the mouth. He was confused, why didn't the giant swallow him. He was pulled out a tiny bit more, they was messing with him, they weren't going to protect him. Marin hugged the tounge and started crying harder, they were just playing with him. He wanted a protector, anyone who could protect him, he didn't want to be vulnerable again. He was pressed up against the roof of the giants mouth, the tounge slightly moved over him. He pulled himself forward down the tounge, if the giant was going to keep him in their mouth then he was going to try and be protected. Marin slowly scrambled to the back of their throat and thought for a bit. What if the giant was trying to protect him a different way, or if the giants stomach was actually dangerous. Marin pressed a hand to the giants throat to try and show he was ready.

The giant gently swallowed, the warm flesh massaged Marin downwards. He reveled in the warmth, this was a dream he hoped he'd never wake up from. He could feel somthing press on him from the outside, the giant was pressing its finger on him until he passed their collar bone. The muscle around him tightened for a second around his head and down his arms and waist as he entered the stomach. Marin gently pulled himself to a wall, his hair was glowing enough that he could tell each ridge between the mussels. The stomach was huge, it would deffenetly be able to fit his entire body. He pushed at the stomach wall, it slightly flexed in and over his hands. He started to knead at the stomach walls, giggling everytime the muscles gently enveloped his arms. He could feel the giant slowly lift the part of his tail still outside up, his tail was so cold. Soon the entire stomach was filled and his tail kept coming, stretching it out more and more. Eventually his entire body was in the stomach, it was so warm and comfortable. He could feel a pressure from the outside again and moved his torso towards it.

Noah walked down the corridors of the ship, passing closed doors and soldiers in military uniforms. Eventually he came by his room and walked in. He didn't have much in his room but then again he was only staying on the ship for one night before he would be sent down into the ocean. He looked out the window and it finally dawned on him that this was the last time he was going to be above water for possibly over a year. His mind started to race as his breath quickened, he wasn't ready for this. He walked further into his room and steadied himself on the table, his breathing started to get shakey as he vividly thought about every tiny thing that could go horribly wrong. The windows in the ship could shatter, or they might land unevenly and get stuck in the drop pod. He glanced to the mini fridge and stumbled over to it, catching himself and forcing himself not to curl up on the ground. He opened the small fridge, he felt the wave of cool air wash over him, he realized how much sweat was pouring off him before he reached into the back, pulling out a beer from a six pack, it was the last one. He idly flicked the cap with the nail of his thumb as sat down on his bed and closed his eyes, he hasn't had a drink in over a decade but the minor actions calmed him anyway. His nail was already going white with scratch marks and the tip of his thumb started bleading as the cap started to tear away at the scab that formed from the past few days of him doing this. He slowly opened his eyes, his hands were shaking and blood was spilling down his wrist and the neck of the bottle. He got up and threw the whole bottle away, he walked into the bathroom and bent over the sink, just trying to hold himself up.

Noah held the hand that was bleading to steady it and washed it off, he fumbled around the cabinet above the sink for something. Noah had no idea what he was looking for, there was this awful noise in his ears and he couldn't focus. He shook his head to clear the voice before auctly paying attention to what he was looking for. He grabbed the gauze and small tube of neosporin and stared applying it to his thumb. After a few seconds of calming himself down he looked in the mirror, right over his shoulder and to the garbage can. They weren't allowing anyone with anything above a 0.0 BAC underwater so that was a good thing, or a horrible thing depending on how you looked at it. Noah wished he could break his promise and grab that beer out of the trash, but he couldn't, he wouldn't break his promise, no matter how much he didn't want to go. Noah sat there for a few minutes, he didn't think, he didn't talk, he just stared at himself. His golden blond hair was a scraggly, matted mess from all his sweat and he was starting to grow a thin stubble of a beard that was just as golden as his hair. Unfortunately for him they didn't allow razors or any sort of non military accepted knife on the ship either. His eyes didn't help his look, a deep and uncanny looking brown was where his iris should be. Not a normal or pretty brown, not even ugly brown but something that looked like every color mixed together improperly somehow. He took one last look over himself before speaking. "What would she think of you now" he shallowly laughed at himself before returning to his bed.

On the pillow was a small case about the size of his palm. He opened it and pulled put a small black roll that he looked over for a few seconds. They said it would be on his bed when he returned but this couldn't be it, could it? He ran his non bleading thumb over it until his nail caught something. He pinched the small little clip and let it unfurl, it just kept rolling and rolling, eventually it split off into three different rolls and the middle one split again into two more. Eventually it stoped, it was deffenetly a suit but it was way to thin, he gently rubbed part of it between his fingers and it gave way much more easily than he thought it would. It started to fill with air and expand horizontally as it stretched to his proportions. It was a thin black suit with orange around the wrists and face. He slipped into it, taking much longer than it should of before he took of. He ran down the hallway, he was deffenetly late as he passed more and more empty room's. He wanted to hide, he wanted to run back to his room and sleep it away but it was either this or he was fired.

He turned a corner and almost ran into the general, immediately turning and running into the small line of people and found a spot. A scientist walked over and handed him a glass plate and some gloves. Noah immediately put the gloves on and held the glass plate under his arm like everyone else. The colonel stated to talk and Noah immediately started to drift off, he didn't care what he was saying and he'd let his subconscious remember everything for him. Somthing about new technologies, making a new world under the old, and unknown life forms. Eventually everyone put on there masks and Noah followed suit, putting it on. The orange--- whatever the suit was made out of extended and gripped the small glass plate and stuck it to his face. After a while and more nonsense talking a few people were taken away by the scientists. After a bit of silence everyone was guided onto the drop pod, luckily it didn't have any windows and Noah felt a bit happier about that.

There was about eight people left overall, some crying, some talking to others and some sleeping like Noah. After a bit (and a quick nap) a bunch of metal clanks were heard above them as everything became a little lighter. It took over four hours to finally hit the bottem, small bumps of flesh on metal and loud echoing scratches were occasionally heard on the way down. Almost everyone was silent for the entire trip, everyone was on high alert the entire way down. When everyone got up and started to bustle around to grab supplies, Noah still sat in some form of shock. He eventually got up, and walked to the wall, a small black pack with his name and the word scavenger printed underneath. "Great, just great" he said as he walked to the pressure chamber and let the water start flowing in around him. His mind immediately betrayed him, his suit could be flawed and he'd drown, his training might not come in handy and he would be crushed, or there could be a monster outside that was already killing the rest of his team. He could feel a dribble of sweat rundown his face as the door opened.

He slightly walked/stumbled outside once the door was open. It was a sight to behold, people were already setting up futuristic buildings with a small handheld printers, others were already picking up scrap metal and other things then scanning them with some type of other small gun and they disappeared into nothingness. Noah took a step forward, he wasn't ready for a small bounce when he set his foot back down. He slightly swayed his arms and swam a bit. He slowly fell back to the ground and laughed a bit, maybe this wouldn't be so bad. He looked over to someone on top of the drop pod attaching lights to the top, as one turned on he saw a group of three people holding futuristic rifles and shoulder mounted plasma cannons. Past them was the coral forest, deep blue coral taller than some trees on the surface were growing strait from the ground and if Noah wasn't mistaken, the glowing rainbow swirling up the coral was algae. He took his focus off them and reached into his pack, it almost seamed like it fused with his suit. He grabbed a small device from the pack and studied it for a while. It looked like half of a gun, something he should combine with something else. Looking back the saw the people talking the scrap also had the same gun, he put two and two together and started looking for something to use it on. Eventually he found a small piece of a ship wreck and scanned it, the light shining over the piece of orange metal was intriguing to Noah and he watched the small piece of metal disappear into a small stream of bubbles. He watched the bubbles rise and rise... and rise. His breath started to quicken as he remembered he was underwater. He fell to a knee and clutched his sides, he could feel his heart beating against his ribs. This was going to be a long year.

Time skip: 1 Month Later

Noah was starting to get used to the ocean. His panic attacks had almost come to a complete halt as he stopped thinking about where he was. If he didn't move his limbs to fast he could almost picture it as a different planet, say for the lack of stars in the pitch black sky. Everyone started to make there own houses and buildings, the infrastructure of a city was already starting to appear. There has only been one known casualty, a man was on a scavenging run and fell into a magma chamber. The suits were designed to be able to take the heat of magma and it did, the suit was undamaged. Unfortunately that guy didn't like to wear gloves and the heat spread threw his hands to the rest of his body like a conductor. The exploration team that went into the corral forest also never came back and were presumed MIA and no more manned explorations were allowed into the forest. Noah was now the only scavenger left as his team all started to do what they were higherd to do, and his team needed supply's. Luckily their radars found an old German U boat that he could scavenge, unluckily it was on the edge of the corral forest and a two day's trip to get there.

Noah set out, his pack still had some rations and regular food after all this time. He didn't think that this food would last him a month let alone a year but he barely had to eat anything. He was running on an empty stomach for the past few days and he wasn't hungry at all. He walked along the edge of the coral forest, the higher ups didn't want anyone going in or over the forest, and Noah didn't want to go threw it either. He had to admit though that it was beautiful, large deep blue trees with a rainbow algae spiraling up the trees and over the branches. He kept walking, a few sharks and other aquatic species that he he didn't recognize tried to bite at him. The suit was a perfect defense against what seemed to be everything in the ocean as nothing could penetrate it. Soon Noah was getting tired, he tried to think of a place to sleep, the algae on the trees was soft and he could pull some sand over him to keep the currents from blowing him away. He walked a little bit further along the edge of the forest while trying to find an overly fluffy tree to sleep on. He's been seeing a commotion every so often in the distance, but he wasn't expecting to have something long and blue to come flying out of the forest and under his arm with a shark following suit.

The shark bit at Noah's arm, the small blue fish pressing itself tighter against his Noah's side. Noah tried to fight off the shark, eventually pushing it away and punching it in the nose. The shark swam off into the black of the ocean, the small blue creature still trembling under his arm. He reached under his arm to shoo away whatever was there, the small creature darted under his other arm. He finally got a look at the size, it had to be at least half his arm span. He raised both of his arms and the small creature darted around his body, eventually curling itself around his neck. For a second Noah thought he was going insane, were those tiny hands on the back of his neck? He tried gently shooing the thing away from his neck, it wasn't pressing down hard enough to choke him but it wasn't something he was too comfortable with having. Eventually it got the memo and started unfurling itself from his neck and gently swam up to his face. It couldn't be, a tiny peron was floating in front of him. Light blue almost glowing hair and a slightly blue tinted body, it looked like it had scales at its waist. He followed it down and saw what looked like an eel tail, slowly retreating from Noah's neck.

The little person approached his face plate and pressed his hands on it, Noah only gave a confused look in response. He had to be dreaming, this couldn't be real, could it? The eel slowly backed away from him and full force rammed the face plate with its shoulder. Noah slightly jumped at what it was doing and gently grabbed the eel. It slightly wriggled in his grasp as before Noah tried to speak to it "what do you think your doing, your going to break your arm" the small eel looked up at him dumbfounded. After a bit of silence the eel finally responded with a few clicks and chirps while rubbing its arm. Noah was confused to say the least, he let the tiny go and held out his palm for it to sit in, instead it wrapped itself around his wrist and squished its hands into the orange fabric next to the gloves. Noah lightly chuckled to himself "all right, you can sleep there for the night" he walked over to the nearest tree and laid down on it. He silently scooped some sand onto himself with his free hand, the tiny looked up at him confused. Noah gently ran a finger down the tinyes back "your freezing" he whispered as he held the tiny eel person to stomach. After a bit the Noah started to drift off, the eel was not having that, it got up and started pulling on Noah's finger.

Noah opened his eyes back up to see the tiny struggling with all it's might to bring Noah somewhere. Noah reluctantly got up and followed the tiny, the glowing hair keeping it in sight at all times. It darted around the darkness of the ocean and back to Noah to make sure he was following. Noah kept at a steady pace to keep up with the tiny. He almost wanted to lay on the ground and sleep there. Eventually they reached a cliff face, the tiny followed along the edge of the wall. Noah looked back, the forest wasn't very far away and he never knew this cliff face was here. The small eel zig zaged across the bottem of the cliff face, Noah kept up with the tiny, confused and tired the entire time. Soon the glowing hair disappeared under the ground, Noah freaked out and ran over to where the tiny disappeared and bent down ready to start digging at the ground. He reached his hands down too fast and his whole body fallowed into a hole. It didn't take him long for his back to hit the side of a slope and for him to see a bit of orange light illuminating a tunnel in front of him. The tiny eel swam up to him and pressed itself against his faceplate, Noah immediately grabbed the tiny by its waist. It pushed against his fingers and chirped at him angrily but he wasn't going to let it go, not if it was going to scare him like that again. He shuffled forward threw the tunnel, he had to hunch his back to get threw it.

Soon the tunnel opened up into a cave, it went down a bit but it was almost a perfect sphere. There were small metal bolts and bottle caps on the walls and other miscellaneous items strewn about. He finally let the tiny go and it shoved itself threw a long PVC pipe with an angel connector at the top. A bit of its tail was hanging out the bottom as it rested its head on its arms. There was a slight suction near his foot and a light feeling of flowing water over his back. Noah looked up to see the source of the light, there was a hole with an edge to the water above him. He stood up and looked around for a bit, the cave extended out even further, it was huge. He lifted his arms out of the water and pulled himself up out of the hole with more ease than he should have been able to. The top of the ceiling had a glowing orange moss and neer the hole he came out of was a small water fall that had some warm water flowing into the small underwater cave. The walls had a green moss that was fluffy to the touch and the ground was smoothed over and barely damp. A small splash and some angry chirping grabbed his attention. The tiny was trying to reach for his heel and chirping the entire time. Noah reached his hand into the water, slightly swishing his fingers next to the tiny. The tiny immediately coiled itself around his wrist and rested it's back on his palm.

Noah scooted over over to one of the walls, he saw the tiny breathing, its chest was moving quickly as it just stared up at him. Noah took his mask off and took in a deep breath, before pulling the small hood off his head. It almost smelled like mint in the cave, what was this stuff. The tiny on his hand started chirping instantly, Noah looked down as it made grabby hands at his face. Noah brought the tiny closer to his face and it immediately pressed its hands into his cheeks. It ran it's hands over his lips before trying to part them. Noah took the tiny away from his mouth once it put a hand on his teeth, it looked confused before it started chirping again. It looked sad that it wasn't able to look into Noah's mouth. He moved it back into the water, it tried climbing back up his arm before slipping. Noah immediately reached under the tiny to catch it. The tiny layed down for a few seconds before scrambling over and hugging Noah's thumb. Noah brought it higher into the air, the tinyes tail was dangling from between his pointer and middle finger. It looked down at the ground a little frightened before looking back up to Noah with the same waiting look.

Noah slowly dipped the eel part back into the water, the tiny quickly wrapped itself around his fingers in response. Noah held it back in the air, he was staring to get tired of its antics. He staired at the tiny in his hands with a disappointed look on his face, as he got a better look at the small person he realized it looked younger than he'd orginally thought, almost like a young teenager. Looking closer at its facial structure he could almost be certain it was male. As he looked over it, he saw it's small eyes were almost as blue as its hair and he realized it was crying. Why would it be crying, he hadn't hurt it had he? Noah looked it over, there were no bruises or scratches he could see so why was it crying. It started making the grabby hands back at Noah's face, he reluctantly brought it closer to his eyes. It started him in the eyes for a few seconds before it scooted closer to the edge of his hand. It tried reaching for his lips again, Noah thought about it. It really wanted to be eaten, the doctor said that it takes longer to digest food so maybe it would be safe. Noah's eyes were getting heavy, he needed to sleep. As he thought harder on it he realized it was either this or probably more angry chirping for the rest of the night. He saw the tears on the tiny practically disappear when he brought it closer to his mouth.

He thought he could hear a choked sob when he opened his mouth, the tiny practically jumped for it. He extended his tounge over his teath so it wouldn't get hurt. Tiny hands tried to grip the edges of his toung and pull it forward. Noah thought it almost tasted like berries, sure there was the salt of the ocean but he didn't expect to taste berries. The tiny tried to force itself down his throat, Noah almost gagged at the feeling and slightly dragged the tiny back over his tounge. The tiny started to tremble in his hands and on his tongue, the salty flavor was getting more prevalent. The tiny wrapped its arms around his tounge, quite chirping came from it. He could tell it was starting to cry again, this is what it really wanted wasn't it. He pressed the tiny up against the roof of his mouth and slightly tasted it, he hadn't had anything sweet in a month and this was probably going to be the best he would get for a while. The tiny dragged itself forward a bit more. Noah could feel the movement in his hands as the eel tail moved, he wasn't too excited about that part. The tiny moved closer to the back of this throat, Noah wanted to get that last bit of the sweet flavor before he gulped it down. The tiny was too far back in Noah's throat now, he instinctively swallowed when it pressed a hand into the back of his neck.