Collin and Serka eat lunch before getting onto the Cruise Ship, but nothing is simple when you are three time or more the size the objects around you are built to take. Dining out is an awkward, but still pleasurable experience for the half-ton cat, probably too pleasurable as Serka gets a first hand view of Collin's unhealthy relationship with food.

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The Health Cruise:
Chapter Three

By Shalion and Gahtren


[Shalion]: Collin gingerly picked up his menu, reaching for it over his mound of leopard print belly fat sitting on the table before him. He had to swallow as the saliva was building up in his mouth even before he saw the words on the menu. Collin could smell the fryers in the kitchen easily and not just because of his acute sense of smell, he was practically a connoisseur when it came to fried food. But needless to say, Collin’s relationship with food was complicated to say the least.

“I know what you mean…” said Collin. He did not move around so much as Serka was, but more because he was squeezed into position than because he was more comfortable than her. There was hardly more space for his own massive rear end and he would have been better served if he had been able to let it hang off the back of the bench, than have it pushing him up and forward. “...Half my butt’s hanging out of the booth. But still, I’m stoked to be here! It’s been so long since I’ve been in a sit-down restaurant…”

He cleared his throat and chugged another glass of water. He made sure that his hands were at his sides now, though he clenched his betraying left hand in a fat fist under the table, “But I really am alright. I told you everything about my health already that’s important.” he chuckled, “I could probably dig out my medical records on my phone, but I don’t think you need to see those!”

Collin glanced down at the menu and had to swallow again. His animal brain was wanting everything that he laid his eyes on, but Collin forced himself to be in control. He tried to remember the past conversations he’d had with both his dietician and pediatrician. After taking a breath to center himself, he brought his eyes back to the top of the menu. “I was thinking about getting the fried clams and mozzarella sticks for an appetizer… D-did you want something too?” Collin’s eyes were wide as he looked at Serka. For the life of him, he could not remember if people ordered their own appetizers or shared them! He had conflicting childhood memories of both, or had he simply stolen all of the appetizer before anyone else could get to it? He grinned toothily at Serka as he waited for her response.

[Gahtren]: The dragoness had to giggle at Collin’s nervousness, it was cute to see him like this, though she looked back at the menu before long. “Mm… I was thinking jalapeno chips and Calamari.” She gave him an eager look, idly reaching down to rub her stomach as it started to gurgle again, guzzling down her water, it was a few moments the waitress arrived. 

Both Serka and Collin gave out their appetizers, unsurprisingly it was quite a bit for just two customers, but the server jotted it down. “I’ll give you two a moment to look over the menu” The wolf waitress left with their appetizer orders, then came the hard part was waiting for their food to arrive. 

“Ungh… when you’re this hungry it sucks to wait…” The dragoness sighed impatiently as her stomach jiggled and sloshed against Collin’s furry belly with every shift she made. She just couldn’t find a comfortable position with her area being so tightly fit, “I know my ass hangs out of the seat but I still can’t get comfy!” Serka teased, “You’re doing it like a pro.” 

[Shalion]: Collin looked off to the side a bit. “I guess I’m just used to being uncomfortable…” When he happened to look down at his own menu again, his own great belly gave a gigantic groaning gurgle that was impossible to stifle. Collin tightened his lips and sealed his mouth shut, but it was still embarrassingly loud, drowning out even Serka’s overactive grumbling as it seemed to resonate in the vast chambers of the leopard’s abdomen, both above and below the table.

“...Sorry!” he exclaimed as soon as it was over. But even after it was done, it even seemed to echo a bit in the wooden walls of the dining room. Again, not just a few people were looking in the two heavyweights’ direction.

Serka opened her mouth as if to say something, but was interrupted by the arrival of the waitress for their orders. Maybe it was coincidence, but then maybe the groaning gut of the leopard, audible in the entire restaurant summoned her like a serving gong. Collin already knew what he wanted and he did not think that the five or so entrees he most craved would faze the dragoness. She’d already seen him gorge himself on camera more than once in the past.

[Gahtren]: Serka giggled in response, finding his gurgling gut quite adorable. After Collin had gave out his long list, Serka noticed the waitress flipped a page when Collin was done, expecting the dragoness to be the same as the wolfess with that wide-eyed ‘wow’ expression. It was clear the chefs were going to be in for quite a day today, as Serka was giving out her own list of seven entrees, the wolfess closed her pad and was almost worried what the chef would say about this, acting professional as she could be. 

Though their concerns were quickly washed away with the arrival of their appetizers, and from the way they were eating it wouldn’t last long. Their hands were busy either dipping the food in sauce or plucking it from the plate itself, Serka and Collin both shared their appetizers, as the dragoness was teaching the leopard a little lesson in habitual eating. Pushing her appetizers in the middle so the two could both reach around their large bodies and stuff it in their faces, and Serka was all too used to seeing the leopard gorge, not that she didn’t do the same thing. 

Some of the nearby patrons were a little appalled at their eating, trying not to stare rudely, it seemed they were too focused on eating to pay attention to their surroundings. Merely staving off what they had of a massive appetite for the entrees to arrive. 

[Shalion]: Collin and Serka did not speak very much as they busily consumed the four plates of appetizers. Serka did take the time to explain to him that people did, in fact, share appetizers, and sometimes desserts as well, though that was less common. This pleased Collin, mostly because he was able to sample more food.

The half ton leopard ate quickly, moving his rotund arms and their heavy, sagging masses with surprising speed and dexterity. Collin was not actually sure, though who ate faster. He had a more limited reach than Serka did for his girth, not to mention that his belly filled a sizable amount of the table so none of the plates could be near him, but Collin’s voraciousness seemed to be such that he kept up with the dragoness nonetheless, if just barely.

Once the food was on the table, Collin did not notice the gawking patrons either. In fact, he became hyper focused so that it would have been hard for him to have a conversation, even if Serka had prodded him. Collin, to a degree, went to a special place in his mind, a kind of “food zone,” and it was a place where he forgot about his anxiety and the awareness of the weight of his own body and how he should be feeling about being so obese and about eating so much. It was a place where he savored the texture and flavor of every morsel he put into his mouth, the crunch of breading, the splash of hot grease from melting cheese, the spiciness of peppers, all in an endless chain as they passed down his gullet, a real stream of consciousness that flowed over him. Collin’s numerous psychologist visits had encouraged him not to think about food like this, but Collin could not help the change in his state of mind. It was visceral, and nearly automatic, like it was a part of him, but more importantly, it was the only time when Collin really felt happy. Well, that is until he decided on coming to this weight loss cruise with Serka. That had made him happy also.

The waitress had more than enough time to clear away the table of the empty appetizer plates before the entrees came, although it was not entirely clear to Collin how all of the twelve plates were going to fit onto the table, especially with Collin’s big upper belly resting on top of it. As far as Collin went, however, the appetizers had done nothing to put a dent in his appetite. Despite knowing how unhealthy it was, he knew very well what his own eating capacity was, and he was nowhere near that. Even five whole entrees was only a semi-modest attempt to sate himself, but he had his budget to think about after all… There was only so much money on his mother’s pre-paid credit card for the voyage.

“Mmm, that was good, especially the calamari.” said Collin as he tried to lean back a little in his seat, but was defeated by his own ass flesh riding up against the wall of the booth. In addition the wood let out a tortured groaning, so he stopped. He paused to suck some of the rubbery flesh from between his teeth with his tongue and swallowed.

[Gahtren]: “Totally” Serka guzzled her glass of water, “Probably won’t hold us off for long,” she smiled with a giggle. This was the first time she had seen Collin eat in an actual, public environment, and it must have been an experience for him to come back to a place like this after being cooped up in his house for so long. Serka wasn’t exactly perfect either, coming from a family that was more on the ‘fit’ side, but they were more understanding about her weight, if not a little put off; yet they were pleasantly happy to see Serka be independant. Living on her own and having a job, despite being quite obese, she managed with the muscle exercises she often did. In fact it kind of surprised people just how strong she actually was under all of that blubber. 

The dragoness leaned back and sighed, her ass smothering the booth and causing it to creak, getting out her smartphone and began to play games on it. It was a past-time, and both of them were actively waiting for their entrees to arrive, most likely they wouldn’t be able to fit all of them on the table. Serka reached under and scratched what she could of her gut, lifting her breasts up to get them in a better position, her double and slightly noticeable triple chin visible from how her head was bent down. 

“Hmm… still have about an hour left until our boat arrives… hopefully the food gets here on time.” She mentioned while playing on her phone, just by the dragoness leaning back the way she did, it almost looked like Serka was wallowing in her own fat. Large arms flopping against the roll that formed her breasts, the sleeves of her blouse strained and were riding up her bloated arms, struggling to contain the sacks of flesh that limited their movements. She was so big that the scaly individual could use her own upper swell and large, flabby boobs to prop up and play on her phone. 

[Shalion]: Collin was happy to see how comfortable Serka was in public. It even made the socially awkward leopard calmer to see her so at ease despite her own huge body, which was not exactly small in itself, even compared to him. Though with the food gone now, he could not help but look around the dining room and see the pairs of eyes staring back at him, here and there. Of course, they would always look down at their food or at their partners when he caught them, but that did not stop Collin from thinking about how long they have been staring previously and how massively tubby and flabby he must look in their eyes, none of his folds of fat obscured since his clothes were so ill fitted and tight. It made Collin want to bury his face in his paws, as pathetic as that sounded, but he buried his nose in his own phone as well as the minutes ticked by. Collin was slightly embarrassed by keeping his phone and wallet under his man breast, but he could not deny the practicality of doing so, not when things had a bad habit of slipping out of his sweats pockets on account of them being so tight on him.

The food came at last, thirty minutes before boarding was to begin. The wolf waitress solved their table space dilemma by deploying a folding stand onto which she left one of the big round serving platters she used to carry dishes at the end of the table. Collin could not reach, it however, as he was wedged too tightly into the bench to even lean over to grab a plate or a morsel. But the table space all around his bisected belly was filled with food, fried seafood and otherwise.

Collin had been intending on mostly ordering seafood, but had followed Serka’s example and swapped out one of his intended entrees with a monstrous “Widow-Maker” burger, topped with bacon, avocado and a fat fried onion ring. Two different fried seafood platters rounded Collin’s ample abdomen, filled with the brown fried, gently steaming lumps that were admirable in their anonymity and familiarity to the obese leopard’s palate. Two of Collin’s dishes were left on the extra space outside of the table, steamed crab with butter to dip and broccoli and shrimp scampi on the side, as well as a whole grilled tilapia on a wide bed of rice pilaf, meant to serve 2-3. Collin wanted to taste everything in turn, but he was fine with plowing through the burger and fried stuff to get to the crab and fish. He knew might need a little help when it came time to get at the dishes themselves however.

“Oh, wow, this looks great…” Collin managed as he surveyed the dishes the comely waitress placed in front of both himself and Serka. The young leopard could not help the sides of his mouth from getting moist with the saliva overflowing his eagerly waiting mouth.

[Gahtren]: It was a delicious feast for the two of them to savor at this point, Serka got the fish and chips (fries added with fish), the 30 shrimp basket, fried oyster with some hot sauce, boston clam chowder… she clearly got a lot for herself, and was eager to assist in handing the plates over to Collin. Though Serka couldn’t resist stuffing her snout with the entrees that were hers, dunking her fish in tartar sauce and taking a large bite out of the 4 piece basket, four or five fries each were going into ketchup before her mouth. 

Since the actual set of entrees had arrived, she was in a food heaven, the dragoness wasn’t so preoccupied that she wasn’t aware of her surroundings; but she ate about as ravenously as Collin did at times. Pouring her crackers into the clam chowder and wasting no time taking spoonfuls of it, having to reach over her ponderous belly fat and breasts to get salt, pepper, and her water. Taking large mouthfuls of her drink before continuing her eating without skipping a beat, knowing that Collin was devouring his own food at his own rapid pace, both gluttons eager to satisfy their appetites before the 4 week trip took place. 

Still Serka’s eating continued, Collin even shared his steamed crab, as the two were effortlessly eating and sharing some of their entrees. They were definitely getting the attention as the duo steamrolled through their meals, but it was obvious that the two didn’t care one iota about what the patrons thought of their feast that was considered lunch. The two didn’t say much to each other while this was going on, as their platters were quickly becoming half-finished. 

[Shalion]: It felt good to stuff so much food down his gullet, Collin realized as the plates emptied and both he and Serka began polishing off the scraps; Collin even ate the garnish off of his burger plate in an absent, wistful sort of way. The overfed leopard had not actually been able to eat so much in one sitting in quite some time, not with the nearly constant monitoring at home which made it necessary for him to sneak food just so that he would not be in pain from his constant hunger pangs. And Collin had never imagining letting loose and being such a pig out in public. Serka had made that possible though.

The food had been everything he had wanted, despite the fact that he could have easily eaten even more. And Collin did not even want to be as disgustingly full as possible, it was just that he was totally unable to control himself around food. He preferred this level of fullness, even though it was still beyond the pale in terms of what his body needed, even as he crunched the tasteless garnish between his carnivorous pre-molars.

“How much time ‘left before boardin’” asked Collin as he smacked his lips and plucked between his teeth with a large black claw he extended from his hand. He looked across at Serka, and noticed how she seemed even more radiant now than before with her cooled off and quite full of food. The sight of her full cheeks - and he could not help looking down at her very large bodice as well - made Collin feel hot on his own wide, round cheeks.

[Gahtren]: The dragoness had a satisfying, warm expression on her cherubic face, the smiling caused her face to dimple, and the set of scales around them turned a little red as she eyed Collin. Serka started to lazily reach for her phone on the table, she looked at the time and gasped. “Crap, we only got five minutes left! We need to pay for our food and leave.” 

Serka knew that the meals wouldn’t be cheap for either party, they got a lot, and it would most likely rival up in the $60 range if not more. It was one of the downsides of being so large, eating a lot costs more, fortunately Serka knew of this ahead of time and saved up whatever she could for this trip. Collin had told her about his funds as well, and while he had a limit, they could surely pay for their own meal before boarding. 

The dragoness waved the waitress down with her fat hand and talons, trying to get her attention as her arm fat sloshed and jiggled heavily in her blouse. “Check for two please, and make it quick because we need to board our cruise!” She exclaimed. Fortunately the waitress was fast on her paws, but it didn’t help that they might be catching their trip at the nick of time. “Damnit…! I hope we don’t miss it.” The waiting was agonizing, as the dragoness looked at Collin. “I hope you’re ready for the walk Collin, let's not over-exert ourselves though.” 

[Shalion]: Collin actually felt a little stronger and emboldened with food in him, despite having added the weight of several pounds to his stomach in his already 950 pound body. It was necessary for Serka to squeeze herself out of the booth before Collin and he watched as the dragon scooted her rump with difficulty across the seat and stood up slowly, bracing her upper body on the table as she did so. Collin was then privileged to seeing Serka’s especially large chest spill heavily over the table, even obscuring her hands for a moment as she pulled herself out of the booth. The huge, black scaled orbs hung pendulously and were mammoth enough to rest heavily on the table’s surface and then drag a little before she straightened up. Collin’s libido had been on the decline in the last several years, to the point where he sometimes referred to himself as ‘a-sexual’ to people online, but seeing Serka’s chest like that filled him with emotions that he had not felt in a number of years. He found that he was unable to speak until she had righted herself, now standing easily beside the booth and her chest had fallen back into a less exaggerated, though still quite comely position.

Collin coughed, “...I think I’ll be good. I know there’s another bench in between here and the dock. I checked on google maps, ha!” Collin chuckled to himself as he pushed the table away and allowed his dense upper belly fat to fall back down. It was a relief as the skin in the deep fatty crease had been aching, chafing the area around his surprisingly sensitive navel. It came down with a slap the jostled his whole body, like a 40 lb sack of potatoes landing in a pool of molasses. Collin ignored it, however, even as his round cheeks wobbled up and down, riding the wave moving across his whole, fattened body.

“Ooff!” Collin grunted as he gripped the edge of the table and forced himself to his heavy feet, his belly seeming to part only reluctantly from the filthy floor until he was nearly upright, and the familiar pain blossomed, first in the soles of his feet, but destined to light up many other places in his legs and lower back in the coming minutes. Collin wasted no time in starting to waddle out of the restaurant with Serka. As they walked, he said, while he could still speak, “I wouldn’t worry too much about being there on time. I told them I was handicapped when I got my ticket.”

[Gahtren]: “Oh! Well, that should give us some more time then.” Serka noted, making sure to say beside Collin this time as the two were dragging their luggage, they saw familiar faces leave and walk over to the pier, apparently already getting their food before beginning the boarding process. The loud horn in the distance plus the large white boat signaled the arrival of the ship. 

“There it is,” Serka smiled, playfully gripping Collin’s lovehandle, “Excited? I know I am, first time I’ve ever been on a cruise like this.” She giggled, close enough to the leopard that their bodies were slapping and glorping against each other. It was mostly to show that Serka was there to keep him supported, but the dragoness couldn’t help but sneak a peek at Collin’s enormous rear end. Fortunately he was more focused on moving forward, and Serka lagged a little bit on purpose to continue eyeing that monstrous furred butt. Jeeze was it enormous, and her face turned more red as she didn’t want to be caught looking at his sagging ass. 

She had to admit though, she was feeling hot all over, including the walk; Serka adjusted her blouse a little as she started to wipe some sweat away. They were almost to their location, keeping an eye on the leopard in-case he was about to collapse again. 

[Shalion]: Collin did notice how Serka clung to his side - she was inside his personal space bubble, so he could not help but notice - but he could hardly blame her as he really would have fallen on his face earlier if she had not been there. But Collin made sure not to repeat what happened earlier. He was moving a little faster now and without the limp now that the cramp in his right leg was gone. Even so, moving a half ton of weight on two legs remained an arduous feat.

Collin was still building the muscle in his legs, but at this point the pain crept into his joints before the burning started in his muscles. The weight of his body as he walked bowlegged down the pier with his girth easily that of five or six lean leopards of the same height, crushed the cushioning in his knees as well as the soles of his paws brutally. After his knees started to ache, the pain always took root in his lower back, usually when he got past about 40 yards. In addition to being bowlegged, Collin’s spine curved forward at his ‘waist’ for the sheer weight of the belly he had strapped to his front. The fatty leopard did have several hundred pounds hanging from his abdomen, pulling on his spine and its attached muscles. It was already over five degrees out of alignment, but Collin only knew it from the chronic pain it caused him; his padding of back fat was much too deep to see the curvature visually.

Soon after the lower back flared up, his leg muscles started getting tired, and Collin began subconsciously looking for places to sit down. The restaurant where they had eaten was still visible behind them, but Collin nodded towards the bench he had mentioned earlier and began to waddle towards it. Collin had a very slow, ambling gait as he walked, but managed to at least not come to a complete stop between steps. His huge body had its own inertia which was intense enough to feel as he walked as his blubber continued forward a bit around him when he stopped and dragged at him when he started to move. It actually helped him keep a more even gait since he was moving at such a snail’s pace.

When they were almost at the bench, Collin said, “I am excited. I haven’t done anything even like this before in my life.” he paused to look up at the prow of the huge  white ship which sat docked along the pier, it rose up overhead like a tall building and birds were taking off and landing all around it, making noisy calls. “I’m going to come back a new man from there…”

[Gahtren]: Serka smiled, “That’s positive thinking! You know I’ll be there every step of the way with you.” The morbidly obese dragoness assisted in seating Collin on the bench to let him rest for a moment, looking at the large ship and grinning widely while feeling the leopard’s blubber sag and spread out along the stone bench. Serka started to observe and look over the leopard and his heavy breathing, leaning down a bit and accidentally letting those orbs of breast flesh become a little more visible now that Collin was sitting. 

“You feeling alright?” She grinned warmly, her belly pushing against her large thighs and pressed up against Collin’s stomach. When looking at the leopard’s tired, fat face, she found it adorable, seeing his expression and face swimming in all of that blubber. The dragoness was aware that Collin wanted to change, and she wanted to help him with that, even if he had to lose weight to get in better shape. There would still be plenty of fat on him though to ogle at. 

[Shalion]: The young man made a waving motion with his left hand, grinning as he said, “Oh. Yeah, I’m alright…” Collin was feeling a little warm on his cheeks again at the attention that Serka was piling on him, “I’m embarrassed about what happened earlier. I shouldn’t have tried to push myself like that. I really am ok to walk around a little, as long as I can sit down often. I didn’t want you or other people to see me on a scooter...”

And Collin did notice Serka’s chest again as she leaned over him. They hung down a long way and were so very round, Collin noticed, such a different shape than his own thick, pancake shaped rack. Collin did not understand why he was suddenly so interested in the shape of Serka’s chest, having seen her from the chest up in videos for over 4 years now. The leopard, whose life mostly consisted of things that were in his phone and on the internet, had not thought that meeting in person would make such a difference, but then again, now he not only could see and hear Serka, he could smell the not so subtle odor wafting from her body, and… and touch her as well. 

Collin had not had an erection for at least the past two years and had gotten used to not thinking about anyone in a sexual way at all. He did not think about Serka in a sexual way either, but the way his eyes were drawn to her extremely plus-sized chest reminded him of the fixation he had had for certain things way back when he was only 11 and had just begun his sexual awakening.

[Gahtren]: The dragoness was doing this intentionally or unintentionally, either way she was aware that she may have been getting Collin a little worked up. Serka straightened herself back up, causing those enormous mounds and her massive stomach to jiggle and slosh with each step, grunting tiredly as she stretched and pushed against her flabby backside, feeling the few pops from her spine adjusting itself. 

“Whew… that felt good.” Serka grunted, “I admit, first thing I’m going to do is take a shower, I need one after that workout earlier.” She panted as she waited for the leopard to rest up, the dragoness was doing her stretch routines to get her aching muscles loosened up, a couple of more pops could be heard when straightening her fat arms out. “Just stretching these muscles out is all… I hope the cruise has a jacuzzi or something” As she stretched it caused some more jiggling around her body, not trying to intentionally arouse Collin as her body moved around and the leopard saw how flexible the dragoness was. Though she was quite limited from her flab, it was clear that she had been working herself for a good number of years.

[Shalion]: Collin observed Serka as she moved and stretched, seeing the way the fat on her jiggled and moved around her body. Again, he was struck by how much more visceral and real she seemed here as opposed to on his computer screen. Collin almost felt like getting up and following along with her in her stretches, the way he would have done if he had been at home and Serka was live chatting with him. But he knew that time would be better served by him resting enough for another 100 yard walk. Between his slow pace and the time spent sitting on the bench supporting his massive rear end, more than five minutes had already passed. Even as Serka stretched out the kinks in her body, Collin head the Bosun over the intercom, calling out for the first groups of people to begin boarding the massive ship. Boarding would last for several hours as there were thousands of people waiting, but since Collin was in the handicap group, he was able to be among the first to get on, just like at an airplane.

“I think there are a several jacuzzis, actually.” said Collin, who leaned far left and then right in a pale imitation of stretching as he sat and waited for the pain to fade from his legs and back, “And at least a couple spas. I was going over all the services and attractions they offer on the website, but it was all too much for me to remember.” Collin beamed up at Serka, eager to move again with her. He knew that she too had a limit on how much walking she could take in one interval.

[Gahtren]: “Can’t wait to try them out.” Serka smirked and winked, after hearing the call on the intercom she waddled over to the leopard. “Well, that must be you and me, lets get on and do this.” The dragoness beamed and gripped the leopard’s fat hands when he was ready. 

“Let’s get you up big guy, we can rest in our cabins and figure out what to do tomorrow, yeah?” She grunted and huffed as she attempted to pull Collin up, it was clear Serka was eager, as was the leopard, and hopefully the staff would be able to help him get on. Speaking of helping, the dragoness started to sweat again when attempting to stand Collin up on his fattened paws, using her strength and grasping his enormously soft sides and arm fat to get the leopard up. 

Feeling their fat smoosh and smother against each other, scales and fur nestling and kissing each other. Even Serka’s breasts were smothering against Collin’s enormous man-tits, not to mention her black scaled stomach and deep navel starting to reveal itself as it was riding up from the friction caused by rubbing up against Collin. Her face was turning red, not just from trying to get Collin up, but also the fact that what was going on between her legs was beginning to make her flush as well, almost a little embarrassed that this was happening at this time… how long had it been since she last felt aroused? Aside from looking up pictures online.