This ended up being one of those days where I just got really inspired and there was this one thing which I wanted to write about. However the grand idea I had I decided wouldn't really work out without some kind of build up, so I ended up writing something smaller

This may end up becoming the build up to a bigger short story series.. I hope to be able to put something together for it. Depends on if my life is nice to me or not and I'm able to keep my motivation up or not. With how my life can be, no guarantees.

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So here I am, hiding under a bush and peeking out from side to side. It's the middle of a forest and I'm checking whether the coast is clear or not. My name's Loraine. I'm just an average female Pachirisu, not too much special about my appearance really. To me, my life is mostly up to chance and I just let whatever happens happen to me. That is what makes life the most exciting for me. Though I do live in a special area. I'll explain more in a bit.

I checked out the area, and then I was dashing out of the bush, from one area to another area. I had to move quickly with what was going on. It seemed like it was just me around at the time but I wasn't taking any chances this time. I had my reasons which you'll see very soon. I was trying to keep to the cover, even if I did make it rustle about as I darted from one bush to another bush. Then I was looking up to a tree, then jumping up and climbing to the tree.

The tree wasn't a hard climb for me. Though I lost my footing a couple of times while scrambling up, I was up to one of the branches and getting a look around from a higher perch. At one point I saw some movement to the west. With a smile on my face I used that information to jump down. I was going to head to the east, but then I second guessed my movements and went to the north instead, going the opposite way was the obvious thing someone would do after all. When I landed, my springy body cushioned my fall and then I was going back into the bushes.

However as I went through this specific bush I hit a snag, a literal snag. Something had gotten tangled up in my fur while I was under this bush and when I tried to dash out of the bush I felt a tug and I couldn't pull myself out of the bush. I tried to look at what it was, the inside of the bush had been lined with Cockle-burs. You know, those types of nut which stick to your fur in order to spread? Only in this case, they were forcibly stuck to the inside of the bush so they weren't going anywhere either. It let me rather stuck in the bush.

I was having to try and carefully unhook myself from each of the nuts which were attached to the bush. This however did cause the bush to move about a lot, but I was in a bit of a hurry. I did need to get out of there pretty quickly, especially when I heard some other rustling from another bush. I was getting the last of the nuts out, then some large paws reached under the bush and around my stomach.

"I got a catch" That voice came from outside and it was a voice I recognised. The paws then undid that last nut from me and I was pulled out of the bush then held against him, my back against his chest. It was who I thought it was, a male Raichu named Sidney. Oh, normal Raichu, not the ones from Alola. But his grip was always strong, even though I was trying to wriggle I wasn't pulling away from his grip. "And I managed to catch a wriggling Loraine."

"Well, credit where credit is due Sidney. This was quite a trap." Despite my compliment, and the fact that both me and him had some light-hearted tones, I wasn't stopping my pushing. Every time I moved, he did readjust his grip and even swung his tail. The lightning bolt end pressed against my chest, thankfully the flat end so it wasn't going to jab into me. That only partly stilled me and finally I looked over my shoulder to his face. I got an eyeful of him licking his lips.

"When i found those nuts I realised their potential. But now, you know what happens don't you Loraine" With those words he licked right along my face, I was covered in a bit of drool. I knew he was hungry though, from even before he had found me if I'm honest. He did pull his tail away but only to lift my up higher. He was holding me very well, my short paws and feet couldn't reach where he had put his paws around my stomach and my tail was left swishing around, I was trying to bat his forehead but keep it away from my mouth.

"Don't think I'll make it easy just because it's you Sidney." I was true to my word. I was trying to squirm and wriggle about, to do almost anything against his firm grip. There were some things I wouldn't do though, I'm not that uncivilised. However during my wriggling, my tail got close enough to his mouth that he was able to open it and get the tip of my tail into his mouth, then start slurping it up. That was my mistake and he had used it to get me.

I could feel his tongue pulling on my tail and he was sucking like he was sucking something through a straw. That with him lowering my body in his paws did send my tail to the back of his mouth, his own saliva coating it so much I was wishing I could hake it off and clean my fur. As soon as the tip of my tail touched his throat, I felt and heard him start to swallow. Despite my attempt to pull my tail free, he had used his teeth to keep it in, thankfully not biting into my tail.

"I would say you're luck I'm not a lizard, but that wouldn't do me much good here would it?" I was referencing how some species of lizard could separate their tail from their body if it was grabbed as a defence mechanism. I couldn't do that, it was firmly stuck to my body. I did the next best thing, I put my feet onto his cheeks and tried to push with them. That was the next bit of my resistance, but one problem I had was fighting against the strong muscle of Sidney's esophagus.

While it felt like a loosing battle due to him having more strength than me I wasn't going to stop so easily. I kept on pushing on his cheeks with my feet. Briefly with some effort I did get some leverage and did pull my tail a portion out, but that didn't last for long. His tail lifted up and the lightning bolt tip was pushing against one of my feet. With the pushing I lost my grip, the next thing I knew my right foot was slipping into his mouth followed by my left foot.

With my feet in his mouth he could lower me a bit more. Inside his mouth the wriggling of my lower body was restricted but I did get one bit of aid. He had to move his paws away from my stomach, he then took hold of my chest and my paws and that part became a wriggle match where I was trying to push his paws away while he was trying to take hold. All this time, I felt his tongue around my lower body, thankfully he was courteous yet his teeth did keep me restrained and I couldn't really do much with my feet aside from try and push against his tongue as I went down.

His throat was against my feet, I tried to put my feet to either side of it and push against what space I had. What didn't help was his mouth constantly coating me in saliva, which made my body and the walls I was pushing against very slippery. Then my push slipped, my left foot slipped into the throat and that triggered a firm swallow from him. My lower body was going down and his lips were right at the base of my chest. Now he did let go with his paws, while I had more mobility his teeth holding me at the base of my chest meant that I couldn't do much. I realised the problem with trying to put my paws at his mouth so I didn't, instead choosing to kick my feet inside his esophagus and try to push myself up.

But it was to little avail. The Esophagus was gripping my hips and I felt him swallowing and pushing his tongue against my body to force myself down. A gasp came as I also felt my tail push against a muscular barrier, then through it. I knew what that was, the entrance to his stomach and my tail was the first to be going through it. My chest and paws were slipping into his mouth, I tried to grab hold of his tongue and pull myself out. It didn't help that he put his paw to my forehead and his tongue was very slippery due to the constant saliva. It was pushing past my paws, then up outside of his mouth to push against my cheek.

Here was one thing I wouldn't do. Even if I had the option to bite the tongue that was off limits for me. The tongue was sensitive and a bite there could have hindered a predator's ability to eat, which is why I never resorted to that. His tongue and paw pushed on my head as I felt another swallow. He pushed my head completely into his mouth, that, my paws and the top of my chest were the only things in his mouth and he was licking over me everywhere. I had to close my eyes to protect myself from the saliva.

I gripped onto the throat and made one more pull, this I thought would be my last chance but really I was pretty much done by this point. That was confirmed when he pressed his tongue to my face, then a final swallow did it. I was pulled into the throat and the esophagus gripped me. Those slippery, tough walls squeezed right over me and I was having to catch my breath. I was still trying to pull but there was nothing to grip onto. I felt my tail, then my feet and lower body being pushed into the stomach, but I was still kicking.

That kicking didn't do my any good though, some further tight squeezes from the esophagus and some more saliva in my face were enough to push me down and I was inside the hot chamber of his stomach. As soon as I was in, that muscular ring I had been pushed through had closed up tight despite me trying to push up to it. I then kicked against the stomach. I couldn't kick very hard though, but it was an attempt which made Sidney from the outside chuckle. "You were putting up a good effort. But you do need to get some more strength in you Loraine."

Admittedly that did make me feel good mentally but I was getting a bit worn out. I gave a few more kicks, but they were a bit weaker than before. "I think I also need to work on my stamina." I opened my eyes now so I didn't fall asleep, but it was still dark inside the stomach. That and I could feel fluid around me. I knew what this fluid was though. "But we both need the practice for that tournament coming up."

"Which is why we did this, isn't it Loraine?" Sidney was right. We were preparing for a upcoming contest which we had both been selected for. There were 5 predators and 15 prey participants, I was one of the prey and Sidney was one of the predators. The longest surviving prey won something while the predator who ate the most won something. As for the place we lived in, not only was eating others commonplace, the higher ups turned it into an event like this to try and find the best predators and the craftiest prey. "There's only another 3 weeks before it begins after all Loraine"

"And you need to build up your appetite for it. You going to go on a starve period before the contest?" Things were turning more casual so I stopped moving. Besides, with the fluids from Sidney's stomach pressing and soaking into me along with the walls of the stomach I could feel my boy's solidity fading away. That was only further taking away my ability to push back against the walls so there wasn't any point. However I did feel a shit in gravity. Sidney had sat down at the spot he was.

"Probably, so we'll need to finish all of our practice before I start my starve period" Then I felt another pressure. His stomach got rougher and was squeezing even tighter, but also his paw was pressing to where I was. I couldn't lift my paw to push back, it was too soft and my mobility was hindered and with how small a space Sidney's constricting stomach had made.

"Then we have a lot of training to do, so we both have the best chance of winning on our ends." I let my eyes close and then what little mobility I had came to an end, for now at least. At the time I was still conscious and mostly in one piece, but I knew that wouldn't last so now it was just a case of waiting for the process to complete. "Get right back into it when I'm back then?"

"I'll let you know when I'm ready to go back to it Loraine. I need a little bit of a sleep for now." I heard the reply, but I couldn't even nod to reply. Plus it was a bit fainter, since the stomach had gotten louder. Of course I knew why. I would be alright though. Something about the area, part of the reason this was so common is because it was never permanent. This whole island was protected, the only way we could properly die was through wanting it to happen after a certain age This wasn't the first time Sidney had digested me, and I didn't think it would be the last either.

"Alright Sidney. I'll just be here... you know" I added a light giggle after that, but after that there wasn't much left to really do aside from just lay back and let Sidney's stomach squeeze over me and coat me in more fluids. The next time that Sidney would see me was when I would be on his belly, waiting for him to wake up for more.