They Cant Help Themselves

A few days had passed since Gallus met his end inside of Ocellus. The girl sat outside what was now head-mare Starlight’s office, while Thorax negotiated on her behalf. She wasn’t trying to eavesdrop, but it was hard to not hear… when the screaming started.

“YOU ATE HER?!”, Starlight screamed at a now pretty much used to it Thorax.

“yah kinda”

“What do you mean kinda!? I can see the fat on your ass right now! Along with Rainbow Dash!” Starlight walked around her desk and smacked Thorax’s thicc tush.

“Yah, I need to stop… but I can’t.”

Starlight glared at thorax for a moment, “Noooooooo shit, neither can Ocellus.”

“What? Ocellus ate some-pony!?”, Thorax was shocked! He could see Pharynx eating a ponie or two but Ocellus? She was too nice for that… or at least he thought so. No-one would ever have assumed the girl was capable of doing something soo horrible to any-pony. “Who’d she eat?”

“Gallus, her griffon friend. I’m told he was acting dissatisfactory to Ocellus about her issue with love craving, and she… didn’t like it”, Starlight explained as she sat back down behind her desk.

“It’s an enormous mess for me to handle. Rumors of a pony-eater running around the school have the students missing classes, and Smolder has returned to the Dragon Lands to have princess Ember start a war. And to top it all off, now I find out the second most harmless changeling I know has eaten two ponies alive!”

“Second most harmless?”

“The first was Ocellus!”

“Oh, right. So what gonna happen to her?”, Thorax asked.

“Twilight wouldn’t want me to expel her, even after all this, but I can’t have her here. When Ember and Smolder show up there gonna be fuming… literally.”

“So what do we do?”

“You, take Ocellus back to your hive, and keep her there until all of this blows over.”

“Can she take a snack?”

Starlight leaned over her desk, “You better not mean what I think you mean.”

“Oh but I do, it’s a long trip, she’s gonna need a snack.”

Starlight slumped back into her chair. Sweet Celestia, this is insanity, she thought.

“Hmmmm?”, Thorax coaxed.

“Take Silverstream. Poor ditsy girl won’t put up much of a fight.”

“Good choice… I bet she tastes like chicken”, Thorax added as he walked out of Starlight’s office.

“Geez, I thought my evil phase was bad”

Outside the office, Thorax pulled Ocellus from the bench and walked her down the hall. “You know your friend Silverstream?”, Thorax asked in an ominous tone.

“Y-Yes, what about her?”

“I’ve got good news!, she’s your lunch today!”

Ocellus stopped in her tracks, “What?!”

“Yah, you get to eat her.”

“I would never!”

Thorax turned around and walked back to Ocellus, and placed a hoof on her shoulder, “I know you feel like a monster, but once you learn to accept the hunger you can enjoy it… like me.”

Ocellus looked at Thorax and noticed he had gotten thicc. “Y-You ate somepony?Who?”

“Oh I’ve had more than a few ponies, But most recently it was Rainbow Dash and Twilight.”

“You ate head-mare Twilight?!”, Ocellus was appalled. Her leader had eaten her teachers, and what’s worse is she couldn’t even hate him for it, not after what she had done.

“She was offered to me”, Thorax added. “If it makes you feel any better princess Luna would’ve eaten her if I didn’t.”

“Princess Luna what?!”

“Never mind that, let’s go get your lunch”, Thorax continued walking down the hall.

Reluctantly, Ocellus followed, not knowing what else to do.

They came to the girls locker room, and Thorax heard the bubbly voice of a certain hippogriff singing inside. Ignoring all social norms he simply wallked inside and shouted, “Silverstream, we’ve got a surprise for you.”

In an instant Silverstream appeared, still soaking wet from having jumped out of the shower. “Oh boy a surprise! Whatyougotwhatyougot?”

Thorax moved aside, letting Ocellus step forward.

“Hi Ocellus, are you the suprise?”

“Sort of”, Thorax said nudging Ocellus toward her prey.

Ocellus looked at the floor and asked, “Silverstream… will you, be my lunch?”

Silverstream tilted her head in confusion at the question. “Do you mean will I go out to lunch with you? Because I am hungry”, Silverstream said in her ditsy way.

“Silly girl”, Thorax steped back in front. “That’s not how this works… most of the time at least. What Ocellus meant to say was you are lunch”

Grabbing Silverstream by the neck, Thorax effortlessly drug the weak little bird in front of Ocellus. Consuming Rainbow Dash and Twilight seemed to have given him some power… as well as a bit of an ego.

Tossing her to the ground Thorax cracked his neck and looked at Ocellus. “Eat up.”

Ocellus stared at Silverstream cowering on the floor. The more she looked at the frightened bird the more Ocellus felt her hunger rise. She bent down and grabbed Silverstream’s arms.

“I don’t like this surprise”, Silverstream eked as Ocellus opened her mouth and pulled her inside. She felt the warm throat envelop her arms as Thorax grabbed her from behind and shoved.

She screamed as her head was taken into the mouth and a loud gulp pulled her struggling form deeper. Ocellus cried as she took another swallow. Not just because she was eating another one of her friends, but because… she tasted soo damn good.

“Hurry Ocellus, don’t got alot’a time here”, Thorax said as he shoved Silverstream’s upper half down Ocellus’s throat. Lifting what was left of Silverstream into the air, Thorax watched as Ocellus began a rolling swallow that rapidly pulled Silverstream all the way into her gut.

Closing he mouth over Silverstream’s rear hooves, Ocellus grunted and gave a loud…

* GULP *

and the girl that was Silverstream was now sealed away; nothing but food for the changling she once called friend.

Oddly enough, the stupid girl still thought there was going to be some sort of nice surprise, if her complaints from inside were anything to go off of.

“Umm, Ocellus? It’s not very nice in here, can I come out now?”

Ocellus rubbed her squirming gut as Thorax helped her to her hooves. Her belly was so swollen it drug along the ground at some points.

“How’s she feel?”, Thorax asked.

“It feels good… and horrible”, Ocellus sniffed.

“You’ll get used to it, now, let’s get home”

As the two walked through the halls of the school, and the streets of Ponyville, every-pony stared at the struggling mass in Ocellus’s gut. By this point the rumors of changlings eating ponies had become more or less the news of the day.

Most ponies dismissed it, but seeing it confirmed with their very own eyes had every-pony, well… screaming.

“Don’t eat me!”, one pony screamed as she ran into her home.

“AHHHH!”, a foal yelled and ran off.

“I cant believe you!”, Rarity hollered at the two as she stepped in front of them.

“Something wrong Rarity?”, Thorax asked as Ocellus hid behind him.

“I didn’t want to believe the rumors but… Why?”

“What?”

“Why did you eat our friends?!”

Thorax rolled his head. “Rainbow asked me to eat her and Twilight was offered to me by Celestia.”

“But why!?”

“Because they were delicious”, Thorax licked his lips.

“You’re monsters! You to Ocellus!”

“Watch your tongue pretty pony, unless you want a good look at mine”, Thorax opened his mouth wide and extended his tongue, showing Rarity the rippling flesh tunnel that had claimed her friends.

Slightly scared Rarity backed away “You’ll not get away with this!”, Rarity ran off, leaving the two changelings to continue their journey back to the hive.

As they left town, Ocellus’s stomach kicked things up a notch.

“Ow ow ow! Ocellus help!”, Silverstream cried as her body was assaulted by the digestive enzymes. “It hurts!”

“Is there any way to let her out?”, Ocellus asked.

“Maybe, but you wouldn’t want to let the girl out at this point anyway… wouldn’t be pretty”

Ocellus watched at her paunch as they walked. “MOMMY!” came a pained scream from the girl trapped inside. At this point Silverstream’s limbs were being eaten away. Her feathers were all but gone and deep burns spotted her body. “it hurts! Please Ocellus, I WANNA GO HOME!”

“She’s dieing”, Ocellus said in a voice that made it soundas though her own soul had left her.

“I know… it’ll be ok, I promise”, Thorax assured her as they came to the clearing that contained their hive.

By the time they reached the hive, Silverstream’s screaming and struggling had ceased. Whether or not that was because she had passed on or because she had simply given up, Ocellus did not know. All that could be seen or heard now were loud gurgles, and the occasional demure belch that Ocellus would let out.

Approaching the entrance to the hive Thorax was greeted by his favorite guard, however that guard was not in a good mood.

“You hypocritical bitch!”, Pharynx yelled at his returning leader. “I put a couple ponies in a bag and I’m a monster; then you go and put a couple in your stomach!”

“You don’t have the discretion to eat ponies and get away with it”, Thorax countered.

“You wanna bet?!”, Pharynx walked up and stuck his nose in Thorax’s face.

“You wanna get thrown in a dungeon go ahead. I’m staying here until the heat dies down.”

“Oh-ho I’m gonna enjoy this. WERE BACK BABY!”