12.2 ᴘᴀᴛʀᴇᴏɴ.ᴄᴏᴍ/sᴛʀᴀᴛᴏᴛʜʀᴀx

The Half-elf had been bisected from armpit to neck across the clavicle. Her eyes stared sightlessly up at the cavern ceiling. She had the typical eerily perfect Elven features but along with that she had tipped cat ears poking from her long hair, a cat tail, and where she would have had ordinary Elven legs she instead had furred digitigrade cat legs, her pale skin transitioning into white cat fur about six inches down her thigh.

Rain grimaced. He'd known a number of Elves and Half-elves in his previous life. They strictly went into the 'people' category whereas Goblins were obviously 'monsters'. Of course, his current situation was forcing him to rethink things. Monsters were a lot more 'people' like than he had imagined. It made him doubt everything he'd been taught.

"This is the way of animals and monsters. Once something is dead it is dead and nothing but food to keep others alive, arrogant levelers just like to pretend they are different. If you don't eat her some other monster will. Just eat a bit, you'll see it's the same as anything else."

Opal held up one of the Half-elf's hands and Rain dropped to his knees and took it in his paws. He eyed the hand. This hand had held a magic staff once. It had protected and healed people. Now it was nothing but meat. Like at the butcher's shop. It was only the preconceptions of his past life that stopped him. He was a monster now. Things were different. His new monstous instincts were roaring in his ear, Eat! Eat! Eat! This is food, you need food, you are a beast, a monster, you live to eat! you eat to live! Devour!

"FUCK!!" He bit down on the hand and severed her fingers, blood exploded in his mouth washing away the taste of bland mushroom and setting sparks of flavour dancing across his tongue.

"Oh no, she's delicious."

He couldn't control himself and he tore into the \half-elf like a ravenous wolf, consuming her from fingertip to shoulder in seconds, bone and all, then savagely rending flesh with whetted teeth and eagerly shoving it down as his taste buds were electrified. He growled deep and low as he gorged himself, a ball of nothing but the instinct to devour, subsume, gobble up all that was in front of him. He ate her in her entirety, all of it, even the fragments of her skull. He belched noisily as he slumped on the grass, his stomach well rounded.

His gut snarled to life and began to digest as he squeezed his eyes shut and splayed out his limbs. Growth surged up within him more than ever before and he let out a long satisfied groan as he felt his paws moving across the grass as his arms lengthened, bone creaking and muscle expanding, his toes curled and stretched in joy and his spine arced. By the end of it he was slumped on the ground breathing hard and sweating.

"F-fuuuuck. That was better than anything I've ever eaten and more than I've ever grown at one time. Levelers. I need to eat more levelers."

He lazily rolled his head to see Opal openly shoving her hand down her shorts and rocking back and forth. She eyed his body hungrily then seemed to realise he was looking at her. She froze in shock for a moment then snatched her hand up before blushing furiously and turning away.

"You like it, don't you? The growth."

Opal's shoulders tensed.

"You like that I'm growing and getting bigger. You really like the growing size difference between us."

"N-no, I d-don't know what you're talking a-about."

"I know you like it, even though you won't admit it," he taunted, amused at her embarrassment.

"I k-know your secret too!" she yelled back at him with a voice higher pitched and more wobbly than normal. "I know w-why you didn't know about underground forests, and know about levelers, and why you didn't want to e-eat them!"

Rain frowned. Did she figure out I used to be human?

"You were a monster slave, born into it, outside of a dungeon. You were brought up around levelers and taught their ways, you then escaped when they took you to this dungeon. It's the truth, isn't it? Isn't it?" said the Goblin, her breath rapidly getting heavier. "And now you can eat freely instead of the scraps the slavers gave you, now y-you can g-grow b-Bigger!" The Goblin swallowed, the blush on her face only deepening.

Should I tell her I used to be a human, a leveler? No, it may put a wall between us, levelers hate Goblins and Goblins hate levelers. Wait, why do I care what she thinks? I don't care, right?

He looked up from his musing to find Opal stumbling toward him and tearing at her clothes, breathing hard, her eyes alight with a different kind of hunger.

"Wh-What are you doing?!"