Fallen Protector

	Suicune sensed a disturbance. Whenever another legendary was nearby and causing trouble, he could not rest. There was a loud boom and many small creatures fleeing around him. He ran through the woods in search of the problem.
	bursting through a layer of bushes, Suicune found what he was looking for. A lugia was laying on her back holding a whimpering furret in front of her beak.
	“Don’t you just look delicious little one!” The Lugia chuckled and licked its beak. “I’m gonna enjoy your nice long body squirming down my throat and into my nice belly.”
	Lugia used her free wing to trace down her neck and pat her large blue stomach, enjoying unveiling her plan for the furret who watched in petrified silence. He shuddered a little in her grip, yet made no sound.
	“That’s it,” she cooed, “you’ll love being eaten. You’ll be nice and warm and tasty-“
	“Enough of this!” Suicune interrupted as he emerged from the overgrowth. This Lugia was far too cruel and frankly, too well fed to prey on the local wildlife. “There are plenty of berries and plants to eat. You needn’t devour small creatures.” Small was right. Lugia was pinching the furret between two of its fingers. A meal so small wouldn’t nearly satisfy the large bird.
	The lugia peered down at the legendary dog and frowned. “What’s it to you? Why do you care if I snack on a few morsels?” She turned to the furret once more and gave him a little squeeze. “Besides, these cuties are far tastier and more satisfying than some boring old plants.” The furret struggled with new vigor, yet still could not find any words to plead with. Lugia’s grin widened. “Save the squirming for the trip down. Wouldn’t want to tire yourself out too early now.” She lightly stroked the top of his head with a single wing finger.
	Unfazed, Suicune puffed his chest proudly, “I will fight as long as I stand for those who cannot. I will preserve justice. It is my duty as the protector of this land. You are but a– HEY!” His speech was cut short as the now bored Lugia rose the furret and held him directly over her gaping maw. She breathed out warm air over the furrets dangling lower half which helped him to finally find his voice. He yelped in terror and began begging to be let go.
	Lugia was happy to oblige and released him from her grip and opened her maw wider. Gravity was the furret’s new captor as he cried out and entered free fall. The furret closed his eyes, dreading his eventual landing on a warm wet tongue. But he never landed; something caught him and he was suspended in midair. Furret opened his eyes to find that Suicune had extended his ribbons and wrapped them around his body, carrying him away from his demise.
	Suicune gently lowered the furret onto his back before using his ribbons once again, this time to slap the unruly Lugia. She huffed angrily and stood up. Suicune underestimated her largeness, at her full height, she towered far above Suicune, who had to look almost directly upwards just to meet her gaze. She glared down at him, furious from having her snack stolen. Suicune took a step back.
	“Give him back. Now.” Lugia demanded, her voice firm.
	“I… No, you’ll have to settle for something else. This one is too small for you anyways. He’s undeserving of such a cruel and unnecessary fate.”
	Lugia paused for a moment as though she was considering what Suicune said. Then a devious smirk replaced her glare, “maybe I should consider eating something larger then,” her large tongue sliding across her beak.
	Suicune understood the message. He wrapped a ribbon around the furret to guarantee he wouldn’t fall off, spun around and began to sprint away. As he began to run, he heard laughter and the sound of Lugia flapping her wings to take off. Running through the foliage, he covered a lot of ground quickly, believing he could lose the Lugia right away. But one look upward proved that she was right behind them, watching from above.
	“Worry not little one,” Suicune attempted to calm the quaking Furret on his back as he ran along, “the trees here are too thick, she cannot land or attack from so high–“
	BOOM.
	The ground nearby the two shook as it was blasted. Suicune looked up to see Lugia preparing an aeroblast. The same shot that had just exploded right behind them. She fired again. A narrow miss. Once more. Suicune barely dodged, leaping to the side. The Furret slipped off of his back and fell into some nearby bushes. Realizing that Lugia was totally focused on him, the larger prey, he dashed away from the Furret, who Lugia ignored. With the victim saved, now Suicune could focus on an escape rather than a daring rescue. He made a break for the thickest part of the woods.
	Finally, the overgrowth began to thicken and Suicune could no longer be spotted from the skies. He looked up from his hiding spot in the woods and watched as Lugia circled several times, looking for him before giving up and flying away. Suicune stayed in hiding for a bit to be sure she was gone. A short while later, Suicune emerged victorious, he had saved the furret and escaped himself. With his good deed for the day done, he triumphantly trotted to a nearby lake to rest and spend the rest of his day.
	But as he reached the lake he heard a bellowing roar. He turned back once more to spot Lugia flying from nearby woods. However this time, he could take advantage of his ability to run on water at great speeds.
	“Ah, I’ve been looking for you,” she said swooping after Suicune.
	“Give it up, you’ll never catch me. I’m especially fast over water,” Suicune bragged as he ran across the lake’s surface.
	Lugia fired down more aeroblasts, but Suicune truly was far faster running over water and dodged them all with relative ease, avoiding even the great splashes created by the blasts. Giving up on shooting Suicune down, Lugia dove for him. She fell ever closer from the sky at an alarming rate and would have landed atop Suicune had he not dove out of the way at the last moment.
	SPLASHHHH
	Lugia made a huge splash in the water just behind Suicune, covering him with water and causing him to fly forward. He landed several meters away and after a few short stumbles, he dashed a safe distance away and turned proudly, expecting the defeated Lugia to resurface.
	But she did not. He was so focused on the spot she submerged that it took Suicune too long to realize his mistake. He looked closely under the water where she had dove, surprised she wasn’t there. Then he looked down and saw a troubling sight. Directly underneath him, Lugia swam, watching Suicune with a predatory focus. She smiled as they made eye contact.
	Panicking, Suicune tried to flee, but as fast as he ran, Lugia swam much faster below him. He had to get out of the water, but the shore was now too far away. Regardless, he ran towards it, growing more tired and desperate with each step. His exhaustion didn’t go unnoticed as Lugia had found her advantage and began to swim upwards towards her prey. Suicune saw his fate coming as Lugia emerged from the depths and as a final gambit, dove forward once again to avoid her. But he was slow and Lugia was calculated. Her beak broke the water’s surface with a splash and slammed into Suicune’s chest, simultaneously winding him and launching him into the air.
	Out of control, he flew through the air, eyes closed as he gasped for breath. He fell back to the water below, but instead landed on a soft, wet surface with a flop. Dazed, he opened his eyes to see the blue of Lugia’s belly. He was laying on her chest as she floated, now on her back! He struggled and slowly began to get up, but before he could fully stand, something large, wet, and heavy slapped down on top of him and pinned him on top of her.
	Lugia used her wing to hold Suicune down, forcing him to lay prone on her stomach and become acquainted with his future home. She waited patiently for the small dog to catch his breath and look her in the eyes.
	Suicune squirmed in her grasp, “Release me… NOW!” he half panted, half belted out. He hated being squished into her soft and damp stomach and struggled beneath her hand.
	“Hmmm, I don’t think so. I’ve caught my prey, fair and square,” she bragged and brought a wing finger to boop his snout, “You did tell me to settle for bigger, more satisfying foods and you fit that bill. A legendary feast!” She gently grabbed his head and rubbed his chin and muzzle back and forth across her chest, forcing him to accept that he was captured and at her mercy. This elicited some defeated whimpers and a renewed struggling from the once proud protector of the land. “Oh don’t feel bad,” she taunted, “You’ll keep me full for a little while. I won’t go back to eating your precious little critters for... at least a little while.” She brought Suicune closer to her face.
	“No! Don’t do this… you villain!” Suicune scolded, but was met with a large, uncaring pink tongue sliding across his face.
	“Such a cute and tasty face” Lugia smiled and then gave his face another dominating lick, “I’m gonna enjoy you thoroughly. Unless, you’d like to serve me in some other way. I’ll take you along as my new personal servant and you can feed me whatever creatures we find. Doesn’t that sound fun?”
	It took him a moment to regain his composure and shake some saliva from his face before opening his eyes once more, revealing his shaken, but remaining determination, “No, never. I will protect them, not sacrifice them, even for myself!”
	“Suit yourself, I thought it was a pretty good offer,” Lugia said with a smile, preferring being declined, before opening her mouth wide and slowly dragging him forward. Suicune tried to maintain his pride, but with her open maw mere inches from his face, he suddenly broke. He began to thrash wildly as she breathed out, coating his face in warm breath. She gently pushed his head into her opened mouth and held him there to listen to his pleas.
	“Don’t– no… Let me go! I won’t trouble you anymore! You can rule this place and I won’t stop you ever again! I’ll serve you in any way I can. Please just let me–“
	Lugia loved hearing her prey surrender, he was resilient before, but now she had totally defeated him. She considered his offer for a second, but knew she’d prefer to eat; she’d get her service when he serves her by being delicious. It was too late for Suicune. He had already refused the offer, he could not go back and accept it now. Lugia’s mouth closed over his head, silencing him. Her tongue slapped down and across his face a few times, further exploring his flavor. Before he knew it, he was crying. Her tongue rested over his brow and absorbed his salty tears. Lugia moaned in ecstasy and continued licking his face, slurping more of his neck in and licking that all over. Her mouth was incredibly warm and the smell of her breath made him dizzy.
	With his head now in her throat, she continued taking him in. She grabbed his front paws between her fingers and carefully guided them to her mouth. They struggled some, but could not resist her and soon rested on her tongue. Upon tasting them she was distracted for a moment by the paws’ incredibly rich flavor, they were very clean from running across, yet carried a much stronger variation of Suicune’s flavor. She began to salivate intensely as she lost herself in the delicious flavor, but was brought back to her senses as she felt Suicune’s face hit the back of her throat.
	Suicune’s face now rested against the entrance to the esophagus and his descent stopped. He especially hated the feeling of Lugia’s tongue soaking and harassing his paws, but once again he was powerless to stop it save for some light twitching and squirming. He prayed this is the furthest he would go, but it was time for the first swallow. The tightened throat muscle unclenched and Suicune felt himself sink several inches until the muscle clenched once again around his head. The process repeated as Lugia swallowed a few times, pulling him deeper and deeper.
	Suicune had given up struggling after Lugia moved past his front paws and began tasting his midsection. He began to go down much faster and soon, only his hind paws and rump were all that remained free. Ever devious, Lugia wanted to see if there was still some fight left in Suicune. She stopped swallowing and instead started relentlessly licking his stomach to agitate her prey. Initially, there was no reaction as Suicune wasn’t even sure what he could move in such tight confines. Soon enough though, his hind legs twitched a bit, suddenly recognizing that they weren’t yet devoured, Suicune kicked about weakly.
	To Lugia, they looked fun to grab and her tongue left Suicune’s stomach to reach out of her mouth after his flailing feet. Her tongue slipped across his thigh and reached a paw. As she tried to hook her tongue around the paw, Suicune moved it away and kicked at her chin with his other paw. He didn’t want to have his delicate paws molested by her tongue again. Unbeknownst to him, he was providing Lugia with a game; a game that she would win. Thus began a chase between her tongue and his feet. Several times, she had one paw caught, but it would squirm free or the other paw would rescue it with a kick, but Lugia soon devised a strategy of using her tongue to corral both his paws together and in one swift motion, she wrapped her tongue around both of his ankles and captured his paws.
	Lugia delightedly pulled his hindpaws and the rest of him into her mouth with her tongue and began licking the end of him. After a hard fought victory, his hind paws were the tastiest part of Suicune yet and she savored them for a very long time, much to Suicune’s dismay.
	Lugia was now ready for Suicune’s final descent. With just two powerful swallows and a loud gulp, Suicune’s entire body was now in her long gullet. Without anything to hold him still, Suicune began to slide down the inside of Lugia's neck, towards her belly. Outside, she traced his path, feeling every inch of him sliding inside of her. It was euphoric. Gravity took him and he picked up speed and soon arrived at his dreaded destination. His face hit another muscle, which opened up around his body and accepted him into the larger chamber that was the stomach. He landed in a pool with a splash.
	If the heat before was hot, inside her stomach was blazing. The surface was sloppy, squishy, and slimy; Suicune sunk into it. For the first time, Suicune was able to concentrate on sounds other than his own thoughts, struggles, and cries. He heard Lugia’s stomach churning and glorping about as well as Lugia’s powerful heartbeat, which was mockingly relaxed compared to his own. Then he heard a muffled voice as Lugia spoke for the first time since before he entered her mouth.
	“Oh my goodness, you were delicious! The best meal I think I’ve ever eaten!” Lugia sighed as she still floated lazily in the lake, slowly approaching the shore.
	Suicune quietly whimpered, terrified and humiliated that he was reduced to a snack for this heathenous bird. He was unsure whether his soft crying was heard or not, as Lugia patted her belly to celebrate her victory once again, which caused the walls to reverberate. Suicune was tossed around and stomach juices sloshed over him making him silent. As Lugia reached the shore, she let out a powerful belch that sucked much of the air from her belly. As the stomach rumbled, the walls compressed around Suicune, squeezing him tightly for a moment before relaxing once again. It was now harder to breathe, but not impossible. Suicune slowly drifted out of consciousness, escaping his nightmare temporarily to dream.
	Lugia hit the shore and stood up. She looked down and admired her belly and admired her work. It was slightly bigger, but no one would know she ate Suicune whole just by looking. She didn’t feel her passenger moving around anymore. She figured he passed out and lumbered back to her lair.

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	“It’s time to wake up,” Suicune’s entire world shook as he woke. Dread overtook him as he remembered where he was. Lugia gave her stomach another firm slap, “Wakey wakey. Are you up yet?” Suicune felt himself being tossed around her stomach. She wouldn’t relent until he let her know he understood. He squirmed around, too upset to try to shout for her, doubting he’d even be heard through her thick body anyways. “Ah great! You are awake,” she cheerfully mused. “I found something when I stopped chasing you in the forest and I wanted to show it to you!”
	Something to see? He wondered what it was, he fidgeted about within her, not noticing how excited he was to be let out to see it, but his hopes were quashed when he heard her moan.
	“Mmmmm…” it sounded as though she was enjoying something. He heard noises from above, it sounded like a gulp and then her insides working on something. Something was coming down! Above him, he heard the whole open up as something emerged from her throat and dropped into her belly on top of Suicune. It was too dark to see, but he felt it. It was small, furry, and long.
	“Yep,” she chuckled and rubbed her stomach, “it’s the same Furret from earlier! You couldn’t protect him, but at least now you can be good friends!”