Zephyr's not an easy person to get to do anything you want him to. Between his short attention span, chaotic disposition, and love of making things hard just to laugh at it all you'd have a better chance of making a fish survive on land than you would getting Zephyr to sit still long enough for anything. Chio, who had befriended and been somewhat cajoled into taking the globe trotting - and now interstellar hopping - Zorgoia to his homeworld was already getting a long, hard taste of what kind of chaos Zephyr could bring when he got bored, or excited, or really any emotional situation that wasn't fed and lazy, sleepy, or thinking real hard.

The science-minded avian of course had plenty of questions and inquiries to find out about the self-proclaimed trickster demigod, least of all if there was actually a method to his chaotic magic under all the excitability and prank-making gales he summoned on whims. He had taken notice of the few times the noodle settled down enough to share in actual conversation, namely when recently fed and digesting a meal. The Avian's plan to lure Zephyr to his lab for research was brilliant in its simplicity; whenever Zephyr got bored or made motions to cause chaos or worse, eat him, he'd offer him an orange as a reward for good behavior and continued obedience. He was cuddly and friendly enough that positive reinforcement would absolutely work wonders! He shared most of that with him as an incentive, and the oversized fluffball happily followed along.

It wouldn't take long for Chio to learn an important lesson about a creature that casually shrugs off causality and realism.

It was maybe five minutes tops after taking Zephyr's vitals and going to another room to look at them, trying to make sense of his internal body heat reading "cool" with a skateboard next to it on a digital thermometer and his blood pressure being as high as a hot air balloon. In that time, and with all eagerness, Zephyr took the reward Chio had set up for him and then some, the entire crate of reward oranges were down his throat in a wave of vacuumed air that could best be described as 'Kirby-esque', and unfortunately the two interns that were studying under Chio were caught up in the chaos and also went plunging down that purple glowing gullet.

Chio returned to the sight of a Zorgoia that had tested the limits of his stomach relaxing against the wall in an empty room where once there was three people, and leaning his arm casually on what was a crate of oranges big enough he needed said three people to move it in there. Shocked and gawking, he dropped his notepad and pen and immediately moved to a facepalm as he considered the one factor he should have remembered; of course no good plan survives a hungry Zorgoia. He was already dreading having to explain to whoever the interns reported to that their part in his research was unexpectedly changed to 'Zorgoia pudge'. Of course, the cheeky noodle held a paw up and gestured him to come closer and at this point, well, what did he have to lose?

After a meal that big, Zephyr had became fat and lethargic, he wouldn't be moving for a while so Chio could finally get some solid research on his body done, but before he could even consider it Zephyr had grabbed him with his tail and flung the bird onto his mountainous belly. He knew how this went, he'd be stuck here until Zephyr was satisfied with some aftercare and let him go of his own volition - else the bloated noodle would probably see if he had room for one more.

"You were right Chio, this was more fun than eating you!" Zephyr said cheerily, showing zero remorse or sense of wrongdoing in his actions. He looked proud in fact, so proud Chio had to pause to consider... had he been planning this and for how long?

"I knew you'd see it my way eventually." He sighed as he started to knead and rub the zorg's swollen gut, being met with liquidy churns and burbles as it broke down the mix of citrus fruit and meat inside. "Only took a crate of oranges and two interns to get there." He added, looking up to the smug fluff.

"Oh don't worry~, I'll play along now that I'm fed! Not like I'll be moving soon anyway!" He responded cheerily. That brought a smirk to Chio's face as he gave another, faked exasperated sigh. Of course Zephyr had been playing along waiting to get at enough food to swell him up to double his stomach's size, he had probably been planning it since the second he heard the word 'food'.

"Once they're done digesting, you're bringing them back, and after they towel off... and probably get new clothes, it's time for research." Chio said, almost chastising Zephyr to keep behaving. Zephyr just gave him that bright smile before it was interrupted by a belch rolling up his throat, and tossing one of the interns' ID cards - slightly acid-pitted and drenched - onto the floor. Chio stared at it for a few moments before rubbing at the bridge of his nose in exasperation and faceplanting right into Zephyr's bloated belly to a pleased chrr and a loud gurgle. The rest of today was going to be a very long one, he could already tell.

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What can I say, he's incorrigible.

I had this idea and interaction floating around in my head for a while, when science and magic meet up and face off it's always at least amusing. Add something like Zephyr to the mix that doesn't think or work like a normal creature tormenting someone as science-minded as Chio and you just double the fun! I was really, really happy to have Shikaro revisit drawing Zephyr and bring along a friend this time, after all he was the one who drew the first vore art of him almost two years ago and his design had been tweaked a bit since then. He absolutely nailed it with this, in particular I love just how HUGE Zephyr's belly is, that's a belly that you can look at and go "this Zorgoia has actually gotten full". Post-vore belly rubs are also a very powerful thing that I adore getting.

Zephyr and the writeup above are both me!

Chio belongs to  Adenosine

Art is by  Shikaro

And Zorgoia species is  CorrieZodori