Haunted

(Traytora POV)

When I next woke up, I didn't feel anything in or on my hand, but instead felt something in my mouth. I was tired but I strained my eyes open to see what it was.

Only to see a red and very pale scaly tail slowly being pulled into my mouth.

'N-No. I-It couldn't be. C-Could it.'

'No no no no no, it can't be right, I'm going to look up and it's not going to be her right?'

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'RIGHT?!?!?'

A fearful horror gripped my mind as I thought about the one thing that I would never do and would rather die and never enter the afterlife or become a ghost.

I struggled to open my eyes as tears started to flow out of them like a river. I looked up and my mind went blank as I saw that it really was her.

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I was devouring her.

The love of my life.

The only companion I had left in this world.

And I was now slowly gobbling her up.

Why?

Why was I doing this?

How did I even get down here?

Why was I eating her?

Oh dear goddess, she's looking at me.

Please don't look, please, I don't want to see your reaction.

I don't want to see your face, even if it's happy, because I'm not happy at all.

Why? Why can't I stop?

Please stop, I don't want to do this.

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(Shirayaa POV)

I had been staying in this cave with Traytora for weeks, maybe even months by now.

She told me a while ago that she once saw me as food and avoided me for the rest of the day. The following day she confessed her thoughts to me and I lied to her, saying the same happened to me as well.

I lied because I didn't want her to think she was the ably one and suffer for it. I didn't actually see her as food, but as a predator.

And I'll be honest, I wouldn't mind it if she ate me. After all, it'd mean that we would be together forever, in a literal sense as I would become digested and become part of her.

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I was awoken to the sound of someone gulping along with the feeling of something wet enveloping the bottom of my tail.

It would appear that I'm being eaten. I opened my eyes and saw that she wasn't in front of me anymore.

It's probably for the best. I want to look at her one last time and show her that I'm okay with this.

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It took a while, but soon she had swallowed up to just above my waist, and I could now get a much clearer view of how she was doing.

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She's clearly hating this, but there's nothing I could do. Nothing I can do.

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She soon had swallowed up to my chest and then looked up towards me with tears streaming out of her eyes nonstop. I smiled as best I could, which wasn't great considering my lack of energy.

And as she saw my smile she started sobbing. She really hated this, I really wish that things didn't end up this way but I can't change the past.

She had now swallowed up to my arms, and to show her that I truly didn't mind her eating me, I mustered up the last of my strength to give her the last bit of love that I could.

I managed to move my head forwards and gently kissed her forehead.

I looked into her eyes one last time with a smile, before my head was pulled down into her gullet never to see her again.

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Shortly after that, I was devoured from the tip of my tail to the tip of my fingers and was now making my way down into her second stomach.

'Seems like this is the end for me, please survive… Traytora…'

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(Traytora POV)

'No….'

'No, please no…'

'No, no, no, no, NO!'

Seeing her smile like that hurts, I knew she meant well and was fine with this but…

'AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!'

'I HATE THIS!'

'Why, just why am I doing this!?!?!'

Soon, just her arms and head was all that was left outside of me.

And then she did something that won't ever leave me, she gave me a kiss filled with all of the love and care that she ever had and ever would have given.

And then I swallowed her.

All of her.

The pain I felt from doing so was indescribable.

Everything hurt even though nothing was broken, at least nothing physically.

My mind was a chaotic mess, like billions and billions of lightning bolts made up of needles forged out of the stars themselves, all stabbing me everywhere all at once.

It was unbearable, the pain, and the guilt. The guilt of my actions weighed down on me like the entirety of hell itself, that's how heavy it felt.

Tears flowed out of my eyes even though my eyes were empty and my vision started turning red. I think my eyes were bleeding, but I didn't feel it.

My mind was in too much mental and phycological torment that all physical pain seemed like nothing right now.

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A few days had passed since my body had automatically forced Shirayaa into my second stomach.

She no longer moved.

Not even a reaction as her body was slowly digested into nutrients to revitalize my body.

I hadn't slept at all since that traumatising day, the pain and guilt was too much and my mind was dark. Not dark as in like the darkest of nights, but dark as in, pure negativity was all that filled it.

I couldn't escape it, and I didn't want to, I just let it fester and run rampant throughout every corner of my mind.

I thought that maybe this suffering that I was going through would be enough to repent for the grave sin that I have committed.

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Another few days had passed and my tail was no longer feeling stretched.

I still hadn't slept once, nor had I stopped crying. And I didn't want to, I'd rather lay here for eternity like I am than live with my actions.

That dark negativity that assaulted my mind slowly grew more and more, becoming denser and heavier as time went on.

I still didn't care.

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It was coming up to two weeks since I ate her...

During the whole time my mind was constantly filled with negativity as blood poured out of my eyes like a river.

My consciousness had been dipping in and out, my lucidity slowly slipping away from me as I just lay there, letting my mind be assaulted by pure agony, and showing no reaction.

That was until I saw it.

[Ding!]

[You have earned the title [Cannibal] from eating your own kind.]

Snap.

My body started shaking, and I grasped my head, failing to notice I could move again. I also failed to notice a change in my pure red vision and the lack of a stone floor anymore.

The reality of what just occurred had just sunk in.

All that negativity that was brewing in my mind just exploded, multiplying in potency, rendering me unable to register anything that was happening.

Except for the fact that my voice hurt. I don't remember it hurting though?

'Wait... Remember?'

'Am I... Reliving this?'

The pain multiplied again before everything suddenly shattered like glass, including myself.

The last thing that I could barely make out happening was a notification, but my conscience just slipped away, and everything turned black.