By Darkryt Orbinautz

With Honeyed Claws

Chapter 1

Rule 1: Don't Go Into The Woods. Rule 2: DON'T GO INTO THE WOODS.

Outside an unassuming sidewalk, an even less assuming woman stood, staring at the building a few blocks in front of her as if paralyzed by fear. This woman's name was Fluttershy. She was a Ponyville citizen. Her most distinctive feature – aside from her adorable pink curtain of hair – was her superior shyness. Shyness that, if it could be concentrated, would probably make a potent fuel source.

Today, she had been invited to a gathering. She didn't normally like gatherings, with all the people jockeying for space and noise constantly disrupting her ability to concentrate. But this would be different. This gathering would be with her closest friends, who she'd do anything for.

At least, that was how it was supposed to work out. But as always, life had thrown a curve ball, this one aimed squarely at her.

Her friends had forgotten to mention the place that they would be meeting would be a bar. Almost certainly out of inattentiveness, as she couldn't imagine them leaving it out on purpose.

Fluttershy did not like bars. People got hurt in bar fights. People got drunk and did stupid things at bars. Things either they would regret or someone else would. Fluttershy did not want to deal with that sort of regret.

Fluttershy strongly wished to not go in there alone, but none of her friends were here, so she figured she didn't have much of a choice but to go inside and wait for them there.

Or she could just wait outside. Yes, that sounded much safer. And … maybe she could back away from the building a bit. And maybe she could back further and further away until she eventually got back to her house. Later, from the comfort of her home, she could come up with a excuse for her friends why she didn't show up.

"Hey!" Familiar hands accompanied a familiar voice as someone grabbed Fluttershy's arms from behind. "You made it!"

Or she could back into Rainbow Dash as she was trying to form an escape plan.

"You just been waiting for us out here by yourself?" Dash asked, separating from her. Fluttershy nodded. "Aww!" Rainbow Dash cupped Fluttershy's cheek. "That is so sweet that you'd come out here! I know you don't like being out by yourself after dark ..."

Dash quickly backed away from her, looking left and right. "Nobody saw me getting all sappy with you there, did they?"

Fluttershy chuckled. Rainbow Dash was always so concerned with her "rep," as she called it. "No, I don't think so."

"Come on, let's go inside." Dash said, wrapping an arm around Fluttershy's shoulder.

"In there?" Fluttershy shivered. "In the bar? With the drunks who are – flirty and not thinking straight and – and drunk?"

"Hey." Dash waved her through the air. "No one in there is gonna hurt ya."

"How do you know?"

Dash pointed at herself. "Cause I'm gonna protect you. Now come on."

They went inside and were greeted at the door by two men. One was handsome and taller than they were, while the other was short, rotund and squat.

"ID's please." The taller asked. Dash briefly flashed hers, while Fluttershy had to go into her purse to find hers. The squat one eyed them up and down. His eyes lingered suspiciously on their busts for a minute, before his gaze become more professional on their legs, like he was determining what part he was going to break if they stirred up trouble.

"Go right ahead." The tall one offered them. They made their way to the table, which thankfully had seats left.

"Barkeep!" Rainbow Dash hailed. "Two whiskeys for us!"

"Um." Fluttershy said. "Make it one whiskey and a milkshake, please."

"A milkshake? That's awful tame." The bartender asked. He looked at Rainbow Dash. "You sure you want your friend here?"

"Eh." Dash waved her hand. "Give her time to get her courage up." The barkeep nodded and went to get their drinks.

After the barkeep left, a man with a goatee appeared next to Fluttershy. "Hey there, little lady. Whaddy'a say we ditch this joint and head back to my place?"

Rainbow Dash got off her seat, keeping her promise from earlier. "Hey, hands off, pal." She jabbed him in the chest. "If you have anything remotely resembling a chance with her, she will come to you." The would-be suitor was displeased, but thought better of picking a fight.

Dash sat back down and patted Fluttershy's back. "See? I told I'd protect ya."

"Girls!" Dash and Fluttershy turned around to see Rarity take a stool next to them. "I was worried Fluttershy was going to back out." Fluttershy frowned as the milkshake was served before her. "Oh, not that I would blame you! I just meant I understood this is out of your comfort zone, darling!"

"Rarity, why don't you order something before you make it worse?"

"Yes, I suppose I should." Rarity said, hailing the barkeep.

Applejack slid her way in next to Rarity. "Howdy, y'all." Pinkie Pie then took a seat to her.

"Hey!" Twilight waved, breaking from the trend and sitting next to Fluttershy instead. "How's it going?"

"Well, I fought off a flirt, Fluttershy's only got a milkshake, and I'm still working on my first cup, so … could be better." Dash took a sip. She glared at the cup, like it wasn't strong enough for her. "What, is this a bar or a milkshake place?" She tapped the glass with the back of her hand. "I want this stuff to punch me in the face, not lightly tap my cheek!"

"Here." Applejack said, pushing her drink that another bartender gave her towards Rainbow Dash. "Try some of this."

Dash lifted it and took a swig. "Aw, yeah! Now that's good alcohol! What is this?"

"Bartender, another?" Applejack asked politely. Another of the same drink was dropped. Applejack reached over, taking her drink back from Rainbow Dash and giving her the fresh one.

"So, what's new with you?" Twilight asked Fluttershy. "Any good news on your animals?"

"Oh, not really ..." Fluttershy murmured. "Well... Angel's been behaving more than usual."

"Ah, he's just trying to butter you up for something." Dash said. "Honestly, Fluttershy, I don't see why you just kick that sphoild brat to the curb ..."

Fluttershy raised her eyebrow. "Rainbow Dash, how much have you had to drink? You're starting to slur ..."

"What – you said I was starting to slur?"

"Yes."

"And how much I had?"

"Yes."

"Not enough, if I'm only starting to slur." Dash took another drink of the fruit-red cocktail. After drinking a bit, she looked down on her whiskey and was obviously thinking of combining the two.

Meanwhile, Applejack poked her head out, noticing Rarity's purple dress. More specifically, its back. "Rarity? Wut's up wit' yer dress?"

"Why, whatever do you mean, darling?"

"Ah mean, Ah'm pretty shore if Ah reach my hand over and took a swipe at those straps, Ah could tear yer dress right off." Rarity glared.

"Applejack?" Twilight asked."What are you implying?"

"Oh, nuthing much. Jus' sayin' that someone – not sayin' who- is planning on getting lucky tonight."

Rarity huffed. "Yes, well, I am a mature woman, Applejack. I have certain needs that need to be fulfilled."

"Flutterssshhay ..." Dash drawled, clearly trying to act drunker than she was really was, "Fluttershy is older than you are, and she doesn't need any needs fulfilled."

"Oh, um." Fluttershy mumbled. "Actually, I do sometimes."

"Really? What do you do?" Rarity asked.

"Yeah, do you go into bars and pick up guys like Rarity does?" Dash joked, earning a scornful gaze from Rarity.

"Um, no. I take a bath."

"Oh." Rarity said.

"Oh." Dash repeated. Then she added an "Ooooh ..."

"No, not like that." Fluttershy hurriedly said. "I mean, I mix it up with a lot of flowers and plants that help take the feeling away. See, the syrup in the – you've stopped paying attention, haven't you?"

"Wuzzat?" Dash muttered, putting her drink down. "Wasn't paying attention."

For Applejack, Pinkie, and Twilight, this was a night to get out and socialize. For Rarity, it was a chance to pick up a guy, maybe even a boyfriend. For Fluttershy, she just wanted to make her friends happy.

Not Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash was clearly here for one reason and one reason only, and that was to get so plastered she could be used as housing.

A dapper young gentleman came to Twilight, offering his hand with a request for dance, which Twilight accepted.

Applejack smirked. "Gee, Rarity, maybe y'all should given Twilight that dress."

"Hmph." Rarity huffed. She turned and got up. "I can fetch a man just as easily as Twilight. Easier, in fact, I'd wager."

Rarity twirled her hand before proudly gesturing to her exposed, buxom chest. "There is more than one type of magic in Equestria." She stood up and brushed her hand along the top half of her breast. Funnily enough, the gesture actually seemed to put Applejack in a trance. She got up and followed Rarity, trying to get another look down Rarity's top. Applejack stopped halfway from her seat, blushed, then sat back down and tried to pretend that hadn't happened.

Fluttershy nervously sipped her milkshake. "You know what, Rainbow Dash? I think I'd like to go outside ..."

"Shhure." Dash said. Fluttershy wasn't sure if she still pretending or had actually gotten drunk by now.

Fluttershy bobbed and weaved her way through the crowd, eventually making her way back into the dark night outside on the street. The lone, dark, and most importantly, empty street. No one around. Just her and her thoughts … she let out a sigh.

She wandered back and forth on the street, debating whether she wanted to go back inside or not. She suppose she should help pick up the tab … but there were so many people in there. She could only stand it for so long.

"What?"

Fluttershy noticed something. There was a stretch of forest not far visible from the bar. It wouldn't take too long to walk into it from there. There was something in the woods, moving.

She was distracted from it hearing the bar doors open. The man who tried to flirt with her earlier exited, but a quick glare from her deterred any thoughts of flirting with her again, so he left. She turned back towards the forest, only for the thing she saw to have been gone. What was it? She was an expert on animals, and its shadow didn't match any animal she knew of. She was about to go back in the bar when Twilight stepped out.

"Hey!" Twilight said. "You okay?"

Fluttershy nodded. "I just needed to be away for awhile, from all those … people."

Twilight smiled. "Yeah. I understand."

"What are you doing here, Twilight?"

"Well … I'm not sure, but I think Rarity used her magic breasts to steal my man." Twilight chuckled. She could laugh about it as she didn't feel a particularly strong connection to the guy, but she stopped when she saw Fluttershy wincing. "Oh, I'm sorry! Was that outside of your comfort zone? I'm still trying to get a hang on this whole "sexual humor" Rarity keeps talking to me about."

"No, no, it's fine." Fluttershy mumbled.

"You want to go back inside?" Twilight offered, only for any value and practicality that offer may have had to go out the window when Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash emerged, a very hammered Rainbow Dash stretched across Pinkie's suffering shoulders like a sloth.

"Hey!" Dash said, raising her hand in the air like she still had a drink. "Thish girl … thish girl ish nice enough to carry me, even though I'm shtoned drunk! Let'sh (hic!) let'sh all hear it for Pinkie Pie! Hip, (hic!) hooray!" Dash moved her hand to her mouth and tilted like she was drinking from a bottle. "You're the breasht, Pinkie … Ah mean, the BESHT. Guessh Applejack's leering is gettin' tah me ..."

"I'll take her home." Pinkie said, adjusting Rainbow Dash so that her weight was on only one shoulder. Pinkie carried Dash away as Dash continued to spout appropriately drunken nonsense.

Rarity and the gentleman exited as well, while Applejack followed behind them, acting like she was trying not to be seen.

"I must say, you are a delight, my good man!" Rarity complimented. Then she noticed Applejack out of the corner of her eye. "Would you excuse me? Perhaps go to talk to Twilight?" The gentleman nodded, moving towards Twilight. Rarity looked behind her and smirked. While the gentleman and Twilight chatted, Rarity walked a few steps, waiting for Applejack to walk a few steps after her. Rarity went by a lamp post and pressed her back into it, which had the side-effect of making her chest jut out. Rarity glanced to the side, seeing Applejack was still following her. With a smirk, Rarity started roving her hands around her breasts in ways Applejack found enchanting.

Rarity chuckled. "See something you like, darling?"

That seemed to snap Applejack out of her trance. "Ah wasn't starin'!"

"Of course you weren't." Rarity said, strutting towards Applejack. "Darling, you were completely under their spell."

"Was not." Applejack insisted, crossing her arms and turning away.

Fluttershy took stock of the situation. Rarity was teasing an embarrassed, Applejack, who was enjoying it far more than she should bave been. The gentleman was chatting up Twilight, and Fluttershy could see in their eyes he had said something that sparked a new connection between them. It didn't really look like there was much for her here.

"I'm going to go into the forest." Fluttershy said, not expecting any of them to hear her.

"The forest?" Twilight asked. "By yourself, this late at night? Isn't that dangerous?"

"Oh, um, usually yes. But I just want to say hello to a cute squirrel I saw." Fluttershy lied. She wanted to know what creature that silhouette earlier belonged to. Her mind wouldn't rest until she reached the bottom of the mystery.

"Okay … you sure you don't want one of us to come with you?"

"No." Fluttershy said. "No, it's fine." She waved at Twilight as she and her male catch held hands and walked away. Rarity noticed them leave and thought about pursuing them for her man, but she liked watching Applejack try and fail to resist too much to bother.

Fluttershy made her way towards the forest, hopping over concrete ledges and going around loose logs until she reached the edge of the woods. Where had that creature gone? It couldn't be too far from the time she had saw it to the time she watched Twilight leave. She could probably still find it, but only if she hurried.

She prowled through the forest, hunching over and keeping her head low. She didn't want to scare it, whatever it was. She wasn't usually this adventurous, but she felt infuriated and curious about what possible creature it could have been that she didn't already know about.

"Where is it?" Fluttershy muttered. As she prowled, she started to get deeper in the forest. She realized that the further she went, the less likely she could find her way back out. She heard something that both frightened her and soothed her nerves.

A rattle. Like a rattle-tailed snake. Only, snakes shook their rattles as a warning sign or a method of intimidation. This rattle … this rattle was loud and proud. Like it wanted to be heard. Like it wanted to be found in all its glory. The longer Fluttershy listened to it, the more she realized it sound like maracas. Like a member of a mariachi band who had separated from his fellows, yet decided to keep playing anyway.

The beat was eerily repetitive, with a soothing, slow tempo. Fluttershy found it relaxing and inviting. After a long while of listening to its metronomic beat, Fluttershy start kicking her foot out and swaying her hips. Before she knew what happened, she was full-on dancing.

"Mmm, yes!" Fluttershy muttered. "That's … that's a nice tune."

What Fluttershy didn't realize was that the source of the pleasant music was slowly making its way toward her. Behind her, the bushes shook. She didn't hear them, too focused on the music. From the foliage, a snake's tail rose up like the periscope of a submarine. It was a smooth, shiny black tail with a hollow yellow diamond on its backside. Swishing back and forth through the air to pick up something, it could somehow sense Fluttershy's dancing movements.

The tail dropped to the ground, ceasing its rattle, and slithered towards her. Fluttershy continued dancing for a few minutes before her eardrums processed that the music had stopped. "Hmm." She was nonplussed for a second, then she heard the grass shifting. She whipped around and gasped loudly. A snake tail was coming towards her! Despite this, Fluttershy wore a huge grin. She had found what she was looking for! The shape and size of the tail was a perfect match for the shadow she had seen. She was intrigued. The tail was larger than of the largest snakes she knew, who could get fairly large.

Only now did Fluttershy stop to think now that she found it, what was she going to do with it? That question was replaced by a more important as it coiled around her ankle and pulled, tripping her.

What was it going to do with her?

Fluttershy attempted to pull away, but the tail kept its grip firm and pulled her. "Oh, um, please stop. I didn't mean to disturb you, or whatever it is I did wrong." The tail didn't seem to hear it. Fluttershy bit her lip, whimpering. "

"Ooh, I'm sorry to have do this, but you leave me no choice!" Fluttershy kicked at the tail. The pain caused to retract, freeing her. Fluttershy rolled and got up, but the tail whipped around her other ankle and pulled her down again.

"Please stop!" Fluttershy begged as the tail continued to pull. "I promise I won't bother you again!" the tail remained indifferent to her pleas. With a yelp, Fluttershy kicked it off again. She managed to get up a second time, but by now the tail was showing signs of frustration. Clearly fed up with Fluttershy's struggling, it rocketed towards her and wrapped around her waist, binding her arms.

"EEEP! TWILIGHT! HELP!" Fluttershy screamed as the tail lifted her up and began pulling her through the woods. It went extremely fast. The forest trees passed them by as little more than darkened blurs. It was like a roller coaster ride. A roller coaster ride of forested doom.

"Are you sure we can't work this out?" Fluttershy pleaded as the tail jerked to avoid getting her caught on a branch. "I make a wonderful vegetable stew! I could bring you some!" If the tail had been uninterested in her offers to go away before, it certainly was not interested in her offerings of veggie stew now.

"Please don't eat me." Fluttershy mumbled, trying to think of a deterrent. "I'm, um, high in cholesterol! You wouldn't want to get a heart problem, would you?"

At this point, Fluttershy realized it was useless. The tail brought her through more forest, then stopped at a rocky palisade. Fluttershy looked up to see a waterfall. She also saw that whatever this tail was attached to was at the top of the rocks, as she saw the rest of its length hanging down from the side. The tail pulled upwards like a pulley system, eventually lifting Fluttershy up over the edge and taking her further.

Fluttershy closed her eyes, not wanting to look in the face of whatever terrible beast was about to eat her. Eventually, she felt the tail stop moving. It curled around her tighter, almost protectively. When there was no movement for a minute, Fluttershy opened her eyes. She was amazed by what was in front of her.

The thing the tail was connected to … the further down Fluttershy's eyes traced, the wider the tail got until it stopped. Then, atop where it stopped was … an exposed, white-colored midriff.

"Huh?" Fluttershy questioned. Atop the snake half, from where should have been a snake's head, was instead the upper half of a pretty woman. Her skin was white like the moon. She wore a black, Oriental floral dress. There was a gold tiara on her head and bracers on her arms. Attached to the tiara and bracers were black sticks that had various blue, pink, green and yellow feathers tied to them. Her eyes were an empty, shiny red, leading Fluttershy to think she was an albino. Looking back down, Fluttershy saw a strange thing with her tail. Just below the woman-half on the tail were huge, glowing red spheres, like embedded gemstones.

The she-creature raised up. As she did so, her dress slid back into place, covering her belly. As she got closer, Fluttershy forgot her amazement and returned to fear, recalling how she got here. The woman-half leaned in so close to her, Fluttershy could feel her breath.

"Please don't eat me." Fluttershy begged, closing her eyes and turning away. This seemed to amuse the creature. The woman-half leaned in further and cupped Fluttershy's cheeks and chin, surprising Fluttershy enough that she opened her eyes again. The creature turned Fluttershy's face to the left, then to the right, like she was a piece of store-bought property being inspected for damages. The woman-half flicked its forked tongue at Fluttershy's nose, as if sampling her taste.

The woman-half smiled deviously at Fluttershy. The tail began to move on Fluttershy's body. Fluttershy whimpered. She knew how powerful anacondas and boa constrictors were, how much pressure they could put on their prey. And this creature was far larger than the largest anaconda Fluttershy had seen. All it would take was just some squeezing and Flutteshy's bones would be pulverized in seconds.

Fluttershy continued to whimper, fearful for her life as the tail moved and readjusted. It looped over her shoulder, linked and curled around her waist, then looped over her other shoulder. It looked like Fluttershy was wearing a poncho made from snake coils.

Fluttershy gulped, ready for the coils to start squeezing and massage her.

Wait a second. Something didn't add up here. The snake-lady was massaging Fluttershy. Not constricting her, not crushing her, not choking her. Massaging her. Grinding her bones together, not to smash them, but to work out any kinks or knots that may have formed.

"Wha?" Fluttershy questioned. Her confusion didn't last long, as she was distracted by the snake-lady's expert massaging. "Oooh, you're really good at this. Um … when this is over, and if you haven't eaten me, would you teach me some of what you know? Aaaah ..." Fluttershy moaned. "I have some … oooh, yes, there … some animal friends that could really – oh yes, right there - really benefit from some of this."

The snake-lady only continued to be amused, resting her chin on her knuckles. She continued her ministrations, her superb mastery of coiled grinding and rubbing turning Fluttershy's legs (and her everything else) to jelly.

The snake-lady smirked, looking pleased. She raised her hand and turned it over. Fluttershy had been calmed by the massage, but she panicked again when she saw what looked like a thorn on the side of her thumb.

"You're – you're not going to stab me with that, are you!?" Fluttershy shrieked.

The snake-lady smiled apologetically, then jabbed the wrist-barb into Fluttershy's shoulder. Rather than a shriek of pain, Fluttershy moaned in pleasure. It was like an extremely well-mixed potent alcoholic cocktail had been injected into her bloodstream.

"Ooooh ..." Fluttershy moaned, her head tilting side to side like a drunken bell. "What did you … put in me?" Fluttershy tried to get her head to hold still, to no avail. Thankfully, snake-lady was kind enough to hold Fluttershy's head for her.

"Thank you ..." Fluttershy mumbled, finding increasingly hard to find her thoughts. Aside from how … unnaturally good she felt. Good and warm.

Something strange happened with the snake-woman's eyes. A ring of silver appeared, then spread out over the eyeball, disappearing into the edges of the eye like paint exceeding the borders of a canvas. Then a dark blue ring did the same thing. Then a seafoam white ring followed the blue one. Then another silver one appeared. This repeated several times until the rings were appearing all at once to form a complete picture. Taken in all at once, it made Fluttershy think of a waterfall, just like the one Fluttershy had seen on the way up here. It was a beautiful spiral, emitting a dim light that beamed itself right into Fluttershy's head. It was like it was taking over her mind. Almost … hypnotic.

"I ..." Fluttershy stammered, her thought process slowing down. There was a noticeable delay between her thoughts. Of course, with her mind as numbed as it was, she herself did not realize the delay. "I like what you're doing with your eyes … it's beautiful."

The snake-woman took her hands off Fluttershy's head. Fluttershy's desire to stare into those wonderful colors was enough to keep her head from swaying again.

The snake-lady leaned in closer. The lights from her eyes got brighter. Fluttershy felt like the light was beaming in through her eyes and stroking the pleasure centers of her brain. Her body got warmer.

"Oh, yes, please ..." Fluttershy muttered. She wanted the lights to get brighter and brighter and closer and closer … it was so hypnotizing. A picture of a waterfall formed in her mind. The longer she stared, the more intricate, beautiful, and complex this waterfall picture became. It went from a slight leak in the side of a rock to a one-hundred-foot tall juggernaut of pouring water, crashing down into a puddle and creating those beautiful seafoam bubbles. She envisioned a river, a wondrous river. One where she could hop into a one-piece bathing suit (preferably of the skin-tight variety to show off her curves) and jump into. Then the water would wash away her sins, her worries, and whatever else may have been bothering her that week.

It was amazing looking into those eyes. They went on forever, like a star-kissed night sky. Fluttershy would have found difficult to look away if she wanted to. However, that was a moot point, as she most certainly did not want to. Fluttershy shifted back to her thoughts, about wanting a swimsuit that accentuated her curves. She normally didn't have perverted thoughts like that. And the warmth! She didn't understand it, but the warmth she had been feeling since getting jabbed by snake-lady's barb had been getting warmer and warmer.

Fluttershy began to grasp what it was that was going on inside her. It was need. Need …

Burning.

Perverse.

Sexual need.

The snake-lady had this figured out nine ways to Sunday, as she adjusted her tail again. She lowered its tip towards Fluttershy's pants, then shoved the tip in, forcing itself in between Fluttershy's clothes and flesh so it could gain access to the latter. It quickly made for Fluttershy's, ahem, entrance.

In Fluttershy's current state, the forceful, muscular violation was not at all unwelcome. The tail began to move back and forth, pleasuring her.

Fluttershy thought about her baths. The baths where she added many syrups and extracts from plants into her bathwater to repress her sexual urges. At the time, she did it because the idea of intimate contact with others scared her so much. But feeling the muscular snake-tail in her now, she wondered how she could be so cruel as to deny herself something this blissful.

She remembered the statistics she knew about how much force and pressure anaconda tails could make. And with this snake-lady's much-larger tail, she could generate more pressure than that. Pressure that was being channeled into her. Pressure that was being used to pleasure her. She thought about how much that force really amounted to and it occurred to her that it was amazing she hadn't already achieved orgasm.

The tail writhed, pushing in and out before withdrawing, leaving her body with a pop.

"No!" Fluttershy wailed, her sexual desire far from satisfied. "Why'd you stop!?"

The snake-lady gave her a reassuring smile. She cupped Fluttershy's chin and leaned for an affectionate kiss. Fluttershy was irritated there was no tongue. She would have loved to felt what it was like to make out with a forked tongue.

The snake-lady broke the kiss and locked her gaze on Fluttershy. She opened her mouth. Then her chin went further down, her jaw stretching than any human jawline would have been able. Examining the insides of her mouth, it was completely dark and empty. Like the entrance into a tunnel. A small tunnel. One just big enough for a human to enter if they crawled in on their hands and knees.

The snake-lady raised her tail up, positioning Fluttershy level with her mouth. Fluttershy quickly figured the snake-woman was about to eat her, but unlike before, she didn't panic at the prospect. It sounded good to her, being eaten. It was like they were becoming one. Wasn't that the ultimate end-goal of all love? To become one? Yes, this … this was just a logical extreme of that ideal.

The snake-lady tilted her tail, angling Fluttershy. The tail moved forward, depositing Fluttershy in. The tail uncoiled and dropped while the woman-half tilted back, causing Fluttershy to slide right in.

For a minute, things were dark. Then after a second, it was well-lit. Far more well-lit than an esophagus should be. It also didn't feel quite like Fluttershy imagined an esophagus would. It felt like she was sandwiched between two walls. Walls that had plush, comfy queen-size mattresses nailed and glued to every inch of them. Fluttershy didn't think esophagi were supposed to feel this way. But how was she supposed to know? Just because she was an animal caretaker did not mean it was her business to know what the inside of a snake's esophagus felt like.

Plus, when she did perform amateur operations involving her shoving her hand down a poor chicken's throat to keep it from choking, she wore gloves, so there was that.

Fluttershy felt her body move left, then right, then left again like she was on some sort of playground slide. After going between both directions a few times, Fluttershy was brought towards what looked like a circular pair of double-doors made out of soft blue tissue. The "doors" opened like a pair of scissors, pulling away from each other, and Fluttershy was dropped through them. They closed behind her while she experienced a rough landing onto a patch of pink.

She was in a room. A large, circular room. The walls looked bumpy, but the floor was mashmallowy-soft and pink. It did not feel any more like a stomach than the esophagus felt like an esophagus. Which is to say, not at all.

The reflections of silver, blue and white still heavy in her eyes, Fluttershy could do little but sit there and silently curse the blasted warmth gathering around her abdomen. The snake-creature's systems seemed to have her covered, as six tendrils began to appear in the room, slithering in mid-air towards her.

They were interesting. They were thin, long, and clear. They looked like moisture had gathered inside them, making them look like foggy glass. Each one ended in a tilted shape with an opening in it, like the spout of a teapot.

Four of them went around Fluttershy's limbs, curling around her wrists and ankles to keep her safely in place. One of them snaked towards her abdomen, while the last one hovered near her head.

"H-hello." Fluttershy mumbled to the tendrils. "Can I help you?"

The tendril in front of her face shook like it was nodding. It pointed at her shoulder. Another tendril poked her shoulder, grabbing her shirt and tugging on it.

"You-you want me to take my shirt off?" Fluttershy asked. The "leader" tendril gave another nod. "Oh. I'm sorry, Mister Tentacle, I'm not comfortable with that."

The tendril flopped as if disappointed. It raised up and approached Fluttershy's face.

Tolerances were a funny thing. In her enthralled state, Fluttershy wasn't comfortable with taking off her clothes. But she had no problem with letting the tendril slide inside her mouth. Fluttershy noticed a liquid beginning to pour down the length of the tendril. It was a thick liquid that looked like dark green paint. The liquid went down almost the entire length of the tendril, stopping just short of the tip. Fluttershy could feel it building up pressure in her mouth. The section of tentacle just before the tip began to swell, like a stopped-up hose. It stopped holding itself and let loose, blasting what felt like a gallon of the green stuff into Fluttershy's mouth.

Fluttershy moaned. The stuff was delicious! It tasted so, so good. As she swallowed it, her warmth started increasing again. The tendril slid out of its mouth, despite Fluttershy's attempts to bite into it for more of the green liquid.

"More!" Fluttershy screamed, leaning her head forward. "Um, if that's not too much to ask, that is?"

The tendril "nodded" again, gesturing once more at her shoulder. Fluttershy, seeing what was it getting at, promptly went to work on undressing. The tentacles around her wrists and feet kept a loose grip so she could move freely. A minute ago, she wasn't comfortable taking her clothes off. But now, if it meant getting more of that delicious green stuff, she couldn't take them off fast enough.

She wouldn't have objected to going all the way, but the tendrils stopped her at her undergarments. Apparently that was enough for them. The one in front of her face went back inside her mouth and resumed pouring the green stuff into her, though a much slower, constant pace than before. The one near her abdomen, like the snake tail before it, shoved itself between her clothing and flesh to get to the second of the two. All of the tendrils were filling up with green stuff now, and the one in her entrance blasted the stuff inside of her.

"OOH, MMMHPH!" Fluttershy moaned-slash-screamed. That had been amazing, feeling the stuff fill her up inside. And it wasn't done, as it continued to pump her, causing her to moan non-stop. "MMMM-OOOH-OOOH!" Her body shook as she was filled with more and more of the amazingly tasty stuff. The tendrils around her wrists uncurled and began moving over her stomach and exposed breasts. They started leaking the green stuff over her body, tracing themselves carefully like it was actual paint instead of just looking like it. Fluttershy didn't know what they were doing or why.

Not that she cared.

Feeling contractions happen inside her, Fluttershy braced herself. With so much liquid in her stomach she felt like a water balloon, she winced and screamed as she reached her long-overdue orgasm. Her resulting scream sounded utterly bestial. The tendril down there absorbed her release.

The tendril in her mouth removing itself, allowing her to pant freely. The lower tendril removed itself, bulging like it was swallowing something.

In all honesty, Fluttershy wanted to do that again, but she was so tuckered from it that she knew she didn't have the stamina for it. It seemed to have robbed her of her energy. Had the reflections in her eyes not already sap her of her will to fight, that would have done the trick.

The four tendrils remaining lifted her up in the air and carried to another part of the room. Fluttershy could make out something she didn't notice before. A pit in the room, with two large things on either side of it. They were white, like large butterfly wings. The pit was full of water and just the right size for a human body. It made Fluttershy think it was a bath. After what she just did, a bath sounded good to Fluttershy. The tendrils gently lowered her into the water, making sure her head rested on a high elevation so she wouldn't drown. Once she was safely tucked inside, the "wings" came down and folded over her like a blanket.

Feeling tired and drained, Fluttershy turned her head to the side and fell asleep …

"Oh my ..." Fluttershy muttered, rubbing her head as she woke up. She wasn't entirely sure what had happened last night.

Wait, wait. It was starting to come back to her. There had been a forest … and a … waterfall, maybe? She wasn't sure. Maybe she had more to drink at the bar than she thought.

"Where am I?" Fluttershy wondered. Raising up, she saw she was back in her room at her house. One of her friends must have been nice enough to carry her there after she passed out. Fluttershy covered her mouth as she yawned and stretched. "I wonder how the others are doing?" she asked herself as she waved her claw in front of her mouth.

"Wha-huh!?" Fluttershy exclaimed, holding her hands up for observation. They were different now. They had changed. Her fingers and nails were much longer and black, curved barbs stuck out of the sides of her thumbs.

"What!?" Fluttershy exclaimed as she looked over herself. Her chest was covered with golden-scales that led up to her shoulders, looking like a dress. Below her waist was a huge, segmented snake tail that was green with a yellow underbelly. On the tail were three huge spheres that were a light shade of pink. They would have been big enough to comfortably house a human. Her tail was huge. It hung off the edge of the bed, was in multiple piles of coils on every inch of the floor, and that still wasn't enough room, as the rest of it hung outside through the open window.

"How did this happen!?" Fluttershy squeaked to herself, resting her hands on her cheeks. Then she remembered the snake-creature she saw last night. The snake-lady had turned her into another snake-lady!

Fluttershy felt a bit of relief, as the snake-lady had been nice enough not only to bring her home, but to also return her clothes to the top of her dresser. Even if they were in need of a dire run through the washing machine.

"Okay, Fluttershy, think." Fluttershy said to herself. "What would Twilight do?" She scratched her head. "She would ..."

Whatever Fluttershy was about to follow that up was interrupting by a knock on the door.

"Yo, Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash shouted, banging on the front door. "You okay in there? Pinkie Pie told me she took me home, but I wanted to be sure you got home okay"

No, Fluttershy was most definitely not okay! She was a snake-woman … THING! She could barely explain it to herself!

How was she supposed to explain it to Rainbow Dash!?

Author's Notes for "Don't Go Into The Woods"

I had an extended sequence of Rarity teasing Applejack, but keeping in mind criticism from another story, I trimmed it down.

There's a tricky balance you have to nail with these type of fics. You have to get to the sex fast enough while at the same not getting into the sex too fast.

One thing I would like to do with this fic is what other fics have done for me and helped not to instantly reject vore out-of-hand. If you didn't like vore before, but are willing to give it a chance after reading this, I'll feel I've succeeded.

Also, I wrote all the chapters for this story in advance, so check back tomorrow for chapter two.