Lost and Found
What a predicament! Does being lost in this situation cause for alarm, or cheers of joy?
Lost and afraid, that's how you were feeling. Somehow, what was supposed to be nothing more then a relaxing walk in the woods had become a disaster. The path that you usually took was out of commission due to recent rain storms, so instead you had decided that you would take a new path. Bad choice completely. In only a matter of minutes, you had realized that you had strayed far off the the beaten path and into a part of the woods you didn't even knew existed. The old path, which was bright and sunny and had air filled with the delighted cheeps of stray Pidgey and Pidove was now overtaken by a path much darker and almost eerily silent and void of noise; definately not a place you wanted to be in. But it seemed that even when you tried to retrace your steps, you couldn't find your way back home. After what seemed like forever, you gave a frustrated sigh and say down under the base of a tree to rest and try to think straight, despite being very quite miffed at your current situation.
A human? All the way out here in the outer reaches of the forest? These were the questions a Lucario asked himself, his paw scratching his slightly tilted head as he watched the stray human from afar with both normal and aura sight. It was very unusual to see a lone human so far off of the main forest path. Most of them feared these parts of the woods; many thought they were a death sentence due to the increased strength level of the average Pokemon denizen. Of course, Pokemon rarely desire for human blood, and the Pokemon here were no exception, desiring only peace. But hey, the human assumptions gave them that, so they simply played along with their role. Lucario was one of those Pokemon, one who was purely dedicated to living in peace and coexistent along with his friends in the forest. With the sudden of a human however, he wondered how things would change. It wouldn't be long until others took notice of their presence, and some may not be happy with the sudden appearance of a human who could ruin their peace. This worried Lucario a bit. Conflict was not something he enjoyed, and the pain of others was a lot less enjoyable. And while Pokemon were mostly peaceful here, they were just as unpredictable as any other, raising the potential danger for this human. Lucario couldn't risk this innocent humans health; he had to take action to protect.
A few minutes had passed now, and you were still trying to formulate a plan to get back onto the main path and back home. You had considered a few things, but none of the ideas seemed plausible. You were running out of ideas fast, and this made you even more frustrated. You sighed in frustration then and stuck your hands to your head, massaging your temples to try and relax yourself. It kind of worked as you began to to calm down, but with a sudden and close by snap of a branch, your attention snapped up to your surroundings. You scanned the area you were in, searching for whatever had made the noise. You were on edge now, the feeling of fear and worry beginning to seep into you. After a few looks around with no results, you decided it was just the wind or something else. You rested your head against the rough tree trunk, sighing again and rubbing your face. You were stressing yourself out way too much now; you were freaking hearing things that weren't there! Or at least... that's what you thought.
Lucario clenched his jaw. He hadn't meant to step on the branch and break it, as now he had noticed the humans aura light up in a combo of stress, fear, and uncertainty, all negative emotions. He hadn't meant to startle the human so much, he was simply going to approach the human head on and help him out of the woods with no questions asked. Now though, the human was so on edge that he'd likely bolt the second Lucario appeared before him. This complicated matters as now with a flight risk present, Lucario was sure that the human would would do something rash and raise inevitable hell. What was he to do? As it turns out, the matter was a simple fix. As Lucario began to think of a solution to the present issue, he winced slightly as his stomach gave a quiet gurgle of hunger. Normally he would have just ignored it and moved with his thinking, but this time, something occurred to him. Perhaps there was a way to escort the human out of the woods easily, while at the same time solving his new problem of his hunger. With just that one gurgle from he gut, it became clear to him what his plan of action would be. With a smile of excitement, Lucario decided it was time to his plan into action.
Another few minutes had passed, and you were at ease again and lost in your thoughts of escape. You were thinking so hard, that he hadn't even noticed the sudden haze that had begun to envelope you. It was only after an odd tingling began to overcome your body did you realize something was amiss. You looked up, snapped back to reality and saw the odd haze surrounding you. You were a bit surprised, but more shock was yet to come. The haze, just as suddenly as it had appeared, dissipated, and was promptly replaced by a faint, blue glow that covered you from head to toe. You sputtered a bit and stood up in a flash, trying to remove the glow with rapid shaking of your limbs. You attempts were in vain however, and the glow only grew more intense, as did the tingling associated with it. Panic was now fully set in, and you were desperate to make the glow stop, even if it meant acting irrationally. However, in your crazed state of mind, you hadn't noticed that the trees and land around you were growing in size, slowly but surely getting larger as the seconds past. Again, it took you a moment to realize what was happening and only when you noticed the changing scenery did you stop flailing and looked around in stunned awe. Why was everything getting bigger? It took you only a few moments to realize that the land around you wasn't getting bigger; you were getting smaller and smaller at a startling rate. In just a few more seconds, you had stopped shrinking, leaving you at no taller then the average fallen leaf on the ground next to you. With panic again setting you, you tried to yell out loud for help, but all that you managed to do was to loose a quiet squeak not even a Clefable would hear. Sighing in frustration yet again, you looked around, wondering what had happened, and what had caused it.
As you gazed around you in search of answers, you felt and heard sudden thumping nearby you. You whipped around to the source of the noise and froze right in place upon seeing its source. Standing tall above you was a Lucario, who was looking straight down at you with a grin on its face. You gulped and fell back onto your rear, full-heartedly intimidated by that massive Pokemon before you. It took you a moment to regain your wits, and when you did, he scrambled up and tried to dash away from the giant. Of course your efforts were in vain. What seemed like a fast dash away from the Lucario to you was almost nothing to him. In one movement, you were captured in his paw and firmly held there. You were then lifted high into the air, stopping once you were face to face with the Pokemon. You gazed at him with fear, worry, and for some reason, curiosity. Was this Lucario the source of the odd haze that had shrunk you down? If so, why did he do it? Questions like these buzzed through your head, but you didn't get much time to think about it as you were once again moved higher into the air. But this time, you were stopped only after a few inches and were hanging freely in the Lucario's paw, dangling above him. Why were you up here now you wondered, but only for a moment before you heard a loud, audible growl come from below you. It was a growl that you had heard a few times yourself throughout your life; the growl of an empty belly. Dread began to creep in now, and you started to piece it all together. The reason you were hanging were you were, the reason you had be shrunk, all of it. And all it took was the opening of Lucario's maw to confirm your dreaded assumptions.
It took you a moment to realize that you were then dropped from the Lucario's paw and down into his mouth, the reality situation only hitting you once you did a face-plant onto a wet, squishy and rough surface, the Pokemon's tongue. You gasped suddenly and tried to stand up, but your efforts were lost and pointless as you were knocked down from behind down onto the tongue's surface again. You didn't know what it was, but it had caused you to flounder helplessly on the Lucario tongue as you tried to regain a shred of your balance. In an instant, light was also gone and you were now sealed away in a dark, wet and semi warm cavern with no sense of anything. The only thing you did know though was that you were begin moved about inside of the mouth by the tongue; the muscle wrapping itself around you and moving you here and there slowly. The Lucario was getting a taste for you, that would be the only reason you would still be there. You tried to resist the tongues grip, but your efforts were again for naught as the tongue took a sudden and tight grip of your body. It managed to squeeze you hard enough to make you wince, but not hard enough to choke you at the same time. As the Pokemon's muscle gripped you tight, you felt yourself stop moving in all sorts of directions and instead move in one way only, backwards. it didn't take a rocket scientist to know where you were going now; it was time to be swallowed and pushed down into the throat....
Lucario was lost in pure, predatory bliss. He had never in his life ever considered using his aura abilities to shrink another being, much less use them to do something like this. He was actually going to eat and swallow the human! Normally he would never approve of such activities, as most of the time it usually ended badly for the prey, but since he knew that his little meal would be unharmed throughout it all, he decided to let himself enjoy the occasion as much as he could. The way the human was squirming in his mouth alone was enough to make him shiver, each little movement the human made pleased his taste buds as their unique flavor rubbed off against them, completely saturating them in a delightfully, and surprisingly, wondrous flavor. But alas, such sweet tastes and movements can only last so long, and after a minute of toying with his little prey, Lucario decided he should start to swallow his meal. He did so as gently as he could, being careful to hold the human in place just tight enough to not harm them too badly, and move them back to his throat. Swallowing the squirming prey was surprisingly easy he found out; the tiny human took only one gentle gulp to be pulled down into the Lucario's throat. As the human entered into his throat, Lucario set his paw to the small, squirming bulge the little prey made and began to trace their descent down his esophagus. The feeling of the small and squirming meal traveling downwards in his throat was much more pleasing then the tasting alone, the humans travels pleasing the Lucario enough to get him to murr faintly in pleasure, something that didn't happen very often to say the least. This was a new and delightful experience to Lucario, one that he would most certainly have to try again.
Being on the other end of the spectrum was not nearly as pleasurable however, and it was something that you most certainly never wanted to try again. You had thought that the mouth was bad, but the throat was worse, but not for the reason you expected it to be. The throat was much smaller then the mouth, yes, and much tighter as well. But the feeling of rippling flesh around you, slowly pulling you along, had an odd, calming effect on you. It wasn't enough to stop your deep down panic, but it was nice enough to ease at least some of your worries. No, it wasn't the nature of the throat that had made you despise it, rather it was how long it was taking you to be freed of it. Of course, the stomach was your inevitable destination, but at least there would you presumably have some sort of room to move some what freely and not always be trapped in a claustrophobic tube. Luckily (or perhaps unluckily, it was unclear of what was what anymore), your journey in the throat of the Lucario was coming to end as you felt your whole body stop suddenly. Your head was pressed firmly against something; it felt like a wall of some sort. You wondered what was happening. Had you stopped because Lucario was choking on you?
No, you weren't that lucky.
Instead, you felt your head forcefully pushed into the wall. You wince as your head was passed through what you now assumed to be the muscle entrance to the stomach and out into an open space, and in an just a few moments, your body was dropped head first with a splat into a pool of warm, viscous fluids that came up to your lower waist. you brought your head up with a gasp for air and shook off the fluid. As you breathed in the air, you coughed a bit, surprised at how thick and humid the breathable air was in the stomach. Oddly enough, the air was relatively odor free, much to your relief. The last thing you wanted was to die via disgusting stomach air. No, you knew that your fate lied in the strength of the stomach juices you bathed in. Moving around a bit now to try and figure out your surroundings, you tried to see what the stomach around you looked like. You had just enough light to see somewhat well inside the Lucario's gut, and it came as a bit of a surprise to you that the area you rested in was very tender looking. The stomach flesh the surrounded you was a light pink and pulsed faintly, gently moving around the fluids resting inside of it. You were faintly surprised by this and decided to dare touching it. You moved your hand forwards and rested it against the stomach wall gently, and it came to shock you that the flesh was just as tender feeling as it looked. It was soft, very wet and slipper too, and as your hand pressed against it, the flesh squished in and somewhat enveloped your hand. It almost made you smile, how something that was so powerful and necessary to the functionality of every living thing was so sensitive and kind of fun to toy with from the inside.
It was in that moment that you also began to realize that the fluids you were bathing in hadn't begun to burn you yet. Taking a peak down at them, you saw the fluids, which were yellow-ish in color, didn't really do anyhting. You had expected them to be a bubbling concoction of burning acids that would have dissolved you in minutes, but instead all they did was slosh quietly around you, occasionally bubbling up and causing the stomach to gurgle around you. No harm whatsoever was being caused by them, or anything in the stomach for that matter, something that gave you the relief that you so desperately craved. It was starting to dawn on you that perhaps the Lucario who swallowed you meant no harm at all. Maybe it was just looking for something to fill its belly for a bit, or perhaps it just wanted to have a friend close to it. Whatever the reason, it meant no harm with its actions. You gave a laugh of relief and sighed heavily, letting yourself fall back against the stomach walls with a solid thud. The thud kicked up some of the fluids and caused the stomach to groan and shake a bit. You gulped as panic sets in again, thinking that you did something wrong and have caused the stomach to react badly. Instead though, you hear from above a loud escape of air, a belch from Lucario. This made you smile and laugh, making you chuckle a bit at what you had done. As you laughed at your accidental antics, you felt a yawn overcome you suddenly. It was becoming apparent that all of the emotion and stress that you had felt today had worn its wear on you and was now catching up to you. With another yawn, you relaxed back again and sighed. Since you realized it was safe, you decided that rest wasn't a bad option now. The warm air in the stomach was rather nice feeling against your face, and the gurgles around you were oddly soothing to listen to, a pseudo lullaby of sorts. These coupled with your growing sleepiness overcame your will to stay awake, and led you into a calm state of sleep, a sleep you had never experienced before....
Lucario hadn't thought it to be possible, but it was. The massage his throat had received from his tiny morsel had been usurped in pleasure by the feeling of the human sliding into his gut. He felt it happen too, the tiny human's squeezing from his throat, through his esophageal sphincter and down into his stomach with a thud. The plop in his gut, which would have normally felt uncomfortable, truly tickled Lucario's fancy this time around. And despite the human's small stature, he had made a surprisingly filling meal. Lucario's belly had a slight swelling in it, namely the spot where the human rested. He had set his paw gently against it and lightly rubbed over the spot, a soft smile on his face. It felt so good to have a live and squirming meal inside of him. The careful movements inside of him felt very pleasurable and relaxing. And when he felt the human squish and rub into his stomach wall, his whole body shuddered in delight and purrs rolled out of him like a common house Skitty. He didn't care though, it felt too good to even think of anything else but that. But just as the squirms got good, they stopped suddenly, and a faint pressure began to fill in his stomach. Curious, Lucario moved his maw over his belly a few times, upon which he triggered a loud belch to be loosed from within him. He blushed heavily and covered his maw, surprised by his sudden expulsion of gas, but figured the humans movements triggered it. He chuckled a bit, thinking about how much fun he could have messing with the little human inside him. Alas, he decided against it as he felt the humans movements slowly cease into stillness. They must be sleeping, Lucario thought, and figured it was best to let them do just that. It had been a long day for the human, and given how much of his power Lucario had to use to shrink the human down, it was probably best that he rested too. He'd bring the human home later after his nap. So he laid himself back against the very same tree the human had and loosed a loud sigh of content. He gently ran his paw across the slight bulge in his gut and yawned as he listened to it quietly gurgle in equal content. And from their, he fell into the embrace or rest.
Chirping and sunlight, that's what you heard and felt as you began to rouse awake from your slumber. It took you a moment as you rubbed your eyes and began to groggily wake up that these were sounds from outside. Once they fully hit you, you snapped awake and looked around in a frenzy. You were indeed outside, back on your old trail in the woods you knew, and fully grown back to normal. You brushed your hands over yourself and felt that you were relatively dry, with no trace of odors from the stomach you were in either. This was baffling you; had you actually been shrunken and eaten, or had you simply passed out while walking and not even realized it? You honestly could not say. With a sigh, you stood up and brushed yourself off, glancing down at the path home. You began to head down it, ready to go back and be done with the woods for a while, but stopped and glanced back. You saw that alternate trail that you thought you had taken. It was just as you remembered it, and you didn't think much of it, until you noticed that on it, one paw print was left in some mud. It took you only one glance to realize what Pokemon had left it, Lucario. You smiled now and quietly laughed to yourself, turning again to leave for real this time. Maybe someday you'd return to that path and see if you could find that Lucario again... maybe.