Updating the Bestiary

Rainbow hauled the suitcase below her while she flew to Daring Do’s cabin. Twilight had specifically told her to find Daring Do for this update to the bestiary. Its entrant would be more apt to cooperate if she was involved. Rainbow had a script. She was allowed to read the whole thing while the cameras did all the recording work.

Landing outside the cabin, Rainbow put the suitcase down and knocked twice before walking in. She’d been told to do that so Daring would know it was her. The author of her own adventures, A.K. Yearling, otherwise known as Daring Do, sat at her desk and turned as Rainbow walked in with the suitcase. “Hello Rainbow Dash. To what do I owe this visit?” she asked, and Rainbow stared at her for a moment.

Still awestruck just by knowing her, Rainbow couldn’t get over the fact that they were friends. Shaking her head sharply, she carried the suitcase over to her friend and lay it down. “Twilight is doing documentaries on Equestria’s native beasts, like dragons and the like. She wanted me to get your help for this one since you know him so well,” Rainbow said before passing her friend the letter Twilight had written.

A.K. took it and scanned it over for a minute before setting it down and looking at Rainbow. The silence stretched on for quite some time before A.K. finally broke it. “You want me to take you to Ahuizotl and let him eat me while you record it. Is this a request the Princess makes often or is this a new thing?” A.K. asked and Rainbow blushed a little.

“She… uhm… Twilight just recently started doing this and asked us to help. We didn’t want to at first but… things got complex, and we got involved and she wanted to keep going with more creatures. Ahuizotl made our list of creatures native to Equestria we don’t know a whole lot about,” Rainbow said and A.K. just looked at her. “At first it was a medical thing. If we knew more about the insides of creatures, doctors would be able to cure what ails them better.”

“Ok. So she wants to write about Ahuiztol and… to do that I have to get eaten by him. And that’s what these potions are for. I drink one now, right here, and it’ll do something to me. Then, right before he eats me, I drink the other one and I’ll just wake up here,” Rainbow nodded and A.K. looked at the potion she was supposed to drink, shrugged, popped the cork, and downed it. A few seconds later, she shuddered as she felt something happen. “Ok. Now we just find Ahuizotl.”

The two of them left her cabin and headed for one of the temples near by that A.K. new he’d frequented. Once they reached the temple, Dash followed her in until they made it to the central chamber. Plenty of hiding places meant Dash could dip into any of them and film from safety. Dash watched from the safety of the perch she’d found behind a statue, after making sure it actually was a statue. The camera Twilight had sent with them activated and flew up to get a good view.

“Ahuizotl! Come out here you bastard! We need to talk!” A.K. shouted and Dash watched as the statue across from her came to life. She should have known that was Ahuizotl. Just looking at it would have given him away. He roared as he jumped from his pedestal and towered over his enemy.

“What do you want Daring Do?” the creature asked and A.K. stared at him. She stared for a long time. “Daring Do!” he shouted, and she jumped.

“Don’t yell at me! This is hard enough as it is,” she shouted, and he actually looked surprised. In all their years of being rivals, she’d never actually yelled at him. “Let me think.”

“So… you are not here to steal one of my treasures?” he asked her. Daring ignored him, choosing to pace instead. His eyes never left her while her mouth moved. She was trying to decide how, exactly, to ask her question. Finally she stopped and looked in the direction of the floating camera.

“You owe me for this Princess.” Ahuizotl blinked and started to follow her gaze before her next words caught him off guard. “Eat me.” He froze and stared at her for a moment before leaning close, looking at her carefully.

“Is this some sort of trick? Some… ruse to get me to drop my guard so your little friend can swoop in and steal my treasure? Yes, I know you are up there blue one!” he shouted, causing Rainbow to poke her head out and wave.

“Not at all,” Daring sucked in a breath then went over what the note had said. “Princess Twilight is updating the Equestrian Royal Bestiary. Rather than simply updating it on the outward appearance of creatures as they grow, she wants to fill in missing information. Namely, how creatures’ insides work. She has developed potions to allow ponies to be eaten and document their… experiences with a safety net. I already drank one at home… I just need to drink this one and then…” she stopped for a minute, having trouble getting the next words out as she pulled out a pale pink potion. “You eat me and drink this potion.”

Ahuizotl stared at her for a moment while his tail came around and grasped the small bottle lightly. He looked at it carefully, examining the contents. It looked like strawberry milk. Or perhaps cherry? He couldn’t be certain without tasting it. “And what will this do?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t make the potions. Princess Twilight did. I drank the first one. I have no idea what this one does,” she says as he stares at it. “You have to eat me before you drink it.”

“I have been wanting to eat you for a very long time, Daring Do. It will be my pleasure to send you to my stomach,” he said as his hand topped tail transferred the bottle to one of his hands before it wrapped around her middle. Pinning her wings to her sides, he lifted her into the air with his tail and stared up at her. “It is no fun for me if you do not struggle. At least squirm on your way to your demise,” he said, staring up at her, really getting into it. She just groaned and pretended to squirm to try and get free. “I suppose that will do.”

She blinked at him a moment before yelping as he dropped her. His maw was wide open as she fell, landing rather hard at the back of his throat. The jaws closed around her, and the tongue slathered her with slime and slobber, tasting her in ways she had never been tasted before. “Would you stop playing and eat me already.” She snapped, growling at him.

“Can I not enjoy this?” he asked, keeping his teeth clamped so she didn’t come out. His tongue bounced her around a bit, earning a grumble from the small pony. This wasn’t fun for her; she was doing this for the Princess. She didn’t want to enjoy this. She didn’t want him to enjoy this. She wanted to get this over with so she could go back to her cabin and not write this entry of Daring Do.

She was about to protest to him again but the sudden shift in gravity shocked her. His head tipped back and she got a full view of the gape of his throat. Gravity dragged her forward and down and his “gulp” echoed in her ears as he sent her down to, what would normally be, her final resting place. She squeezed through the sphincter and splashed into his stomach which was already producing acids that started to tingle at her fur. He was hungry. He hadn’t eaten in a while. A cold jolt surprised her, and she looked at her left hoof. He’d drank the other potion. He didn’t want to kill her.

Her largest enemy, who had said on multiple occasions that he wanted to end her, didn’t want to digest her. He didn’t want to melt her down into padding on his ass and have free reign to take any ancient artifacts. The tingle was still there, but it didn’t hurt this time. She could feel herself melting. Even if he didn’t want to, she was going to be padding his ass next time she saw him. The potion had set to work immediately. She’d digest, sure, but she’d wake up in bed and be right after him the next day to get whatever he takes from the next temple back.