Bad Ends Are The Best Ends
Withania rolled into her bed, pulling up the quilt and propping up the pillows so she could sit up and read. She had a folding metal book holder that extended from the headboard so her hooves were free to turn pages - since earth ponies lacked the additional limbs and magic that pegasi or unicorns could afford - and an adventure book to put in it. The book was titled Choose Your Own Adventure: Coppice of Convolution, and judging by the section of the library Withania had found it in, she was expecting things to get saucy.
Once the book was clipped into her book holder, she reclined against her lavender-stuffed pillows and took a sip of tea.
Adventure awaits you, eager traveller - step forth into the Coppice of Convolution to begin your journey!
Through these mysterious woods lies a great treasure, the mythical Horseshoe of Unexpected Fortune. This magical and ancient artefact is said to bless those who carry it with blissful days free of woe - a prize that no amount of gold can truely buy.
The forest is vast and sprawling, packed with ancient trees, dense foliage, and ruthless wildlife all competing for survival. You must trot carefully if you wish to return home safely with or without your goal. Before you lies a worn path leading deeper into the forest, the closest thing to a road you will find in these parts. Will you follow the road, or strike out into the undergrowth to seek your own path?
“Pah, easy road is for tourists,” said Withania, taking another sip of tea as she flicked forward to the indicated page, “Give me adventure!”
The main path in the forest seems to be rather exposed, so you decide to push your way into the dense undergrowth, joining a maze of animal runs that zigzag and curve in every direction. You’re definitely concealed now, but without a compass you quickly lose your sense of direction and become hopelessly lost!
Forging ahead as best you can, the soft rustle of your hoofsteps through the leaves is interrupted by a soft, but deep and rumbling growl from behind. You quickly turn tail to face the danger - a huge dire wolf towers over you, staring down with piercing red eyes and dripping chops!
You backup while looking for a gap in the bushes to dive into, but a huge oak tree blocks the way behind you, and before you have a chance to react, the wolf leaps forward and grabs your entire body in its jaws, lifting you off the ground. You lash out and manage to land a punch on its huge snout, only to be rewarded by falling to the ground with a thud. You stagger back to your hooves in a daze, and while you’re completely helpless, the wolf growls once more and opens wide.
You see a drool-soaked maw descend over your head, and in a moment your vision goes black as those terrible jaws close around your rump, trapping your entire body inside the wolf’s mouth! The wolf sits back and raises its head up high, and with a swift gulp you slip headfirst down its gullet on a wave of saliva.
A dank and smelly chamber awaits you at the bottom of this ride, where you’re unceremoniously squeezed out of the throat and into the stomach in a puddle of ooze. The walls are soft and pulsing, dripping with angry fluids that quickly cling to your fur and drench you to the skin. The floor is uneven, and as the wolf licks its lips in satisfaction, the stomach begins to bounce and roll as the monster makes its way back to its den to rest on a full belly.
Jumbled about in a pool of digestive juices, you melt into a fresh pony stew that will feed and energise the wolf until the next unwary traveller comes this way! GAME OVER!
Withania was rubbing her hoof against her swollen clit, gently biting her lower lip as she read the last few lines of the chapter again. She squeaked her approval and used her free hoof to flick back to the first chapter again.
“Good start, nice and simple, I like it… gonna need something a bit more exotic though - I’ve done worse than that to other ponies myself! Okay let’s hit the road…”
The sensible choice is to stick to the main road for as far as you can, rather than risk getting lost in the undergrowth. You make your way for a mile or two through the trees, the overhead canopy growing thicker and blocking out more sunlight until only dappled twilight remains. You don’t even notice until your progress is suddenly interrupted by a gaping chasm stretching across the road in either direction as far as the eye can see. The gap in the canopy makes for spectacular rays of light lancing down into the ravine. A river runs down below, not so far that falling would be fatal, but jumping would be a risky move. The cliffs have slipped slightly, indicating that it might be possible to climb down.
To your left, however, a bridge of vines clings onto both sides. Whether it was a plant skillfully grown into that shape, or wild vines had claimed a once pony-made bridge is unclear, but it looks sturdy enough. Will you cross the bridge, or try to make your way down the cliff side?
“Eh. Climbing down the cliffs is probably a ‘you fall and drown’ option, I’ll pass…” muttered Withania, skipping forward with her nose while reaching for her tea. Her right hoof remained under the covers, keeping her warm until she hit the next good bit.
You decide to cross the vine-bridge, since it looks a great deal safer than trying to climb down the ravine. The vines are strong and sturdy, however there are no planks forming a walkway - you carefully pick your hoof placement, trying not to slip between the vines. They’re too dense for you too fall through, but as strong as the bridge seems it would be unwise to put it to any sort of test.
You’re about half-way across the bridge when your ears pick up the dreaded but unmistakable rustle of the vines unravelling. You pick up your pace immediately, getting ready to jump as soon as you can - and then amidst the myriad of vines shifting around your hooves a group of larger tendrils jut out and entwine about your legs!
As you’re held aloft the bridge unravels below you into a mass of rippling tendrils that curl up and wrap around your body, supporting your hips, shoulders and neck until you’re bound in mid-air, the far side of the chasm now truly out of reach. You wonder what will happen now, and then almost wish you hadn’t, as you feel the brush of a vine trace between your hind legs and under your tail.
The vines around your legs slowly widen, impossibly strong against your attempts to protect your modesty, and the probing tendril pokes into the tight hole under the dock of your tail. You grimace in preparation for a rough ride, but the vine seems to exude some kind of natural lubricant, allowing it to slip inside with ease. It quickly begins to navigate your hind quarters, filling up your rump. Foot after foot, a never ending length keeps sliding between your cheeks with ease as your lower gut starts to feel heavy with the vines filling it up. Before long the writhing mass reaches your stomach, quickly reaching up to your esophagus.
You cough reflexively, and a slimy vine appears out of your mouth! The other vines seem to sense that one of their siblings has achieved its goal and they release their grip around your body. Pierced from end to end, you hang on a thick tendril skewering you in mid-air. You can flail your legs and feel the bulge in your body, but there’s nothing you can do as the vine descends into the ravine with you on the end of it.
Out from the river below, a scattering of lily pads part and a huge green bud surfaces, from which the vine you’re impaled on emanates. You’re about ten feet above this bud when it lazily opens to reveal a wet and squelchy looking interior. The vine spearing through your body straightens out vertically, and under your own weight you begin to slide down into the gaping maw!
You try to grasp the vine sticking out of your mouth, but it’s too slippery and helplessly you feel its slick surface slide through your entire digestive system under the pull of gravity. As your hind legs touch the soft fleshy insides of the monstrous vine plant, the bud closes over your head, trapping you inside forever. The plush and damp walls caress your body, covering you in sticky sap that glues your limbs against your body as you slip deeper into this abyss.
You spend the next hour stuck in place as the insides of the plant slowly kneads the sap into your body. The sweet smell of it penetrates your senses, clouding your mind until the sensation is no longer alien, but welcoming and desirable. Escaping now would be torturous, and it’s almost with relief that you melt into a sappy sludge, your body becoming a glob of nutrients to slowly dissipate into the plant and become new cells in its immense network of vines. GAME OVER!
Withania gasped and pressed her hoof hard into her button as a dribble of her juices was squeezed out from her nethers onto a tactically placed wad of tissue. Moaning in pleasure she traced the hoof up and down her slit as she rode out the rush of her orgasm.
“Oooooh call me biased but that’s probably going to be the best one…” she whispered, lifting her hoof to her mouth and licking it clean. She lay back against the pillows and flexed her hind legs of the tension that had built up in her thighs.
“Ahh, okay down the ravine we go, let’s get at least two before bed time…”
Picking your way down the cliffside like a mountain goat, you spot a narrow path along the base of the cliff with swift running water mere inches away. You climb down until you’re close enough to jump, and land with a wobble on the path.
One direction is blocked by fallen rocks, so you proceed the other way. You find a crossing point where huge boulders have falling into the river and made gaps small enough to jump, and in no time at all you’re back on your way toward the centre of the forest, following a new lower down road.
At the side of the road you come across a statue of a pony sitting on its haunches with one hoof held in front of its face. The pony appears to have been female, her expression seemingly torn halfway between pleasure and confusion. It’s slightly unsettling. Do you inspect the statue, or move on?
“Bound to be a clue here I’ll need later…” said Withania. She was tempted to skip forward, this was getting into fluff territory and her hoof idly swirling around her pussy under the covers wasn’t going to sustain her pleasure alone. She flicked the page over, intending to skim the text for any clues.
You walk around the statue…
...eerily detailed...
...a few mud encrusted gold coins...
...mouldy remains of an adventurer’s bag…
...you touch the statue it collapses into a pile of dust, and a strange cloud rises up from the remains as you step back in alarm. You try to waft the cloud away, but it swarms around your head until finally you gasp for breath and inhale it!
An tingling sensation floods throughout your entire body, expanding from your lungs as whatever you breathed in enters your bloodstream. You stumble backwards to the side of the road, but there’s nothing you can do to escape now as some force of magic or microscopic organism circulates through your veins, spreading to every leg and muscle.
You feel your joints stiffen as you begin to lose the ability to move. Looking down at yourself you can feel the fluids in your body drying up as something absorbs them from the inside, until the colour has drained from your coat and you take on a chalky pallor.
With a final glance up at the pile of dust where the other statue once stood you understand that you are about to take its place! You muscles lock up completely, dried into a cement as your body hardens from the outside in, trapping your mind inside a statue, a trap for the next treasure hunter to stumble across. You remain conscious, trapped as a perfectly detailed cast of your former self, unable to move or speak, but keenly able to sense the dwindling organic part of your body as it gets consumed and replaced with stone. Your vision becomes a perpetual daydream without time, watching for another to pass this way. Would you wish them to attempt to rescue you? Or would to want to warn them off, least they suffer the same fate? GAME OVER!
“Hoo, neat… I should find some way of trying that… good thing I didn’t skip that chapter!”
Withania’s auto-piloting hoof had picked up its enthusiasm again, rubbing away diligently as she flicked back a couple of pages. Truly, this story was punishing, she thought. Weren’t these books supposed to have multiple routes through them? It seemed that every turn she took was a bad end - not that she was complaining.
There seems to be nothing to find at this statue - other than a creepy aura - so you decide to press on. This road makes steady progress into the depths of the forest. The trees grow taller still, with smaller trees underneath them, and the ever-present undergrowth below that. These woods have become a citadel of nature, and with a treasure like the Horseshoe of Unexpected Fortune at its centre, there must surely be a guard to equal the venue.
A harmonic vibration in your ears confirms your suspicion. Something huge is nearby, with a breath that shakes the very air around you. You creep forward, carefully pushing through low hanging branches that obscure the path, when an unseen branch snaps loudly under your hoof. You freeze dead on the spot as the heavy breathing suddenly stops. Surely anything this big can’t move quietly enough to sneak up on you?
You thought wrong. The dwarf trees currently acting as your cover are torn clean out of the ground by a mighty claw, leaving you as exposed as a rabbit in an open field. A colossal mass of satin scales fills your vision, rising far above your head as you look up to see what has found you - a dragon! Earth browns, yellows, and green tinges camouflage this huge titan of the forest, explaining how you managed to miss it from a distance, and its keen eyes pierce your soul. But the stare is not one of anger, but almost smug satisfaction - the dragon looks quite pleased to see you.
The unseen claw overhead suddenly grasps you, talons closing around your middle to pin your forelegs against your chest, and the dragon lifts its bulk off of the forest floor, as if to show off how big and mighty it is. It shuffles its hind legs forward and sits back on its rump, weight shaking the ground and rattling the trees. From your airborne vantage point, you can see that this dragon is actually female, and now very shamelessly presenting this information to you by spreading her hips wide to reveal a glistening sex as big as you are. While it’s a relief that you’re not being torn apart by her sharp fangs protruding on either side of her snout, your heart thuds in trepidation of where you suspect this is leading to.
And right on queue, the dragon lowers her claw holding you down between her huge thighs and presses you up against her slick nether lips. You squirm and splutter to avoid getting smothered, but only succeed in parting the plush folds in front of you, and as a gap opens around your head, the dragon slips you inside!
The heat is intense, the damp combining with it to feel like a sauna, except the tight walls make the environment incredibly close and almost suffocating. Moments later, the claw around your middle pulls you back out again, the outside world feeling refreshing but almost chilly by comparison. As soon as you’ve taken a breath, you’re thrust back into the intimate darkness again, eliciting a shuddering moan from the dragon that reverberates through your entire body. A hard claw pushes against your rump until you’re completely swallowed by the dragon’s pussy.
You press the soft and twitching walls to seek some kind of grip or purchase, but everything is so slick with fluids that you may as well be swimming in a pool of jelly, except the pool is rhythmically clenching around your body, as if it’s sampling and chewing on you. Just as you feel your breath shortening again, a contracting wave from deep inside pushes you back out onto the open palm of the dragon’s claw. You lay in a puddle of ooze, catching your breath.
The dragon is breathing heavily, clearly gaining satisfaction from this exercise, and deftly turns you around to insert you hind-first. Figuring that attempting to ride this out is your best chance of survival, you do nothing to resist, and the velveteen folds swallow you up to your neck, your body inside and you head forming a loose plug to stop the undilating passage from sucking you in entirely.
The dragon’s claw moves above you and starts nudging away at a swollen clit nearly the size of your head, and in time the pussy holding onto your body ripples and clenches, sucking on you like candy. The juices oozing out around you drench your fur coat and press their way up your own orifices alike, tingling against your skin. After minutes of this pass, with the intensity only growing stronger, you can feel your entire body growing soft and soggy as the juices work their way to your core. Your ears are filled with the wet squelch of the huge soft walls gently sucking and squeezing, your neck being gently tugged as the deeper reaches of the pussy pull on your body. The stimulation has left you in a daze, and you feel only blissful relaxation as your body is slowly kneaded into paste.
Finally with a passionate groan, the dragon climaxes, and a contracting wave stronger than all others gulps your softened head into the depths of her pussy. Submerged in her love juices and well cooked in the heat, your body almost instantly melts into a glob of her fluids, and with one last mighty clench and push, your liquid remains are squirted across the forest floor you were standing on some ten minutes ago, steaming slightly in the comparatively colder outside air. GAME OVER!
Withania’s tactical tissues were forgotten and she had thrown back her quilt for better access to her crotch - with reckless abandon for the bedsheets she rubbed the nub at the top of her flower furiously and gasped with pleasure as her own fluids spilled out in a darkening patch between her thighs. She wasn’t even watching, eyes closed, head back on the pillows, her mouth hanging open quite unseemingly, she wallowed in orgasmic bliss.
Finally her hoof stilled and pulled back to her belly, leaving a glistening trail, and she moaned loudly to relieve the tension she was holding in her muscles.
“Ooooh, no regrets, that was worth it…” she gasped, “Stars above I’m going to sleep well tonight…”
Opening her eyes again she scanned the page she’d just finished, and with a slightly shaking hoof flicked back to the previous chapter. There was no other option but to encounter the dragon.
She flicked forward again, wandering where to go next, and found the story continued directly from here.
“If you’ve come this far,” she read aloud, “You have finished your quest. You discovered not a treasure of gold nor magic, but a journey of that which you desire. The Horseshoe was your own, and your fortune, most unexpected. Remember to pay your good fortunes forward, and let another experience their own journey!”
The next page was blank, followed by the back cover of the book. Withania blinked, slightly confused.
Well, she certainly had experienced unexpected fortune… But how was it that the book just happened to be what she would consider a blessing?
“I think I should loan it to someone, and ask them what they think of it next week…” she said, a sly smile creeping up the corners of her mouth.
