A light snack
Russet & story © Russet
Richter © Richter

The car pulled to a stop with a crunch of gravel and the door clicked open as Richter's mum let him out. She guided the young albino up to the nursery gates and opened them for him. "Now you run straight up the path and go inside ok? No wandering off?"

The small rat nodded his head, his short black hair swaying back and forth as he looked up at his mother with a nervous squeak. She smiled and hugged him gently. "It will be ok, you go ahead you are safe here." She watched as he scampered up the path and ran inside the nursery, with a smile she climbed back in the car and drove off to work.
Richter had a great time at the Nursery, the small rat got to play with the other kids. There was drawing and sand castle building, making things with pasta and paste and listening to stories! It was a lot of fun, they even had lunch, sandwiches and a carton of juice then nap time. Curled up on a soft pillowy mat with a blanket, curled up and sleeping happily. With a yawn and a smile for such a fun morning Richter closed his eyes and drifted happily off to sleep.

Richter was startled awake by a thumping noise and what sounded like someone yelling. Looking about the nap room he saw everyone else was still asleep. Whimpering slightly he picked up his blanket and toddled out of the room. Peeking into the corridor he looked up and down, he squeaked as a shadow flittered past the window. Looking around he ran across the corridor and ducked under a bench, peering out nervously. Something went "THUMP" in the corridor behind him causing him to clap his hands to his muzzle to hide his squeak. Peering back behimself he scrambled as quietly as he could for safety as he caught the tail end of a yellow scaled, green furred tail slithering through the doorway into the nap room.

Hurrying down the corridor he ran into the office and looked around for the teacher. She was gone, her shoes where lying on the floor and her chair was tipped on its side. The window behind her desk had been smashed in as well glass was everywhere. Panicking Richter ran back out of the room and down the corridor toward the front of the nursery. There was a lot of shouting coming from the nap room, wet lip smacking noises, squeakings and screamings but he just kept running. Jumping at every noise, zigging and zagging left and right he crossed the main play room and stopped to pull the door open.

It took some struggling to pull open the door but he managed it at last, sobbing for breath, tears running down his muzzle he started to run down the path toward the gate. The crash of breaking glass drove him onwards faster toward the gate. Abandoning his blanket he dropped to all fours the small albino rat racing for the safety of outside!

The ground shook behind him as the monster chased him, glancing back over his shoulder he screamed at the sight of it! A yellow scaled monster with shaggy green fur, huge claws and a weird mouth that was all teeth! Richter screamed and picked up speed but he was only a small tike and the monster whipped his tongue out, curling the thick sticky appendage around his body. It clung to his furry form, slimy green saliva coating his face and ears as the bulbous tip of that tongue slapped up agianst his muzzle and stuck.

Squirming and wriggling back and forth Richter yelled defiantly at his attacker, clawing at that thick powerful tongue as it slowly reeled him in. Seems he'd gotten over his initial shock of fear and was trying to fight back, "Let me go! Led go! Meanie let me go!" he squirmed about and sank his teeth into that thick tongue. The long length of tongue spasmed and twitched and the monster growled out.

Richter was hoping someone would walk past and see as he bumped over the grass toward the monster's outstretched claws. He peered around the obscuring tongue trying to see the street, sadly the nursery was on a quiet out of the way street so as to be secluded for the little ones to play safely. The monster got his claws around Richter's body and uncoiled his sticky tongue. It pulled off with a wet slurping pop leaving the albino rat soaked and shivering from fear as he stared up at the monster's maw. The rat lashed out and kicked his feet, squirming from side to side as he found himself prisoner in the monsters claws.

"Fiesty lad aintcha," he grinned, "Sorry kid but yer all looked so tasty sleepin in thar I ad ta ave a snack ya know?"

Ricther stared dumbfounded for a moment before clawing at the monster, his sharp little claws skittered across his scaled muzzle without harming anything. "You, you let me go! Let me go!"

The monster chuckled and watched the rat with a grin, those claws felt ticklish on his muzzle. "Nope ya smell awesome, ready ta say good bye?"

Rumbling softly he opened wide, those weird semi-mobile teeth shifting and re-aligning themselves so they pointed at Richter. They where horrifying a cross between insect mandibles and mamallian teeth. The rat squirmed and then closed his eyes as copious amounts of sticky green saliva drooled out of the monsters muzzle and washed over his body.

"Ugh you stink, that is horrible how can you ugh." Richter gagged as their breath washed over his head alongside the saliva. Ut was thick and nasty, a fug of conflicting smells with a weird acidic chemical undertone that made Richter gag. Gasping for breath he tried to speak but only got out another curse as he was raised head first and pushed into that waiting muzzle. Those horrible teeth clung to his body, tugging at his fur and pulling him in, the small rat wriggling and whimpering as the monster's tongue pressed against his underside and they kept drooling over him as they started to push him deeper toward the back of his throat.

Richter could do nothing but wriggle and snap at well nothing as he squirmed about trying to find something to bite or cling too. As the monster started to swallow, one, two and a final gulp was enough to dump the small rat head first down his throat. The cub couldn't help but heave as he got another lung full of that foul scent, it was rich, meaty and yet with that weird chemical smell mingling in with it all it was nausiating. It didn't take long for Richter to slide the rest of the way down the monster's throat and land with a splash in their stomach. He burbled and paniced as he floated in the thick green goo that filled the space, there was no sign of anyone else who had been eaten. It was just him alone floating in the goo under the faint yellow light from the walls of the stomach.

"You.. you let me out of here you understand me!" squirming about the rat tried to swim to the edge, claws skittering over the slick yellow walls trying to find purchase. There was nothing to hang onto however, the stomach linings proved impervious to his grip and the slime coating them just melted the sharp tips from his claws.

Everything shook as the monster patted his gut and called down to the rat inside. "You sleep well little rat! You put up a good struggle and man you was tasty! Thanks!"

Richter had a horrible suspicion the green glop he was floating in was the remains of well everyone else. His wildly kicking feet knocked against something long and hard which span out of the way. With a whimper he found it all too much for himself, the heat, the foul smell, the sticky, clinging, cloying liquid. With a final whimpering cry the little rat sank beneath the waves of conciousness, dragged down into the thick soupy mess that filled the monster's stomach, joining the rest of his class in digesting.

Russet belched and patted his stomach with a warm grin, that last little guy had been a real tasty one. Sprightly little guy too he'd almost gotten away from him. Massaging his stomach he flapped his huge wings and took off, pausing long enough to breath a gout of bright blue flame at the nursery roof before turning away, leaving it to burn behind him, heavy pendulous gut swaying beneath him as he flew away leaving the little rat to gently digest down into the soupy mess and join his class and continue his nap.

~fin