Accidental Pred(s) Anonymous

Kalyani looked at the banner hanging outside the relatively empty convention room: “Accidental Preds Anonymous meeting today”. One of her friends had texted her the suggestion after she had accidentally swallowed said friend during a party. Unfortunately, she didn’t know how to let her out, but Kalyani figured she had to do this. “For you, Jasmine,” she said to her belly as she squeezed it with both hands.

She walked through the open doors, heading to a circle of chairs in the middle of the room. The majority of people there seemed like typical predators: Big dogs and cats, a couple dragons, a snake, a slime-girl too. The group leader seemed to be the lioness, judging by the way she glanced over and gave a kindly smile as Kalyani approached. As for herself, Kalyani was a large, gray elephant. She was big enough that nearly any other animal fit comfortably inside, not to mention a belly that made it almost impossible to feel, see, or hear any bumps. This all added up to quite a problem with her clumsiness, forgetfulness, and just overall innocent thoughtlessness.

Kalyani took a seat between the snake and a wolf in a chair that seemed a bit too small for her. The slime-girl was finishing her story by saying, “...And when I woke up, I felt heavier. I was wondering why, until I saw a phone inside me... And it wasn’t mine!” She bent over, covering her face with her hands. The lioness gently patted her on the back, saying “Thank you for sharing that with us. I’m sure we can all agree when I say: It’s not your fault, and you’re not a bad person for that.” The other nodded silently in agreement, including Kalyani once she realized what was happening.

“I’d also like to say welcome to our new friend! Whether you want to speak about your experience or listen, you’re free to--”

“Oh! Yeah I’m just here because-- sorry for interrupting-- but like I... accidentally ate one of my friends at a party and she told me about this. So I thought I should come especially since I...” She looked down at her belly once more, “I couldn’t get her out.”

The lioness nodded. “Well, the first step is the most important step! So welcome to our group. Many of you already know this, but my name is Subira, and a long time ago I used to have a problem with accidentally eating others. But I haven’t for some time now, and I would like to help all of you get there as well.” She smiled and Kalyani smiled too, even if she still felt a bit nervous. “Let’s take a quick break! We’ll reconvene in a few minutes.”

Some of the group stayed in the room, while others stepped out into the hallway or left entirely. Kalyani followed the slime-girl, who was walking to a nearby vending machine. “W-Wait up!” she said.

She turned around, her own body shaking as Kalyani caught up. “Oh, the new girl! I was just getting a drink.”

“Yeah, sorry to interrupt, I just wanted to say since I came in while you were sharing your story, it’s nice to know there are other people like me.”

They started walking together as she replied, “Oh, no problem! I thought the same thing. It’s surprising, but relieving.” She inserted a dollar into the vending machine, which began to pour a cup of lemon-lime soda. She picked it up and turned to face Kalyani, who was quite noticeably twice her height close-up. “Um... Want anything?”

Kalyani failed to hear the last syllable but responded, “Oh, sure!” She plunged her trunk into the drink and started to drink up.

The slime-girl was shocked by the gesture but simply rolled her eyes. Not what she meant, but she could be polite about it. That is, until her new friend’s slurping trunk started to reach beyond the confines of the cup. It took her a second to realize but her arm was quickly disappearing into the elephant. She looked up, but the elephant’s eyes were shut as she happily drank from what was starting to seem like a bottomless cup. “Hey Kalyanmmmmf!” Before she could say anything to stop her, her head was pulled into the trunk like the rest, quickly making its way past her mouth, down her throat, and into her belly.

Kalyani smacked her lips with a satisfied, “Aaaah~” as she finished. “Sorry, I think I drank the whole thing but--” She looked around. She was all by herself in the hallway, the only sign there was even anyone else was a crumpled paper cup at her feet. She pouted to herself, “Well, you didn’t have to run away!” She picked up the paper cup and tossed it in the trash, then headed back to the meeting room.

The group was slightly smaller now, leaving only the two she originally sat next to, a single dragon, a muscular looking tiger, and of course the lioness leading the group. “Welcome back everybody,” she said. “For this next part I think we’ll break up into groups of two, to discuss our feelings a little more privately amongst your peers.” The wolf and the tiger were one group, Kalyani and the snake, and then the dragon and Subira since there was an odd number.

The two of them turned their chairs to face each other and then just kind of stared awkwardly for a few seconds. Kalyani was the first to break the silence since she could hardly stand it by saying, “Hi my name is Kalyani, I-- Oops! This is supposed to be anonymous.”

The snake smiled and responded with a smooth, masculine voice, “Oh you’re fine. You can call me A, though that’s not my real name.”

“Haha, ayyy!” She smiled, rocking a bit in her chair. “Soooo... what brings you here?”

“Isn’t it obvious...? I’ve accidentally eaten people before too.”

“Oh no, I’m so sorry! What happened?”

“Well... I don’t mean to brag, but people always tell me I have such alluring eyes. So alluring that they listen to anything I say... And sometimes that ends up with them adding to my body.”

She glanced at the rest of him, which was indeed very long and thick under shiny brown scales. “Oh, wow! That must be awful.”

He nodded solemnly. “Indeed. I came here because I wanted help... Sorry if my eyes are having any sort of an... effect on you.”

She looked down at him, into his eyes. They were glowing all sorts of wondrous colors, colors that made her want to fall inside them. “Oh you’re fine... your eyes are fine...”

He smiled again, but was quick to return to the act. “Oh, no, don’t look! I don’t want you joining my lovely coils... That would just be terrible.” He barely looked away and his tongue flicked out. “Please don’t enter my maw. I would hate to swallow you up.” He left his maw open wide, expectantly after glancing to make sure everyone else was turned away and occupied. Unfortunately for him, the hypnosis didn’t improve Kalyani’s selective hearing. She heard, “Please don’t enter my maw... Swallow you up.”

She echoed “Swallow you up...” and before he could correct her, he found his head deep inside the elephant’s. And as if he was the thickest spaghetti noodle she ever had, she quickly started to slurp him down. There was hardly a thing he could do with how fast he was disappearing inside. He started to pile into her stomach, his own coils landing like a stack of rope above his head. A puddle of what was unknowingly the slime-girl from earlier was beneath him, but most of all he was just pissed.

“I’m glad to hear you’re feeling better, Tural. See you next time!” Subira watched as they walked out, leaving three others. Guess the snake left too, maybe she would get out of here early. “Alright group, let’s reconvene!” She waited for everyone to shift their seats back to facing inwards, then noticed Kalyani seemingly staring off into space. She glanced down at her belly, though she couldn’t tell if she had an ‘incident’. Especially since A was making no recognizable impact she could see. “Miss? Are you alright?”

Kalyani’s eyes blinked, clearing her eyes of their rainbowy sheen. It seemed like some time had passed and her talking partner left her. “Oh, sorry! I space out sometimes. I guess he left while that was happening. But that reminded me, is it alright if I share a story?”

“Of course. Feel free to share anything you feel comfortable talking about.”

“Okay so just now, with how I was spacing out it reminded me of this one time I wanted to go to the theater with my girl friend-- not my girlfriend but she was cute-- and she suggested she hide in my belly so I’d only have to buy one ticket and she could come out when I got in the movie.” She suddenly grabbed the wolf who had moved back to their seat at her side and said, “So you know, I scarfed her down just like this,” and shoved them into her maw.

Subira’s eyes widened as she watched her quickly gulp down the wolf before she could say a word. The tiger simply cringed, glancing at Subira to see what she would do. She decided to do nothing, at least immediately. She would wait until the elephant was done with her story and then try to teach them about regurgitation... Hopefully in time.

Kalyani continued, “And you can’t see a thing right? Neither could the theater employees so I basically got a buy-one-get-one-free ticket. Well I buy my popcorn and soda and go into the movie which has already started and basically I was just sucked into it. I mean like I think this movie later won an award or something, it was so good. But I ended up forgetting all about my friend in my belly! And I mean when the movie was done honestly I forgot I had even come with her. I tried to message her about the movie but she didn’t respond. I thought she was ghosting me! Yeah, that’s all I wanted to say for now.”

“...Thank you for sharing that with us. Um... For our next segment, I think it would be a good time to go over what we can do to assist in the case of accidental predation scenarios.”

“Oh, great! Yeah I never figured out how to spit anyone up, if I even remember.” Then she looked at her belly, which she was finally starting to feel movement in. “Oh my gosh, that wolf! Can you help me?”

“Yes. There is something you may have heard of, called the Heimlich maneuver...?” Kalyani shook her head. “Right,” she sighed. “Well, it’s made for choking, but a similar principle usually works here. You should watch too,” she said to the last man standing. “Okay. You get behind the pred like so...” She gestured for her to walk into the middle of the circle of chairs and walked behind her. She struggled to wrap her arms around the much bigger elephant, barely managing to interlock her fingers over her belly. “And then you just need to... thrust!”

She could barely manage any force, but she had to keep trying. Kalyani’s gut was tough, not allowing much pressure, but she wasn’t sure there was an alternative. She thrusted again. Nothing. Another thrust. The elephant’s body seemed to shake suddenly, knocking them backwards. Subira hit the ground first. Then when she looked up, her vision was filled by nothing but gray elephant ass. Then it was pitch-black.

Sitting on the ground now, Kalyani finally let something out: A loud belch that rattled the chairs. “Oops, excuse me.” She realized she was sitting on the ground and promptly stood up, dusting off her legs. “Subira?” She looked behind her, towards the tiger, then towards the empty half of the room. This gave said tiger a very clear view of two lion hind paws hanging out of her ass. They kicked weakly, then disappeared between her cheeks with a quiet schlrp.

Kalyani looked back towards him and asked, “Did you see where she went? I knew lions were fast, but I thought she was gonna help me spit that wolf out.”

He thought about telling her, but decided to spare her the embarrassment. “Look, why don’t I try to get that wolf out? I think I could just reach in there and pull them out.”

A spark lit up between their two brain cells, and she agreed. “That sounds good! You look so strong and stuff.”

He grinned, flexing his arm. “Yeah I work out... although admittedly some folks have helped me buff up. Anyway!” He stood up on his chair, putting him at the same height as Kalyani. “By the way... my name’s Rory. In case you want to grab some dinner sometime.”

She blushed and giggled at him, then presented her maw for him to reach into. He plunged his arm in without hesitation, getting it halfway down her throat before she reached his shoulder. She gagged a little, choking on his thick arm and swallowing it down a little more. “I don’t feel anything yet... I’m gonna have to lean in a little more.” Kalyani complained as he shoved his other arm in, then his upper body, stretching out her mouth more than ever before.

She involuntarily swallowed as she choked on him, causing his feet to leave the chair and him sink in further. He said something, muffled, which was, “I think I got them!” Still, her body was greedily gulping down the tiger now that he was more in than not. For what it’s worth, she did try to stop him since she was aware of him going down. Her trunk wrapped around his ankles, barely keeping him from becoming another meal.

Rory was deep enough inside to see everyone who had entered her belly, whether she knew it or not. “Wolf dude! Snake dude!”

They weren’t that surprised to see him. A spoke up first by saying, “Great. Another stupid predator... I wish I had melted before it got so crowded.”

“Hey hey, I’m gonna get us out, alright? I’m the rescue party. So just grab my paw and-- wait...”

Outside, Kalyani was losing her tug of war with her throat. Her trunk just wasn’t made for holding onto an entire tiger by his ankles against powerful muscles. Suddenly he slipped, making her squeak and then gulp as his hind paws disappeared into her mouth. She sat down as she felt the last of him slide down her throat and start to settle in her stomach. He made for a very visible bulge, something that could finally be recognized as another person inside her.

She couldn’t hear the complaining or arguing coming from within, but instead she simply patted her stomach and said, “I’m sorry you two... M-Maybe you can still find a way out, Rory.” For now, she yawned and laid down on the ground. “I’m gonna take a nap... Lemme know if you figure something out.”

Inside, the group’s argument was briefly interrupted as their surroundings turned them 90 degrees. A started it back up by saying, “Incredible that a group of predators can so quickly become prey when a ditzy elephant walks in the room.”

Rory tried to defend her by saying, “Hey, she’s not ditzy, she just gets caught up sometimes!”

“You stupid cat. That’s the same-- Wait, someone’s coming up from under me?”

“Oh, that’s probably Subira. She fell on her.”

The lioness from earlier slowly emerged from her long, winding path through Kalyani’s intestines, sliding right between A’s coils. “Ugh... That was... awful.” Not that being in the elephant’s stomach was much better, with acids pooling around them. She looked around, gathering her surroundings. “Oh my god, she ate all of you?!”

“Seems your newest ‘friend’ has quite the appetite. Probably to make up for her lacking intellect.” Rory punched A on his snout for that comment, making him snap back, though too short to actually bite the tiger. “If it wasn’t for how crowded this girl’s belly is, I’d send you to another one before we’re all elephant soup.”

Subira started trying to defuse the situation and work on an escape. “Guys, guys! This is no time to argue, we need to get out here before we end up another anecdote for her. She probably doesn’t even know some of us are in here. Has anyone tried just... going back up her throat?”

A turned his head around to put himself eye-to-eye with her and said, “Please. Of course I did. It’s sealed tight. I realize you all ‘accidentally’ eat people, but I do it on purpose and let me be the first to say: We’re not getting out of here.” He looked up to see Rory trying to pull it open with hands, albeit at a very awkward angle that was also smushing the other wolf into the stomach wall. “Morons.”

Hooking onto the purpose part, she said, “Wait, you eat people on purpose? Then why did you come here?”

He smiled a bit, looking her up and down. “You know, it’s very easy to orchestrate ‘accidental’ scenarios that people will forgive you for, even if you end up ‘accidentally’ digesting your meals. For instance, do you know how many people I’ve ‘saved’ from falling?”

“Y-You’re a monster! When we get out of here--”

“Oh, even if by miracle we do, you’re not getting out of here.” With that, A unhinged his jaw and engulfed the lioness. He was so delighted to finally be getting a meal, even if it’d be his last one. Without hypnosis too, so he was able to enjoy her squirming as he swallowed her down between his coils. Diving through the stomach acid was a brief mood-killer, but when he resurfaced with her fully inside, he felt ever so satisfied. “Ahh~ With any luck, you’ll be part of me before we’re all part of her.” His bulge wriggled in response, still sliding deeper.

Rory finally stopped trying and turned back to find that Subira had vanished. “Seems like that way’s not going to open... Hey, where’d the leader go?”

“Ah... It was just so crowded in here, she pressed against my mouth and I had no choice but to swallow.” His tongue flicked out innocently. He considered the idea of eating the other two as well... It would certainly give him some peace and silence. He looked at the other two intently, colorfully, irresistibly. “You two look like strong enough fellows... I’m sure you wouldn’t mind going inside me to get her?”

The wolf and tiger each became slack-jawed, his words and eyes infecting their minds. Rory responded, “Yeah... We can do that,” and shoved his hands in just like before. A was ecstatic, eagerly gulping down such a large tiger. Not to mention he’d never had quite so many large meals in a row, usually that was reserved for rabbits or the like. But if he had to digest in an elephant’s stomach, this was the way to do it.

They each entered him obediently, one after another, until he was all alone except for so many lumps along his body. That, and of course the gurgling stomach of a snoring elephant all around him. He laid his head down atop the lump that was still struggling the most, Subira. The feeling of her moving under him was almost like a massage, albeit from inside. He was quickly slipping into a food coma much like his predator, although all the better to keep him from watching his own body turn to mush. “Sweet dreams, lioness...”

Over the next several hours, Kalyani’s stomach struggled to digest so many meals, but A’s consolidation certainly helped. His digestive system meant that once he was snake soup, the others weren’t far behind. As her belly melted everything inside it to a thick slurry, her gut returned to its normal, smooth shape and size, making it impossible to tell five different people had made their way through her guts mere hours earlier.

She eventually woke up to a janitor, who was poking her with his shoe. “Hey. I’m tryin’ to close up here.” She looked all around, confused to see that it was nighttime. “I don’t know why you’re still here, but everyone else left already.”

“Oh, did you see them?”

He shook his head. “Not a one. But you’re the only one here now.”

She frowned, standing up and glancing down at her belly. It was certainly empty now, although her clothes felt tighter than this morning. “Hmm, well, maybe he got out!” The janitor raised his eyebrow at the statement, but wasn’t sure what to make of it. “Anyways, thanks for waking me up, I’m sure my friends are wondering where I’ve been.”

“No problem, ma’am. Say... if you don’t mind me askin’, are you one of them ‘accidental predators’?”

She giggled a little bit, embarrassed. “Um, yeah! But I’m hoping to get better about it.”

He nodded. “Amazing to think some people can just accidently eat or get ate like that. I hope they help you out.”

She nodded back. “Thank you. Byeeee!” Then she took a step forward, onto a very slippery bit of tile. Almost instantly she started to fall, although she was trying to stay upright. The janitor reached out to help steady her, but instead he found her wide-open, shouting, mouth crashing down on top of him. He was inside her throat almost instantly, with the rest of him following after she was forced to swallow. She recovered in a second, but by then he was gone. She looked down at her belly and said, “OMG this is so embarrassing! I’m sorry Mr. Janitor... I better get out of here. The girls are never going to let me live this down.” And with that she quickly got back up and hurried out. Fortunately, there was no one left to see her, or join her.