She was a bit sick of sleeping, and the warm light did look inviting.

She slipped her leg out from the bed, placing it on the floor and pulling her body upright, letting her blanket fall around her. Her bra had been shifted during her sleep and was pulling awkwardly on her breasts; she pulled it straight and adjusted it to her comfort before reaching for the silken vestshirt that laid on her bed table. The blue silk of the shirt bore a firey orange and yellow symbol on the front, abstract but suggestive of flames and magic, which she liked. She pulled it on and deftly zipped up the back; it was a snug fit even on her slender frame, but she liked the way it packed in her chest and gave it definition.

Lacking any other clothes besides her bra and panties, she stepped out into the village. The warm sunlight from Idjana, the planet's nearest star, flooded her skin and gave her a pleasant tingle. She could see the dimmer green ball of Oranos, the next closest star, hiding very close to Idjana. A few other points of light were visible, but most of the stars were blotted out by the ruddy orange light of the sky.

Sudvana waved to her from a nearby workbench. She was at her usual trade, carefully etching and weaving strange magical components into the unusual charms and enchantments that she would then sell to travelling adventurers. Her simple green corset and draping skirt complemented her light brown skin, accented only occaisionally by golden jewelry inset with rubies, Sudvana's favored gemstones. Her black hair was wrapped into a tight braid that fell lazily around her shoulders.

"Sleep well?" Sudvana asked as she etched a strange rune into a simple, spherical stone.

"Meh, well enough." Latella said with a wry smile. Though a sorceress, Latella had never had the patience for enchanting. She preferred to summon her powers directly, spraying her enemies with flame, or ice, or whatever else her mood demanded. Mostly it was flame. She liked the way it felt. Nice and burning.

"Anything happen while I was out?" she asked.

Sudvana paused for a moment, then giggled, her face spreading into a mischievous smile. Eventually she started laughed out loud, clearly too amused by her thoughts to explain too quickly. "You remember what Ishiar said she was going to do last night?" she finally said.

"SHUT UP!" came a sudden voice from behind Latella's house. A blue-haired woman in silver armor stomped in from around the corner, her face crumpled into a mask of sheer annoyance. Her normally pale white skin was tinged red in places; her normally brilliant silver breastplate was filled with corroded brown holes, as was the skirt of shining plates that ran down along her thighs and waist. Her belt was conspicuously absent and Latella was almost sure her matted, half-dry hair contained tiny chunks of something unpleasant. "For your information, I got zerged!" she huffed at the other two girls. "There were five of them! You couldn't have taken that many either!"

"It doesn't seem like it should be that hard to collect kari eggs, especially for one as fierce as you, Ishiar." Sudvana said with a smile, her eyes still fixed on her work.

"But I see you survived." Latella added.

"Yeah, and if I'd known this was the abuse I'd come back to, I would have just stayed in that Kari's intestines, thank you very much." Ishiar snapped.

Sudvana looked up, her grin never faltering. "So are you going to try it again?"

"Maybe if I can get somebody to lend me a sword. The last one got snatched up by kari number four before kari number five decided I'd look good on her hips."

"Karis don't have hips, Ishiar." Latella said.

"They do too. They're just sort of...leggy." Ishiar said.

"No..." Latella continued, "Karis have a carapace which houses six to eight multisegmented legs. This carapace occupies the space that would normally be hips."

"Hey, I've got an idea," Ishiar replied. "How's about YOU spend the better part of a morning inside one. Then YOU can consider yourself enough of an authority to yell at ME."

"No way." Latella said flatly. "Unlike some people, I'm nowhere near dumb enough to go near a pack of Karis."

"S'because you're a wuss." Ishiar mumbled back.

Latella smiled. Before the verbal reparte could continue, however, all three girls were taken aback by a sudden noise behind them. It sounded like a two-ton slab of mud falling off of a building. Ironically, this was not far from the truth. But before they could turn to ascertain the source of the noise, they heard another; a bestial roar, sending their eyes skyward to behold a behemoth black dragon flapping it's great wings as it passed over their village. They only caught a blurred glimpse of the great black beast before it soared off into the distance.

"A dragon?" Latella asked after it dissappeared, a hint of concern in her voice.

"Well, it sure wasn't a silver dinette set!" Ishiar replied.

"Whoa...what is that *smell*?" Sudvana said, her nose wrinkling against the stench that all three girls were suddenly noticing. Turning to the source, they saw a rather mangled pile of brown sludge, splattered everywhere and looking like it had hit the ground with some force.

"Oh, nasty." Ishiar scowled. "The lizard made a dookie dive-bomb right outside your house!"

"Look," Sudvana said, pointing to the center of the odious mass. Where she was pointing, half-immersed in one of the more intact blobs of brown ickiness, was a recognizable torso. Well, mostly recognizable. Half of a blue metal breastplate was showing through the mess.

"Ugh, well, I guess we know what it's diet was." Ishiar said.

Latella walked over to the pile, taking care to step around the larger blobs of shit that had been spread all across the area. "There hasn't been a dragon here in a long time..." she knelt down and took a critical look at the torso.

Ishiar and Sudvana walked up behind her. "So, is she alive?" Ishiar asked.

Sudvana knelt down next to Latella and began prodding the remains with her fingers. Grabbing a piece of the breastplate, she slowly pulled it free of the mound of excrement. Gooey, unrecognizable bits of flesh came along with it, along with part of a ribcage. The breastplate itself was cracked and stained in places.

She made a nauseated noise. "Um, it looks like she's been pretty much...well, you know."

"Look there," Latella said, pointing at something in the muck. There was a bit of light glinting off of something. Wrinkling her face in disgust, Sudvana steeled herself and reached into the glop. She noticed with some discomfort that the outside had already grown cold, while the inside was still toasty warm. She felt her hands wrap around something hard and pulled out a golden pendant, engraved with a prominant symbol of a double-headed hammer.

"Whassat?" Ishiar asked.

"Some sort of pendant." Sudvana answered, trying to ignore the cloying stench that was wafting from it. "I don't recognize the symbol."

"Maybe we should show it to Mishara." Ishiar suggested. "She knows a lot of clan symbols and such. I'd like to know where that dragon has been, and where it is going."

Mishara lived in a nearby town called Laurenti. Ishiar figured it wouldn't be too difficult of a journey for the three of them.

"Well, if we're going to go anywhere, I'm gonna need a sword!" Ishiar insisted.

"Alright, I can loan you one, come here..." Sudvana said as she walked back to her cottage. She went inside and returned with a short, angular broadsword in her hands. It was made of some sort of whitish metal, subtly streaked with pale blue patterns that made it look like a silvery marble. It looked quite sharp. "It's not done yet, but it's better than nothing. Just don't lose it."

"Hey, what do I look like?" Ishiar said, happily taking the sword and placing it in the smooth black sheathe Sudvana subsequently handed her.

"Honestly?" Sudvana said. "You look like a girl who just spent twenty minutes sliding around in a kari's gross parts. There's still bits of her breakfast in your hair."

"Yeah yeah. Let's go."

*****

It had been about twenty minutes since the three girls had left town, and already they were in the thick of danger. The three girls were walking around a large ridged hill, hoping to sneak past the monsters that infested this area. Karis and harpies were all over the place, making it none too safe to travel, and they were progressing only slowly.

As Latella stepped around the corner of the ridge, something smooth and hard whipped around and struck her in the chest, sending her flying backwards into the leaf-covered ground. A slithering naga bolted from it's hiding place, knocking Ishiar away with another sweep of her sinewy tail. In a flash, her mouth opened wide as she descended on the surprised and confused form of Sudvana. In one forceful diving motion the naga had swallowed her, giving a pronounced glumping sound as the suddenly squirming body of the enchantress slithered down through the Naga's belly into it's tail, where it's stomach eagerly awaited.

Latella was lying on her side, having landed rather awkwardly after hitting a tree. She bolted to her feet just as the Naga leapt over the hill, a visible bulge in it's scaly body. Sudvana and Ishiar were nowhere to be seen. Latella ran towards the hill, concentrating as she did so. A ball of fire appeared in her hand, ready to lash out at the beast as she ran up the steep incline. She leapt off the plateau into what appeared to be a miniature valley--what had looked like a hill was more like an elevated circle in the earth. She looked for the Naga for only a half second before it ambushed her a second time. She flipped around just in time to see it behind her, already whipping it's coils around her and tightening them. The fireball in her hand shot into the air just before the naga's powerful tail constricted around her, pinning her arms to her sides.

The naga's sensual body hovered above her tauntingly. "Ah, what a selfless hero you are to try and rescue your friend," it said in a taunting, musical voice. "But then, you'd probably expected to slay me and return home a hero. How were you to know you would simply end up joining her? Poor girl. All that bravery for nothing."

The naga licked her lips and opened her mouth wide as her scaly tail tightened and began to pull Latella towards it. In only a moment she felt the soft flesh of the Naga's tongue and mouth sliding down her face, the naga's tail dutifully pushing her upwards with surprising dexterity. It coiled and uncoiled like a set of fingers, shoving her into the Naga's slimy throat. Latella's breath caught in her throat with terror as darkness surrounded her--she was being eaten!

With a few more motions of her tail, the Naga fed the poor sorceress's feet into her mouth and gave a swallow. Latella slithered helplessly into the Naga's body. She was surrounded by a caccoon of warm, slippery flesh. It was surprisingly soft, but she found she could barely move, as the gooey flesh was too thick. She was pushed further and further in, aided by the lubricating glop that coated the naga's insides, until the texture of the tube changed and her face was pushed into a pair of feet. She realized she had found Sudvana, but the naga's insides kept pushing. Latella's face slid along the other girl's legs until her face was pushed firmly into the other girl's crotch. Seemingly satisfied, the naga's guts stopped pushing and started gently kneading at her, gently spreading warm liquid all over her body.

"Who is that?" Sudvana said. Her voice was muffled by the tight flesh of the tunnel they were both trapped in.

Latella awkwardly pulled her face out of Sudvana's panties. "It's me," she answered.

"What?" Sudvana called back through the wall of stomach.

"IT'S ME!"

"Latella?"

"Yes!"

"Where's Ishiar?" Sudvana called back.

"I don't know, I didn't see her!"

Sudvana started squirming, kicking and constricting her legs around Latella as her pelvis pushed back and forth, sliding tightly against Latella's face. Latella heard her grunting with effort as she tried to make something happen, but the naga's stomach just kept on kneading them. It started pushing and squeezing much harder as Sudvana squirmed, oozing even more digestive juice all over them.

"Sudvana! You're just making it angry!"

"Well, what are we supposed to do? Just let it digest us?"

Just then, there was a splorching sound from further ahead. The stomach opened up around her as a wave of warm slime erupted over Latella's face and shoulders. Several large, rigid chunks of what assumedly were partially digested Kari carcass pushed their way into the stomach with her. Apparently the Naga's stomach had decided to regurgitate some chunks from it's intestines for further processing. The smell was rather rank. The rigid chunks pressed into her skin as the stomach contracted again, grinding the slimy chunks against her. She had several large chunks and many small ones surrounding her, but Sudvana was practically buried in them; thankfully girls did not need to breathe to stay alive, but it meant she probably wouldn't be talking any time soon.

Where the hell was Ishiar? Had she run off?

Latella tried to think of a way out of her predicament. The Naga wasn't likely to vomit them up out out of charity, and judging from how little it had moved it had probably either curled itself up and gone to sleep or was waiting in ambush for the third member of their party.

The digestive juices were starting to sting. A firey burning sensation was spreading across her whole body, and her bile-soaked clothes were beginning to dissolve.

Come on, she thought to herself. Is this fair? The very first time I set foot out of my village and I get swallowed by a Naga? Why me?

She pulled her legs up beneath her and tried to push, but they only slid back to where they were, unable to find any purchase against the gooey stomach walls. The stomach was beginning to fill with the warm liquids that were dripping from it; it was already a quarter of the way full.

This wasn't fair. That Naga was a bitch. She didn't want to become fat on it's fucking boobs. She didn't want to help make it's tail longer, or it's skin smoother. She didn't want to become spare parts for a monster.

But somehow, the horrible thought made her privates tingle.

She heard Sudvana's voice through the glop again. She was prying up the stomach wall with her elbow so she could be clearly heard, but she sounded resigned and hopeless.

"There's no way out of here." she said. "There's nothing we can do."

"My goddesses..." Latella said, her heart pounding. "She's going to..."

"Yes. We're going to be digested." Sudvana said. "But before we do, can...can you...?"

She trailed off.

"What?" Latella asked.

"I...I've never been...you know." Sudvana hesitated.

Latella scrunched her face in confusion. "You--oooooh." Suddenly, she knew what she meant--it was common for girls from the same village to share certain unique forms of physical contact. Grinding, sex, it went by many names. It was supposed to be the most pleasurable thing in the world, next to eating. And in young Latella's opinion, it was. But here? Now?

A hot girl like that? Never?

Sudvana remained silent, probably too embarassed and frightened to continue. But Latella had to admit, she'd always been a good friend. They were both going to die, and Sudvana had never been anything but kind to her. She deserved this.

And she was hot.

"Okay." Latella said, trying to smile.

She peeled off the slimy remains of Sudvana's panties--there wasn't much left of them and they pretty much disintegrated as she pulled them away. The stomach walls were starting to contort as it tried to break the two girls down--they wouldn't have much time.

She probed the other girl with her tongue. The sour taste of stomach juices filled her mouth, but she must have found her mark--Sudvana's legs started kicking slowly, sliding in between Latella's body and the warm cacoon of the naga's stomach. She worked with her tongue for a few moments, kissing and licking ever so gently.

But this wasn't going to work from back here. It could be so much better.

She slid her arms forward and clamped her hands around Sudvana's waist. Using the other girl's hips as leverage, she pulled herself forward. The feeling along her skin as she slid up the other woman's body was incredible, and as she finished pulling she found her face buried in the soft skin of Sudvana's navel. She felt the other girl's hands gently touching her arms. She reached forward again and wrapped her hands around Sudvana's shoulders, pulling again. The rigid chunks of partially digested sludge slid against her until she had pulled herself up to Sudvana's face. She could not see her friend, but she could feel her breath. She felt Sudvana's breasts against her own, and they were so close that as she moved she could feel her ribs beneath her soft skin.

She probed with her lips until she found Sudvana's, stopping them there and feeling a sudden breath fill her lungs. Sudvana shuddered noticeably and gingerly wrapped her arms around Latella, suddenly hugging her tightly, clinging likea child. The stomach contracted, squeezing the two girls together even as they squeezed each other close. As they relented, they let their faces fall and their foreheads touched. Latella leaned forward and kissed her again, this time deeply. They caressed one another even as the chunks began to melt around them. Latella gently began to suckle on Sudvana's breast as the stomach began to contract, slowly pushing the two girls towards the naga's churning intestines. For many long moments they squoze and touched. They kissed and kissed, the tempo of Latella's heart rising quickly as they sensed their demise was imminent. A primal desire began to well up inside her and she started rythmically sliding her abdomen up and down Sudvana's, slowly at first. It was over and they both knew it--if they were going to become fat on a naga, they were going to do it on their own terms. Latella's hands instinctively clutched for Sudvana's breasts, squeezing them quickly. Somehow it felt better than anything she had ever experienced. They were so perfect, so supple and smooth, the nipples tracing their way across har palm and fingers almost driving her hands into pleasurable fits of their own. She was panting now, more with excitement than fear. She felt Sudvana's fingers moving quickly back and forth across her back, her arms pulling Latella close time and time again.

A firey, blissful feeling began to build inside Latella's skin. It felt like it wanted to leap off of her body and start dancing and writhing in ecstacy. Her heart felt the same way, as if a powerful force was building inside and the two were slowly growing towards one another. Her mind swam in the sensation and the whole world just consisted of her soul and Sudvana's perfect, soft body. Finally, the waves of pleasure from her skin and her heart seemed to meet, and their overlap caused a surge of emotion and feeling that overwhelmed her. Her body froze in place, the feeling completely robbing her of her motor control. Sudvana's body arched underneath her, lost in the same feeling.

It felt like her heart was opening up like a rose and invisible light was gushing out. She could feel the outline of Sudvana's body in the darkness and she was filled with a whole new warmth--one that seemed to completely replace the hot Naga belly that she had all but forgotten about.

Slowly, the world began to filter back into Latella's senses. To her surprise, she realized she could see--the beautiful outlines of Sudvana's face were laid out only inches from her own, looking more beautiful than anything.

Sudvana smiled sweetly and raised one of her hands, caressing Latella's cheek. She took a deep breath and said, in a meek, barely audible whisper:

"It was worth it."

There was a wet noise as the Naga's intestinal tube opened up only inches from the girls' heads, but somehow it didn't seem to matter. A feeling of peace washed over the two girls as they laid in each other's arms. They closed their eyes and smiled together even as they felt the naga's wormy intestine slowly wrapping itself around them. They held their breath as it began digesting. The pain began to set back in, and then the fear. The two girls clung together against the onslaught, hoping it would be quick, but as the minutes dragged on, it became clear that it wouldn't be.

Suddenly, the naga lurched. There was a loud, thumping noise, followed by another. Suddenly, there was a blinding flash of reddish light and a spray of ichor as the two girls suddenly found themselves dropped onto a bed of cold, jagged dirt. Looking up into the now-blinding sunlight, they saw Ishiar, standing over the bloody remains of the Naga. She was looking back at them. They realized they were still wrapped around each other, covered in digestive juice, and looking quite flushed.

"Umm..." Ishiar said flatly, "I'm not going to ask."