Author's Notes:

Well, like in the previous chapter, this one has a warning but, thankfully, it doesn't need colossal text...

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But I'ma use it anyway! XD

WARNING! CAUTION! DANGER!
The following chapter contains soft vore, the consumption of a sentient being by another... Basically Ruby eats Bolt in this chapter, if that ain't your thing, there's the door.

Well that dude forgot we're on a plane so we won't have to worry about him every again! XD Rest of you can enjoy! :)

As a little side note however the lateness of this chapter was not me taking a while I actually re-read the WHOLE story (which is currently up to 123, not kidding, pages) and updated the other chapters here and on DA... which took a while... You better appreciate it, you can show your appreciation by giving me a cookie!

Though seriously please, give me a cookie I'm starving... Anyone... Please... They don't feed me :(

I blinked my eyes, which were still heavy with sleep. I glanced around in my sleepy state and became aware of a faint noise… Was somepony crying? I managed to force my cramp body into a sitting position and I looked around my familiar bedroom. I was lying on the bed and I could hear the crying faintly through the open door to the kitchen/living room. I stood up and softly walked to the door and listened.

“I-I…I can’t believe I did that to him…H-He’ll hate me now, I shouldn’t have l-lost control… He just smelt so good.” I heard Ruby sob.

I glanced around from the door and could see her sat at the table, hugging a segment of her tail and stroking it nervously, with her back to me. I silently snuck up to Ruby as she chanted softly.

“Please don’t hate me Bolt, please don’t hate me.” I silently climbed onto the seat beside Ruby and she gasped in surprise.

I lay down beside her and pulled her tail towards me and over my body like a blanket, Ruby stared before quietly bringing more of her tail up so I really was under a blanket of coils.

“You know I couldn’t ever be mad at you.” I said softly stroking a segment of her tail reassuringly.

“I’m so sorry, Bolt, I didn’t mean too… I just lost control!” Ruby blubbered suddenly.

“Sshhh… It’s okay Ruby.” I sat up and hugged her, kissing her forehead gently as she cried softly into my neck, her tail hanging across my back like vines.

“From what I gathered yesterday, it seemed like I was torturing you, I’m proud you lasted so long.” I said.

“I’m sorry,” Ruby repeated “I’m just so close to you all the time it drives me crazy and… I just couldn’t resist any longer.” Ruby looking at me guiltily.

“Ruby, I swear I am not mad at you… Nor will I lie that I didn’t enjoy myself,” I said blushing and Ruby’s face flushed likewise “But, next time, let me know in advance rather than having to back me into a locked room and go predatory on me.” I said with a slight grin.

Ruby tapped her hooves together then jumped forward kissing me.

“Thank you Bolt.” She said smiling and wiping her eyes.

I managed to convince Ruby to leave the seat, she was still sobbing and apologising every so often even while we hugged, but I got through to her eventually. Outside the wagon the sun was casting long low deep orange shadows and colours across the sky, and I could see, walking down from the castle entrance, Princess Luna. She stood before up and smirked slightly.

“You two done with your fun, or would you like a little longer before I say farewell?” She asked. I think my face was melting away there and then.

“How-how did you…?” Ruby mumbled softly.

“I called the craftspony in… He returned after fixing your wagon and he said he swore he heard shouting from within…” Luna said with a grin.

Is there an undo button for real life, please? Luna chuckled softly then closed her eyes, her horn glowed and we watched as a spectacular event happened before us. The sun slowly finished its descent, with a bright blue rim around it, and then the sky darkened and stars appeared followed closely by the moon. Luna sighed and glanced up at her night artwork.

“Wow… That’s amazing.” Ruby said softly staring at the sky. Luna smiled faintly in thanks.

“I will see you down to the grounds of the castle, then I hope to pinch Bolt for a couple minutes if you don’t mind Ruby.” Ruby nodded in agreement and I walked over to my wagon strapping myself in.

If a couple weeks ago somepony told me I’d be walking down from Canterlot castle with Princess Luna and a half snake-pony, I’d of probably called the police. Now it was actually happening. At the base of the castle grounds the guards began to open up the large purple doors.

“Okay, Bolt, follow me for a second.” Luna said walking towards the shadows of the trees alongside the path. Luna stared at me grimly.

“I know exactly what happened with you and Ruby.” I blushed and Luna, realising what’d she said, blushed too “Not like that! I mean what caused Ruby too… Well, become heated.” She said.

“What do you mean ‘heated’?” I asked.

“I’ll keep it short in case she becomes worried, but, basically, Bolt, Ruby is half snake correct? She smells things on the air much sharper than ponies or many other creatures, however this can have a negative effect. Since now… Em, they reproduce with ponies rather than their own race, if lamias were to smell other ponies… Doing it,” God this was a really awkward conversation to have with the Princess of the night “Then they would become turned on likewise… Now can you imagine a major city like this…? I won’t say much against the citizens here but… There’s more than just the high class snobby district, you understand?” I nodded in understanding.

Even Canterlot would have that shadowy part of town where things were… Much less dignified, even in the day.

“So, basically, I have to make sure not to visit any town where ponies are having sex… Yeah that sounds REALLY easy!” I said sarcastically, Luna managed a slight smile.

“No, I believe you sated that need, but I thought you should know because… It can also cause other desires.” I raised an eyebrow but Luna didn’t say any more on the subject. Instead she led me back to the gates and hugged Ruby.

“You be gentle to him next time.” Luna whispered audibly “If I may suggest, it might be worth visiting Ponyville, it’ll be likely the most accepting town you’ll find… Also talk to Princess Twilight, my sister’s favourite student, she may be able to get Ruby a pony disguise and I’m sure she’ll be fascinated too… Er, get to know Ruby.” Luna said.

“Sure, thank you for everything, Princess.” I said as Ruby retreated into the wagon.

The walk through night time Canterlot was a lot more impressive than most would think. Despite Hearths warming eve being over and spring not far off ponies still had their homes decorated just not festively anymore. Great red lamps, fountains of ponies in mid dances, their tails and mouths spewing water, soft glowing light from inside homes and gentle fires. The few ponies I saw outside were mostly guards, a few stopped me but a quick flash of Luna’s seal made them simply leave or even apologise. I saw a few ponies, the majority were still dressed up for parties. They looked at me as if I was something on the bottom of their hooves they’d stepped in, though one young chocolate brown stallion in a tuxedo with an hourglass cutie mark, with a dark grey Pegasus in a cute muffin like dress, nodded politely to me then the pair disappeared down an alley, but when I reached a point where I could see down the alley they’d just vanished, and it was a clear dead end.

Not much else of note happened until we were leaving the outskirts of Canterlot, the regal houses changing slowly to normal houses and cottages, then spacing out and the roads twisting away like snakes. I tapped my back hoof against my wagon to let Ruby know she could come out after that, and grinned at the polished wood of my wagon. The craftspony had gone overboard but I didn’t complain. He’d also painted on a pair of Luna’s coat of arms on either side of the harness, which I quite liked. Ruby climbed out of the wagon, and after she dragged out the last of her tail and shut the door, I set off again with her beside me.

“So we heading straight for Ponyville?” Ruby asked I shook my head.

“No, if we could get a train we’d be there in a day but since we’re on hoof we’ll have to take the scenic route. But that shouldn’t matter I want to show you Equestria anyway, and the longer you stay yourself the better.” I said with a smile.

“I won’t… Always be a pony, right?” Ruby asked.

“I dunno… I hope not, I prefer you the way you are.” I said Ruby blushed and hid her eyes behind her hair smiling.

We travelled in silence for a little while across the green grasslands of Equestria, little clumps of trees in the distance.

“It’s like a painting.” Ruby said softly.

“Beautiful isn’t it.” I said and Ruby nodded.

“I can see why you missed it so much.” I looked back towards the road.

“Hay Ruby, town.” I said softly. Ruby looked forward and sighed sadly.

“Shall I get back in the wagon?” She asked sadly I looked at Ruby and saw that her brief outing would be painful to give up.

“A lot of ponies will be asleep it should be fine, plus it’s not really a town just a clump of houses, they won’t bother us.” I said.

You know whenever you think something will go well, which immediately jinxes it, and it doesn’t? Yeah that happened. Don’t go thinking the town saw me, because they didn’t. Ruby and I made it all the way out of town without encountering anypony before the problem arose. As we were leaving the town the road split into a T junction and Ruby stopped to look up at the building at the end of the road. A large mansion, with several different sections, that was deep marble white like clouds stood overlooking the town, as if saying.

“Look at these little peasants beneath my shadow, look at how pathetic they are.” I say the mansion was like that because it looked like a small castle, with an iron gate and a low wall around it with turrets… As if Canterlot nobles had invaded someplace they shouldn’t be.

“It’s really pretty… But looks mean, somehow.” Ruby noted.

“I don’t like it, we should move on.” I mumbled.

“Admiring my home, are we?” The voice was high and sharp like a blade, and it caused me to feel anger I couldn’t explain straight away.

I looked over and managed to prevent myself making an undignified grunt. There were four ponies, three stallions and a colt. The first, who had spoken, was a snow white stallion, a lighter shade than Ruby, with a blond mane. He had a heavily jewelled crown for a cutie mark. The other two stallions looked very similar, they looked like bodybuilders and stood either side of the white stallion like bodyguards, they were dull grey with black buzz cut hair, the left one had what looked like a war hammer for a cutie mark and the other a wrecking ball. Then there was the colt, he looked identical to the white stallion in colour and everything, if he was a bit taller and got his father’s cutie mark he’d be a perfect double ganger.

I half expected them to suddenly freak out but, glancing back at Ruby, I noticed she’d hidden most of her tail, only her front hooves and head could be seen, clever.

“Yes it is quite an amazing place, I inherited it from my deceased mother, didn’t want some common trash to get it… Like you.” I ruffled my wings slightly in anger and kept my mouth closed “Little cloud pusher, you and the dirt hooves ought to be doing what you do best. Dumb labour!” I snorted but remained silent, I was still wondering why I knew this stallion “But you’re friend… Why would you admit yourself with the common trash, Celestia has given us the power to rule, ought we not to use it?” Ruby shot a dark look.

“You forget that unicorns alone do not run this world. The other races have jobs of keeping balance. As do you, do not tamper with what is not broken.” Ruby growled the white stallion sighed sadly.

“Seems you have descended to the idiocy of these,” He gestured his hoof towards me “How unfortunate.” He mumbled chuckling and shaking his head “Then again you do have the look of someone from the wild, just like all the students at my first school. My father made me attend it because he knew the teacher and wanted the school to earn a little more respect. Was a lost cause even with me attending, so many little dirt hooves and cloud pushers, though there was this particularly annoying Pegasus, a little larger than me and my friends seemed to think he could stand up to me and my friends here… We eventually convinced him to leave, the blood coloured…” And it clicked for both of us.

“Well, well, well… Boltblood… What a… Pleasant surprise.”

“Winter.” I grumbled softly.

“Seems I can’t get away from you no matter where I go… Or are you still following me hoping to beat me up?” Winter asked with a grin.

His son suddenly seemed interested in the conversation, he could probably smell a fight and, if he was anything like his father, he enjoyed the suffering of others greatly.

“No, unlike you I don’t hold petty grudges my whole life.” I whispered darkly.

“What about regrets? Do you hold them? Your mother sure does, I had hoped that with you gone she’d take her own life but with her husband, brother and other son, better than you I might add, she still had something to drag herself forward with. Shame maybe I’ll have to sort out an ‘accident’ for her. She really is a pain you know, the little bitch.” And just like that I’d kicked off the harness.

I charged Winter but his two friends, who I now realised were Break (The hammer cutie mark one) and Crush (The wrecking ball cutie mark) from school, who use to pin me down and beat me if I didn’t beat one of them fast enough, jumped forward grinning stupidly. For unicorns it seemed they settled things with brute force more times than I could ever count. Break landed on me grounding me and Crush promptly smacked his back hoof into my face dazing me. They lifted me of the ground holding me in their hooves and magical restraints. Winter grinned walking forward, glancing at Ruby who was staring in horror.

“You best stay out of this miss if you don’t want to get hurt.” I think the taunt pushed Ruby over.

“You best start begging if you want to live.” Ruby hissed.

“Father! She’s a monster!” Winter’s son cried out in fear.

Winter looked at Ruby and froze, she’d moved out from behind the wagon and was baring her fangs, which were dripping with some sort of green venom. Break and Crush dropped me sensing the larger threat but Break was smacked across the chest by Ruby’s tail and he flew off the road into a tree. He fell down groaning and Crush looked back at him as Ruby wrapped her tail around Crush. Crush was lifted off the ground and Ruby began to squeeze him, not even looking at him and he began to turn blue. Several cracks like gunshots signalled Crush’s bones being… Well crushed. Ruby dropped him and he fell on the floor groaning, Ruby then turned to Winter and his son, who was cowering behind his father.

“What IS that thing!?” Winter cried backing away slowly, but Ruby darted forward so she almost head-butted him.

“My name is Ruby Scales,” Ruby hissed softly “And I don’t appreciate you insulting my friend.”

“Call it off, make it stop! Bolt, help!” I stood up and looked at Winter and pushed past Ruby.

“Bolt…?” Winter sighed then I smacked him with all my might in the stomach.

I grabbed the back of his head and began punching his face in, he called on his magic but a smack to his horn and the spell sparked out. I beat him till he was purple, his nose had broken and he didn’t have a shred of his swagger, then I threw him back, his son backing away in fear.

But even beaten and terrified Winter still wanted to be a pain in the ass.

“Y-you think you can get away with this? You’ve smuggled a monster onto Equestrian soil. I’ll see her tail made into a rug and you,” Winter grinned “You’ll be seeing your mother again, BEHIND BARS!”

“I take it you have influence with the government in Equestria?” I muttered.

“Ponies like me are valued by the powerful.” He said smugly.

“What about Princess Luna, does she like you?” I asked, he hesitated.

“What does that matter the Princesses aren’t going to help you.”

“In actual fact you’re right,” I took out the scroll “Because they already have. This form says we have legal right to travel Equestria… Shove that up your purse arse!” I said with a grin. Winter simply stared at the princess’ seal.

“It’s fake, it has to be no way somepony like you…”

“Will you take that risk? Besides… I could just eat you, no trace of evidence then!” Ruby threatened.

Crush and Break managed to stagger up, Crush wincing badly. Winter seemed to be debating whether to send them on Ruby again when she said.

“I wasn’t even trying to hurt them.” He gulped and pulled his son along calling for his guards to follow him back up to his mansion. I looked at Ruby and she sighed.

“That was a very scary face you pulled with the venom.” I said.

“Not as scary as you were.” Ruby muttered.

“What you mean?”

“Bolt… I’ve never seen you that angry since you woke up the first time I hypnotised you… I thought you were going to kill him.” I looked towards the retreating figures.

“He’d deserve it.” I grumbled and walked back over to my wagon and strapped myself back in.

“Bolt… Slow down.” Ruby said as I set off at a trot.

“Not until that damn building is out of my sight.” I grumbled.

“Bolt… Please you’re starting to worry me.” Ruby said. I sighed and began to slow down to a walk “Bolt, how did you know that stallion?” She asked.

“I don’t want to talk about it…” I mumbled. Ruby slid rapidly in front of me and I stopped “I know what you’re think of doing, have some respect for what I don’t want to talk about.” I grumbled coldly. Ruby’s fur bristled in irritation.

“Now, Bolt, there’s no need to be rude I just want to help.” She said.

“Then drop the subject.” I hissed.

Ruby blinked I hadn’t been this rude to her since she’d first hypnotised me and she must have noticed it too because she became very cautious afterwards.

“Bolt, I care about you, you know that. The reason I earned your freedom was because I cared so much… So please, I can see this is hurting you. Not physically not every wound can be healed with a bandage or medicine, sometimes words and company can help. But you’ve shunned company, because you were afraid this would happened weren’t you?” Ruby said. I grunted and dragged the wagon around her and set off.

But Ruby was persistent.

“Bolt, listen to me. I can see you’ve built many walls between this, I won’t say I completely understand you’ve been gone from your family for years nowhere near as long as I was from my mum but Bolt… It’s killing you, slowly so slowly you might not notice but it is. You have to mend that wound before you bleed to death from it!” Ruby insisted.

“And what do you suggest? I just walk up to my mum and dad and hope three years on the road just vanishes? How I left them…”

“Broke their hearts.” Ruby suggested I nodded and I looked down going down to a snail pace.

“Bolt, you are a good pony, the best pony I have ever met… Granted I haven’t met many but you are still very good. And that proves it.”

“What me breaking my family’s hearts? That doesn’t sound very good to me.” I grumbled.

“No it isn’t,” I bowed my head again “But you care enough that it’s eating at you. If you were heartless or selfish you wouldn’t care what your family feels, but you do… And, Bolt, if you don’t want to do it for yourself, do it for your family… And you left because of Winter right?” I nodded “Well he’s gone, grown up. Granted he still sounds like a total bitch from what I saw but still, you can go home Bolt… Don’t you want that?”

I looked sadly at Ruby then whispered the sad truth.

“I’m scared.” I didn’t dare look at Ruby until she placed a hoof under my chin and tilted my head up. Ruby leaned down and kissed me and I gasped in surprise.

“Bolt… You are braver than you may think… And don’t worry I won’t leave you to face this alone.” Ruby whispered.

“Thanks Ruby.” I whispered and she giggled.

“So what’s the name of your home town?” Ruby asked.

“Oakbark, it’s a town that centre’s around lumbering.” I said.

“Which way?”

“I know the way from anywhere… It’s to the east… I always headed west, towards the sea… trying to put as much distance between me and the place where my life was misery.” I whispered sadly.

We came towards a cross junction and I stared at the arrows, one pointed to a town that would lead to Ponyville and the opposite direction would lead home.

“Bolt? You okay.” I felt so sick in my stomach and my eyes hurt but I couldn’t cry, all the tears of homesickness had long since been spent.

“I don’t know… It’s this way either way.” I said nodding to our right and setting on forward… Setting on home.

We travelled for so long that my hooves began to hurt, but still we pushed onwards. Only when the tinge of deep orange over the skyline signalling dawn did we stop. I pulled the wagon off the road and set down the braces so it wouldn’t roll away, Ruby stared at me worried. The rest of the way I had hardly spoken despite Ruby’s attempts to spark up a conversation. I slumped into the wagon.

“I’ll have a shower then make tea while you have a shower.” I mumbled Ruby remained silent but I didn’t wait for her to say anything, I’d already started walking into my little bathroom.

I pushed the small revolving door open from the shower, and had the faint image of Ruby being trapped inside squished between her tail and the glass. The thought made me chuckled a little. I set the water running then noticed a temperature dial that hadn’t been there before. I blinked then rushed into the kitchen and ran to the sink which now had two instead of one and the cupboards were full again.

“Bolt, what’s wrong?” Ruby asked.

“I…I think the craftspony installed alternate water… While we were…” I gulped and Ruby got the picture and flushed deeply.

“They-they might not have been tuning the wagon while we were…” But he voice trailed away in embarrassment “It’s not all bad, at least we won’t have freezing water.” Ruby said I nodded but couldn’t shake my embarrassment from somepony else hearing the previous day’s activities.

I went back into the bathroom which was now slightly steamy and stepped into the shower, warm jets of water splashed my face and I reached back to close the shower door but felt my hoof touch something fluffy. I looked back and cried out in surprise.

“R-Ruby!?” I cried trying to back up but had no room to do so.

Ruby smiled slightly at me and dragged a bit of her tail into the shower. I stood on my hind legs to make some room but Ruby simply closed the distance, and took the space up with her tail which led out of the shower and lay around the room in large piles.

Ruby and I were pressed up against each other, water cascading down and between our bodies. Ruby grinned at me and I gulped blushing. I was then forced to sit down slightly on a pile of coils as Ruby levitated down the shower head. I felt water spray directly into my mane and I stared at Ruby.

“We had a bath, what’s the problem with a shower?” Ruby asked.

“It’s… a little more compact… Than I’d like” I admitted but remained silent as Ruby ran her hooves through my hair.

Ruby’s tail, looking for more space, decided to start coiling me up. The damp scaly muscles slipped rapidly around my body before I had even noticed, Ruby smiled warmly and squeezed me, water leaking through the gaps in her tail and becoming trapped in between. I felt like a stick of butter or soap about to slip away but unable too at the same time.

Then Ruby began rubbing down my whole body with her tail. I gasped and moaned slowly and Ruby giggled.

“Want me to make it feel better?” Ruby purred softly, her eyes flashed for a brief second but I got her meaning.

I nodded sluggishly and swirling colours had begun to spread over Ruby’s eyes even before my head had returned to its normal position. My mouth hung open as I stared into Ruby’s endlessly changing eyes, her tail caressing my body becoming so much more noticeable and relaxing. I leaned against my prison of coils as Ruby let her hypnosis stop. I wasn’t fully hypnotised but I was as good as with Ruby moulding my body into liquid.

I must have dozed off while Ruby was massaging me (or she ordered me to sleep) because next thing I knew I was blinking my eyes open on the sofa around the dinner table. I shifted slightly and realised I was under a blanket of coils… So soft and comfy… I rubbed my cheek against Ruby’s tail and heard her gasp in surprise. I looked up and noticed she was by the cupboards.

“What are you doing?” I asked softly.

“Trying… Trying to make tea for us, since you fell asleep from the hypnosis.” Ruby admitted blushing.

I chuckled softly and managed to force myself to stand, wrapping Ruby’s tail tightly around me like a Sunday morning when you don’t want to leave the bed so you bring it with you (…Just me that does that?).

I walked beside Ruby, she’d gotten out some simple salad supplies and a small pile by the sink showed her previous attempts.

“How did you burn them? The oven’s not even on.” I said chuckling Ruby blushed and shrugged.

“A little help please?” she asked I nodded and cleared the table.

Several minutes later and I had Ruby, nervously, holding a knife in her magic.

“Can you show me how to do it by hoof, you’ve learnt how to do it so couldn’t I learn too as well?” Ruby asked.

“Er, sure… hang on… Um,” I stood up behind Ruby and gently took hold of her hooves and placed her left on the top of the carrot and had her hold the blade in the other.

Ruby’s scent was going directly up my nose addling my brain as I helped her move her hoof slowly along the vegetable, rolling the blade too easily cut it. When we finished it felt as if Ruby had used some sort of scented hypnosis on me, she seemed to realise it as well and pulled me along with her hoof and tail, levitating the bowl of salad, into the bedroom.

Ruby lay her tail along the bed and had me sit against the back. I blinked as the distance between me and Ruby let my brain clear a little, then Ruby sat down, leaning against my chest, her head underneath mine. She levitated bits of the salad into her mouth then up to mine. I opened my mouth and Ruby popped the food into my mouth.

“That’s so cute.” Ruby whispered looking back at me.

My brain tried to force a response but I just blushed as my brain came up with nothing but slush. Ruby leaned over as she levitated the bowl out of the room, I heard a soft clink as it landed in the sink.

“Nice.” I mumbled as Ruby rolled over.

“Now, tonight’s fun.” Ruby grinned.

“What?” I asked as Ruby bared her fangs slightly, grinning devilishly.

“I’m felling peckish still… I think I could go for a little bit of… Pony.” Ruby whispered.

I froze, rigid as a wooden board, from fear. Ruby was literally threatening to eat me right now. I smiled nervously leaning away from Ruby, but we were already so close I just pressed myself up against the back of the bed.

“N-now Ruby, let’s not do anything rash here.” I said soothingly, hoping to calm her down. Had she gone feral again? She didn’t look crazy, and she seemed to sense what I was thinking.

“Bolt, I’m not going to harm you, we’ve established that and remember, two stomachs.” This didn’t comfort me so Ruby tried a different approach “How’s about… I just eat a leg,” I stared horrified “Not bite it off you idiot.” She said with a slight grin, which was comforting “I mean I’ll swallow your leg, which will make it impossible for me to swallow the rest of you and… Well, you can see what it feels like.” Ruby offered.

I had every right and opportunity to say no, it would have made more sense to say no, but I had, unfortunately, given Ruby something to bargain with.

“You did say you owed me one when we got out of the city.” I shifted uncomfortably, fully aware that I had said that.

Reluctantly, I nodded in agreement. I slowly raised my right hoof up and presented it too Ruby, she smiled slightly and brought her tail around, a coil under my front hooves, curling like a spring around my right hoof, forcing it towards Ruby more. Ruby leaned forward, her breath causing the fur of my leg to ruffle which tickled. Ruby opened her mouth and let her forked tongue glide gently across the base of my hoof, I shivered and muffled a laugh. Ruby smiled faintly and kissed the edge of my hoof, running her tongue around my whole hoof. When I was coated in saliva Ruby made the next move. She pushed back her tail and opened her mouth, I stared down the dark red passage of her mouth and gulped. I wondered faintly how she would eat me but had the image of her eating deer meat to answer the question; she’d unhinge her jaw like a snake would.

Ruby forced my hoof into her mouth and I felt her tongue wrap around it like a bracelet. As her mouth moved along I felt her tongue crawl forward so that I couldn’t pull my hoof away. I’ll admit that I shook with fear, but after the initial panic of seeing part of me being eaten faded, I realised it wasn’t so bad. The insides of Ruby’s mouth were incredibly soft and squishy, and they pressed in on my flesh, forcing my hoof downwards more, but it was like a full massage, much like how Ruby’s tail often was, but it was a different texture to scales. Ruby looked up at me and, around my hoof, smiled faintly as her tongue gripped just below the joint in my leg where it joined my torso. I could see a slight bulge in Ruby’s neck that I realised was my hoof, the realisation both, somehow, exited and made me nervous. Ruby clutched my chest as if trying to force that down, then slowly pushed back sadly. I tried to move my hoof but found Ruby’s muscles inside her mouth seemed to act like a vacuum, pulling me in but not letting go, I could hardly shift my hoof.

Ruby stared at me then, finally, she began to pull back. She clearly looked disappointed and unsatisfied, staring at me hungrily even as her mouth trailed away from my leg, which was soaked with saliva. Ruby, reluctantly, let my hoof go with a final lick I held my hoof under my eyes but saw no scratches on my leg, which was dripping saliva onto my bed. Ruby stared at me, unblinking, but I understood her unspoken question. I tilted my head forward towards Ruby and closed my eyes. Ruby seemed to understand because her tail jumped me, my entire body was pinned. I expected to be pulled forward but was surprised when Ruby flung me down onto the centre of the bed, my rear hooves, which were poking out the end of Ruby’s coils, hanging over the edge.

Ruby appeared above my head, looking upside down. She grinned faintly at me as her tail shifted, getting a grip on my body.

“Let’s pretend for a little bit that we’re in the badlands.” Ruby lay her head down beside my good ear and began to softly purr into it, making it twitch “I’ve just caught you, after you foolishly thought you could escape.” Ruby chuckled softly but it was soft, genuine.

“Let me go?” I fazed it like a question, wondering if she wanted me to play along. Ruby’s tail squeezed me softly and I gasped in surprised.

“Aw, but after all that effort? I think not.” Ruby purred “Besides, after all that fleeing you did from me, I’m feeling peckish.” Ruby ran her tongue along my ear and I shivered for real, squealing quietly in surprise.

“Now normally, feral lamias would crush your bones to dust… But I’m feeling a little merciful so I’ll just exhaust you.” Ruby began to tighten her tail, specifically around my neck.

I struggled playfully, trying to wriggle my hooves out or my back legs, but I barely so much as shifted in the great mass of coils around me. Ruby loosened her tail and I breathed freely, then Ruby tightened again, a little more than last time. It wasn’t too bad, I could still get air just a little shorter. Ruby continued this rhythm of; squeeze, loosen, squeeze tighter, loosen until she was squeezing to the point I had to hold my breath, which isn’t easy when the air is immediately forced out of your lungs.

“Let’s see how tired you are.” Ruby mumbled appearing back in view, her hooves either side of my head.

Her tail unravelled slightly so it was like a sleeping bag with the top propped up away from me. I assumed Ruby wanted me to try and run… or pretend to be too exhausted to. I shifted my body to act as if I was trying to move, and I found that even the acting part was a little tiring. I felt like a dead weight and I just wanted Ruby to pull her tail back around me. So I reached up with a single hoof and tugged on her tail trying to pull it back down, but my hoof kind of just rested against her tail. Either way Ruby tightened her tail again but now I had one hoof outside hanging over the top of Ruby’s scales. She took the hoof and forced it gently back against my side.

“Okay Bolt, I’m going to start eating you now.” Ruby stated, no longer roleplaying “When I start I won’t…” Ruby hesitated staring away from me looking slightly guilty “I won’t be able to stop Bolt.” She admitted “So if you don’t want to, or if you’d like to back out I’d understand.” She said.

I managed to lean my head up enough to kiss her chin, and she bent her head down to properly kiss me.

“How’s about just a tiny bit of hypnosis just in case… In case I get scared.” I suggested.

“You don’t…”

“I might get scared when you’re eating me but you swear that you can spit me out, and that no harm will come to me. Right?” I asked, Ruby nodded “Well, go on then.” I said.

“I want you to fully willingly do this, Bolt…” I thought back to what Ruby said about lamias eating ponies.

“Trust… It’s about trust isn’t it?” I asked Ruby nodded. I sighed “Ruby Scales, I trust that you won’t harm a hair on my body.” I said confidently. Ruby smiled and nodded.

“Enjoy.”

“Who’s getting the meal?” I asked.

“Good point.” Ruby chuckled softly and lay down out of sight.

I closed my eyes expecting to feel the soft damp interior of Ruby’s mouth over the back of my head first, but got a surprise when Ruby licked the back of my neck. I froze twitching and shouted out in surprise.

“W-What was that for?” I asked.

“Huh? Oh, sorry… Was just tasting.”

“Well you’ll have plenty to taste in a minute.” I made an undignified squeaking sound as Ruby, finally, unhinged her jaw and forced the top of my head inside her mouth.

I closed my eyes, I mean in a bit it’d be pointless to keep them open, I wouldn’t see anything but darkness anyway. Ruby’s tail flexed and shifted down entirely, the bottom coil now resting against my rear hooves.

Ruby’s mouth kind of slid down my head, I felt the top half of my head, my nose just poking out, enter her mouth. When Ruby had slid her mouth over my whole head, her mouth closed down slightly around my neck and I gasped. All of the muscles inside Ruby’s mouth had clenched down around my head so I could barely move, I felt my head pressed against damp fleshy walls. It wasn’t an unpleasant sensation either, being eaten, it was actually a little pleasant. All of Ruby’s mouth and now neck muscles, as the top of my chest entered her mouth forcing my head down a little, were contracting around me. I was thoroughly soaked, but it just felt like a really strange massage lotion.

There was a sudden strange sensation in my body and rear legs, I realised that Ruby had lifted me up into the air. I guess she wasn’t going to eat me lying down forever. Gravity now acted as Ruby’s friend so it was really her tail holding me that was restricting my movement. My wings were being forced against my side as they entered Ruby’s mouth, my head probably around the area where Ruby’s pony stomach would be, if she had one. Ruby continued to pull her tail slowly away from my body, which would then drop me further down the dark passage of her throat, the walls pressing in from all sides on my body. Finally, Ruby reached just a little above my rear hooves, which were wrapped in a single coil like a little fishing hook. Had I never met Ruby this would have probably felt like my last line of escape and I’d be begging for my life, for her to pull me out. But I lay, content, in the tunnel halfway to her first stomach, feeling strangely drowsy. Suddenly I felt the last coil of Ruby’s tail release me and I slid a couple inches down Ruby’s throat, my hooves joining the rest of me in the damp tunnel.

I had no idea of knowing where I was in terms of Ruby’s tail, at times I would slide rapidly down a little bit or slug along the slippery pitch black tunnel. I had my hooves crossed over my chest but I could barely move anything else. Finally, when I was wondering if Ruby somehow had a magical throat that could run her neck in circles, I felt my head collide with a very squishy… Thing. (What can I even describe it as…?) It was sort of like a circular door made of flesh, it had indent lines with a small crater in the centre, but I was less focused on it after a few seconds, because I’d suddenly realised I was stuck and still upside down and now I was pressed up against something in a rather uncomfortable position. Just before I called out to Ruby the door thing behind me suddenly opened and I flopped backwards. I rolled over myself so I was facing the way I’d come in. I rolled around until I felt like I was upright and got a baring. I felt like I had entered some sort of full body jelly, I assumed it was Ruby’s stomach. The walls were pressing into me from all sides keeping me immobile, but when I tried to move I found that the walls could be pushed away from me easily. I shifted around until I was lying in a comfortable position, then heard Ruby’s voice through the walls of her stomach.

“So… How was it?” she asked, her voice muffled.

“It was nice.” I admitted.

“Well maybe you’d like to stay in there… For a little longer?” Ruby asked hopefully.

I didn’t really consider it, the drowsy feeling I had started developing since I first entered Ruby’s neck was becoming stronger. I felt slightly lighted headed and buzzy, as if I’d had a little too much to drink, but it was a nice sensation.

“I think… I’ll just have a nap… Tired. Just spit me out and wake me up later, kay?” I mumbled softly.

“You’re tired?” Ruby asked.

“Mhmm.” I mumbled too tired for words.

“…Well don’t let me hold you off from your nap.” Ruby said cheerfully.

Maybe if my brain had been more awake I would have wondered what was with her slight pause, but instead I simply closed my eyes resting my head against a segment of Ruby’s stomach and fell asleep almost instantly.