This was for Tumtober 2020! POV of Edward and includes my OC Korova.

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After I’d been working at the Emporium of Enchanted Objects for about eight months, I was pretty sure I’d seen it all. Garlands of real eyeballs that moved and blinked, floating seance candles that lit themselves on command, and cursed paintings of questionable origins that changed and rearranged themselves by the hour.

We had recently received a shipment of large, colorful enchanted gummy rats for the Halloween season. A big box of them had somehow escaped, and for a week the sugary varmints had been running amuck through our warehouse, eating our supplies of candy corn and breeding like rabbits. The rats proved to be formidable opponents and nearly impossible to get rid of, but a witch exterminator was supposed to come by during the weekend to take care of the issue.

As I left our storefront to venture into the warehouse beyond, I hoped that I wouldn’t run into any of the sweet-smelling candy pests. I passed by rows of oddities on my way toward the back of the building, where our many bizarre candles were stored. I just needed to catch a few floating seance candles to restock up front before I could take my lunch break.

“Huh?” As I rounded the corner, I had almost bumped into a coworker who stood just inside the aisle. She was a large white alligator with blue and green marks across her face and yellowish eyes like mine.

The gator looked at me like a kid caught with her paw in the candy jar, but she was holding several fat, squirming rats by the tails. One of the glutted rats hung halfway out of her long snout, squeaking and wriggling and kicking the air with it's back paws.

"Hey, Korova. Are you...taste-testing?" I asked. It was more of a joke than anything.

The alligator blushed and tilted her head back to awkwardly gulp the rat down. A lump passed down her throat and I felt my cheeks flush as I followed that lump across her chest and down to her large stomach. Humps and bumps rolled across her plump belly and I wondered how many of those things she'd already eaten.

"N-no, I-" The rats she'd caught slipped from her claws and scampered away as she held up her open paws. She quickly explained to me that several coworkers had asked her to single handedly catch the candy rodents, lest she lose her job. She wasn't given a net to catch the rats or a container to hold them in, and told me she didn't have a good enough handle on magic to remedy the issue. So she'd been catching rats all morning and stuffing herself with them as a last resort.

After listening to her story, I set my jaw and clenched my fists. It was clear to me that they had tricked her for their own amusement and it pissed me off. Those idiots were probably the ones who let the rats out onto the warehouse floor in the first place.

"Those idiots tricked you. Korova, you should come with me to see the shop owner. She'll be able to set things right."

"B-but…" Korova's cheek scales burned bright red. "I'm already embarrassed that you found me and I-I don't want the owner to see me and think that I'm eating the merchandise! I want to make sure I don't screw this job up…"

"Well then… What if I help you out? I bet together we could catch all those rats and the owner will be so impressed you'll have no reason to feel embarrassed. Not to mention the jerks who put you up to this will know not to pull anything on you anymore."

"Y-you'd do that for me?! You're not...grossed out by me?"

I immediately shook my head. "Of course not! Why would I be grossed out? I'm more impressed by your dedication to the job and quick thinking than anything. I can't think of a better way to get rid of edible pests than, well, eating them!"

Korova blushed darker and folded her chubby arms over her big tummy.

"You can trust me, I'm not a jerk like those guys you met this morning. The names Edward, and I've been working here long enough to know it helps to have someone looking out for you. So...will you let me help you out, Korova?"

"O-okay Thank you so much! You have no idea how much this means to me, Ed…”

"Don't mention it! Now let's go catch some gummy varmints!"

Korova led me to a shelf full of boxes of candy corn, where she told me she’d seen several of the rats run and hide. When we moved the boxes, the rats all swarmed out and scuttled to find new hiding spots while the alligator dove to catch some.

We caught two or three each, but it wasn’t enough, I’d seen many of the rats scurry into a large black cauldron laying on its side in a corner.

“Here, Korova, watch this!” I handed Korova the pitiful few rats we’d caught, and then crept slowly toward the overturned cauldron. When I reached the cauldron, I clapped my hands once and touched my palms to the top of it. There was a flash of light, and the cauldron turned itself into a black cage halfway full of the fat candy rats.

“There!” I grabbed the cage and presented it to an awestruck Korova. “Now we can use this to catch the rest of em!”

“Whoa! Edward, you’re an alchemist?! That’s so cool!” Korova gushed, looking so amazed and starry eyed that it made me feel flustered.

“Y-yeah, it’s no biggie. Here, put your catch in the cage and we’ll keep on hunting!”

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When we had the cage packed tight with gummy rats of all flavors, we took them back to the aisle with all the floating candles at the back of the warehouse.

“I saw you standing before, so why don’t you sit down to eat them this time? Here, I’ll make you a spot to sit.” I quickly arranged some blankets and pillows into a sort of nest on the floor and patted the middle of the pile. “Pop a squat.”

“O-o-okay,” Korova sat down on the blankets and timidly pulled her tail up over her feet.

I started to hand over the cage of rats for her, but stopped. “Um...Would you like me to feed them to you or something? I mean, they’re kind of hard to hold on to, you know?”

“Y-you don’t have to-“

“I...I want tp.” I admitted. Without fully realizing what I was doing, I had lifted a particularly chunky rat out of the cage and held it in front of her long muzzle.

Korova timidly parted her jaws and let me push the squirming gummy rat into her mouth as I felt a sort of rush having my hand practically inside the jaws of a big, albeit shy, predator. She closed her mouth and slurped the rat’s tail between her sharp teeth. She seemed too nervous to swallow it until I have her an encouraging smile and she relaxed enough to gulp it down.

After the first few rats went down and we got into a comfortable rhythm, the cage quickly began to empty. As I crouched next to her, I watched her belly grow and become more and more bumpy with each new rat.

“Wow, you ate them all! You’ve got quite the appetite there, Korova. I have to admit...this is pretty fun. Should we hunt down the rest of them for you to eat?”

“If you don’t mind-“ Korova started to try and get up with her big belly in the way. She suddenly grabbed her stomach and a deep, loud burp escaped from her throat very near my face.

Both of us blushed and she stammered an apology. “I-I’m sorry, I don’t know how that… excuse me!”

“No need to apologize. That was a good one.” I beamed at her. Even her burps were adorable! “Hey, I’ve got it. You stay here while I go round up the rest of them. Just sit and get comfy, okay? Maybe rub that tummy a bit to get that trapped air moving up.”

Korova nodded. “S-sounds good. Are you sure you want to do all this for me?”

“Sure do!”

“But what if someone else comes in?”

If they do, I’ll distract them. Just sit tight. I’ll be back before you know it.”

I got up and quickly collected another cage full of plump candy rats. This time around, I started to notice how good the gummies smelled, like candy apple, black berry, watermelon, cherry, orange, and grape. I could see why they were one of our more popular items. Not to mention most of them were larger than normal and had stuffed themselves full of candy corn and other treats from around the building…

“Alright, Korova, I’ve got some good-“ I froze when I rounded the corner of our aisle. I felt myself blush from head to toe. “Um...Korova? Have you gotten...uh...b-bigger?” I squeaked.

Korova blushed darkly and desperately tried to pull her dark blouse over her exposed scaly belly. “I know I’m kind of a big girl already, but I feel like I’m gaining weight by the minute…”

“I think the rat fat is rubbing off on you. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got into a vial of weight gain potion or something like that… We just got a shipment of them yesterday. Weight gain potions I mean...” My gaze wandered over her flabbier arms, large legs, and big soft tummy. Even her tail looked thicker. “It looks good on you, Korova…”

Korova seemed to perk up. “You...you think so?”

I nodded. “Are you...ready to eat more? Ready for me to feed you more?”

The alligator looked at the cage of rats in my hand and appeared to squirm eagerly. “Please. I...I’d like that very much, Edward.” She said in a small voice.

“Call me Ed.” I kneeled down on a pillow next to her and leaned up toward her mouth with a wiggling rat in my hand. The sweet candy smell hit me again, and I felt and heard my stomach rumble loudly.

Korova blushed and glanced down toward my tummy. “You sound hungry too…”

I chuckled nervously. “Yeah, I was about to go on my lunch break when I found you.

Korova carefully took the rat out of my hand and held it in her claws over my head. “Do you think I could….?”

“You want to feed me? Go for it, I don’t mind.” I opened my mouth and let her cram the gummy rat inside.

I let it wriggle around on my tongue before I swallowed it down. I gulped a few times to ease the sudden pressure on my throat, and felt the gummy rat squish into my stomach, where it writhed and scrambled around. Once I had that one down, I let Korova feed me two more, the three of which completely filled my stomach up to the brim and left me burping and hiccuping.

“Whuff…” I leaned against Korova and rubbed at my stomach pushing out against my button down shirt. “Those filled me right up.”

“W-were they good?”

“Yeah! Pretty tasty actually.” I blushed when I felt the multiple squirming bumps of her belly at my back. “I’m already so full, and I just ate three of em. I can’t imagine how stuffed you must be feeling, Korova.”

Korova blushed and held her tummy in both paws. “Y-yeah…I always surprise myself with how much I can eat…”

“Are you still hungry? Do you want to polish off the rest of the rats in the cage?”

“Yes...if you’ll feed them to me...please?”

“Of course!” I stood up and leaned over her with a rat dangling from my hand, and I felt like a zoo keeper at alligator feeding time when she gently took it into her jaws. She allowed me to lean against her with one hand resting against her doughy belly while I fed her colorful and tasty gummy rat after gummy rat. Beneath me, I felt the squirms in her belly increase as her stomach swelled to fit them and grew fatter with magic.

After just a few moments, I felt the weight gain potion from the rats working on me: my stomach felt softer squishing against hers and the buttons on my shirt strain to hold back my new fat.

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“There….that was the last one!” I’d sunken into Korova’s scaly belly folds and it felt like laying on the softest living bean bag. She’d easily gained another 150 maybe 200 pounds in the last half hour and hadn’t said anything between all the hiccups and burps that escaped from her throat. “How are you feelin after all that?”

“I-I’ve never felt so full before...b-but I really liked being fed. No ones ever been so nice to me before...thank you, Edward.”

“Call me Ed. Please. I’m happy to help.” I smiled up at her, enjoying her glazed over look of sleepy fullness. “So, do you think you’ll be able to move or should I-“

I shut my mouth the moment I heard someone walk into the warehouse and we both tensed. I indicated for Korova to be quiet and whispered: “I’ll go distract them and-“

But as footsteps got closer, Korova didn’t seem to be listening to me and appeared to be panicking. She suddenly gripped my arms with a gentle but incredibly strong grip and let her jaws open as wide as they possibly could so that I could see past her teeth and down her wet throat.

“What are you-?”

“I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Korova lifted me above her head with ease and forced my head into her mouth. She swallowed and my front half slid into her throat, my arms pinned at my sides.

No matter how much I tried to back pedal, I kept moving down her throat bit by bit until I eventually found myself curled up in her stomach with the gummy rats. Drenched in saliva and submerged in pitch blackness, I could hear only the sounds of a strong heartbeat steady over loud noises of digestion.

Despite my situation, I felt no panic arise in my chest and in fact felt...comfortable, even, and a little bit flustered.

“W-whoever it was left…” Korova stated after a while.

“Regardless… I don’t want out anytime soon.”