Chapter 15- The missing animal- Batista

I found myself having a… let say spontaneous vacation! It happened just over a week ago, Kahn told me of a realm in great need of help. "It's do or die for this place, if no one takes it… it's going to be destroyed," he said.

Great, and I was the only dragon around! I went to this place, Kahn teleported me there. When he dropped me off I was stunned… it looked like an utter wasteland! Everything… EVERYTHING was dead! That was until a woman approached me. She covered her face from the sand and looked to me with tears in her eyes. "You came… thank the gods you came!" she cried.

I turned to her stunned. "What on earth happened?" I asked.

"We have one swine… a very determined one," she said and her voice trailed off. "It ate everything, and won't stop until it's gone… We should have asked for help sooner, but no one knew dragons lived… until Raiden came"

"What will happen after I get rid of this pig for you?" I asked.

"Legend says the ground will come back to life and our world will be whole again… but… we don't know for certain. I am nearly the last of my people… we have hidden ourselves here with what little we have."

Something tells me I am doing this without the honey trick. The earth soon began to shake under our feet. She gasped in shock. "It comes!"

The swine moved fast as it came into the village, its strength alone was something to behold! It stood as tall as I did, but was clearly three times the size I was! "Oh crap," I muttered lowly to myself.

The swine grinned at the sight of me. "I wondered when a dragon would come! Too bad your kind didn't remain dead!"

"You got some nerve pork chop!" I snapped back.

It seemed like one of those corny westerns where they have the face off at high noon. I swore I saw a tumbleweed blow pass us. The young woman took cover as I charged at the beast. I knew what I had to do… just didn't know how the hell I was going to go about doing it! Blow for blow we match, I was able to tear it's armor off as he managed to knock me down a few times. I had to think of a way to get this creature… I had to catch it off guard somehow… My chance came when I found myself in a lock up with the beast. "You're strong," it grunted.

"Yeah… and your lunch!" I snapped back. I engulfed its head and just managed to get my jaw around his shoulders… slowly I began to swallow from there, damn swines and their pride in girth! It tried to kick out of my mouth, pushing its legs against me and trying to pry itself from my jaw. But I quickly put an end to that… I took a deeper gulp and got a large portion of his gut in… his legs began to dangle but it was too big to lift off the ground just yet… I bided my and as it slowly… slithered down my gullet…

Later…

Legends were true, much to my surprise. It took two long… grueling and painful hours… but I did it… I managed to swallow the ham ball! Once it was in my stomach, grass began to grow; everything reverted back to how it should be. People appeared out of nowhere… yeah… I'm still trying to figure that one out myself. But I got to say; these people knew how to celebrate! I was lifted off my feet… wow… these people are strong! And placed onto a bed. They began to toss flowers into the flat bed as the women climbed up and decorated me in garlands. What the hell, when in Rome right? I tried to enjoy myself despite the pain in my gut.

The swine wasn't taking this defeat every easily, it tossed and tuned as it kept pushing up against my stomach and screaming to be released. "Release me you fowl dragon! I will escape!" Yet my gut rumbled after that one, the more he moved around the louder my stomach became. The people quickly took notice of my discomfort and my very active and mobile belly. I still ain't getting use to the squirming and churning in there. I tried to hold down my stomach as the swine moved about, but he wasn't going to settle down any time soon.

"Dragon, what can we do to ease your pain?" the woman asked of me.

"Do you have honey?" I asked.

"What is that?" they questioned.

"The stuff bees make… the gold thick liquid" I explained, damn I never though I would have to explain the concept of honey to them!

The women knew what I was saying; they left and returned with buckets full of the stuff! "How the hell can you get this so quickly?" I asked.

"Some secrets are best kept secret," the woman said. I only shrugged and began to down the honey, it's much sweeter than home, and found myself drinking gallons upon gallons of the stuff! My stomach grew soft and rather squishy looking… I ain't going to get use to this either! I was so full afterwards my gut stopped aching and I found myself asleep on the flowers, the people still celebrated me as garlands of flowers around my neck and my stomach for some reason, but what the hell. Why not huh?

I don't know about you, but I think I am starting to like this line of work!